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The Falling (DVD)
Joe Cole, Elizabeth Marsh, Anna Burnett, Amelia Holder, Mathew Baynton, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh star in this British drama
written and directed by Carol Morley. Lydia and Abbie (Williams and
Pugh) are best friends at their all-girls boarding school but they
are very different people; Lydia is quiet and introverted while
Abbie is ambitious and popular. After Abbie jeopardises her
friendship with Lydia by sleeping with her brother, a fainting
epidemic breaks out at the school and people are left wondering
whether the mysterious Lydia could be the key...
'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much
about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti In 1983, backstage at the
Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met.
Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for
The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes,
comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and
feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs. Thorn
takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the
details of connection and affection between two women who seem to
be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. She
asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who
writes women out of - and back into - history.
'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much
about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE
YEAR In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and
Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning,
while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior.
They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship
cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll
love affairs. Morrison - a headstrong heroine blazing her way
through a male-dominated industry - came to be a kind of mentor to
Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a
band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media. In
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of
friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection
between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or
mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people
see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of -
and back into - history.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN
MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express
'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max Porter Before becoming an
acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager:
bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only
comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted
at a new kind of living. Returning to the scene of her childhood,
Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the
weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children
and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight,
Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists
have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn
recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music.
But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there
wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all
those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty,
sometimes while battling acute stage-fright. Part memoir, part
wide-ranging exploration of the art, mechanics and spellbinding
power of singing, NAKED AT THE ALBERT HALL takes in Dusty
Springfield, Dennis Potter and George Eliot; Auto-tune, the
microphone and stage presence; The Streets and The X Factor.
Including interviews with fellow artists such as Alison Moyet, Romy
Madley-Croft and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, and portraits
of singers in fiction as well as Tracey's real-life experiences, it
offers a unique, witty and sharply observed insider's perspective
on the exhilarating joy and occasional heartache of singing.
I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a
band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine
Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started
releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000,
I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time,
we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on
countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles, were reviewed
and interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the
charts, out of them, back in. I've seen myself described as an
indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I
haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to
the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be
experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent
lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes
within minutes.
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