ARGONAUT BOOKS

Alternatives to Valium is a joyful smash-hit memoir set in the pre-internet days of record shops, typewriters, fanzines, DIY punk bands, mass unemployment and creative ingenuity. Reviews 'The interviews are wonderful, peek-behind-the-curtain deconstructions of the creaky edifice of celebrity… It's all killer, no filler - and it is all, as McKay himself might say, very punk'The Scotsman - Roger Cox'McKay's big-ticket stars rarely disappoint - his account of a fractious meeting with the Pogues' Shane McGowan is enthrallingly awful - but his tales of trying t...Read More