Fairytale of New York

In a recent piece on Thurston Moore for the Quietus recently, Stevie Chick noted: "The original draft of Sonic Life was, he estimates, eight times as long as the finished edition." Pity the poor editor who had to pare it down to a mere 472 pages - but I'd have happily wolfed down the full unexpurgated version.

It's extremely hard to do any kind of justice to the book in less than 350 words, but I had a crack at it for Buzz.

Needless to say, Moore's memoir and the recent release of Live In Brooklyn 2011 have sent me straight to the back catalogue of the band that I love above any other. 'Expressway To Yr Skull' is getting a spin every day - and so it should.