The book came about through a number of factors.
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I would have put that one in but I forgot about it so I’m going to try and shoehorn that into the next one.” I guess you’ll just have to wait for the full story in the next book. “It looks like I’ve remembered a lot of things, but if you think of it as a life, I’m 63 so there is always things you remember that stick out and there’s plenty of things which I didn’t remember.” One story which Sergeant had forgotten involved, let's just say, an intriguing family dynamic: “There’s stuff I left out, like one of my uncles trying to set the other one on fire once. It is these little memories, from running around factories in 60s-70s Liverpool through to stories of school and early concerts, which make the book so compelling. What comes out during the interview is Sergeant’s fondness for recollecting these small moments. “I wanted to get that strange youth documented, there were plenty of people on our street who were in a similar situation.” Sergeant (right) pictured with Ian McCulloch Bunnymen focuses on these formative years as he moved through a complicated relationship with his parents through to the beginning of the band. A lot of this churning energy and mystique began early on in Sergeant’s life. That’s how it’s got that sound to it.” It is one of many stand out songs in an astonishing catalogue.
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That guitar solo in the middle that I did wasn’t through an amplifier, it was all mic’d up. In describing what makes the song so special, Sergeant explained, “The instrumentation is so unusual and the way it’s put together, it doesn’t sound like anyone else. The effervescent ‘The Killing Moon’ has become intertwined with the film, through its dark and mysterious combination of musical forces. With his brand-new book, we get to see the early beginnings of the guitarist’s life from his difficult (to put it lightly) relationship with his father through to the early beginnings of the Bunnymen.Ī large proportion of people from our generation will have been acquainted with Echo & the Bunnymen through the film Donnie Darko. With many classic albums such as Ocean Rain and Porcupine, through to some of the most memorable songs of his generation (‘The Cutter’, ‘Lips Like Sugar’, the eternal ‘The Killing Moon’), Sergeant has been at the forefront of guitar music for the better part of 40 years. The founding member of one of the seminal post-punk/new wave bands of the 1980’s, Sergeant is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and singular guitarists of his generation, on par with the likes of Johnny Marr and Robert Smith. There are innumerable things Sergeant does love and these fed into our phone conversation in regard to his new childhood memoire Bunnymen. He also doesn’t particularly like Bruce Springsteen, “It’s just like cheese-o-rama, not my cup of tea.” But that’s beside the point.
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The Bunnymen’s original bassist Les Pattinson, who lives in Australia now, loves to send photos of the nosey critters to him as a way to royally p*** him off. “In Australia you got some good spiders haven’t ya…” Will Sergeant, the iconic guitarist of Echo & the Bunnymen, really does not like spiders.