
Cider With Roadies
Stuart Maconie
Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters.
From Stuart's four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it's a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.
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Reviews for Cider With Roadies
Tony Wilson The perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate
The Times
Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton
Peter Kay An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful
Antony Quinn
Sunday Times
If you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one
GQ
Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North
Hunter Davies A working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry's spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers
Mojo
Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny
Guardian
Exuberantly anecdotal, witty and poignant
GQ