Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands

Think ‘Woodstock’ and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Quite simply, Woodstock was already a key location in the […]

The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world “This Nation’s Saving Grace, The Weird and Frightening World Of…” […]

Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage’s monument to the year that shaped the future of global pop cultural history. ‘One of Britain’s most trusted cultural historians.’ THE FACE In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient […]

Tim Book Two is the follow-up to Telling Stories, the hugely successful memoir of Tim Burgess, singer of the Charlatans. It tells of his lifelong passion for vinyl and the shops that sell them. Tim asked a stellar cast of friends – from Iggy Pop to Cosey Fanni Tutti to Paul Weller – for recommendations, […]