Berlin legend, Mark Reeder - moved from working class Manchester in the late 70s, to rep Factory Records, and put on illegal punk gigs in East Berlin, which led to him being recruited as a GDR producer, after being grassed by Stasi friends. &nbsp;&nbsp;In the seminal film, B-Movie - he explores the 80s in Berlin, but here he speaks candidly to Kirsty Allison about &nbsp;his McLaren-type Svengali effect on subculture, shaping the sound of New Order, trance in the 90s, and how he's currently impacting China with his new act, Stolen.
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Edited by Sebastian Bowden

Martyn Goodacre with Kirsty Allison, Cold Lips

Cold Lips began as a zine with parties internationally and now makes books, founded by writer Kirsty Allison (she performs as Vagrant Lovers), is Managing Editor of Ambit, and her debut novel, PSYCHOMACHIA is out in 2021.

"I've got drawers full of archive - and wanted to share them," she says about this series of conversations with all manner of iconoclasts.

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IRVINE WELSH “the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced”

TIME OUT: "Proving bookish folk are the coolest folk" 

Dr John Cooper Clarke: "artistic &amp; fabulous"