The Wire Salon, Blow Up: The Legacy Of Bomb Culture, took place at London's Café Oto, 8 July.

Hosted by The Wire's Tony Herrington, this salon examined the collision of autodestructive art, proto-psychedelia, free jazz, noise and sound poetry that occurred at the fringes of the UK's 60s counterculture. Author/musician David Toop, curator Mathieu Copeland, musician John Butcher and Syd Barrett biographer Rob Chapman, author of A Very Irregular Head, led a discussion on the practices and philosophies that linked such quintessential underground figures as artists John Latham and Gustav Metzger, free jazz pioneer Joe Harriott, Pink Floyd, improvisors John Stevens and AMM, composer Annea Lockwood, and sound/text poet Bob Cobbing.