Yeah @fulmine I put it on a reds forum and amongst the replies were:
"Cheers la, right up my street this."
"Thanks, really interesting reading"
"Working my way through that, up to page 28 so far. Good stuff, probably a time of my life that I regard as my happiest, in me prime la!"
"I came out of school into the State/051 scene which was great but I'd have loved to have been born earlier and been in the Eric's scene. Love the Bunneymen, Teardrops, Deaf School. Need to find more stuff from Wild Swans, Yachts to listen to. I always remember my Dad's mate when I was helping them on a job raving about Afraid of Mice and said they should become massive. Liverpool bands don't seem to get the industry and radio beginning that London and Manchester bands get"
"Whilst Liverpool had, in my opinion, a more musically diverse scene than Manchester, we didn’t have a Tony Wilson as arch promoter in chief using his position at Granada to great effect. The combo of Messrs Drummond, Davies, Balfe was probably a hoot but I didn’t get the feel that commercial success was top of the list of priorities. Simpson’s book is a cracking read as is Will’s."
Izrite. Nice swan.
