JIM DRIVER

…was born at Hare Park Farm, Crofton, in Yorkshire, a little over nine years after Hitler’s defeat by Audie Murphy and friends
When he was 13, the Driver family moved to Pembrokeshire in the extreme south-west of Wales, where James first discovered rugby. Although he wasn’t very keen at first, he soon came to appreciate the game, though he still doesn’t understand the kicking rules.
By 1972 James had become Jim and he was packed off to college in Chelmsford, Essex, to study law. In his first term became social secretary of his students’ union, which meant it was his job to book the bands. The first act he ever booked was the Third Ear Band, intensely boring but very high profile after providing the soundtrack to Roman Polanski’s film of Macbeth. The gig sold out and he was bitten by the music bug.
Law is very boring compared to music promoting (although it has to be admitted that the perks are better) and within a year Jim had dropped out of college in order to work for a record company.
After the label went bust, he worked in a variety of jobs, including cleaner, barman, pub manager, bouncer, assistant chief cashier for a firm of solicitors, porn-writer, venue manager and bookkeeper, before ending up 20 years later at Time Out magazine in London and founding an independent book publishing company, The Do-Not Press.
Currently Jim promotes Friday night gigs at London’s 100 Club, puts on other events around Town and attempts to finish a novel. His last published work (under his own name) was The Mammoth Book of Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll, which is about to go into a second edition, whether people want it or not. He is also front-man and band-booker for The Rhythm Festival, the civilised antidote to mud-bath rock festivals.

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