Attila the stockbroker autobiography
- About the Author.
- He has performed over 3,800 concerts, published eight books of poems, an autobiography (which itself has 38 poems in it) and in 2021 his Collected Works.
- Launched into public consciousness by legendary Radio One DJ John Peel in 1982/83, he has spent 35 years touring the world as a self sustaining DIY one man.
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ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER “Arguments Yard” Book
Description
Arguments Yard – My Biography, 35 Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola– Book
By Attila The Stockbroker
Launched into public consciousness by John Peel in the early 1980s, poet, musician, journalist and political activist Attila the Stockbroker has since spent thirty five years touring the world as a self-sustaining, one man DIY cottage industry. Having performed over three thousand gigs in twenty four countries, releasing thirty records and seven books of poetry along the way, he pauses here to relate his life story, a tale of ranting verse, punk rock and his relationship with the ever changing, increasingly corporate minded politics of the last five decades.
300 pages, 16cm x 23cm. (RRP: £14.99)
Additional information
| Weight | .80 kg |
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| Dimensions | 17 × 24 × 4 cm |
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Club Velocity presents
Attila The Stockbroker
As part of his massive tour to promote his autobiography 'Arguments Yard' (published by Cherry Red Books in early September) and celebrate 35th years as being Attila The Stockbroker.
Attila started as a punk bass player in 1977. Since then he’s done about 2,800 gigs in 21 countries - at venues, ranging from the Glastonbury Festival (every year since 1983) to a hotel basement in Stalinist Albania. He’s released 6 books of poems and over 20 CDs/LPs. And he’s even more fired up now than when he first started!
His Autumn UK 2015 tour covers a thirty five year period encompassing the Falklands War and the Miners’ Strike, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in Iraq and his tribute to his late mother who died in June after a 6 year battle with Alzheimer’s. Interspersed, as ever, are some silly and occasionally very rude bits about dead cats and dirty sleeping bags.
'Whether he’s ranting a poem or bashing out a song, there’s something majestic about Attila in full flight’ (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 4)
http://www.attilathestockbroker.com
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Arguments Yard : 35 Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola
The autobiography of Attila the Stockbroker
Cherry Red Books
Robina, Attila's wife, has, tongue in cheek, subtitled this wonderfully funny, entertaining and informative book “The adventures of ME: stories about ME, for people who want to read about ME, written by ME”.
And I guess that to achieve the remarkable things that Attila recounts in this remarkable book, you have to have that self belief, that self confidence and yes maybe even that self obsession, which he clearly has in bucket loads. You also have to be prepared to make an argument, and to stand your ground – literally and metaphorically. This book is the story of arguments not ducked, and ground won.
So, Arguments Yard compellingly deals with all the major incidents in what has been (and continues to be) an exciting, unusual and inspiring life. Arguments are not politely to be avoided, but a way of clarifying positions, cutting the crap, making progress. So the book starts with stories about the conflicts Attila suffered at school,
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