Justin Robertson's debut novel is a trans-dimensional trip into the mysterious knot of nature a journey into the 'brilliant darkness' where the timeless divine spirit of the 'Tangle' weaves its spell and all mankind's hubris is rendered insignificant by the radically non-human force of phantom ecology. It's not only a must-read for Doors fans, but an essential volume of American pop.Ī supernatural novel of collapse and metamorphosis from the occulted dimensions of the natural world SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE is at once an insightful time capsule of 1960s counterculture and a moving reflection on what it means to find oneself as a musician. Robby also goes into heartbreaking detail about his life's most difficult struggles, ranging from drug addiction to cancer, but he balances out the sorrow with humorous anecdotes about run-ins with unstable fans, famous musicians, and one really angry monk.
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Through a series of vignettes, Robby takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawn shop where he bought his first guitar the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust his parents' living room where his first songwriting sessions with Jim Morrison took place and the many concert venues that erupted into historic riots. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight. In his first book ever, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about The Doors' meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll.įew bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task.
It is also about the glorious stupidity of being in a Leeds rock band in the early eighties, with tales involving a milk float, a hibernating snake, a wardrobe in a tree, an amyl nitrate-soaked effects pedal and the inopportune consumption of Dutch hash cake. Drawing on dozens of interviews with band members and key figures in the Sisters' journey, Paint My Name in Black and Gold is the definitive account of how - against the odds and all reasonable expectation - these men came to make transcendent and life-altering music. Eliot and David Bowie: in the period covered by this book, he staked a powerful claim to be the greatest rock star of his generation. Lead singer Eldritch was the most peculiar and compelling of them all, a singular and mesmerising amalgam of T.S. Hussey and Adams were hard-living road dogs with fascinating musical back-stories neither Gunn nor Marx were natural rock 'n' roll animals, but the latter performed with such abandon that it was hard to believe he also wrote the Sisters' most delicate and beautiful songs.
It focuses on the Sisters' two classic line-ups: Andrew Eldritch on vocals, Craig Adams on bass, Gary Marx and Ben Gunn - and later Wayne Hussey - on guitars, and a drum machine called Doktor Avalanche. This is the story of the rise of the Sisters of Mercy. From the chaos of the city's vibrant post-punk scene emerges an unlikely band of young men who will, over the next five years, go on to invent goth as we know it and change the course of rock music forever, before blowing apart spectacularly on the verge of stardom. Lei is determined to find the killer-but he knows where to find her first.Leeds, 1980. Steaming volcanoes, black sand beaches and shrouded fern forests are the backdrop to Lei's quest for answers-and the stalker is closer than she can imagine, as threads of the past tangle in her future. She becomes obsessed-even as the killer is drawn to Lei's intensity, feeding off her vulnerabilities and toying with her sanity.ĭespite her obsession with the case and fear that she's being stalked, Lei finds herself falling in love for the first time. With its echoes of her own past, the murdered girl’s harsh life and tragic death affect Lei deeply. On a routine patrol she finds two murdered teenagers-one of whom she’d recently busted. Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island town of Hilo. Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water-but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there’s a dark side to paradise.
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