Exciting news PIL fans. Last week Martin Atkins started a Pledge Campaign to get his PIL years autobiography published.
Called ''
Memories - My Five Years In And Out Of Public Image LTD.''
Taken from Martin's Pledge page -
''For a large chunk of my time with PiL we were the most dangerous band on the planet – no one knew what we were going to do next – (least of all us) – it was special and crazy and awesome as fuck.
I’m so very pleased I didn’t write this twelve years ago.
In the ensuing decade or so, as I nibble around the edges of 60, I might suggest that I’ve grown up a bit and I’m pleased with the idea that this might have a tone I’ll be more proud of.
If there is one thing that has changed over that time it has been my understanding that different people really do see things differently – hence the title Memories. I do very much care about the sum of the parts and the parts that make up the sum. This isn’t my book in the same way that PiL back then wasn’t just Johns’. It was all of ours. And as much as I might prefer to not be called a twat by Keith Levene – his – or anyone else’s exclusion from this book seems incorrect. There is more to be learned from seeing other people’s points of view than by slamming the door. So, I’ve been careful to talk to a lot of people that were around us.
You might call this the companion book to the first part of The Public Image Is Rotten documentary. My memories are intense and when that fails, I have my diaries!
This is a journey for me too – I’ve already experienced a few things that have surprised me, stretched myself in ways that I am proud of and I’m excited to continue this journey of discovery and documentation with you.
A word about the format. I struck upon this: a serialized incremental date related release with Pledge, to date-stamp some particular events and memories, release some posts to the public, let people throw in some of their own memories, keep some special stuff private and at the end of it, jam it all into a nice big format fucking trainspotter book. My photos are really awesome, I’d like to think I have an eye, but really I was just there and everyone was cool with me taking 35mm slides.
I hope that this bag of stuff will be as exciting for you to see and feel, as it will be for me to share and then, really, put to bed. The burden of all of this shit has sometimes felt like a time bomb – just waiting to be destroyed by a laundry room fire or dissolved by burst water pipe indifference. Sometimes I’ve felt ridiculous to have the tiny ticket from a Boston Redsox game in 1980 still – w t f – with a few transatlantic coast to coast moves – that’s either enormously incredible – or totally sad. I’ve already felt an outreach of love – for me a little yes, but for this very special time period of Public Image Limited – and what it meant to all of us. It was fucking awesome – lets go motherfuckers!
Contributions and over 30 interviews including:
Keith Levene – guitar, Jah Wobble – bass
Nick Launay – producer, Larry White – manager and tour manager
Bob Miller – producer & live sound, Mark Kates – promoter, Manager MGMT
Gerry Gerrard – agent, Nine Inch Nails, Alec Peters – label boss
Pete Jones – bass – PiL, Brian Brain, Department S
Tony Liggett – audience member – Detroit Motor City Skating Center
Tony Paris – Journalist – Creative Loafing – Atlanta
Simon Mattock – collector, fan, Taquila Mockingbird – performer – Los Angeles
Paul Dougherty – videographer – Grt Guildersleeves , Felice Rosser – performer Grt Guildersleeves , Geoff Smyth – guitar – Brian Brain, Margot Olavarria – bass – Brian Brain, GoGos, Jebin Bruni – musician – PiL , Tears For Fears, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair
Bruce Butler – Virgin Records Australia, Fred Gianelli – Artist – Psychic TV
Robert Poss – Guitarist – Band Of Susans
Bob Tulipan – Manager, Anne Marie Foley – Strawberries Records – Boston
Kevin Lyman – Warp Tour, Paul Bennett Hirsch – artist, John Brian King – photographer
With photographs from Martin Atkins & some from Maureen Baker too !''
The Pledge campaign has already hit 51 % in it's fist week
Take a look and support Martin - this is gonna be amazing
