# Event Details - **Event Name**: UP THE PACKET: SIMON WILLIAMS’ CRISP ODYSSEY - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 09 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 09 Jun, 2026 at 10:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: The Affectionate Crunch! Man Writes Book About Crisp Packets. And Rock’n’Roll.About this EventSimon Williams, is a record company boss and crisp packet collector. Since 1977 he has amassed more than 8,000 crisp packets. They are all empty, they all live in shoeboxes, and they are all different. Apart from the swapsies.‘Up The Packet’ is a tale about those crisp bags and their amazingly zinging innards: from the Tayto potato to the Spudos spud; from the wartime birth of Golden Wonder to the 1990s stock & awe of Walkers; from the ‘70s kid-friendly frenzy to the growth in grown-up snacks and into the indie credibility revolution. It takes the reader on a crunchy cultural journey through the entire history of the potato crisp, packed with solid packet factettes and frankly wild snacking theories.Oh, and it delivers some fabulous new full colour pictures of crisp bags through the past 50 years in the ‘Don’t Look Bag In Anger’ pull-out photo spread.But that isn’t all, because ‘Up The Packet’ packs in a heap of music references, as you may or many not expect from a book title which riffs on the Libertines’ debut album. Who is a Soho Salad? Why is Motörhead’s Backstage Buffet? What is Kid Jensen? Where is the actual epicentre of the actual crispy rock’n’roll universe? Is there parking?? Will there be snacks??? The fashions, the fads, the songs, the TV ads, the crazy flavourings and the hazy lost favourites and - of course - the long and fact-finding road from Smiths Salt’n’Shake to Splodgenessabounds, ‘Up The Packet’ is a crisp-lover’s paradise in rock’n’rolling form.Simon Williams spent eleven years at the NME, a much shorter time DJing at Xfm, and a much longer time running fierce panda records and promoting small gigs in smallLondon venues. ‘Up The Packet’ is his fourth book following‘The Kite Who Was Scared Of Heights’ (for children of all ages), ‘1-2 Cut Your Hair: The Story Of Johnny Moped’ (for proto-punk rockers of all rages) and ‘Pandamonium! How Not To Run A Record Company’ (for indie music fans at allstages). ‘Up The Packet’ might be his maddest yet. It’s certainly his crunchiest.Discussion/blind crisp tasting/Q&A/Music/book signing‘ https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/316dae00-257c-11f1-886e-e3e40c802de8-rimg-w463-h740-dc040302-gmir.jpg Author photo: Alison Wonderland https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/31c34810-257c-11f1-886e-e3e40c802de8-rimg-w633-h740-dcffffff-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/31f18400-257c-11f1-886e-e3e40c802de8-rimg-w1181-h740-dcf8eee0-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/up-the-packet-simon-williams’-crisp-odyssey/100001985399454213 - **Event Categories**: Art, Workshops, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fup-the-packet-simon-williams-crisp-odyssey-tickets-1985399454213 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.46, max: 22.38, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Mother's Ruin Gin Palace - **lat**: 51.5837915 - **long**: -0.00823249999996278 - **full address**: Mother's Ruin Gin Palace, Shernhall Street, London, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Walthamstow Rock 'n' Roll Book Club (https://allevents.in/org/walthamstow-rock-n-roll-book-club/22534754) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/30efd706c4683b2ab91a0832ebaac76338781b85a61ce1bd557e4dbfe01244a6-rimg-w1200-h600-dcead8c9-gmir.jpg?v=1774135095 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/3d35a33d484935433f7dbdf23aca96bf81fbc5425aff6db77e8e21345aa7f9ac-rimg-w400-h400-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1774135095 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Tue, 09 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Mother's Ruin Gin Palace, Shernhall Street, London, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 10.46 up to 22.38 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Walthamstow Rock 'n' Roll Book Club - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, Workshops, literary-art - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about UP THE PACKET: SIMON WILLIAMS’ CRISP ODYSSEY ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "UP THE PACKET: SIMON WILLIAMS’ CRISP ODYSSEY", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/30efd706c4683b2ab91a0832ebaac76338781b85a61ce1bd557e4dbfe01244a6-rimg-w1200-h600-dcead8c9-gmir.jpg?v=1774135095", "startDate": "2026-06-09T19:00:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-06-09T22:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/up-the-packet-simon-williams’-crisp-odyssey/100001985399454213", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Mother's Ruin Gin Palace", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Shernhall Street", "postalCode": "E17 9HQ", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5837915", "longitude": "-0.00823249999996278" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "The Affectionate Crunch! 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