DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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A look back without anger
PETER MASON is enthralled by the highly refreshing music business memoir devoid of bitterness or recrimination
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
I Ran with the Gang: My Life in and Out of the Bay City Rollers
by Alan Longmuir
(Luath Press, £14.99)
AS founder and longest serving member of the Bay City Rollers from 1965 until he first left in 1976, the guitarist Alan Longmuir was party to many of the ins and outs of one of pop music’s most unusual band careers, from the early days of slogging around Scottish working men’s clubs to the mad later years when the response to their music was so frenzied it even put Beatlemania in the shade.
The job of getting down Longmuir’s recollections had just been completed when he died unexpectedly, aged 70, in the summer of 2018, and therefore his words, co-written with Martin Knight, have had to be brought out posthumously.
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