On Monday October 21st, I hosted an invite-only reading from Boy About Town at Bowery Electric in Manhattan. My old friend, indeed, my former Jamming! printer Joly MacFie, as lionized in...
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November 5, 2013
I’ve had quite a lot of people ask not so much if, but when I plan to share out a massive playlist related to my memoir Boy About Town. The...
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October 28, 2013
Morrissey’s Autobiography largely lives up to the reputation of its author – sometimes for better, often for worse. “Naturally my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too...
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October 16, 2013
PREMISE: Chumbawamba guitarist hits 50, takes a year’s sabbatical in America to write a memoir about his love of “wild running” – and uses his observations of the 2010 New...
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October 11, 2013
HELLO HOORAY THE SECOND STORY CHAPTER in Boy About Town could as easily have been entitled ‘School’s Out.’ That number one hit from the summer of 1972 served as my...
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October 8, 2013
Strength Doesn’t Come From What You Can Do. It Comes From Overcoming The Things You Once Thought You Couldn’t. I only saw the above axiom after completing my first Olympic...
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September 27, 2013
Boy About Town: A Memoir is now available in the USA. Your local bookstore can order it from IPG, but as it’s an import, and apart from the Hudson Valley stores where...
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September 24, 2013
Congratulations to Pascal Cheng, who has just won himself a signed copy of Boy About Town. Pascal joined a shortlist of seven readers who chose to put forth their fave...
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September 23, 2013