Strange Things Are Happening
On sale
12th February 2026
Price: £12.99
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Strange Things Are Happening follows the life of musician, DJ and producer Richard Norris. From punk and DIY years, to many sonic psychedelic explorations , to meeting Genesis P Orridge and releasing the UK’s earliest acid house album, ‘Jack The Tab’ – despite not knowing, at the time, what the hell acid house even was – Richard Norris has been involved in countless sonic and counter cultural revolutions. From the legendary dancefloors from Shoom to Ibiza and beyond, by way of misadventures in Amsterdam with Timothy Leary, with Sun Ra at customs, with Shaun Ryder in Joe Strummer’s beaten up Cadillac in Tijuana, by way of his extraordinarily influential output in The Grid and Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve, Richard Norris’s story is one of inspiration, collaboration, and community, continually fuelled by relentless psychedelic curiosity.
The shape and sound of post acid house British culture would be a very different and infinitely poorer place without the DIY spirit of Richard Norris. Strange Things Are Happening is the record of a life lived in the moment, forever in thrall to discovery, exploration and innovation – the search for what lies at the other end of that rainbow.
The shape and sound of post acid house British culture would be a very different and infinitely poorer place without the DIY spirit of Richard Norris. Strange Things Are Happening is the record of a life lived in the moment, forever in thrall to discovery, exploration and innovation – the search for what lies at the other end of that rainbow.
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Reviews
Richard's creativity is at the heart of who he is. I sometimes feel like I only know a fraction of his story, so this book is an insight into a gentle soul who I have had the pleasure of working alongside for almost two decades
Continuous joy in sound and people. The book just makes you feel like getting up and doing something
Every bit as fantastic as its cover
Richard's stories remind me how motivated we all were, how industrious, how much FUN we had
This book is a revelation: Mr Richard Norris lived the 20th century and beyond like no one else and this is one of the truly great eyewitness accounts of the heroic years of the counter culture. You need this in your life.
A dazzling psychedelic memoir... one of the great eyewitness accounts of the heroic years of the counterculture