'Beautifully judged account of the Manchester scene . . .
There
is something of the fairy tale about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament
to the kind of life that nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a
cultural moment and a young man who instinctively knew that it was his
once upon a time' Victoria Segal, Sunday Times' 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 Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam's
wonderfully evocative memoir. It 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. In the late 1970s
Dave Haslam was a teenage John Peel listener and Joy Division fan, his
face pressed against a 'window', looking in at a world of music, books
and ideas.
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: Tony Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Tracey
Thorn, John Lydon, Johnny Marr, Ian Brown, Laurent Garnier and David
Byrne.
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: Music, Manchester, & More: A Memoir - Dave Haslam
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