Bringing It All Back Home

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 escape and as an adult to connect. His quest to find what music does to us has taken him on mystical journeys to India, on an odyssey to the Mississippi Delta and through the landscapes of his own memory. In Bringing It All Back Home he has created a book about love, friendship, family and loss - about life and living it. While searching for a soundtrack to his own life story, he has discovered the heart that beats inside us all.

Clayton, Ian

Biographies & Memoirs

Route Publishing

Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school and they've been in each others' shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about travelling the world. In September 2004, Fergus persuaded Frankie to join his security team in Baghdad: GBP10,000 a month, tax free; their last chance to 'load up' in this increasingly privatised war. Together they risked their lives in a city steeped in violence, terror and greed, and awash with billions of US dollars. Three years later, Frankie is killed on Route Irish, the most dangerous road in the world. Back in Liverpool, a grief-stricken Fergus rejects the official explanation that Frankie was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and begins his own investigation into his soul mate's death. Only Rachel, Frankie's partner, grasps the depth of Fergus's sorrow, and the lethal possibilities of his fury as he struggles to find his old self and the happiness he shared with Frankie twenty years earlier on the Mersey. Features the full screenplay, character backstory, production notes and photographs from the film, plus background essays by Mark Townsend, Haifa Zangana and Mike Phipps.

Route Irish

Humor & Entertainment

Paul Laverty

Ken Loach

Movies

What happens when you only know your dad when you're a young boy and then, one day, when you are middle-aged, he phones to say he'd like to see you again before he dies In the space of one year, Ian Clayton makes a voyage around China, America and his father to ponder the familiar questions: Is blood thicker than water Does it matter who teaches us so long as we learn How do we let go of something that we never really had in the first place With characteristic storytelling, wit and good humour, Ian Clayton reflects on a lifelong search for a father figure, skipping across the generations to weave a tale of how we relate, what we do with what we've got and what happens when some things just don't work out the way we want them to.

Song for My Father

Memoirs

Guardian Book of the Year Rough Trade Book of the Year Reader's Digest Editor's Choice Steve Hanley's best-selling memoir is an extraordinary story of endurance in one of the most enigmatic, revered and belligerent bands in popular music history. 'This is a must for all music fans. It's also a source of insight into why, despite bust-ups, cigarettes flicked into eyes, and nightmarish recording sessions, anyone would dream of staying in a band years after the fun has stopped.' Reader's Digest (Music Book of the Year) 'Compellingly written, I wished it was three times as long - I would have gobbled it up just as happily.' - The Observer 'Hilarious, uncomfortable and sobering read.' - Vive Le Rock 'Less a rock band, more a perennially touring fiefdom, The Fall have been constructing brittle-but-brilliant music for almost four decades. Thanks to Steve Hanley - the man who played bass in The Fall for nineteen years - and co-writer Olivia Piekarski, we get to peep behind the band's battered Transit doors. The result is one of the best music books I've ever read.' Northern Soul (Book of the Year) 'You don't have to like The Fall to enjoy this book, you don't even really need to like MUSIC to enjoy this book! It's a gripping tale of forged and broken relationships, friendship and betrayal.' - Marc Riley

Big Midweek

Olivia Piekarski

Arts & Literature

A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A 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 afterglow - three albums in three years, Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love - barely reflected the explosion of faith and inspiration. One has to look elsewhere, and in Trouble In Mind, Clinton Heylin has; connecting the dots on the man's gospel years by drawing on a wealth of new information, newly-found recordings and new interviews. His primary goal To make the case for a wholesale re-evaluation of the music Bob Dylan produced in these inspiring times.

Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylan's Gospel Years: What Really Happened

Arts & Photography

CLINTON HEYLIN

Music

What We Did Instead Of Holidays: A History Of Fairport Convention And Its Extended Folk-Rock Family

'Ian's book is brimming with laughter, tall stories, great memories and endless rounds of wonderful beer. It's also a call to arms to save this unique institution.' - Roger Protz, Editor Good Beer Guide 2000-2018 Where do we go to meet old friends? What is our first port of call when we want to show new mates something that speaks about our identity? The pub of course, or better still our local. Author Ian Clayton embarked on a lifelong love affair with local pubs in the middle of the 1970s. He has raised a glass in neighbourhood bars around the world for more than forty years. His stories are intertwined with quests to find perfect pints and peoples' palaces and about joining in with the joy he finds in the unique gathering place we call the public house. He moves across the generations and boundaries to take a glimpse at what makes the pub tick. Humorous and poignant by turns, It's The Beer Talking tells of the laughter, the tears, the cheers, the remembering and forgetting, but most of all the camaraderie we all crave. This book will resonate with anyone who as ever uttered that immortal phrase, 'Do you fancy a pint?'

It's The Beer Talking: Adventures in Public Houses

Ian Clayton

Professionals & Academics

It's the swinging sixties and a young man leaves behind a humdrum Northern life and heads for London. He lands smack dab in the middle of Carnaby Street. Within months he is in a band and a year later he's invited to audition for Fairport Convention. He shares lead vocal duties first with Judy Dyble and then with Sandy Denny in perhaps the greatest line-up of that much loved band of folk-rock pioneers. In 1970, he forms Matthews Southern Comfort and has an international hit with an arrangement of Joni Mitchell's counter-culture classic 'Woodstock'. With the ultimate earworm still high in the charts, Iain walks out on the band and after just a few months of reflection, releases the classic album If You Saw Thro' My Eyes. Then with Andy Roberts, he puts together the highly revered Plainsong. They make just one LP, the critically acclaimed In Search of Amelia Earhart. Iain then takes the opportunity to move to California to pursue an interest in the emerging West Coast singer-songwriter movement. He criss-crosses the States for the next thirty years, first as a major label artist, initially with Elektra and then Columbia, and eventually as a latter day troubadour with a guitar and a pickup truck. Back in Europe since the turn of the millennium, Iain finally settles down with a wife and family but continues to pursue the muse. Still possessed of one of the greatest male singing voices Britain ever produced, Matthews is now in his sixth decade as a professional musician. He has written a compelling memoir of a life on the road, in the studio and at home. It's a story of music, journeys, life and what it does to us, through the eyes of one of our most enduring singer-songwriters.

Thro' My Eyes: A Memoir

Iain Matthews

In June 1968, a group of Muswell Hillbillies made their official album debut as Fairport Convention. In the next fifteen years, three of those founding Fairportees Richard Thompson, Ashley 'Tyger' Hutchings and Simon Nicol along with the next generation of Fairport recruits - Iain Matthews, Sandy Denny, and the three Daves: Swarbrick, Pegg and Mattacks - would form a veritable dynasty of English folk-rock, each pursuing their own path, but always returning to work with each other, to collectively produce albums with a near-eternal appeal. Which is why every year since 1979 in a field somewhere near Banbury, 20,000-plus fans have congregated to celebrate this music's enduring appeal at the Cropredy Festival. So, fifty years on, now seems like the right time to tell the full story: to collect all the family lore that surrounds Fairport and its surrogates, and to disentangle the many highs and lows from those first fifteen years of Fotheringport Confusion. Drawing on interviews with all the musicians and key figures in English folk-rock - including producers extraordinaire Joe Boyd and Sandy Roberton - Clinton Heylin has produced the definitive history of a folk-rock family in its golden era.

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Bringing It All Back Home

Route Irish

Song for My Father

Big Midweek

Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylan's Gospel Years: What Really Happened

What We Did Instead Of Holidays: A History Of Fairport Convention And Its Extended Folk-Rock Family

It's The Beer Talking: Adventures in Public Houses

Thro' My Eyes: A Memoir

Bringing It All Back Home

What We Did Instead Of Holidays: A History Of Fairport Convention And Its Extended Folk-Rock Family