This Place Is Awesome Adam PW Smith 9781105255151 Books
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Before five star hotels and personal jets, before regular hotels and economy class seats, even before Motel 6 and tour buses, there is the tour van. The mobile circus that serves as transportation, bunk bed, dinner table, and rec room for hundreds of hungry young musicians.
2009, music photographer Adam PW Smith flew to England to spend a week touring with the Vancouver-based celtic-gypsy-polka-cider-punk band The Dreadnoughts in the middle of their first European tour. Smith was in the thick of it, suffering all the standard indignities but one. The result is a book that reveals much about life as a young, touring band who bring real meaning back to the DIY ethic, and a few things about what it's like to be a 43 year old trying to survive in that environment.
This Place Is Awesome is Smith's first book. Packed with comical stories, insightful reflections, and a selection of his highly-regarded photographs, it brings new perspective and a splash of cold reality to the rock bio/tour diary genre.
This Place Is Awesome Adam PW Smith 9781105255151 Books
Fine rock photographer Adam Smith joins Vancouver wild men The Dreadnoughts on the road in the UK. For seven days in the middle of a gruelling no-budget European tour without roadies, hotels - or even a single cellphone between them - Smith documents with growing disbelief the band's cider-fuelled trajectory across low-life dives in the land of their ancestors.Most gig-goers at British pubs and clubs don't have the smallest idea how close to the breadline most of the bands they see on stage are actually living, and how physically gruelling life on the road can be. This is a vivid romp of a read, greatly hightened by Adam Smith's atmospheric black and white photography.
Incidentally the author also shot a sharply witty promo video for the band's classic "Polka Never Dies" while they were on tour in Poland. Copy and paste the following link to see it on YouTube in high definition: [...]
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This Place Is Awesome Adam PW Smith 9781105255151 Books Reviews
i would definately recommend this to people who are visiting all kinds of live-events.
great pictures and well writen.
all in all
Fantastic!
Excellent writing, funny stories, insanely good pictures and the book makes you think about what life is really like for struggling artists these days, especially punk artists. Also ive met the lead singer of this band and he was a total douche, just like he is in this book.
I have mixed feelings about this book --- I was hoping for a 15 minute diversion before going to bed, but instead stayed up way too late reading it to the bitter end. This is a very witty and fun look into the gruesome life of second tier rockers (that may be too generous). It dispelled any notions I may have had about the missed life on the road. I just wonder where all their talent hides out when they aren't on stage. Excellent read and great photos to boot!
There is plenty of funny material in this book, but honestly you should read it just for the comments on British plumbing. As a Brit I can testify that it is all so very horribly true (and hilarious).
Fine rock photographer Adam Smith joins Vancouver wild men The Dreadnoughts on the road in the UK. For seven days in the middle of a gruelling no-budget European tour without roadies, hotels - or even a single cellphone between them - Smith documents with growing disbelief the band's cider-fuelled trajectory across low-life dives in the land of their ancestors.
Most gig-goers at British pubs and clubs don't have the smallest idea how close to the breadline most of the bands they see on stage are actually living, and how physically gruelling life on the road can be. This is a vivid romp of a read, greatly hightened by Adam Smith's atmospheric black and white photography.
Incidentally the author also shot a sharply witty promo video for the band's classic "Polka Never Dies" while they were on tour in Poland. Copy and paste the following link to see it on YouTube in high definition [...]
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