From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
In the new book by tQ's very own Aug Stone, two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass’ Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping and what it’s like to be in your first band
Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse rewired the brains of a generation of art students and turned Brian Eno and Pete Townshend on to cybernetic thinking. In an exclusive extract from his new book *Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave*, Simon Strange explores the ideas behind the course and the strange activities it inspired
In the 1970s, Tana Douglas was rock’n’roll’s first female roadie. In an exclusive extract from her new book, *LOUD: A Life in Rock 'n' Roll by the World's First Female Roadie*, she recalls the 18th birthday she spent fixing Iggy Pop’s sound rig