How Does It Feel? - A Life of Musical Misadventures

Zusatztext You know when you read a biography of your favourite band? And the best bit is the first few chapters where they're chancing it! sleeping on floors! borrowing amps and not believing they've blagged their way onto a bill with Rick Wakeman. Well! imagine that breathless! innocent excitement lasted their whole career. That's what reading HOW DOES IT FEEL? is like. It's the biography of your favourite band who never quite got famous Informationen zum Autor Mark Kermode is Chief Film Critic for the OBSERVER and co-host of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. He is the author of IT'S ONLY A MOVIE; THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE MULTIPLEX; THE MOVIE DOCTORS (with Simon Mayo); HATCHET JOB, hailed by Stephen Fry as 'the finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' and HOW DOES IT FEEL?, a memoir about his life in music. He plays double bass and harmonica in The Dodge Brothers, the award-winning skiffle-and-blues band, who also accompany silent movies. He has written and presented film and music shows on Channel 4 and across BBC radio and television. He holds two Sony Awards for his radio programmes, and The Dodge Brothers album The Sun Set was voted Blues Album of the Year 2013 by the roots music magazine SPIRAL EARTH. Klappentext The household-name film critic looks back at the music misadventures of his life, particularly in his chosen genre of skiffle, with nostalgia, humour and self-deprecation. Zusammenfassung The hilarious memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar - 'Wonderful...terrific...hit me right between the eyes' STEPHEN FRY

Product details

• Authors: Mark Kermode, Kermode Mark
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781474608992
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0899-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Rock, Memoirs, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Pop Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Film Theory & Criticism, Music of film and stage, Film history, theory or criticism