Research Catalog

Title

How does it feel? : a life of musical misadventures / Mark Kermode.

Author

Kermode, Mark

Publication

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.

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Details

Description

289 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric guitar and very little talent, he embarked on an alternative career - a chaotic journey which would take him from the halls and youth clubs of North London to the stages of Glastonbury, the London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall. How Does It Feel? follows a lifetime of musical misadventures which have seen Mark striking rockstar poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass - and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. Really. Hilarious, self-deprecating and blissfully nostalgic, this is a riotous account of a bedroom dreamer's attempts to conquer the world armed with nothing more than a chancer's enthusiasm and a simple philosophy: how hard can it be?"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Musicians
• Biography
• Autobiographies
• Skiffle
• Great Britain
• Musicians > Great Britain > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biography.

Call Number

JME 18-500

ISBN

• 1474608973
• 9781474608978
• 1474608981
• 9781474608985

OCLC

1056188978

Author

Kermode, Mark, author.

Title

How does it feel? : a life of musical misadventures / Mark Kermode.

Publisher

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JME 18-500