Canice’s Comments (group member since Jan 18, 2017)

Canice’s comments from the Rollercoaster Reads group.

I'm reading The Progress of Love by Alice Munro, master of the short story

I'm reading In Concert, Favourite Gigs of Irish Music Community it's in aid of Red Cross/Syria, published by Hope Publications, features contributions from myself, Pete Holidai, Elvera Butler, Paul Page, Frank Rynne and loads more. It's a great read, well worth the 12 euro price

Now I'm reading "Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain, tis great crack altogether

enjoyed it immensely too, Willie, she's definitely my favourite member of Sonic Youth by a long shot

Tainted Life by Marc Almond

Broken Music by Sting
I'm enjoying this, it richly details his pre Police days and then the early years of the Police up to their first success. I think my favourite part of rock and roll memoirs is the rise of the artist, the rags bit before the riches and this book is mostly the rags. Likewise with the Johnny Marr book, I really enjoyed his account of the '70s and the level of detail he was able to recount about his early bands. I wasn't as interested in his post Smiths career, but I was expecting to be cos it's very well written and he's a great guy but it just didn't grip me as much as the first half of the book (well it's most of the book really).Yes he was young, a mere child as Moz once said. When Sting was 23 it was 1975 and he was a good four years away from top of the pops
also reading
261 Albums since Punk and Disco by Garry Mulholland which is mostly right up my street, he's omitting some of my favourite bands Stranglers, u2, r.e.m but it's a good read and good pics of LP sleeves