Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781472127518
  • 25 april 2019
  • 352 pagina's
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Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is a lively, revelatory and gloriously well-written memoir of Dave Haslam's life and work in some of the most interesting corners of contemporary culture. It's a masterful insider account of life at the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and the birth of the rave era.

'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

'Book of the year' Gilles Peterson

In the late 1970s Dave Haslam was a teenage John Peel listener and Joy Division fan. 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: 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.

Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor 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.

'Exhilerating . . . For fans of club culture, pop music, youthful exuberance and grown-up wisdom' Q

'Resonant and thoughtful . . . Manchester - and British nightlife in general - is lucky to have Haslam as its archivist' The Quietus

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    Saai, zelfingenomen, name-dropping zonder leuke anekdotes opgesmukt met de eruditie die Haslam zichzelf toedicht. Iemand met een matige interesse in de Manchester scene, weet ongeveer al alles wat de man beschrijft. Opsommingen van namen beginnen met jezelf is maar één van de signaaltjes van hoe graag de auteur zichzelf ziet. Tijdsverlies.

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