SF0089 Writing, Reading and Libraries

Steven Pilling mentioned it might be a good idea to run music book recommendations on Sombrero Fallout. On Friends of Sombrero Fallout, I asked for contributions and these were the responses. I trust the FOSF community implicitly, so these come “sight unseen” in many cases, but strongly endorsed:

Clothes, clothes, clothes. Music, music, music. Boys, boys, boys, Viv Albertine

To Throw Away Unopened, Viv Albertine

Bass Culture, Lloyd Bradley

One Two Three Four, Craig Brown

Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein

I Wanna Be Yours, John Cooper Clarke

Head On, Julian Cope

Grant and I, Robert Forster

Girl In A Band, Kim Gordon

Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick

Bad Vibes, Luke Haines

The Big Midweek, Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekarski

Young Hearts Run Free, Dave Haslam

Seeing Sideways, Kristin Hersh

Rat Girl, Kristin Hersh

Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman

Sing Backwards and Weep, Mark Lanegan

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, Tim Lawrence

Lipstick Traces, Greil Marcus

Inside Out, Nick Mason

Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain

Walls Come Tumbling Down, Daniel Rachel

Rip It Up, Simon Reynolds

Powder, Kevin Sampson

England’s Dreaming, Jon Savage

The Fallen, Dave Simpson

Pig City, Andrew Stafford

Yeah yeah yeah, Bob Stanley

The Rise, The Fall and The Rise, Brix Smith Start

My Rock’n’Roll Friend, Tracey Thorne

Black Postcards, Dean Wareham

No Future, Matthew Worley

There are many on there I haven’t read, so looking forward to staying home and reading now Melbourne’s finally going to be moving out of lockdown.

So I also thought it would be a good idea to activate a theme I’ve had bubbling in the background for a while and do songs about books. The tracks are probably a bit (though not entirely) on the earnest, occasionally slightly twee side, being about nerdy old books and all. But what’s wrong with that, if you’re in the mood?  Absolutely nothing.