You can now buy tickets in advance for my one man show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year right here It will run from August 4th to 28th. That’s about 25 shows in a row. Gulp. The show lasts for 52 minutes and may include some Pointy Bird songs. Plus a cut out of famous celebrity. I have no idea how it is going to go but it is is exciting / terrifying jumping into
Blimey that was fun. Thanks Tony Gleed for having me at your wonderful Rock n Roll book club which doubled up as a belated book launch for Anoint My Head, 18 months after publishing. You are a lovely, warm host and have fanned the flames of my rock ‘n’ roll delusions to dangerously hot levels. And thanks if you came along/laughed/heckled/sung along. It’s totally gone to my head and I can feel my inner Horace
I had the pleasure of being a guest on Robert Elm’s fab Radio London show this week. I got to talk about the Pointy Birds, Ricky Gervais, Britpop and misfiling vinyl at Selectadisc. Plus, of course, my book Anoint My Head and forthcoming live shows. If you would like to hear the full interview, you can listen on demand right here. I’m on after Blur about 30 mins in. Wooo Hoo!
STOP PRESS! This date has been rescheduled to Thur 21 April. Tickets still valid for that date. Here’s the blurb… I am guest author at the Xmas Rock n Roll Book Club at The Dublin Castle in Camden on Thursday 21st April. Previous months have featured books on The Pogues, Squeeze and Amy Winehouse and now it is the turn of The Pointy Birds. Not before time! The evening is hosted by the lovely Tony
The hardback edition of Anoint My Head – How I Failed To Make it as a Britpop Indie Rockstar is now available for purchase and rather lovely it is too. Plus, it will fit snugly into a Xmas stocking or make the birthday perfect gift so maybe buy one for all your friends and family. Here she is on the catwalk: BUY HERE
The good people at Louder Than War Magazine have just reviewed Anoint My Head and they clearly know what they are talking about. ‘Anoint My Head is a great read which rips along at pace and would make an excellent dramatisation or comedy series.’ Couldn’t agree more. Please tell Netflix. Thanks Iain Key, Melanie Smith and John Robb You can read the full review here: Anoint My Head by Andy Macleod – book review
I can die happy. “If This Is Spinal Tap is the quintessential rock mockumentary, Anoint My Head is the closest you’ll get to that in book form.” Read full review here… Andy Macleod – Anoint My Head: How I Failed To Make It As A Britpop Indie Rock Star (Pointy Books)
Eat my Shorts! Anoint My Head has gone to the top of the Amazon music book charts ahead of Elton John, Tina Turner and Tom Jones autobiographies…. I can now retire.
Anoint My Head is now available as an audiobook for your listening pleasure. It’s been a long time in the making. Not only did I have to spend 7 hours, 11 minutes and 1 second narrating it. I then had to spend another 7 hours, 11 minutes and 1 second narrating it again as the first take wasn’t very good. Then once it was mixed and sequenced, I had to spend 7 hours, 11
The Pointy Birds struggled to get any press back in the day (apart from that one NME review, but the less said about that the better**). So it was a particular thrill for not only the book to receive a lovely double page spread as below in this week’s Camden New Journal (courtesy of Dan Carrier, a man of exquisite taste), but for The Pointy Birds to feature on the front cover too. It’s only
There is now a Spotify playlist of all the songs that feature in Anoint My Head. It totals 106 tracks and clocks in at a whopping 7 hours 18 minutes which is probably the amount of time you need to read the book*. In this way the playlist doubles up as a kind of scratch and sniff immersive experience. The playlist stays mainly in the early nineties but all sorts of things pop up here
This is a Facebook Live recording of me reading Chapter 1 ‘ULU’ from my book Anoint My Head – How I Failed to Make it as Britpop Indie Rockstar. I quite enjoyed channelling my inner Val Doonican so I may do more. Kind of like a video book. Maybe that could become a thing. In other news the audiobook is out sometime in the new year depending when can get back in the studio, pending
Kentishtowner have run a nice feature on Anoint My Head – the tragic tale of a Kentish Town band who didn’t become rich or famous – but had a manager who did. Read all about it here
Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? Ok, I will….The paperback version of my effort Anoint My Head has just arrived in the post. Gulp! Watch to find out if it had printed ok, plus a guest intruder who muscles in on the action… You can order it via Amazon, or Ingramspark. Author-signed copies are also available at the Owl book shop
I have crossed the finishing line of Anoint My Head – How I failed to make it as a Britpop indie-rockstar, the tale of a band in the nineties who didn’t quite have what it took to make it but had a manager who did. It’s being serialised in 4 parts as an ebook through November 2020 with the full version / paperback on December 7th 2020. If you would like to read part one