Gig

Description

All Points North, with its scatter-gun approach, went some way to defining the contemporary North of England in terms of its boundaries and its image. The Great North Show, while retaining the format of essays, pen-portraits, journal entries and anecdotes, will be a more focussed and cohesive book, concentrating on the culture of the north by concentrating on its inhabitants, particularly Simon's family, with his father in a starring role. A highly autobiographical quest to find out what it means to be northern.

Description

"From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core. And about a place, the village of Marsden in west Yorkshire, where he can stand and look out across a huge circumference of inspiration and influence: Joy Division, the Smiths and The Fall to the west, the Comsat Angels and Pulp to the south, Andrew Marvell and Larkin way out east, Ted Hughes and Plath just to the north. Gig is a warm, vivid, wonderful book about music, poetry, family and - always - the North. Gig relishes the humour, vitality and the occasional absurdity of life at home and 'on the road' - seen this time through the prism of music and poetry."--Global Books in Print.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography.

Other Editions

• Gig: the life and times of a rock-star fantasistViking2008-01-01
• GigeBookPenguin Group UK2009-01-01