Product Description

Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters. From his four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it's a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2199 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Peter Kay
`Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton’

The Times
"From council estate to Radio 2, Stuart Maconie has lived the perfect pop fan's life...effortlessly articulate"

The Guardian
"Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny"