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Sick On You
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  • Published: 21 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473529892
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 57 min
  • Narrator: Andrew Matheson
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Sick On You

The Disastrous Story of Britain’s Great Lost Punk Band

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Paperback
18 Aug 2016
EBook
2 July 2015
Audiobook
21 July 2016
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The real story of The Hollywood Brats and how punk should have begun

**MOJO MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR**

The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you’ve never heard of.

Recording one near-perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragically ahead of their time.

With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson set out, in 1971, to make musical history. His band, The Hollywood Brats, were pre-punk prophets – uncompromising, ultra-thin, wild, untameable and outrageous. But thrown into the crazy world of the 1970s London music scene, the Brats ultimately fell foul of the crooks and heavies that ran it and an industry that just wasn’t ready for them.

Directly inspiring the London SS, the Clash, Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols, The Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share the glory. Punk’s answer to Withnail and I, Sick On You is a startling, funny and brilliantly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness.
  • Published: 21 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473529892
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 57 min
  • Narrator: Andrew Matheson
Categories:

About the author

Andrew Matheson

Andrew Matheson was a founding member of The Hollywood Brats, the band that never really was. When the group prematurely imploded, Andrew left the music industry in a huff to play football in North America. When he became exhausted by chasing a fat man called Eusebio around the pitch for 90 minutes, he rejoined the world of music with ‘Monterey Shoes'. He has since been writing music, producing, publishing magazine articles and recording more critically acclaimed music. Although now thrice removed from the louche lounge-wizard he once was he still has all his own hair and the majority of his own teeth, and is looking forward to the re-release of the classic Brats music by Cherry Red Records.
portrait photo of Andrew Matheson

Praise for Sick On You

Rock’n’roll at its disastrous best…its brilliant’.. Someone needs to make a film of this immediately - 8 stars out of 10

Classic Rock, Classic Rock

Warts and more warts memoir

MOJO, MOJO

One of the great rock reads

Ben Myers, Caught by the River

Possibly the most disaster-strewn story in rock, vividly recalled in this brilliant portrait.

Books of 2015, Record Collector