Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of Britain's Great Lost Punk Band

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The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you ve never heard of.Recording one near perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragically ahead of their time.With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson set out, in 1971, to make musical history His band, The Hollywood Brats, were pre punk prophets uncompromising, ultra thin, wild, untameable and outrageous But thrown into the crazy world of the 1970s London music scene, the Brats ultimately fell foul of the crooks and heavies that ran it and an industry that just wasn t ready for them.Directly inspiring the London SS, the Clash, Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols, The Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share the glory Punk s answer to Withnail and I, Sick On You is a startling, funny and brilliantly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness. New Download [ Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of Britain's Great Lost Punk Band ] author [ Andrew Matheson ] – kino-fada.fr I m telling you, the things you can find onNo wonder their death march toward world domination continues unchallenged Where else can you find discount socks, ab crunchers, Beer Nuts, and this book available at the click of a mouse The proto glam Hollywood Brats were the music biz s answer to The Gang That Couldn t Shoot Straight, a mesmerizing crisis in hooker slap, a brash bunch of cross dressing teenage troglodytes from the early 70 s dripping with wrecked rock star elegance who I m telling you, the things you can find onNo wonder their death march toward world domination continues unchallenged Where else can you find discount socks, ab crunchers, Beer Nuts, and this book available at the click of a mouse The proto glam Hollywood Brats were the music biz s answer to The Gang That Couldn t Shoot Straight, a mesmerizing crisis in hooker slap, a brash bunch of cross dressing teenage troglodytes from the early 70 s dripping with wrecked rock star elegance who stripped rock n roll of all hippie bullshit and then tried to ram it down the collective throat of a Great Britain banged to the gills on Yes, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake Palmer, and facial hair Christ save us all All great things begin with a dream.Full disclosure It s official ...Drummer wanted Young, slim, must look, act think like a star No beards, no chrome domes, no fatties being an example of the regular adverts placed in Melody Maker by Andrew Matheson as members of The Hollywood Brats came and went.The Hollywood Brats, as you may know, are a footnote of a footnote Akin to an English version of the New York Dolls only with even less success and, let s face it, The Dolls were hardly breaking sales records during their all too brief lifespan The Drummer wanted Young, slim, must look, act think like a star No beards, no chrome domes, no fatties being an example of the regular adverts placed in Melody Maker by Andrew Matheson as members of The Hollywood Brats came and went.The Hollywood Brats, as you may know, are a footnote of a footnote Akin to an English version of the New York Dolls only with even less success and, let s face it, The Dolls were hardly breaking sales records during their all too brief lifespan The Hollywood Brats formed in the early 1970s and split up in 1974 Sick On You The Disastrous Story of Britain s Great Lost Punk Band is singer Andrew Matheson s highly amusing account of their misadventures The popular narrative, with hindsight, is that the Brats were to influ...Do you remember the 70 s Did you wear the tight loon pants Did you have a silver shirt, or an afghan coat Did you shake your elbows to tiger feet that s right that s right I really love your tiger feet Did you wear a t rex feather boa, or glare like the leader of the glitter band I did all of those and just like Andrew Matheson I played in a group, as an 18 year old, in the stormy shores of Northern Ireland I could tell you stories about our band being ...I had never heard of The Hollywood Brats but it doesn t really matter This is probably the best band bio you will ever read In 1970, an eighteen year old Andrew Matheson emigrated back to England from a mining town in Canada with only one goal to do something about all the horrible music currently on the charts things like Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep His template was simple, Two guitars, a bass, drums, and singer, that s it Think the Beatles, Kinks, and Who for four, Stones for I had never heard of The Hollywood Brats but it doesn t really matter This is probably the best band bio you will ever read In 1970, an eighteen year old Andrew Matheson emigrated back to England from a mining town in Canada with only one goal to do something about all the horrible music currently on the charts things like Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep His template was simple, Two guitars, a bass, drums, and singer, that s it Think the Beatles, Kinks, and Who for four, Stones for five.and no facial hair I am sure I said the same thing verbatim when I was in high school Thus, if you are intensely knowledgeable about all things British and 1960s including the writings of Andr...The title was correct, I had never heard of the Hollywood Brats until this book was recommended thank you GoodReads Now I not only know of them but have also downloaded their album I almost wish there could be a reunion show, but some bands are best left to their recorded legacy.The author, and lead singer, has written a highly entertaining biography of a British band with an American name that could have achieved the same acclaim as the New York Dolls, Alice Cooper or the Stooges Except The title was correct, I had never heard of the Hollywood Brats until this book was recommended thank you GoodReads Now I not only know of them but have also downloaded their album I almost wish there could be a reunion show, but some bands are best left to their recorded legacy.The author, and lead singer, has written a highly entertaining biography of a British band with an American name that could have achieved the same acclaim as the New York Dolls, Alice Cooper or t...OK, this is the best bio I have ever read about the greatest band I ve never heard of Couldn t put it down and read it in 3 days The Hollywood Brats might have made it big, but it seemed from the start that they were doomed to failure, not for lack of trying, but for many maligned events, inexperience and much naivet on the part of the band, which put them in the arms of mob shysters who seemed to have taken full advantage of that fact Hilariously funny from the get go, Andrew Matheson, the OK, this is the best bio I have ever read about the greatest band I ve never heard of Couldn t put it down and read it in 3 days The Hollywood Brats might have made it big, but it seemed from the start that they were doomed to failure, not for lack of trying, but for many maligned events, inexperience and much naivet on the part of the band, which put them in the arms of mob shysters who seemed to have taken full advantage of that fact Hilariously funny from the get go, Andrew Matheson, the wannabe lead singer of the Brats, seems to probably havetalent for the written word than the oral one And for that reason alone I am almost happy they never made it, or this great gonzo book may never had seen the light of day either.I was curious to hear the one album they managed to record and luckily found it on You Tu...The Hollywood Brats were just a blip on the moribund music scene in the UK during the mid 1970s They barely released one album in Norway that sold a few hundred copies and had broken up by the time it had come out Yet they managed to crack the door open and start England on its way to the punk explosion which followed several years later.Andrew Matheson was the singer and driving force behind the Hollywood B...Words cannot explain how much I hated this book Disclaimer, the white male entitlement is ripe for the taking If there s one thing I can t stand it s dudes going on about everyone who wronged them but it s really atrocious coming from people with really questionable ethics Like if you re a not nice person than all the ways you were wronged matter little to me Like these dudes are assholes Thieving Disrepecting Awful to women Entitled Smug Holier than thou Assholes It is always a Words cannot explain how much I hated this book Disclaimer, the white male entitlement is ripe for the taking If there s one thing I can t stand it s dudes going on about everyone who wronged them but it s r...A comedy of errors.This is my favourite book about music for a long while.Had me laughing out loud in places.If you have any remote interest in music i d highly recommend They lived fast, and the beautiful corpse never really happened The UK s New York Dolls.They coulda been contenders.My copy I got from First to Read website quit working so the first half that I read I found very interesting I like learning the behind the scenes of the music world.

Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of Britain's Great Lost Punk Band
  • English
  • 22 April 2017
  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • 0091960436
  • Andrew Matheson
  • Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of Britain's Great Lost Punk Band