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'Pitch-perfect' --Independent on Sunday
`Always a refreshing breath of down-to-earth amiability on the airwaves, DJ Mark Radcliffe brings the same chatty, Northern tone to this memoir' --Herald
`Anyone who enjoys the broadcaster's warm, waggish radio patter will devour this book . . . Radcliffe keeps the juicy showbiz anecdotes coming thick and fast' --Sunday Express
`Always a refreshing breath of down-to-earth amiability on the airwaves, DJ Mark Radcliffe brings the same chatty, Northern tone to this memoir' --Herald
`Anyone who enjoys the broadcaster's warm, waggish radio patter will devour this book . . . Radcliffe keeps the juicy showbiz anecdotes coming thick and fast' --Sunday Express
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Approaching 50, Mark Radcliffe decided to write about his life and his love of music. But crucially, he only wanted to write about the most interesting days and not the dull ones in between. From 'The Day My Mother Hit Me With a Golf Club' to 'The Day I Met the Band Who Changed My Life' he charts the peaks and troughs of his life and career with wit, panache and insight. He is very funny when recounting his days working at the BBC in the 1980s and 1990s (including how, when bored, he and his colleagues invented a fictional department), and on winning Stars in Their Eyes as Shane MacGowan. Yet amongst the laughter are more sober days, such as the day when he learned John Peel had died. A cracking read and a potted history of both one man's life and his love affair with music, Thank You For the Days is a uniquely entertaining memoir that will appeal not just to music fans but to connoisseurs of British popular culture.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having always found Radcliife a very engaging presenter and as a forty something ex drummer with all manner of punk & post punk bands myself I was looking forward to this - especially aftyer enjoying his earlier book Showbusiness: The Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Nobody.
This is neither fish nor fowl. Its not an autobiograpgy so you end up jumping around points in his career without any real context as to how he got there at times - as a collection of "amusing" anectdoes they just aren't amusing enough to stand up on the basis of this alone - his writing style here is still touchingly self deprecating but the attempt to squeeze a witticism in every 2 lines becomes tiring.
I'll still be tuning in to the Radcliffe & Maconie Show obn Radio 2 - this is what he does best playing decent muisc & talking about it with insight humour & intelligence - which should be enough for anyone. These anecdotes would have made good radio - they don't make a very good book.
This is neither fish nor fowl. Its not an autobiograpgy so you end up jumping around points in his career without any real context as to how he got there at times - as a collection of "amusing" anectdoes they just aren't amusing enough to stand up on the basis of this alone - his writing style here is still touchingly self deprecating but the attempt to squeeze a witticism in every 2 lines becomes tiring.
I'll still be tuning in to the Radcliffe & Maconie Show obn Radio 2 - this is what he does best playing decent muisc & talking about it with insight humour & intelligence - which should be enough for anyone. These anecdotes would have made good radio - they don't make a very good book.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am a fan of Radcliffe's radio work, and seemingly one of the only people in the country who was delighted that Mark and Lard did the Radio 1 breakfast show after Chris Evans left. Mark is entertaining, dry and erudite, and a joy to listen to on radio. This book, based on some of the favourite days in his life, transposed all the things I like about his radio presenting onto the page. I loved the mix of famous anecdotes, like the time he met Mick Jagger, with the reminiscences of childhood, like the time his mother hit him with a golf club, and thought this worked very well. I enjoyed the fact that unlike most biographical material I didn't have to wade through a hundred pages of his probably fairly unremarkable childhood before I got to the more entertaining material. It was all entertaining.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I fondly remember lying in bed at night, listening to Mark and Lard on Radio 1 between 10PM and midnight, laughing at their jokes, loving the music, and being fascinated by most of their guests. I loved Mark's "Showbusiness" memoir but didn't like his novel, "Northern Sky", so when I heard that this book was another memoir concentrating mainly on his life in music I snapped it up.
