MORE BOOKS!
1 Nina Simone’s Gum
Warren Ellis
The odyssey of a piece of gum chewed and discarded by the great singer when she played Nick Cave’s Meltdown in 1999. It was retrieved by Warren Ellis as a sacred keepsake. “Warren has turned this memento… into a genuine religious artefact,” says Cave. Due: September
2 There And Black Again
Don Letts with Mal Peachey
Letts revisits a charmed life in punk, reggae, film and beyond. Starring Marley, the Pistols, The Clash, The Slits, Nelson Mandela, Chuck D and others. With Letts’ views on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Due: March
3 This Book Is A Song
Jarvis Cocker Exploring the essence of creativity, this non-memoir will mix biography, essays and visuals.
“In a song you’re always having to explain things in the least number of words,” says Jarv,” but for a book to work, you kind of have to eke it out.” Due: September
4 Excavate! The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall
Edited by Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton
This guide to what makes The Fall The Fall has essays, prose, lyrics, art-work and ephemera from contributors such as writer Adelle Stripe, artist Sian Pattenden, journalists Mark Sinker and Sukhdev Sandhu, and Stewart Lee. Due: April
5 Growing Out Of It: My Life In Madness
Lee Thompson Sax-playing, levitating, maddest Mad of them all shares his unique perspective on a life sentence in Camden’s Ministry Of Nuttiness. “Lee was particularly cool,” Suggs assures us. Due: April
6 Monolithic Undertow
Harry Sword “Explores the power of the drone,” via Neolithic beginnings, the middle ages, raga, dub, Hawkwind and Sunn O))). Foreword writer Beck calls it, “An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum.” Due: February
7 Electric Dreams: The Human League, Heaven 17, And The Sound Of The Steel City
David Buckley
It’s been in the works for a decade, but the MOJO writer and Bowie/ Kraftwerk biographer’s history of the Sheffield synth principals will at last appear. Includes the final interview of the late producer Martin Rushent.
Due: September
8 From Manchester With Love
Paul Morley
A “genre-defying” biography of Factory Records giant Tony Wilson, who the author also recalls as a “bullshitting hustler, flashy showman, aesthetic adventurer… loyal friend.”
Due: October