How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005

How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005

by Richard King
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005

How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005

by Richard King

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Overview

One of the most tangible aftershocks of Punk was its urgency to prompt individuals into action. Document your reality: do it yourself. From this, a generation of young men were inspired and, with often zero financial planning or business sense, in a bedroom, garage or shed, labels such as Factory, Rough Trade, Mute, 4AD, Beggars Banquet, Warp, Domino and Creation began, shifting the musical landscape and trading on an ethos and identity no brand consultant would now dare dream of. Musicians were encouraged to do whatever the hell they wanted and damn the consequences. From humble beginnings, some of our most influential artists were allowed to thrive: New Order, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Orange Juice, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, Aphex Twin, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, Autechre, Broadcast, Vampire Weekend, The White Stripes and Artic Monkeys to name but a handful.
This is the story, set to an incredible soundtrack, of the enormous scale of the passions, the size of the egos, and the true extent of the madness of the mavericks who had the vision and bloody-mindedness to make the musical landscape exciting again.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780571278329
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication date: 04/03/2012
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 640
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Richard King has worked at the heart of the independent music industry for nearly twenty years. He is the co-editor of Loops, an occasional journal of long-form music writing published jointly by Faber & Domino Records. He has contributed to The Guardian, The Observer and many other publications. How Soon Is Now? is his first book.
Richard King is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade, The Times and Uncut Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (the Sunday Times Music Book of the Year) and The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year), all published by Faber & Faber. He was born into a bilingual family in South Wales and for the last twenty years has lived in the rural county of Powys, Mid Wales. | @richard_king
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