Barbed Wire Kisses
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Zoë Howe is a music author whose other books include the acclaimed Typical Girls? The Story of the Slits, ‘How’s Your Dad?’ Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent, British Beat Explosion: Rock n’ Roll Island, and Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson’s memoir Looking Back at Me. Her writing has also appeared in The Quietus, Company, Notion, BBC Music, Holy Moly, Classic Rock and NME. Zoë has also made music radio series for stations including the award-winning Resonance FM, and she can be heard talking about rock n’ roll from time to time on BBC 6 Music, Absolute Radio, Planet Rock, BBC London and elsewhere.

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'This Mary Chain book is a million times better than the Morrissey autobiography' - @drphunkneuro; 'Highly recommend @zoehowe's JAMC bio. A touching story of kids in the music business, recalled by their adult selves. a cut above the usual' - Euan McColm; 'The best band in the world' - Neil Taylor, NME; 'Pretty Scottish boys surfing a wave of doom and gloom and enjoying every moment of it. The Jesus and Mary Chain's debut is a decadent alt rock masterpiece of bubblegum pop' - Rolling Stone (naming the band's debut album one of the 500 best albums of all time); 'Thoroughly enjoying 'Barbed Wire Kisses'. Great anecdotes & teenage memories' - Vic Galloway; 'I just finished the Mary Chain book 'Barbed Wire Kisses'. It's f***ing brilliant. Get it read people' - Stuart Braithwaite, Mogwai; 'Barbed Wire Kisses adroitly charts the Mary Chain's career from their pre-Creation Portastudio demos through to their alcohol-fuelled implosion on 1998's ill-fated Munki tour [ - ] It's engaging throughout, but the chapters on the myth-making early years [ - ] leap especially vigorously off the page' - Record Collector; 'Bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes' - The Quietus; 'One of my favourite authors writing about one of my favourite bands, wonderful!' - Den Browne; 'Zoe Howe is one of our favourite music writers - a great writer who is in love with rock n roll and a writer who can make the essence and magic of the dark stuff seem so alive' - John Robb, Louder Than War

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