AFTERNOONS WITH THE BLINDS DRAWN

Book ID/图书代码： 07980019C00005

English Summary/英文概要： The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both ’The Best New Band in Britain’ and ’effete southern wankers’ - is recalled with moving candour by its frontman Brett Anderson, whose vivid memoir swings seamlessly between the tender, witty, turbulent, euphoric and bittersweet. Suede began by treading the familiar jobbing route of London’s emerging new 1990s indie bands - gigs at unglamorous venues - and the dispiriting experience of playing a gig to an audience of one. But in these halcyon days, their potential was undeniable. Anderson’s creative partnership with fellow founding member, guitarist Bernard Butler exposed a unique and brilliant hybrid of lyric and sound; together they were a luminescent team - burning brightly and creating some of the era’s most revered songs and albums.

In AFTERNOONS WITH THE BLINDS DRAWN, Anderson unflinchingly explores his relationship with addiction, heartfelt in the regret that early musical bonds were severed, and clear-eyed on his youthful persona. ’As a young man . . . I oscillated between morbid self-reflection and vainglorious narcissism,’ he writes. His honesty - sharply self-aware and articulate - makes this a compelling autobiography, and a brilliant insight into one of the most significant bands of the last quarter century.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 山羊皮乐队的发展轨迹——在起步时期被誉为“英国最好的新乐队”和“疲惫的南方混混”——被其主唱布雷特·安德森以动人的坦率回忆起来，他生动的回忆录在温柔、诙谐、动荡、愉悦和苦乐参半之间无缝切换。斯威德首先踏上了90年代伦敦新兴独立乐队熟悉的工作路线——在单调乏味的场所演出——以及为一群观众演出的令人沮丧的经历。但在这些宁静的日子里，它们的潜力是不可否认的。安德森与创始成员之一，吉他手伯纳德巴特勒创造性的合作，揭示了一个独特的和辉煌的混合抒情和声音;他们是一个发光的团队——明亮地燃烧着，创作了那个时代一些最受尊敬的歌曲和专辑。

在《拉下百叶窗的午后》中，安德森毫不畏惧地探索他与成瘾的关系，由衷地后悔早期的音乐纽带被切断，并清楚地看到自己年轻的个性。“作为一个年轻人……我在病态的自我反省和自负的自恋之间摇摆不定，”他写道。他的诚实——敏锐的自我意识和清晰的表达能力——使这本自传引人注目，并对过去25年最重要的乐队之一进行了精彩的剖析。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况：Anderson writes with a combination of guarded introspection and detachment . . . he conjures a cracked and confused persona, fumbling his way through a bizarre early adulthood, by turns gleefully hedonistic and wantonly self-destructive, hardworking and profligate, egotistical and insecure, a character more likely to be seen shuffling around in a dressing-grown smoking fags and staring out the window than prancing on the stage . . . Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn is another milestone in a flourishing latterday career (Guardian)

A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band (Neil Tennant)

True to his word, this is another music book that steers away from the expected . . . it has a brazen confidence and it’s rarely dull. As such, Afternoons With the Blinds Down is a worthy successor to Coal Black Mornings (Ed Potton The Times)

•Sunday Express {S Magazine}, review by Caroline Sanderson, 06.10.19 – ‘You’re unlikely to read another music autobiography quite as honestly reflective as this one is’

•The Observer {The New Review}, review by Miranda Sawyer, 06.10.19 - ‘Anderson’s writing is as he is in real life: sharp, unsparing and sensitive’

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/07/afternoons-with-blinds-drawn-brett-anderson-review •The Sunday Times {Culture}, Victoria Segal: ‘It might be a dark, disordered story, but thanks to his thoughtful analysis of those wild times, Afternoons with 06.10.19

•The Times, Ed Potton:’ ‘True to his word, this is another music book that steers away from the expected… it has a brazen confidence and it’s rarely dull. As such, Afternoons With the Blinds Down is a worthy successor to Coal Black Mornings. I look forward to the third instalment, in which Anderson hits middle age, which will surely be called Evenings Under the Electric Blanket.’

About the Author/作者介绍： 有必要指出的是，作者是上世纪90年代创建的最伟大的英国流行乐队之一山羊皮的创始人之一。在这本回忆录中，安德森回忆了他70年代初在布莱顿和伦敦之间的一个郊区住宅区的童年。这是一个自我调节的英国环境，通过异常敏感的眼睛瞥见，受他父亲的古怪影响，他的父亲是一名出租车司机，穿着阿拉伯劳伦斯的长袍，漫步在鹅卵石铺成的小屋里，一边指挥着他心爱的李斯特的作品，一边打磨着海事纪念品。

The author is, were it necessary to point out, a founder member of Suede, one of the greatest Britpop bands to have been created in the 1990s. In this memoir, Anderson recollects his early 1970s childhood on a council estate somewhere in the suburban sprawl between Brighton and London. It’s a self-regulating This Is England environment, glimpsed through unusually sensitive eyes, and with the eccentric influence of his father, a taxi driver who roams around the pebble dash maisonette in Lawrence of Arabia robes, while air-conducting his beloved Liszt and polishing the maritime memorabilia.

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