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Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop
Louise Wener
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Description for Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop
paperback. Takes you on the author's musical odyssey from being awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set Britpop goddess. In this book, with her band Sleeper, she goes from doing gigs in toilets to gigs in stadiums, and on to the big interviews, constant touring and endless excess via Top of the Pops. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APB; AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Just For One Day takes you on Louise Wener's musical odyssey from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set Britpop goddess. Of course, once she's living the dream at the height of Britpop's glory, things aren't quite how they appeared from the other side.
With her band Sleeper, Louise goes from doing gigs in toilets to gigs in stadiums, and on to the big interviews, constant touring and endless excess via Top of the Pops.
These are the hilarious adventures of a girl's journey through Britpop, from the embarrassments of growing up to trying to remember what on earth it was you really wanted while eating Twiglets backstage and enviously eyeing up Damon Albarn's plate of foreign cheeses.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091936525
SKU
9780091936525
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Louise Wener
Louise Wener was the lead singer of the band Sleeper and one of Britpop's biggest female stars. She travelled the world at the height of their fame playing to hundreds of thousands and living the high life. In the early 90s Sleeper were briefly lost to a world of glitter, cocaine, paranoia, comically petty squabbles and warped music industry logic. They had three top ten albums, including the platinum-selling The It Girl before disbanding in 1998. Louise has since written four acclaimed novels and lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.
Reviews for Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop
This book is absolutely wonderful - I just read four passages out loud to the Word staff - to actual applause!
Mark Ellen
The Word
Wise, funny and loving - a brilliant memoir about Britpop and possibly the best rock biography since Nik Cohn's AwopBopAlooBop-AlopBamBoom
Tony Parsons
Funny, readable and filled with proper gossip. Most importantly, it's a perceptive and tenacious look at what it was really like to be a girl among the blokes in that era
Alexandra Heminsley
The New Review, Independent on Sunday
Wener charts the story of her rise from suburban schoolgirl to 1990s pin-up with Indie group Sleeper. Her tone is warm, funny and self-deprecating - and she's not afraid to prick a few egos along the way
Daily Mirror
An amusing insight into the banality of band life, and a cautionary tale about the cost of getting what you always wanted
The Quietus
Teen love, bad haircuts, great music and laugh-out-loud memories
Fearne Cotton
(This week Sam has been) laughing, crying and over-identifying with Louise Wener's hilarious memoir, Different For Girls
Sam Baker - Editor of Red Magazine
Thoroughly entertaining
Record Collector
Mark Ellen
The Word
Wise, funny and loving - a brilliant memoir about Britpop and possibly the best rock biography since Nik Cohn's AwopBopAlooBop-AlopBamBoom
Tony Parsons
Funny, readable and filled with proper gossip. Most importantly, it's a perceptive and tenacious look at what it was really like to be a girl among the blokes in that era
Alexandra Heminsley
The New Review, Independent on Sunday
Wener charts the story of her rise from suburban schoolgirl to 1990s pin-up with Indie group Sleeper. Her tone is warm, funny and self-deprecating - and she's not afraid to prick a few egos along the way
Daily Mirror
An amusing insight into the banality of band life, and a cautionary tale about the cost of getting what you always wanted
The Quietus
Teen love, bad haircuts, great music and laugh-out-loud memories
Fearne Cotton
(This week Sam has been) laughing, crying and over-identifying with Louise Wener's hilarious memoir, Different For Girls
Sam Baker - Editor of Red Magazine
Thoroughly entertaining
Record Collector