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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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