Fiona Russell-Powell - Journalistic Career

Journalistic Career

Fiona Russell Powell has written for Loaded and Punch, The Face, i-D, Evening Standard, Daily Express, The Idler, Dazed and Confused, Interview, Penthouse, Time Out, Arena, Arena Homme Plus, New Humanist, Woman's Journal and Fashion Weekly among others. She has also featured in the press on more than one occasion, having had various incidents and antics documented, . In the mid to late 90s, she frequently appeared on British television debates, such as the BBC's peaktime You Decide discussing the decriminalisation and legalisation of drugs, having previously written extensively about her own battle with Class A drugs. In 2006, Fiona was co-director (along with Patrick Lilley, who was one of the original Carburton Street squatters and founder of the Queer Nation Club in London, and Christophe Demoulin, artist's agent) of The Outsider festival, a ten day-long arts festival curated by Angie Bowie that focussed on films, photography and club nights celebrating underground sub-culture in London and the UK since the early 80s. The project was commissioned by Sony PSP, and was the world's first downloadable arts festival. Fiona also co-wrote 40 Ans de Musique au Gibus, which chronicles four decades of seminal musical acts at the famous Paris nightclub.