This revealing memoir by Bertie Marshall, formerly known as “Berlin” in the notorious Bromley Contingent, cuts to the core of the punk sensibility of 1976/77. Combining the outrageous zeitgeist with the lifestyle of scenester and rent boy, Marshall’s account bristles with a searing honesty. 

The Bromley Contingent included Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin, Billy Idol and Jordan. Marshall is the ideal narrator, taking in Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s SEX shop, the formation of the Sex Pistols and the gay netherworld of late 70s London. 

Now, thirty years since his infamous BERLIN BABY’S BONDAGE PARTY, Bertie Marshall has written the post-glam, pre-punk version of THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT.

Autobiography/memoir 
Publication date: 27 April 2006 
A Hardback Original
150mm x 215mm, 224 pp
UK £12.99 US $22.95
Report code: NP
ISBN: 0 946719 93 4
EAN: 9780946719938
BIC Code: CV
Availability: Worldwide

BERLIN BROMLEY

Bertie Marshall

''Berlin Bromley is an utterly compelling memoir – had Candy Darling lived in Croydon his experience would have been identical.” 
Michael Bracewell, The Guardian

2006 marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of punk: the Sex Pistols, surrounded by the Bromley Contingent, appear on TV with Bill Grundy and scandalise the nation.
Berlin Bromley will be supported by a full media campaign with TV and radio interviews, features in national broadsheets, culture magazines and the music press.

Praise for Bertie Marshall’s debut novel, PSYCHOBOYS:

“you're the nastiest of the punk boys, those who know who dead pirates are” 
Kathy Acker “Intense” Dennis Cooper.

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