21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego. No-One’s More Punk than Vivien Goldman,” pronounced Pitchfork Magazine. In that freewheeling spirit, the boundary-busting Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator, broadcaster -- and a musician who has contributed to The Slits, X-Ray Specs and of course Flying Lizards, too. A Londoner, she has lived in Paris and Jamaica and now bounces between Jamaica and New York. She started out in the vigorous British rock press of the 1970s,  working for years with Bob Marley as his biographer.  She considers Bob, Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman, Flying Lizards, The Raincoats and The Slits her mentors and greatest personal influences, and in fact made writing about them in NME such a priority that she had to make herself a ghost-writer and behind-the-scenes in many of these projects to avoid a conflict of interest. The band Flying Lizards in particular had to make themselves such a mysterious band due to the fact that she was secretly so involved and was in fact the singer and songwriter of many of their most-known songs. Known as a pioneer of music journalism, music television, modern musicology, experimental recording, and most recently for the first time in her long career - the stage - she has stunned New York and beyond with her new very Jamaican-influenced live band.
As of late, she has 2 LP's, a 7-inch and a re-press of her hit book & musical compilation 'Revenge of the She-Punks' out on vinyl and is currently working on a remix album that includes remixes of her songs from friends Denardo Coleman, Marius DeVries, Jordan Bovell, Joaquin Claussell and many more. Her music was also recently used on HBO The Deuce and a song she co-wrote appears several times throughout the closing episode of the massively popular globally TV series 'Murder in Paradise'. Presented by Soda. This is a 21+ event