The market
Thanks to Sarah Richardson, who took this photo in Waterstone's in Nottingham. I think I must now surrender myself to market forces. The book's out there. You've provided written, and photographic, evidence. I've had a couple of nice reviews now, too. One in Q (thanks to Paul for spotting that: "As good an insight into magazine life as you'll get"), one in Hot Stars (which is inside OK!: "Entertaining from start to finish") and, today, a really thoughtful and questioning one from football-and-music author Mark Hodkinson in The Times, which you can read in full here. (Yes, he's the one who wrote the excellent 1990 Omnibus Wedding Present biography that Dave Gedge disowned. I still have my copy.) Yes, it's a paranoid time when your book is first out in the public domain, as reviewers sharpen their pencils and bookshops seek maliciously to hide it from view. Thanks to Iain and Stuart for posting positive reviews on Amazon, too - it won't be long before a disatisfied customer barges in and brings the batting average down! But that's democracy.
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...and that's m'finger in the corner..
D'oh!
Completely unrelated, but I read this, and immediately thought you'd be interested in this
David Chase talking to Tom Fontana (Oz, St. Elsewhere, Homicide)
http://www.wga.org/writtenby/writtenbysub.aspx?id=2354
I'd like to have seen Chase ask Fontana about his industry experiences, rather than have Fontana plugging himself in a Ben Elton-esque way, but a good read nonetheless.
Good review. Sill enjoying the book. I admit it takes me ages to read books because I'm always reading a bit, then re reading it, then going back to check how it relates to a previous bit. I do love reading but it can take quite a while for me to get through a book. I reckon that I won't be attempting War and Peace any time soon.
Andy, remembering "PLAY IT IN AGAIN, WOODY" and the halcyon days at St George's in the 80s....saw Rebecca Warren a couple of weks ago.
Sam Hullah sam.hullah@lineone.net
It's also on BOATS like the ones that took me to and from my weekend booze cruise. BOATS!
Thanks to some more birthday vouchers and a 3 for 2 offer at Waterstones, I finally got the book today but as I'm in the middle of Charlie Brooker's "Screen Burn", which is hilarious, it'll need to wait.
Don't spoil the ending, please!
As expected its a great read - I started reading NME in 1988 and started getting Q and Select a couple of years later, so I've been following your career (hope that doesnt make me sound like a 'Alan Partridges No1 fan' type person!).
I spent the whole day on Sunday reading it from start to finish wand wasn't disappointed.
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