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Helen O'Hara on BBC Radio Scotland

Helen O'Hara on BBC Radio Scotland

Helen O’Hara talks to Nicola Meighan on BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show about her life, work and...

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Steve Pringle on Oh Brother Podcast

Steve Pringle on Oh Brother Podcast

Steve Pringle guests on the Oh! Brother podcast with hosts Steve and Paul Hanley. (1:00:05)...

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Paul Hanley on Late Night Book Club

Paul Hanley on Late Night Book Club

Paul Hanley on Gideon Coe’s Late Night Book Club on BBC Radio 6 Music talking Hex Enduction Hour and...

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Selected reviews

David Quantick

A much-needed story of why Pete Shelley is the lasting punk and post-punk talent and how Buzzcocks really are so much, much more than a great singles compilation. My rock book of 2024, already...

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Record Collector

What’s She Like is kind, generous, and honest, told by a reliable narrator. Having no myths to preserve, Helen O’Hara has written the book that Dexys aficionados will savour, a warm memoir that cuts through politics and actions, written with a knowle..

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Louder Than War, Book of the Year

You Must Get Them All is the yardstick by which all future books on the band will be judged and the bible for those worshipping at the Church of The Fall, past, present and future. This book will be one that I go back to time and time again...

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Americana UK

Ian Clayton shines a forensic light on one of the great bands, and great enigmas, of the English Folk Rock boom of the early 70s and, with the keen eye of a musical historian, shows exactly why Plainsong were such an important band at the time and, e..

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Selected titles

Books
Sixteen Again

Sixteen Again

Paul Hanley

Sixteen Again: How Pete Shelley & Buzzcocks Changed Manchester Music (and me): a love letter from Paul Hanley to his favourite band and his favourite city.

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The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall

The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall

Steve Hanley, Olivia Piekarski

Steve Hanley's memoir give unprecedented insight into the intense, highly-charged creative atmosphere within The Fall and their relentless work ethic.

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Trouble In Mind

Trouble In Mind

Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened Rolling Stone Book of the Year Mojo Book of the Year ‘When I get involved in something, I get totally involved. I don’t just play around on the fringes.’ – Bob Dylan In 1979 there was… trouble in mind, and trouble in store for the ever-iconoclastic Dylan. But unlike in 1965-66, the artifactal afterglo..

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Thro My Eyes: A Memoir

Thro My Eyes: A Memoir

Iain Matthews, Ian Clayton

A memoir by Iain Matthews, one of the music industry’s great survivors. He has been making pitch-perfect records for over fifty years.

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Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home

Ian Clayton

Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize When you hear a certain song, where does it take you? What is the secret that connects music to our lives? Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter. Author Ian Clayton listens to music as a kid to e..

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Anarchy in the Year Zero

Anarchy in the Year Zero

Clinton Heylin

Longlisted for the 2017 Penderyn Music Book of the Year The Sex Pistols, The Clash and the ’Class of 76 This is the story of the birth of Punk, with a capital P, in the only country where it was a mainstream movement: the UK; told entirely by eye-witnesses (Heylin included) whose words, then and now, have been held up to the light of history’s hindsigh..

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Selected features

Blog
Route Acquires Paul Hanley's Buzzcocks Book

Route Acquires Paul Hanley's Buzzcocks Book

Route is delighted to announce the acquisition of Paul Hanley’s new book, Sixteen Again: How Pete Shelley & Buzzcocks Changed Manchester Music (and me)...

Route Acquires Mark Hoyle Memoir

Route Acquires Mark Hoyle Memoir

Acquisition announcement for Mark Hoyle's memoir, Swerve..

An open letter from Clinton Heylin to potential readers of The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2

An open letter from Clinton Heylin to potential readers of The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2

An open letter from Clinton Heylin regarding the process of creating The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2 and what happened to the North American edition...