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📚🎶 Spinning my copy of 924 Forestville St by Bracket. Travis Cut toured with them when this album dropped, and playing this record again brought everything rushing back: sticky floors, broken strings, borrowed amps, and long drives to nowhere in particular.
That’s the world Three and a Half Minutes of Fame comes from – not just the music, but the people, the scenes, the slog. The way we lived back then wasn’t glamorous, but it meant something. It still does.
This book is for anyone who ever slept on a stranger’s floor, chased gigs like they were oxygen, or gave everything to a band that never quite made it – but made something all the same.
Three and a Half Minutes of Fame is out now. Pair it with Bracket, loud.
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Dug out Batch by Big Drill Car today. Like other records from this era, it brought back everything that my book Three and a Half Minutes of Fame is really about: the punk life – loud, messy, fleeting, and totally unforgettable.
The book isn’t a band bio. It’s about the in-between bits – the van breakdowns, the squats, the 3am petrol station meals, the quiet moments of doubt before walking on stage. It’s about being in Travis Cut, sure – but more than that, it’s about throwing yourself headfirst into something because you have to. Because you don’t know how to be any other way.
If you’ve ever followed a band across a country, spent your last tenner getting to a gig, or felt most alive with a guitar in your hand and no Plan B – then this book is for you.
Three and a Half Minutes of Fame – out now.!
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1994. Dookie drops, and suddenly punk was everywhere – on MTV, on the radio, in the charts. What used to get you funny looks in a pub was now playing over the speakers in supermarkets.
It was wild, surreal, and honestly? Kind of thrilling.
While Green Day were going global, Travis Cut were tearing around the UK in a clapped-out van, playing every floor, toilet venue and back room we could find. The stakes weren’t the same – but the energy was. We were all caught up in that moment, when it felt like anything could happen.
Three and a Half Minutes of Fame is my attempt to bottle that era. It’s not about fame in the way you think – it’s about believing in something loud and fast and real, even when the world doesn’t care. It’s about chasing noise, finding your people, and hanging on for dear life while punk flirted with the mainstream.
That moment in time – part chaos, part glory – is in every page.
📘 Out now from Earth Island Books.
Jul 5, 2025
📚🔥 Three and a Half Minutes of Fame is out now — and I’m proud as hell for it to be part of the Earth Island Books family.
These aren’t just books.
They’re battle scars.
They’re tour diaries, zines, stage dives, squat gigs and broken drumsticks, all wrapped up in pages.
To be published alongside absolute bangers like:
🖤 The Scene That Would Not Die
🔥 The Fire Still Burns
🇬🇧 A Country Fit For Heroes
🩸 The Dark Chronicles
🎤 This Is My Everything
🧠 Billy Childish: A Short Study on Art, Punk and Dyslexia
🎶 Every Record I’ve Ever Owned
🎨 Arthole by Steve Lake
…is wild. It’s community. It’s legacy. It’s punk as f**.*
Thanks to Earth Island for believing in my story – and in all the stories that usually get overlooked.
If you’ve ever lived for the next gig, the next chord, the next half-drunk idea in a van with no heater – this one’s for you.
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Jul 6, 2025
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May 30, 2025
🎶 ‘90s Sound. Modern Story. Familiar Voices.
When your audiobook ends up in the ears of your old schoolmate Jamie Oliver, you know it’s doing the rounds in the right kind of kitchens.
“Three and a Half Minutes of Fame” is the story of chasing the dream — even if the dream only lasts the length of the perfect pop song.
It’s for anyone who ever sat on the floor with Definitely Maybe, Leisure, or The Stone Roses, thinking:
“That could be me.”
Now, with Oasis reunion gigs (finally) happening, it felt right to put this lineup together — 3 records that defined a generation... including mine.
🎧 Audiobook out now — stick it on between spins.
Jul 4, 2025
🎸🔥 There’s something pretty wild about the fact that Ben Harding from Senseless Things was rocking a Three and a Half Minutes T-shirt on the front cover of Melody Maker.
We toured with them, supported them at The Square in Harlow and shared the same scrappy, do-it-yourself spirit, and honestly, they were a huge inspiration.
If you loved Senseless Things, or just lived for that era when punk was raw and alive, then check out my book “Three and a Half Minutes of Fame”.
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