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Anoint My Head
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- Book Synopsis
- <p><b>"Captures the time and the aspirations of a young band brilliantly. A great eye-opener into the absurd thought process of what it might take to headline Glastonbury!" Steve Lamacq, <i>BBC</i></b></p> <p><b>A coming-of-age story about pursuing your dreams and what happens when reality gets in the way.</b></p><p>It's 1992 and Andy (aka Horace) dreams of becoming a rockstar with his band, the Pointy Birds. The only problem is that his day job (mis)filing vinyl in a Soho record store is stealing all his time and energy, plus rival bands like Suede, Blur, Pulp and Radiohead are moving on to bigger and better things.</p><p> But everything changes when someone called Ricky Gervais offers his services as a band manager, and at last the dream can start.</p><p><i>Anoint My Head </i> is the tale of a band who didn't become rich or famous, but had a manager who did. It is also the story of a musical era, documenting the rise of some of the biggest Britpop bands of the nineties, plus a comedian who went on to write quite a successful sitcom about a paper merchants in Slough, popularly known as <i>The Office.</i></p><p><b>"If <i>This Is Spinal Tap</i> is the quintessential rock mockumentary, <i>Anoint My Head</i> is the closest you'll get to that in book form."-- Loz Etheridge, <i>God is in the TV</i></b>
- About The Author
- Andy Macleod is a new music promoter, a cold-water swimming enthusiast/bore and a Spurs fan. When no one is looking he likes to write. His first book is a memoir called Anoint My Head is his first book. He lives in London.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781917274326
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Omnibus Press, (16 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 0 mm
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