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A review by snoakes7001
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode
5.0
We all know Mark Kermode from his film reviews on television and radio, but I had no idea he had a pretty successful secondary career as a musician. How Does it Feel? is his memoir following his musical misadventures (as he styles it) from building his own electric guitar while at school through a number of different bands and instruments right up to playing the harmonica at the Royal Festival Hall.
He's very self-deprecating, and insists that everything has happened on a wing and a prayer, through sheer luck and blagging, flying through things by the seat of his pants but to be honest he must be a pretty talented musician to have had the successes he's had. I'm listening to a Dodge Brothers album as I type this and it's really good - much better than Mark would have you believe from reading this! He's an entertaining and witty writer and although he occasionally gets a little too obsessed with details about specific instruments (especially guitars), he clearly had a lot of fun revisiting his musical escapades and makes the whole thing sound a riot. And I'll definitely be playing more Dodge Brothers.
He's very self-deprecating, and insists that everything has happened on a wing and a prayer, through sheer luck and blagging, flying through things by the seat of his pants but to be honest he must be a pretty talented musician to have had the successes he's had. I'm listening to a Dodge Brothers album as I type this and it's really good - much better than Mark would have you believe from reading this! He's an entertaining and witty writer and although he occasionally gets a little too obsessed with details about specific instruments (especially guitars), he clearly had a lot of fun revisiting his musical escapades and makes the whole thing sound a riot. And I'll definitely be playing more Dodge Brothers.