Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
It’s now, unthinkably, 50 years since the roaring, cathartic advent of punk. Few people know, however, that a band of bearded longhairs were making a more brutal, polarising noise than any of their punk peers.Chou Pahrot remain one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets. Startling, exhilarating, innately weird, but surprisingly funny and charming, they were either adored or reviled: no one ’quite liked’ Chou Pahrot. This book’s title, Most Severely, references the band’s habitual closing number, which encompassed an improvised, open-ended middle section which often degenerated - or blossomed - into full-blown anarchy.This is their story, intermingled with the author’s reminiscences of life for feckless, sensation-hungry teenagers in Scotland’s Central Belt in the 1970s. It’s a memoir of misadventure, thwarted ambition, unfortunate timing, and questionable lifestyle choices: but it’s also a parable of spectacular catharsis, redemptive laughter, and ragged glory. Amusing and poignant by turns, it’s a love letter to a time, a place, and some extremely unusual people.
