Simply Thrilled
The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records
by Simon Goddard
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Pub Date 17 Apr 2014 | Archive Date 7 Sep 2015
Random House UK, Ebury Publishing | Ebury Press
Description
How one little upstart Scottish record label changed the face of British music.
They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer
for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to run a
record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own
label from a shabby Glasgow flat in 1979, nobody was going to stand in their
way.
Postcard Records was the mad, makeshift and quite preposterous
result. Launching the careers of Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and cult heroes
Josef K, the self-styled ‘Sound of Young Scotland’ stuck it to the London music
biz and, quite by accident, kickstarted the 1980s indie music
revolution.
Simon Goddard has interviewed everyone involved in the making
of the Postcard legend to tell this thrilling rock’n’roll story of punk
audacity, knickerbocker glories, broken windscreens, raccoon-fur hats, comedy,
violence and creating something beautiful from nothing, against all the odds.
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9780091958244 |
PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |