Tate Swindell/Thomas Antonic on Allen Ginsberg/William Burroughs

The well-oiled machine that is the road show of two intrepid archive divers, San Francisco’s Tate Swindell and Vienna’s Thomas Antonic, reaches Tate’s home base with a program built around the recording of Allen Ginsberg 1980 Graz, Austria poetry event with Peter Orlofsky and musician Steven Taylor dubbed “America: Give A Shit,” now a 2026 double lp release on Swindell’s Unrequited Records label, and Antonic’s recently published book, The Three Wives of Queer William S. Burroughs (Beatdom, 2026).

(L-R) Taylor/Ginsberg/Orlofsky – photo by Saul Schapiro

Tate and Thomas have lately been presenting programs focused on the Ginsberg lp in Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Graz. Thomas was last heard at Bird & Beckett in January 2022 presenting his previous book, Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936/37. Tate is well known to San Francisco beats, baby beats and post beats for his production of cultural materials — books, lps, readings, concerts — derived from his archive explorations and personal contacts with the likes of Harold Norse, Gregory Corso, Neeli Cherkovski and countless others through the past couple of decades.