This Place is Awesome is what happens to zines when they grow up and get settled. Which is a good fit -- because like Adam, I have grown up and become a little settled too. This is what tour is like for those of us who aren't really into DIY/punk touring anymore. Not that I've done the band thing myself, but I have done enough young-punk traveling of my own and am familiar with staying awake until your hosts feel like passing out at 4.30am, sleeping atop lumpy couch cushions, and worrying that I More...

This is an enjoyable book; it will take its place on my shelf next to Dave Bidini's On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock. I have just two criticisms. One is that I have to say it could use an edit. The other is that, for all the talk of the band, there is very little talk of the music. For example, just two words are devoted to the London gig: "went well." All of the hell and inanity of the tour was ultimately in support of the music, and I wish there had been some talk More...

A thrilling page turner on the travails of traveling with a band through the wilds of English pub gigs. At times anthropological and in others archaeological; it's an exploration of a particular microsociety as seen through the eyes of a photographer who's been described as "the only adult in the room."

A romp with great pix!