Will Birch

Will Birch, writer and lyricist, drummer and songwriter with the Kursaal Flyers and
The Records, author of No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution
and Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography - out now!

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A book about Pub Rock by Will Birch

 

A book about Pub Rock in Japanese

Japanese edition
(translation by
Hidenobu Nakajima)
Shinko Music Japan

 


No Sleep Till Canvey Island by Will Birch

The second edition of No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution (Updated 2003) is published by Virgin Books.

Featuring a wealth of anecdotes from Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe and all of the defiantly anti-showbiz scene's major names, No Sleep Till Canvey Island is the definitive account of a crucial seven-year period in British rock history.

"Illuminating... what sustains the book is Will Birch's extraordinary attention to detail, crucial observations only available to someone who was there at the time" Mojo

"An exhilarating anecdotal history" Q

"The Pepys of pub rock... Estimable..." Independent on Sunday, 2005

ISBN 0-7535-0740-4

Available by mail order from willbirch.com

Will Birch © willbirch.com

Read an excerpt here (blog area):
myspace.com/pubrockbook

 

 


Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography

Publication date: 15 January 2010

Sidgwick & Jackson, London

Jacket illustration: Sir Peter Blake

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