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Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
by Miki Berenyi
Lush came into my world in 1996 when the song Ladykillers was featured on Now 33. This was during the Britpop era and I thought they were a band from that genre, the other two singles 500 and Single Girl didn't help that.
Anyway up comes the internet and I'm able to do some more research when Hypocrite is featured in a Rough Trade indie pop compilation and I find out that they were much more. Usually I tend to focus on the albums and wait until a biography shows up so I have an idea of the band without media bias (and NME were quite nasty to the group)
Finally lead singer Miki Berenyi has written her autobiography and it is quite a sordid affair. Although Lush themselves were quite tame by band standards Miki Berenyi's personal life was not: abuse, parental problems and toxic relationships take up quite up the first half of the book, while the second half deals with depression, sexism in alternative , the awfulness of Britpop and ending with Lush's dissolution due to their drummer taking his own life.
It's a gritty and truthful autobiography which exposes the dark underbelly of alternative rock from both sides of the pond. Although there is a happy ending one needs strong nerves to read it.
Anyway up comes the internet and I'm able to do some more research when Hypocrite is featured in a Rough Trade indie pop compilation and I find out that they were much more. Usually I tend to focus on the albums and wait until a biography shows up so I have an idea of the band without media bias (and NME were quite nasty to the group)
Finally lead singer Miki Berenyi has written her autobiography and it is quite a sordid affair. Although Lush themselves were quite tame by band standards Miki Berenyi's personal life was not: abuse, parental problems and toxic relationships take up quite up the first half of the book, while the second half deals with depression, sexism in alternative , the awfulness of Britpop and ending with Lush's dissolution due to their drummer taking his own life.
It's a gritty and truthful autobiography which exposes the dark underbelly of alternative rock from both sides of the pond. Although there is a happy ending one needs strong nerves to read it.