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A Girls Own True-Life Adventures in Pop PDF Book DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS: A GIRLS OWN TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURES IN POP PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Louise Wener | 320 pages | 10 Jun 2010 | Ebury Publishing | 9780091936518 | English | London, United Kingdom Different for Girls: A Girls Own True-life Adventures in Pop PDF Book Recently on a drunken evening i agreed to put on a local indie night with my friend appealing to the late 20 early 30 somethings of my small town. I mean, I'm sure it is terrible, and was especially hard for a woman at thst time, but it came across a bit Different for Girls is for anyone who ever sang into a hairbrush and slow-danced to Spandau Ballet's True. When she responds by enquiring why objects of desire such as Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn aren't asked the same thing, the question gets lost in all the casually misogynistic white noise. Mentioning the Fast Show woman whose ideas were always repeated by men — I used to know her character name — leveraged several apologies. To ask other readers questions about Different for Girls , please sign up. A Life on Our Planet. They had three top ten albums, including the platinum-selling The It Girl before disbanding in Your order is now being processed and we have sent a confirmation email to you at. For a short time I got caught up with Britpop, the Adidas trainers, short haircut like Justine and Louise and a bit of razzmatazz from Pulp. Significance is made of the minutiae of teenage life, from the decision whether to purchase a Human League album over Moon-boots, and seeing The Jam at her first ever gig. Friends and Enemies. I liked the bits about recording the albums too. Lists with This Book. I kind of assumed that, like Moran, Louise Wener was ab Hot on the heels of Caitlin Moran's feminist manifesto-slash's memoir, I scooped this up from my shelf. Books by Louise Wener. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of these cookies. There were yer classic Britpop character songs …. Forgotten password Please enter your email address below and we'll send you a link to reset your password. Louis Theroux. Sleeper's trajectory, like so many other bands, ran from the initial flush of success to the inevitable, weary tailing off. Films or songs about being famous are often derided, and not of much interest to people who haven't experienced it, but Louise Wener's writing about her few years of fame is often much better, more alive and wiser than the by-numbers schooldays stuff not entirely free of cliches, but there's a vivid urgency that makes them easier to disregard. It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all. Other people will make your decisions for you. Slathering herself with tanning oil before watching David Bowie at the Milton Keynes Bowl, she nails the gap between her girlish gawkiness and her aspirations for glamour "that heady mix of sunburn and scorched suburban lawn, with a top note of Jerry Hall and the south of France". Louise Wener. Her style of writing is great. Jul 27, Patrick Neylan rated it it was amazing Shelves: owned , non-fiction , 21st- century , auto-biography , music. If I'd been more truly confident and more solid, I should have started referring to them as my Sleeperblokes Limitless: The Autobiography. In the early 90s Sleeper were briefly lost to a world of glitter, cocaine, paranoia, comically petty squabbles and warped music industry logic. Reset password. Her style is a breezy mix of self-deprecating geekiness and wit that fans of Nick Hornby or Tony Parsons will recognise. It goes on like this for another half an hour. It's a journey which starts with a year-old perfecting her dance routine to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in front of TOTPs and ends, almost 20 years later, with the same girl having REM's Michael Stipe sing happy birthday to her on a warm summer's evening accompanied by 70, strangers. Friend Reviews. She is an introverted, geeky kid living in a pretty happy suburban home, who doesn't feel the need to rebel against her parents. Very, very pleasantly surprised. In terms of UK music I was always a big Cure fan and dabbled with goth until I grew breasts and no longer felt the need to wear oversized black tshirts and jeans. As she points out, she was labelled a raving feminist witch for suggesting women might quite like sex too, when bands like the Manics could wish AIDs on Michael Stipe and cosy up to a totalitarian dictator with barely an eyelid batted. Different for Girls: A Girls Own True-life Adventures in Pop Writer A thirty-something like me did all her painful growing up to the soundtrack of Sleeper and their ilk's Britpop, Doc Martens sticking to countless bogging floors, and the behind-the-scenes figurative! The one that stands out for me is Alice in vain. Few have written this personally about pop music, but it is an approach that says much more about its effects in the wider world than any musicological critique of chord sequences or earnest anatomy of club scenes. Certainly not the definitive tome on Britpop try anything John Harris has written , but an interesting read nonetheless, and one that almost makes you want to revisit a few of those Sleeper singles for the first time in more than a decade. It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoyed or lived through the "indie" music scene of the mid to late nineties. There are a few sarcastic comments about other bands, but on the whole it is when discussing herself that she is the most critical. Her style is a breezy mix of self-deprecating geekiness and wit that fans of Nick Hornby or Tony Parsons will recognise. But yeah, on to the good stuff, because there is also plenty of it. The music press loved her, of course, continually sticking her on front covers and asking her how she felt about teenagers masturbating over her posters — a question that was rarely put, I first saw Sleeper at the Shepherds Bush Empire in May , where they were supporting Blur on their Parklife tour. That she didn't have any idea about what you actually needed to do to be in a band until she went to university and didn't even know the difference between rhythm guitar and bass. Your review has been submitted successfully. It's about growing up with Look-In and Jackie magazine and daubing your hair with poster paint to look more like Toyah Wilcox. I used to assume that having spent teenage years closer to London would mean that interesting, less obvious music and culture and people who liked them were easier to find, but this was no better than hundreds of miles further north - and much worse than my school which was at least quite peaceful even if it couldn't compare, in terms of academic options or interesting people, with the schools many of my university friends had been to. Jan 09, Nina rated it it was amazing. Whilst she, like me, felt a bit out of sync due to having older parents, she was just a bit brighter than average, not brilliant as I'd assumed when I was a teenager, and she seemed too content with the mediocrity around her, not weird enough - an asset in her suffocating, bully-riddled Essex school I'm not sure. And because she's smart. He's surprisingly reluctant to base his selection criteria on a which guitar looks the prettiest b which guitars come in green, c what guitar Courtney Love is currently using. But I'm actually paying her a compliment here, if not as a rock star then as a writer. True Crime Paperback Books. I kind of assumed that, like Moran, Louise Wener was about the same age as me. She has a point Wener is still married to Maclure — they have kids and live in a little terraced house in the suburbs. Jul 10, Peter O'Connor rated it really liked it. Different for Girls: A Girls Own True-life Adventures in Pop Reviews Wener also dismantles the myth that the likes of Blur were intelligent pop revolutionaries. The lowest-priced item in unused and unworn condition with absolutely no signs of wear. Jan 26, Andy Sweeney rated it really liked it. It was a great disappointment to me, and I honestly thought it would not be this way as I got older, that I can count on the fingers of one hand the other women I've known who also like this sort of intensively detailed conversation about music — and a couple of them I don't even know very well, mostly just to talk to online in group discussions. Wener leaves nothing out. I would love to listen to those old tapes that I used to make. Significance is made of the minutiae of teenage life, from the decision whether to purchase a Human League album over Moon-boots, and seeing The Jam at her first ever gig. Or one that was more between the lines that the stress of being cooped up with other people and their noise and smells and unending presence on tour buses can make temperamental types who need their space tip from drug use into addiction as they try to cope.
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