Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets) book signing

We're very excited to welcome Inspiral Carpets and Manchester music legend Clint Boon to sign copies of his ace new book, The Manchester Chronicles: True Tales of Music, Madness and Mayhem 1976-2006. Clint will be popping in before the band play just up the road at The Halls, so take this opportunity to meet a music great and get a signed copy of a great book!

NOTE: To make sure of your copy of the book and to help us order stock, please pop in to the shop or call us on 01902 427219 tomake a reservation. If you can't make it to the signing but would like a signed/dedicated copy, please get in touch. Please note that dedicated copies must be paid for in advance.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

'This is the greatest rock and roll book ever written' GUY GARVEY, Elbow

'A brilliant storyteller, Clint has been there to see it all first-hand' TIM BURGESS, The Charlatans

'Clint writes like he speaks and plays; as one who knows' JOHNNY MARR, The Smiths

'Clint knows it all, has done it all' PETER HOOK, New Order

WITH A FOREWORD BY SHAUN RYDER

THE MANCHESTER CHRONICLES is an exhilarating and highly personal folk-telling of the Manchester music scene, as seen through the eyes and ears (and hair) of one of the city's favourite sons, Clint Boon from the iconic Inspiral Carpets. From early days of punk in the mid-1970s through the crucible of the 1980s indie and psychedelic scenes, the explosion of Madchester, Rave and then Brit Pop in the 1990s, this is an intimately told adventure of an extraordinary musical renaissance.

A born storyteller, Clint Boon pieces together a collage of often hilarious stories to give us a unique take on the city's coming of age alongside his own. At art school, rehearsal studios and sweaty gigs, we meet the movers and shakers of Manchester, often well before they were famous, as they came together to forge their identities and put the city on the map.

Be it a near-fatal tour bus crash, or suffering the ignominy of being on Top of The Pops one week and signing on the dole the next - while your former roadie, Noel, makes pop history - Clint entertainingly captures the mayhem of music, success and the city's extraordinary musical family.

Encountering bands like Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Fall, New Order, the Smiths, James, the Stone Roses, the Happy Mondays, Elbow and Oasis, raconteur Clint tells the Manchester legend not as an exhaustive history, but as what it felt like to be there at the time, taking the trip of a lifetime.