Belle & Sebastian co-founder Stuart David is the author of the critically acclaimed In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year, which came out this year, and the Pogues' longtime accordionist James Fearnley is the author of the candid, vivid and appropriately rip-roaring Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues (2012). The two author-musicians discuss the tricky matter of writing about your bandmates, the vagaries of memory and taking out the bits that make you look like a knobhead. And there might just be an anecdote or two.
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Stuart David (Belle and Sebastian, Looper) and James Fearnley (the Pogues) for The Talkhouse Music Podcast
Two fine authors who also happen to be great musicians talk about writing books about your bandmates and also how not to seem like a knobhead.
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