Gutter Black A Memoir

Gutter black doesn t answer all the questions that this girl had and that is the sign of an excellent memoir leaving the reader wanting more.

Gutter black a memoir.

Read by phil o brien audio. But mainly yes goneville is a memoir and a touching account of music taking over and defining bollinger s life at an impressionable age. Notably schmidt ended his list with gutter black. Audio listen duration 17.

Gutter black a memoir by dave mcartney published by harper collins rrp 50. Gutter black by dave mcartney part 1. And it s a wonderful book worth reading worth having. If i only had time by john rowles with angus gillies new holland 2012.

There s a great pall of sadness hanging over this memoir which mcartney delivered to his publisher just weeks before his unexpected death on april 15 last year. Gutter black tells a great rock n roll story and more than that the life of a special man in his time. Dave mcartney was one of new zealand s best known. Nz musician was lucky enough to be granted permission to publish an excerpt in our following june july 2013 issue.

It charts hello sailor s emergence from the mandrax mansion in pre. Memoir of the late dave mcartney one of the founding members of hello sailor. Trevor reekie talks to hello sailor s graham brazier and harry lyon about life with and without dave mcartney as well as mcartney s posthumous autobiography gutter black a memoir. Having worked on it for well over a decade dave mcartney delivered the completed manuscript for this book just weeks before his tragic death last year aged 62.

Dave mccartney s memoir arrives just a year after his passing. A tale of creativity misadventure success and excess. I hope someone sends don walker a copy. It is perhaps not quite the book it might have been but it is certainly a far better book than we might have expected.

Get this from a library. Dave mcartney an intimate raw memoir by a founding member of one of nz s iconic rock bands hello sailor. He had delivered the manuscript just a few weeks out from his ultimate deadline. A memoir is described by its publisher harpercollins as a candid funny irreverent and sometimes shocking story.