WINTER 2025
Sunday 12th January, 2pm
Mark Hoyle at Rock'n'Roll Book Club, Walthamstow | Ticket Info
Friday 24th January, 8pm
Oh! Brother Live with Steve and Paul Hanley, The Albert Club, Didsbury | Ticket Info
Thursday 30th January
Mark Hoyle and Paul Hanley present The Fall's debut Live At The Witch Trials plus a Q&A at The CAT Club. This is a members event but it is possible to join a waiting list for returns | Details here
AUTUMN 2024
New Title: Swerve: Dub Sex & Other Stories by Mark Hoyle
Advance copies of Mark Hoyle's memoir are now available for pre-order. Click here for details.
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Congratulations to Paul Hanley. His book Sixteen Again has been bestowed with Book of the Year status by Uncut, Jumbo Records and Monrail Music.
ROUTE TV
Mark Hoyle in conversation with Paul Hanley at Louder Than Words Festival in Manchester, November 2024. Watch here.
A launch party for Swerve took place at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on 13th September 2024. A short film from the night can be watched by clicking here.
NEW VIDEO: Paul Hanley is joined by Buzzcocks royalty Richard Boon and Malcolm Garrett to discuss Sixteen Again at Walthamstow Rock'n'Roll Book Club. Watch here.
Mark Hoyle will be appearing at Louder Than Words Festival this year, the pre-eminent music books festival. Mark is on Sunday 17th November at 4:15pm. We'll be on site with our stall all weekend. We can't recommend this festival high enough. It's always a great weekend. Tickets for Marks event, click here. Full programme and general ticket information, click here.
Monday 11th November, 8pm. Kim’s Kitchen, Hulme
A special, intimate launch event for Swerve with Mark Hoyle in the heart of the old Hulme community. He will be interviewed by Phil Korbel, ex of BBC Manchester’s Meltdown show and DJ at P.S.V. Club in Hulme, who also features in Mark’s book. Visit Kim's Kitchen website here.
Recent Features
From Hulme to The Haçienda with Mark Hoyle
Mark Hoyle talks to Jason Barnard of The Strange Brew about overcoming a tough childhood, how punk rock became his escape, and the role John Peel and Tony Wilson played in shaping his career.
The long-anticipated memoir from perennial face on the Manchester scene, Mark Hoyle, is finally here…
Iain Key writes the first review of Swerve for Louder Than War.
Records
New album from Tom Hingley, The Grand Mal. Release date 13th September 2024. Click here for more details.
A new solo album from Iain Matthews, How Much is Enough, recorded at B J Baartmans Studio Wild Verband, Boxmeer. Release date 25th October 2024. Order here on vinyl (CD here).
Grotesque (After The Gramme) 'Live', the latest release from Popstock, the label created by Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon to release curated live recordings of Fall albums. Release date 25th October 2024. Click here for details and to order.
HOUSE Of ALL's second interim album Gaudy Pop Sensations: House Of All at the BBC is released 28th November 2024. Contains the band's 8 tracks from the Marc Riley & Gideon Coe BBC 6 Music sessions, lus assorted remixes and live track, plus extended liner notes from Paul Hanley. Click here for more details.
Podcasts | Recent Shows with Authors on as Guests
Mark Hoyle talks to David Eastaugh of The C86 Show | Listen here
Simon Wolstencroft on the Music Maps podcast. In two parts. 2nd part about The Fall. 1st part about everything else | 1st episode here |
Mark Hoyle on Iain Key's Indie Brunch on Louder Than War Radio | Listen here.
SUMMER 2024
I, Daniel Blake Back In Print
After a few years out of print, our I, Daniel Blake book is once again available in physical form. You can now get it in paperback and hardback editions, as well as Kindle. Details here.
New Paperback
Anne & Betty: United by the Struggle by Anne Scargill and Betty Cook is now available in paperback. Details here.
Each order for Sixteen Again from this website comes with a free badge. The badge (and book cover) is designed by Malcolm Garratt, the deigner of the classic Buzzcocks albums (and badges!). Advance copies now shipping. Get yours here.
HOUSE Of ALL End of Summer Dates
HOUSE Of ALL bring the curtain down on their 2024 set at End of Road Festival (Fri 30th August) and Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, Staffs (Sat 30th August). Click here for details of Leek event.
Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
Helen O'Hara is on at the Moseley Folk & Arts Festival at Speakers Corner Stage, Sunday 1st September, 2:20pm. Catch her in conversation about her memoir What's She Like.
