A Day Trip To Beijing

Julia Brightly is a writer, musician, painter, illustrator, broadcaster, producer of radio and records, and a transgender lesbian.


She was the guitar player in the groups Bim, The Passions, and Mute 

Drivers, the latter being also lead singer.


She has had over fifty songs published.


She has mixed sound for numerous bands such as Mogwai, Caribou, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Slint, The Creatures, Wire, and on and on.

She currently tours with M83.


This book is an autobiography of her life up to the point where, at 50, she realised that the thing she thought would end her life it cam out was the thing that saved it.


For the first time I saw the signpost clearly.

One way said repeating pattern.

The other said NOW! 

So I built a huge catapult in my mind and twanged myself into life.