Richard Foster is a writer and artist living in the Netherlands. Richard is best known as a writer for The Quietus and Louder than War, and for his work at the famous avant-garde cultural centre, WORM, in Rotterdam, where he is communications manager and the booker for music, talks and radio. His work on Dutch post-punk has been published over the last decade by a number of academic titles and he has appeared as a guest on national radio stations in Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and on BBC Radio 3. He runs The Museum of Photocopies in his spare time.

A crucial text to understand Europe's hidden reverse. Loud and QuietThis book is an important slice of social and cultural history ... Richard Foster is the greatest thing to come out of Accrington since the construction of the M66. John DoranEngland's least conformist culture writer serves up an anti-memoir of a brief - previously untold - moment in Great Britain's shared double Dutch history. Millennium, immigration, utopia, work, weirdness - and barely a tulip in sight. Fergal Kinney

Richard Foster is a writer and artist living in the Netherlands. Richard is best known as a writer for The Quietus and Louder than War, and for his work at the famous avant-garde cultural centre, WORM, in Rotterdam, where he is communications manager and the booker for music, talks and radio. His work on Dutch post-punk has been published over the last decade by a number of academic titles and he has appeared as a guest on national radio stations in Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and on BBC Radio 3. He runs The Museum of Photocopies in his spare time.

A crucial text to understand Europe's hidden reverse. Loud and QuietThis book is an important slice of social and cultural history ... Richard Foster is the greatest thing to come out of Accrington since the construction of the M66. John DoranEngland's least conformist culture writer serves up an anti-memoir of a brief - previously untold - moment in Great Britain's shared double Dutch history. Millennium, immigration, utopia, work, weirdness - and barely a tulip in sight. Fergal Kinney

Richard Foster is a writer and artist living in the Netherlands. Richard is best known as a writer for The Quietus and Louder than War, and for his work at the famous avant-garde cultural centre, WORM, in Rotterdam, where he is communications manager and the booker for music, talks and radio. His work on Dutch post-punk has been published over the last decade by a number of academic titles and he has appeared as a guest on national radio stations in Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and on BBC Radio 3. He runs The Museum of Photocopies in his spare time.

A crucial text to understand Europe's hidden reverse. Loud and QuietThis book is an important slice of social and cultural history ... Richard Foster is the greatest thing to come out of Accrington since the construction of the M66. John DoranEngland's least conformist culture writer serves up an anti-memoir of a brief - previously untold - moment in Great Britain's shared double Dutch history. Millennium, immigration, utopia, work, weirdness - and barely a tulip in sight. Fergal Kinney