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Helen O'Hara on BBC Radio Scotland
Helen O’Hara talks to Nicola Meighan on BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show about her life, work and...
Steve Pringle on Oh Brother Podcast
Steve Pringle guests on the Oh! Brother podcast with hosts Steve and Paul Hanley. (1:00:05)...
Paul Hanley on Late Night Book Club
Paul Hanley on Gideon Coe’s Late Night Book Club on BBC Radio 6 Music talking Hex Enduction Hour and...
Selected reviews
Captures 1980s Manchester’s underbelly, or perhaps heart would be a better term, in all its decadent, grimy glory...
*** Book of the Year*** Shines a light on how Buzzcocks kickstarted Manchester’s punk scene and brought the thrilling DIY aesthetic that inspired hundreds of bands that followed. An essential read...
What’s She Like is kind, generous, and honest, told by a reliable narrator. Having no myths to preserve, Helen O’Hara has written the book that Dexys aficionados will savour, a warm memoir that cuts through politics and actions, written with a knowle..
You Must Get Them All is the yardstick by which all future books on the band will be judged and the bible for those worshipping at the Church of The Fall, past, present and future. This book will be one that I go back to time and time again...
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Sixteen Again
Sixteen Again: How Pete Shelley & Buzzcocks Changed Manchester Music (and me): a love letter from Paul Hanley to his favourite band and his favourite city.
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The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall
Steve Hanley, Olivia Piekarski
Steve Hanley's memoir give unprecedented insight into the intense, highly-charged creative atmosphere within The Fall and their relentless work ethic.
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Trouble In Mind
Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened Rolling Stone Book of the Year Mojo Book of the Year ‘When I get involved in something, I get totally involved. I don’t just play around on the fringes.’ – Bob Dylan In 1979 there was… trouble in mind, and trouble in store for the ever-iconoclastic Dylan. But unlike in 1965-66, the artifactal afterglo..
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Thro My Eyes: A Memoir
A memoir by Iain Matthews, one of the music industry’s great survivors. He has been making pitch-perfect records for over fifty years.
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Bringing It All Back Home
Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize When you hear a certain song, where does it take you? What is the secret that connects music to our lives? Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter. Author Ian Clayton listens to music as a kid to e..
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