'The best book ever written about being in a band' NME - a debauched rock'n'roll classic
Keva McCluskey craves success. Other bands are making it big and now his worst enemy is on MTV. Without being recognised among the great songwriters of our time, Keva feels he cannot confront his horrific past. That's why he formed the Grams.
James Love wants all the sex, cocaine and groupies that fame can bring him. That's why he joined the Grams.
Guy de Burnet wants to sell records the ethical way. That's why he formed a record label which prizes morality as highly as platinum discs. When he signs the Grams, it can only end in tears.
'The best book ever written about being in a band' NME - a debauched rock'n'roll classic
Keva McCluskey craves success. Other bands are making it big and now his worst enemy is on MTV. Without being recognised among the great songwriters of our time, Keva feels he cannot confront his horrific past. That's why he formed the Grams.
James Love wants all the sex, cocaine and groupies that fame can bring him. That's why he joined the Grams.
Guy de Burnet wants to sell records the ethical way. That's why he formed a record label which prizes morality as highly as platinum discs. When he signs the Grams, it can only end in tears.
Kevin Sampson is the author of eight novels, as well as Extra Time,
his account of a season in the life of a Liverpool FC fanatic, and
the moving narrative of the Hillsborough tragedy, Hillsborough
Voices. He has also contributed to football anthologies, including
Here We Go Gathering Cups in May and Redmen, which he also
edited.
Kevin is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Observer and the
award-winning LFC podcast, The Anfield Wrap. He lives on Merseyside
where he is a long-term supporter of CALM, a charity specialising
in the mental health needs of young males.
You can find him at @ksampsonwriter on Twitter.
A code-red book... Drop what you're reading and read this
immediately... A rip-snorting, rollicking ride from obscurity to
rock 'n' roll debauchery and through the other side.
*Alex James, Blur*
Brilliant, funny, sharply-observed... The airport-busting novel of
the summer
*Loaded*
Powder is more essential to your well-being than 97 percent of the
albums that'll come out this year.
*Melody Maker*
A pacey and hilarious catalogue of vanity, insecurities, bonhomie
and belligerence... A portrait of the contemporary music industry
that is almost uncanny in its accuracy.
*Independent*
Tells it like it is - Sampson is never better than when revelling
in the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - All young bands should be
made to read Powder; if it doesn't put them off, nothing will
*The Times*
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