The former Sleeper singer's tales of making it big in Britpop
Louise Wener was the lead singer of the band Sleeper and one of Britpop's biggest female stars. She travelled the world at the height of their fame playing to hundreds of thousands and living the high life. In the early 90s Sleeper were briefly lost to a world of glitter, cocaine, paranoia, comically petty squabbles and warped music industry logic. They had three top ten albums, including the platinum-selling The It Girl before disbanding in 1998. Louise has since written four acclaimed novels and lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.
This book is absolutely wonderful - I just read four passages out
loud to the Word staff - to actual applause!
*The Word*
Wise, funny and loving - a brilliant memoir about Britpop and
possibly the best rock biography since Nik Cohn's
AwopBopAlooBop-AlopBamBoom
*Tony Parsons*
Funny, readable and filled with proper gossip. Most importantly,
it's a perceptive and tenacious look at what it was really like to
be a girl among the blokes in that era
*The New Review, Independent on Sunday*
Wener charts the story of her rise from suburban schoolgirl to
1990s pin-up with Indie group Sleeper. Her tone is warm, funny and
self-deprecating - and she's not afraid to prick a few egos along
the way
*Daily Mirror*
An amusing insight into the banality of band life, and a cautionary
tale about the cost of getting what you always wanted
*The Quietus*
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