There is an awful lot of padding here. Each story is titled "The Day I {event}" so we get chapters called "The Day I Introduced David Bowie On Stage", or "The Day I Turned 50", and they are mostly quite short. Some, however, consist of a tiny central memory but are stretched beyond belief, such as the story about the time he "flew" as a child, where after a few pages of rambling about nothing in particular he essentially ends with "so one day I was being naughty, and my mum hit me so hard I flew over the back of the sofa," so the whole subject of the tale is discarded in a single paragraph at the very end. To me this is evidence of a target word count being set, not reached, and serious padding was required during the edit.
Some of the stories are mildly entertaining, and as a Bowie fan I do enjoy reading anything about the guy. It was also interesting to read about Mark and Lard being sacked from Radio 1, and the story about why they were dressed as zombie undertakers when they met Tony Blair (picture included in the book) is fun. On the whole though it all seems just a bit desperate, and for a thin book I did find it a bit of a slog to finish. A shame, really.
There is an awful lot of padding here. Each story is titled "The Day I {event}" so we get chapters called "The Day I Introduced David Bowie On Stage", or "The Day I Turned 50", and they are mostly quite short. Some, however, consist of a tiny central memory but are stretched beyond belief, such as the story about the time he "flew" as a child, where after a few pages of rambling about nothing in particular he essentially ends with "so one day I was being naughty, and my mum hit me so hard I flew over the back of the sofa," so the whole subject of the tale is discarded in a single paragraph at the very end. To me this is evidence of a target word count being set, not reached, and serious padding was required during the edit.
Some of the stories are mildly entertaining, and as a Bowie fan I do enjoy reading anything about the guy. It was also interesting to read about Mark and Lard being sacked from Radio 1, and the story about why they were dressed as zombie undertakers when they met Tony Blair (picture included in the book) is fun. On the whole though it all seems just a bit desperate, and for a thin book I did find it a bit of a slog to finish. A shame, really.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Radio Days
Bluff, professional Northerner Mark Radcliffe has his cake and eats it in this gently amusing collection of stories from his life: He maintains how grounded and unstarry he has... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rotgut
Rollocking good read
A fantasically funny read that takes you back as he recollects various incidents through-out his life in music & radio. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Andrew Milne
Stop! Carry on...!
I'd been a big fan of Mark Radcliffe since his Radio 1 late shows with Marc 'Lard' Riley, so was looking forward to reading this book. Read more
Published 8 months ago by A. Charles
An Audio Book in Print
Not being a great one for autobiographies, I was extremely surprised just what a good "holiday" read this book was. Read more
Published 9 months ago by David Crombie
Size Does Matter Apparently
Mark Radcliffe, it has to be said, is a thoroughly nice bloke - interesting, witty, experienced in everything that the music industry and life can offer and a reasonable DJ in a... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Graeme Wright
Excellently effervescent
This is a great book. I had read his previous two - his bands-in-slow-progress memoir Showbusineess and his first novel based around a Northern folk club Northern Sky - and found... Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2010 by A. Dagnall
feel good? not for long
Don't bother.
seriously, that's it, don't bother.
You're clearly looking for a Mark Radcliffe book to entertain you witty insights and asides on a hazy summers day. Read more
seriously, that's it, don't bother.
You're clearly looking for a Mark Radcliffe book to entertain you witty insights and asides on a hazy summers day. Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by I. R. Parker
What a thoroughly nice chap.
I mean, what an absolutely bloody lovely bloke. Mark Radcliffe is modest and self deprecating to a fault, and his primary interests include music, beer and music. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2010 by Garth Algar
Enjoyable...
I could not think of a title that had not already been used! Not really an autobiography, more a series of snippets about bits of Mark's life he recalls clearly (I always wonder... Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2009 by M. Stevens
Thank You For The Days by Mark Radcliffe
This book is a really good read - entertaining, informative and very funny. Not an autobiography, but snapshots of the author's life as a DJ and musician. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2009 by A. J. Owen
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