Dr Les Gillon is based at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), where he is a Research Degree Tutor and Associate Director of The Creative Practices Research Academy.  He is also Director of  UCLan Recordings Group, a label that supports innovative and original music, and co-director of MusicResearch@uclan,  He chairs the Preston Jazz and Improvisation Festival Committee and the School of Arts and Media PGR Committee. 

Recent Publications

Les Gillon  (2017)  The Uses of Reason in the Evaluation of Artworks: Commentaries on the Turner Prize, Palgrave Macmillan

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319563657

Les Gillon and Ewa Mazierska, ‘The Missing Star of MC Tunes’, in Mazierska, E (ed) Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England’s North, Equinox Publishing (2018)

https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/sounds-northern/.

Ewa Mazierska, Les Gillon and Tony Rigg (eds) (2019) Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology, Bloomsbury

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/popular-music-in-the-post-digital-age-9781501338397/

Les Gillon   (2018) ‘Varieties of Freedom in Music Improvisation.’ Open Cultural Studies ISSN 2451-3474

Les Gillon  (2020) Nostalgia and Simulacra: Blackpool in Song. 

This chapter about the representation of Blackpool in popular songs was published in Ewa Mazierska (ed) Blackpool in Film and Popular Music. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 83-99. ISBN 978-3-030-49934-

Ewa Mazierska, Les Gillon and Tony Rigg (eds) (2020) Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology, Bloomsbury

Includes Les Gillon (2020) ‘Live Music Playbour: a Piece of the Puzzle’. In: The Future of Live Music. Bloomsbury Academic, New York. ISBN 9781501355882

Ewa Mazierska, Les Gillon and Tony Rigg (eds) (2021) The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music , Bloomsbury

Jules O’Riordan (a.k.a. Judge Jules) and Les Gillon (2021) ‘The Artist/Manager Relationship’  in Harrison and Rigg The Present and Future of Music Law Bloomsbury 2021