Books & Spoken Word
Mark Kermode – A Life of Musical Misadventures
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- Mark Kermode
The popular film critic, Mark Kermode, discusses his new book How Does It Feel? which chronicles his lifelong quest to make it as a successful musician.
Subtitled A Life of Musical Misadventures, the book tells the story of Kermode’s various attempts to succeed in the music business – “a chaotic journey which would take him from the halls and youth clubs of North London to the stages of Glastonbury, the London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall.
“He discusses a lifetime of musical misadventures, from striking rockstar poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, to striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, to getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, to showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass – and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. He offers a riotous account of a bedroom dreamer’s attempts to conquer the world armed with nothing more than a chancer’s enthusiasm and a simple philosophy: how hard can it be?”
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