Book description
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting,
adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for
men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary
drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience,
whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport,
the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the
criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses
of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less
Ordinary also brings you some of the finest comic voices around,
on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
Anyone who every dreams of being in the music business thinks that
'being with the band' is an instant passport to free drugs, women and
hedonistic, rock 'n' roll good times. But Stuart Maconie hilariously
tells a different story of the slow-drip hell of continental travel in
the claustrophobic confines a small van with a certain death metal trio.
This digital bite has been extracted from Stuart Maconie's brilliant
book Cider with Roadies.
Stuart Maconie is a journalist and writer, and is familiar to
millions as a TV and radio presenter. He is the host of
The Freak Zone
and
The Freakier Zone
on BBC 6 Music, and has written and presented dozens of other shows on
BBC Radio. His books include the acclaimed official biographies of both
Blur and James as well as the bestselling
Pies and Prejudice
,
Adventures on the High Teas
, and
Hope and Glory
, all published by Ebury. He can name GQ Man of the Year and Sony Awards
Radio Broadcaster of the Year amongst his accolades.
