Pete Selby

Another great Word in Your Ear chats where Mark and David speak to @scottrowley.bsky.social about his forthcoming book ‘Stay Alive:The Life & Death of Stuart Adamson’
Includes, of course, the opportunity to revisit one of the all time classic Smash Hits nicknames

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WHEREHASITBEENALLMYLIFEIAN?!

You and me both

I’d never heard The Love Unlimited Orchestra’s ‘Rhapsody in White’ until I picked this up last month as a lucky £1 find in a second hand shop and I can now honestly say it’s one of the greatest albums I’ve ever listened to

A brilliant, heartbreaking lost album

“There’s barely anyone who was important in the frontman’s story that hasn’t contributed here and Rowley unearths some disquieting truths that help explain the pain that Adamson suffered his entire life ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”
Classic Pop

‘I will now sell four copies of Failure is Always An Option by Steve Mason’

Ta x

STEVE MASON
Failure is Always An Option
*Signed* Hardback
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The shop regular, musical maverick, polymath, & all-round legend - The Beta Band frontman has penned his long-awaited autobiography & we're champing at all the bits in eager anticipation

One of his best

19-02-26

100%. I’ve got a lot of love for Caravan. It’s as if Finger from Nuts In May started a prog band as opposed to former Charterhouse alumni. Not that I’ve got anything against them either.

The dog, the dog he’s at it again’ really is prog at its very best. Unfortunate album title or not.

I was thinking just the same thing a little while back. Concluded that as a naive 21 year old man with faux artistic pretensions and wanting girls to find him ‘deep’, worthy melodrama felt aspirational. Nowadays, there is nothing I despise more in music than worthiness. Or pretending to be deep.

‘Waiting for the Out’ is spectacularly good television with everyone clearly aware they’re in something special. But Josh Finan’s performance is just magnetic. Deserving of all the awards.

Will take either

And look, I don’t want to be a dick about this but we’ve won the past two years so if we win for a third time we get to keep the Penderyn distillery

We are delighted to be recognised on this year’s Penderyn Music Book Prize list. A huge congrats to Justin and Mike and all of the authors and publishers for another wonderful year of intelligent music writing. Thank you to Richard Thomas and all at Penderyn and Laugharne

@delamitri.bsky.social

Thank you @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social!
Also, it has never crossed my mind that The Beatles name is never spoken during AHDN. Always learning.

Watching this Trump press conference. It is SO utterly deranged it is genuinely like watching someone’s total cognitive functionality atrophy in real time. I mean, if nothing else - and it is *everything* else - it’s just so goddamn weird

A fantastic start to ‘Stay Alive’. Straight in the Top 100 on Amazon. Testament to the weight of love still felt for Stuart Adamson after 25 years

Very handsome proofs.
Words by Scott Rowley.
Design by Brad Merrett.

Out 26-03-26 on @newmodernbooks.bsky.social

“You are on an island, in the middle of an ocean, at the ends of the earth. It is 14th December 2001 and you have just two days to live”

With the full support of band members, family and friends, Scott has written a jaw dropping tribute to Stuart Adamson

Out 26-03-26

*NEW!*
Written with the full co-operation of Stuart’s former band mates, family and the friends who knew him best, ‘Stay Alive’ by Scott Rowley is the unflinching, celebratory, deeply affecting true story of a Scottish musical folk hero

26-03-26

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“Essential reading. An early contender for music book of the year 10/10”
The Mirror

The incredible coverage and reviews for ‘Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie’ continue to come thick and fast. A huge congratulations to @alexlarman.bsky.social

Have you got your copy yet?

#davidbowie

The “15 Big Hits” promise of CD Four is, if nothing else, a decent little Scott gag

A great way to celebrate David Bowie if you’re in London this Saturday. An afternoon of talks and events @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Conveniently located in the centre of Bowie’s West End/Soho universe.

@alexlarman.bsky.social

Come see @alexlarman.bsky.social as a part of the amazing line-up for David Bowie day at Foyles this Saturday. I ahvr also read the book and its ace. www.foyles.co.uk/events/bowie...

It feels like it doesn’t it? Over familiarity and shoddy legacy management has driven me to this point. I thought a shiny Anthology series might help but it’s made it worse. It felt like a botched restoration job of a dated but once holy text. The Big Train sketch has never felt more prescient