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Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year

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It is also the story of Western rock/pop and the roads leading to the explosions of grunge in America and BritPop in Europe. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. There is angry political invective aimed at “class traitors”, of a kind that makes people feel obliged to point out that Bobby Gillespie sent his children to private school.

Filled with 'the holy spirit of rock n roll' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then in Primal Scream. Bobby describes his descent into punk rock via The Clash and The Sex Pistols in a resonant narrative of every participating teenager’s explosive introduction to the insubordinate scene.

A similar time shift from that date would have taken you back to the black and white days of Bobby Rydell, Adam Faith, and ‘Crackerjack’. There’s been a recent avalanche of books by musicians, including Sinéad O’Connor, Baxter Dury, Will Sergeant, Stevie Van Zandt, Carl Cox, Shaun Ryder and Dave Grohl, to mention just a few. I liked all the little touches, talking about the fashion and influences which made me wish I'd got into Primal Scream earlier. The narrative often has to change key rapidly, between crazy Jesus and Mary Chain adventures or the grinding slog of the early Scream days, to a considered look at the nature of the singer’s role in a group, or his careful study of songwriting technique, “literary songwriting, songs of experience” as he puts it, inspired by Southern Soul classics like Dark End of the Street. The thing that heartened me is that throughout the book, Gillespie's political outlook and beliefs never changed.

It ends a little abruptly with the launch of Screamadelica, and suspect there may be more to come as he’s done lots of other things since. I’m pretty good, I’ll always take four months off at the start of the year and go back on drinks and drugs on April Fools’ Day, do it for the summer, and then October, November, December off again. BG The band have always kept working, one way or another, I’ve always kept working… With this book, at first, I was, no, no, no, but a seed was planted. For him, being a Romantic, even a cynical Romantic, means that on balance one tends to see the human glass as half full.When he talks about his experiences in the music scene, he comes across as such a fan of all that’s positive and uplifting in music. Gillespie certainly has a high enough opinion of his music, but of course excess and indulgence are good ways of disguising or distracting from largely mediocre music. Published thirty years after the release of their masterpiece, Bobby Gillespie's memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house. Gillespie wears his influences on his sleeve, a bohemian childhood with socialist parents, the burgeoning anti establishment music scene spurred by the Sex Pistols are all influential, as well as the excessive drugs.

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