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Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor - Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor - Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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A ROUGH TRADE MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautifully judged account of
the Manchester scene . . . There is something of the fairy tale
about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament to the kind of life that
nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a cultural moment and a
young man who instinctively knew that it was his once upon a time'
Victoria Segal, Sunday Times 'Witty, sometimes dark, revealing,
insightful, everything one could hope for from one of those folk
without whom independent music simply wouldn't exist' Classic Rock
Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam's
wonderfully evocative memoir. It is a masterful insider account of
the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and birth of the rave era, and
how music has sound-tracked a life and a generation. In the late
1970s Dave Haslam was a teenage John Peel listener and Joy Division
fan, his face pressed against a 'window', looking in at a world of
music, books and ideas. Four decades later, he finds himself in the
middle of that world, collaborating with New Order on a series of
five shows in Manchester. Into the story of those intervening
decades, Haslam weaves a definitive portrait of Manchester as a
music city and the impact of a number of life-changing events, such
as the nightmare of the Yorkshire Ripper to the shock of the
Manchester Arena terror attack. The cast of Haslam's life reads
like a who's who of '70s, '80s and '90s popular culture: Tony
Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Tracey Thorn, John
Lydon, Johnny Marr, Ian Brown, Laurent Garnier and David Byrne.
From having Morrissey to tea and meeting writers such as Raymond
Carver and Jonathan Franzen to discussing masturbation with Viv
Albertine and ecstasy with Roisin Murphy, via having a gun pulled
on him at the Hacienda and a drug dealer threatening to slit his
throat, this is not your usual memoir.
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