So what do you do when you have trashed your savings on your vinyl collection, gig tickets, watered down beer, motorway service station food, petrol, and generally destroyed your hearing so many times its unhealthy? You write about in the hope that someone somewhere will go, 'bloody hell I was at that gig, I did that, 'ere that's me.'

You get the picture.

P.S This is just a tip but don't buy this book if you like TV Reality shows, manufactured pop bands and you have no idea who Joe Strummer is.