Singer. Songwriter. Swamp child. Soul man. Tex Perkins is a true rock'n'roll animal.
In this loud, uncut, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud and take-no-prisoners memoir, the enigmatic king of the Australian music underground lays bare an extraordinary life lived on the road, on the stage and on the edge. Raised a bible-thumping Catholic and beaten bloody on the streets of Brisbane for being a cow-punk, skinny Gregory Perkins flees to Sydney and mutates into Tex, rogue leader of the Dums Dums, Thug and Salamander Jim before finding a strange kind of success, celebrity, sex symboldom and icon status as Tex Perkins, snake-hipped, honey-voiced, often bloodied frontman of influential Aussie bands the Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and Tex, Don & Charlie... and inventor of Zoneball.
Gigs. Albums. Tours. Fights. Feuds. Arrests. Drugs. High times. Low roads. This is a wild ride of a life written loudly, proudly and full of punk energy.
By:
Tex Perkins Imprint: Macmillan Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 489g ISBN:9781925481358 ISBN 10: 1925481352 Publication Date:25 July 2017 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
