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Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson Hardcover
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- ISBN
- 9781408711842
- Book Title
- Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 14.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Information
The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete southern wankers' - is recalled with moving candour by its frontman Brett Anderson, whose vivid memoir swings seamlessly between the tender, witty, turbulent, euphoric and bittersweet. Suede began by treading the familiar jobbing route of London's emerging new 1990s indie bands - gigs at ULU, the Camden Powerhaus and the Old Trout in Windsor - and the dispiriting experience of playing a set to an audience of one. But in these halcyon days, their potential was undeniable. In 'Afternoons With The Blinds Drawn', Anderson unflinchingly explores his relationship with addiction, heartfelt in the regret that early musical bonds were severed, and clear-eyed on his youthful persona.
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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
ISBN-10
1408711842
ISBN-13
9781408711842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038839342
Product Key Features
Book Title
Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
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Reviews
You're unlikely to read another music autobiography quite as honestly reflective as this one-- Sunday Express, True to his word, this is another music book that steers away from the expected... it has a brazen confidence and it's rarely dull. As such, Afternoons With the Blinds Down is a worthy successor to Coal Black Mornings . I look forward to the third installment, in which Anderson hits middle age, which will surely be called Evenings Under the Electric Blanket .-- Ed Potton , The Times, Anderson writes with a combination of guarded introspection and detachment . . . he conjures a cracked and confused persona, fumbling his way through a bizarre early adulthood, by turns gleefully hedonistic and wantonly self-destructive, hardworking and profligate, egotistical and insecure, a character more likely to be seen shuffling around in a dressing-grown smoking fags and staring out the window than prancing on the stage . . . Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn is another milestone in a flourishing latterday career-- Guardian, A refreshing corrective to the Britpop narrative . . . Reading it is a bit like being inside a Suede song itself. Which is maybe a mark of the strength of Anderson's vision . . . The pages reek of stale cigarette ash, rising damp and mouldy grouting . . . the book offers the singer's own nuanced take on pop and success-- Herald, Thanks to his thoughtful analysis of those wild times, Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn lets in a lot of light-- Victoria Segal , Sunday Times, Anderson stopped his enchanting first memoir, Coal Black Mornings , just short of the band's brilliant early 1990s breakthrough. Here, he handles their operatic rise and fall with the same thoughtful grace, picking through the paraphernalia of addiction, fame and ego with self-lacerating honesty and a lyrical eye for time and place-- Sunday Times, Honest and lyrical . . . Anderson, in his lyrics, has always been fantastic at capturing the sleaze of underground city living and he does the same here . . . Anderson's writing is as he is in real life: sharp, unsparing and sensitive -- Miranda Sawyer , Observer, Anderson maintains dignity with thoughtful prose and doesn't drop names, but after his childhood recollections in last year's Coal Black Mornings , this is the period that will fascinate fans the most-- Evening Standard, The story of Suede's rise and fall, the drugs and the feuds with other bands isn't pretty, but Anderson is on typically sharp form as he tells it-- Telegraph
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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