Finishing touches are being made to Mark Hoyle's memoir Swerve: Dub Sex & Other Stories. It's next on the production line. Read the acquisition announcement.
SPRING 2024
EVENTS
A series of events organised to coincide with the release of Paul Hanley's Sixteen Again.
Thursday 21st March, 7:30pm
The CAT Club, Pontefract | Listen to Podcast
Sunday 24th March, 2pm
Rock n Roll Book Club, Walthamstow, London
With Malcolm Garratt and Richard Boon | Watch Clip (Full video to follo0w)
Saturday 6th April, 1pm
Waterstones, Altrincham
Book signing | Photos
Wednesday 17th April, 7pm
The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
Q&A + live music | Watch Granada Reports film here
Saturday 25th May, 12pm
Jumbo Records, Leeds
Q&A with Duncan Seaman | Details
Thursday 30th May, 6:30pm
Waterstones, Deansgate, Manchester
Q&A with Dave Haslam | Tickets and details
Wednesday 12th June, 8pm
Monorail, Mono Cafe Bar, Glasgow
With John Maher and Stephen McRobbie | Tickets
Helen O'Hara
Friday 8th March, 1pm
Woolwich Library, 35 Wellington Street SE18 6HQ
Q&A
Saturday 6th April, 2pm
Millenium Library, Norwich
Big Indie Read Event
Full playing of Too-Rye-Ay plus Q&A, teat and coffee
Weekend March 15th-17th
The Laugharne Weekend Festival
Q&A + live performance with Tim Burgess
Kendal Calling Festival, Weekend 1-4 August
Helen O'Hara will be appearing in Tim Peak's Diner at Kendal Calling Festival this year. She will be interviewed about her memoir What's She Like by Dave Haslam and will be playing violin in a set with Tim Burgess.
Iain Matthews How Much is Enough UK tour, June 2024
With special guests: Plumhall
Thursday 13th
The Folklore Rooms, Brighton
Friday 14th
Sound Lounge, Sutton, London
Saturday 15th
The Stables, Milton Keynes
Sunday 16th
The Birthday House Concert, Halifax
Friday 21st
The Cruck Barn, Appletreewick.
Sunday 23rd
Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, Leeds
HOUSE Of ALL
HOUSE Of ALL spring tour dates for your diary. Click here for ticket links.
Recent Features
Pete Shelley put himself into that teenage mindset
Paul Hanley speaks with Duncan Seaman for the Yorkshire Post.
Ever Fallen in love? Mancunian-Irish drummer had... with Buzzcocks
Paul Hanley speaks with David Coughlan fof The Irish Daily Mirror.
“We’re Taking Control” – Former The Fall Members On New Release ‘Slates (Live)’
Steve and Pual Hanley, along with Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon talk about the release of the new live Fall album, Slates Live.
Kallax On Fire
Paul Hanley Q&A on Groovy Times. What records does he run back into the burning building to save?
‘He was just walking through Manchester, risking getting his head kicked in.’
Paul Hanley interviewed by Andy Murray for Northern Soul.
The Fall's Paul Hanley On Buzzcocks Book
Paul Hanley Q&A in The Quietus.
Records
HOUSE Of All's second studio album Continuum is released in April 2024. Details, plus sample track 'Aim Higher' can be found on their Bandcamp page. Click here.
Podcasts | Recent Shows with Authors on as Guests
Paul Hanley on James McMahon MusicPodcast to talk about the brilliance of Buzzcocks | Listen here.
Paul Hanley on Birthday Cake For Breakfast, talking Buzzcocks with Andy Hughes | Listen here.
Paul Hanley on Revolutions Per Movie talking about the classic film Rude Boy. | Listen here.
Paul Hanley on Iain Key’s Indie Brunch show on Louder Than War Radio talking Buzzcocks | Listen here. (Starts at 25:50)
Paul Hanley at The CAT Club, talking Buzzcocks and the album A Different Kind of Tension | Listen here.
Paul Hanley on Music Maps talking about his time in The Fall | Listen Here.
Clinton Heylin on The CAT Club podcast at the launch of The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: Far Away From Myself | Listen here.
Helen O'Hara on Postcard From The Past, talking postcards (and much more) with Tom Jackson | Listen here.
Helen O’Hara talks with Sandy Kaye on A Breathe of Fresh Air. | Listen here.
Click here for an archive of Route authors guesting on podcasts.