Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor - Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir Haslam DavePaperback

'Beautifully judged account of the Manchester scene . . . It is a masterful insider account of the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and birth of the rave era, and how music has sound-tracked a life and a generation. There is something of the fairy tale about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament to the kind of life that nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a cultural moment and a young man who instinctively knew that it was his once upon a time' Victoria Segal, Sunday Times'Witty, sometimes dark, revealing, insightful, everything one could hope for from one of those folk without whom independent music simply wouldn't exist' Classic RockSonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam's wonderfully evocative memoir.

In the late 1970s Dave Haslam was a teenage John Peel listener and Joy Division fan, his face