From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
Following the publication of his book _The England's Dreaming Tapes_, author and journalist Jon Savage talks punk with The Quietus, and kindly donates an interview that just couldn't fit into his thousand-odd page bustling tome.
On the eve of the release of her biography, _Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits_, writer Zoë Street Howe examines her own motivations for writing the book, on how she helped reunite previously disenfranchised members, and why the group's legacy is still important today.
Here are some extracts from DJhistory.com's ace new book _The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground Week By Week_. Here, in 1976, author Vince Aletti is letting his readers know about the new cult of the DJ and why the rockists just don't get it . . .
Gentleman of rock Joel McIver has written a book about the best metal fret manglers ever. Exclusively for The Quietus he engages his swollen hippocampus and picks out 10 of the best. Let the bloodshed commence! (Just don't call him ass hat.)
Former Darkness bass player Frankie Poullain has returned from his French castle to write a warts-and-all account of his time in the band. In these extracts, he recalls eating his own faeces as a child and the band's infamous spat with the NME.
Nick Cave has collaborated with artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble to produce Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, a superb little book of sketches, photographs, and sundry scribbles. In an extract from the book, they explain how it all came together.