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Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor - Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir (Paperback)
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Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor - Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir (Paperback)
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'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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