It was inevitable that Thurston Moore would write a memoir; the surprise is just that it's taken so long. The wait is nearly over, though, with the announcement that Sonic Life will be published by Penguin Random House in October - and while I'm not quite sure about the suggestion that Sonic Youth were ever really "commercial heavyweights", the blurb generally does a fine job of whetting the appetite.
Moore has always spoken animatedly about Sonic Youth's origins and place in the musical landscape, and perennially enthuses about other bands and artists - take, for instance, his appearance on Damian Abraham's Turned Out A Punk podcast - so I've got high hopes for an engrossing read.
It's unclear, though, quite how personal the memoir will be, and whether he'll address the elephant in the room: his affair with Eva Prinz and the subsequent breakdown of his marriage to Kim Gordon that brought the curtain down on Sonic Youth. Gordon did, in her own memoir Girl In A Band - a book I still haven't read, and am nervous of reading given that a handful of people have suggested that Moore will be dead to you if you do.
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