No surprise then that Danny Honeywell, protagonist of The Rock & Roll Beers, is a student number cruncher wallowing in his glory days on the margins of 90s Britpop.
What’s more like the guys I knew, Danny and his mates in Diamond Head Crater skulk around parts of Stockport near where I lived as a child, and still like them, although in their thirties, continue to act like pre-pubescent kids.
“’We’re four scruffy middle-aged blokes, some of whom have
inappropriately long hair,’ he says. ‘We play rock music. Our girlfriends come and support us. We’re a pub band. The only thing we’re missing is a fat woman playing the piano’”.
As I daren’t write a ‘spoiler’, I’ll just say that all this forms part of the background to a rip-roaring read by Keir Nathan Thomas, an award-winning magazine journalist and best-selling Kindle author, who pulls back the covers on the U.K. music biz with the ghoulish glee of small boys yanking the wings off flies.
Thomas’s book is a fantastically earthy, often laugh out loud read that’s great for the beach or the long, journeys that may get you there. Enjoy!
* The Rock & Roll Beers is available from Amazon at:
© Natalie Wood (January 11 2015)
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