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Hungry Beat - The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) (Hardcover)
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Hungry Beat - The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 290
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'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the
short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the
times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs
and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story and
lick their wounds' Ian Rankin The immense cultural contribution
made by two maverick Scottish independent music labels, Fast
Product and Postcard, cannot be underestimated. Bob Last and Hilary
Morrison in Edinburgh, followed by Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins in
Glasgow helped to create a confidence in being Scottish that
hitherto had not existed in pop music (or the arts in general in
Scotland). Their fierce independent spirit stamped a mark of
quality and intelligence on everything they achieved, as did their
role in the emergence of regional independent labels and cultural
agitators, such as Rough Trade, Factory and Zoo. Hungry Beat is a
definitive oral history of these labels and the Scottish post-punk
period. Covering the period 1977-1984, the book begins with the
Subway Sect and the Slits performance on the White Riot tour in
Edinburgh and takes us through to Bob Last shepherding the Human
League from experimental electronic artists on Fast Product to
their triumphant number one single in the UK and USA, Don't You
Want Me. Largely built on interviews for Grant McPhee's Big Gold
Dream film with Last, Hilary Morrison, Paul Morley and members of
The Human League, Scars, The Mekons, Fire Engines, Josef K, Aztec
Camera, The Go-Betweens and The Bluebells, Hungry Beat offers a
comprehensive overview of one of the most important periods of
Scottish cultural output and the two labels that changed the
landscape of British music.
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