Lipstick Killers: The New York Dolls Story at Barbican Film. Thursday 11 June at Barbican Film 8.30 pm (book signings at 8pm). Deviser and curator: Jay Clifton in collaboration with Barbican Film.

Screentalk with Nina Antonia and Max Decharne (author of King’s Road). Followed by a screening of the film New York Doll.

Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood, the biography of the New York Dolls guitarist and Heartbreakers lead singer by Nina Antonia, was first published in 1987 by Jungle Records, later reprinted in 2000 by Cherry Red books, and has remained a cult classic of rock biography for more than twenty years. During the writing of the book between 1982 and 1987 Nina became friends with Thunders when he spent time in London, and the balanced observations of her first biography were given a coda in her most recent book, The Prettiest Star , in which she described some of those encounters from a more personal angle. Nina is also the author of a New York Dolls biography, The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon. In the process of writing the book interviewed individual members of the band about the story of the Dolls short but influential career.

Nina Antonia will be interviewed by Max Decharne, writer and lead singer of The Flaming Stars, in a Screentalk event at the Barbican Centre, London, on the evening of Thursday 11 June 2009. The discussion will be followed by a screening of the documentary film New York Doll (2005), on the life of Dolls bass guitarist Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane. Copies of Nina’s books will be on sale and Nina will be signing copies from 8pm to 8.20pm in Cinema 2's lounge area. The event will begin at 8.30pm.

Jay Clifton has devised and curated four previous events in collaboration with Barbican Film connecting literature and film, under the title of The Hammett Story Agency, most recently Robert Fraser: Groovy Curator in January 2009. He is a contributor to and Associate Literary Editor for the pop cultural magazine Nude.