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Footnote - Boff Whalley

Footnote*

Boff Whalley

Pub. 12 June 2003
ISBN 1-904590-00-4



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Footnote* is clever, funny and irreverent—a story about a boy from the redbrick clichés of smalltown England reconciling Mormonism and punk rock, industrial courtesy and political insurrection.

He finds a guitar, anarchism and art terrorism and, after years (and years and years) of earnest, determined, honest-to-goodness slogging, his pop group† makes it big; that’s BIG with a megaphone actually. They write a song that has the whole world singing and, funnily enough, it’s an admirable summary of a life well lived—about getting knocked down and getting back up again.

Meanwhile, there’s a whole world still happening: authentic lives carefully drawn, emotional but not sentimental and always with a writer’s eye for detail. Footnote is not another plodding rock memoir but a compassionate, critical and sometimes cynical account of a life steeped in pop culture, lower division football and putting the world to rights.

* See page 293.
†Boff Whalley is a member of Chumbawamba.

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