Join us for an evening of conversation and music with R. Peter Davies, singer-songwriter of the award-winning alt-country band The Good Intentions, and author of a new novel, “Valediction Records”. This event is part of the Smithdown Road Festival.
FRIDAY 2ND MAY 2025, 7PM
Smithdown Social Arts Hub, 455 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, L15 3JL
Liverpool-born R. Peter has also been a teacher, a Crown Prosecutor and featured as one of the subjects in the famous “Seven Up” series of ITV documentaries. He’ll be in conversation about his novel with Smithdown Litfest Director Ian Skillicorn. This will be followed by an audience Q&A and then R. Peter will entertain the audience with an unplugged session of his music.
About “Valediction Records” by R. Peter Davies
For over forty years, former band members of Generation 27, a briefly successful band in the late seventies, have been haunted by the shadows of the group’s collapse. Stephen is weighed down by guilt, Philip blames everyone else for his fall from stardom, while Martin battles addiction and illness. Only when strangely familiar figures emerge from those shadows is each of them forced to confront their loss and regret. The past really is a foreign country, but how will the three friends navigate their way from there to the future?
There will be a bar, and a chance to buy signed copies of R. Peter’s book and music.
Doors/bar opens: 6.30pm
In conversation with R. Peter Davies: 7.00pm
Interval: 7.30pm
Audience Q&A: 7.45pm
R. Peter Davies Unplugged: 8.10pm – 8.40pm
Bar closes: 10.00pm
