Imprint: Ebury Press
Published: 07/04/2005
ISBN: 9780091897451
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 126mm
Weight: 218g
RRP: £12.99
Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters.
From Stuart's four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it's a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.
Imprint: Ebury Press
Published: 07/04/2005
ISBN: 9780091897451
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 126mm
Weight: 218g
RRP: £12.99
The English Bill Bryson
The perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate
Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton
An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful
If you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one