CIDER WITH ROADIES

Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop.
A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); hi
s confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with no
rthern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework and trouser d
imensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the N
ME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and roc
k and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowin
g when to ditch it all for what really matters. From Stuart's four minutes in a
leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it's
a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come toge
ther to make music.