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Chelsea Hotel Manhattan
One hotel: its superstars, bohemians, junkies and outsiders. Includes interviews with Iggy Pop, Rockets Redglare, William Burroughs and Herbert Huncke. Nooks have been written in the Chelsea Hotel (manager Stanley Bard keeps a collection of them) - but none have been written about it. Until now.
Gimme Danger: The Story Of Iggy Pop
In a career that begun in the late Sixties Iggy Pop always set out to shock. But his attention-grabbing tactics including self-mutilation always disguised a musician and artist more complex than the image suggested. In this solid biography Joe Ambrose does full justice to the original spirit of Iggy Pop through a rich and revealing selection of interviews, offering many shrewd insights into the personality of a man whose own comments often seem more confused than anarchic.
Seán Treacy and the Tan War
This book covers the exploits of charismatic guerrilla leader Seán Treacy, Tipperary's flying columns and the horrors of Croke Park's 'Bloody Sunday'.
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The Violent World Of Moshpit Culture
The Moshpit: Hub of a live music culture that is high in sex and violence... and no stranger to death. For the hardcore fans of groups like Limp Bizkit, Hole, Korn and Slipknot, the music is only part of the experince. At gigs worldwide fans literally hurl themselves into a pit - the mosh pit. The result is a mass of seething bodies where fierce physical contact provides a brief, exhilarating escape from everyday life. The mosh pit means random sexual encounters as well as haphazard violence... and occasionally, as Joe Ambrose discovers, it can lead to encounters of unexpected tenderness too.
Chelsea Hotel Manhattan
The Chelsea Hotel is part of New York’s cultural fabric. It has been witness to murder, drug overdoses, suicide and scandal. In its rooms famous movies were conceived, hit songs written, and artworks created. This blistering book is a snapshot based on the diaries and notes of Joe Ambrose, written during his stay at the hotel. In it he meets Warhol superstar Gerard Malanga, sinister drug smuggler the Duchess, Chelsea Hotel proprietor Stanley Bard, and beat generation founding father Herbert Huncke. He visits, in pursuit of sex or drugs or rock’n’roll, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Coney Island, Harem and the Lower East Side. He has chance encounters with New York Dolls, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Phil Lynott and Richard Hell. This book also tells the real story of what happened to Sid & Nancy when their turbulent relationship imploded in the Chelsea Hotel.
The Fenian Anthology
From speeches in the dock, to extracts from memoirs and novels, this collection celebrating Ireland's finest patriotic writers is at once a record and a cultural history.
Tangier Tsunami
"The much anticipated return of a premier agitator and raconteur. An authentic, darkly beautiful gem, both memorable and potent."- A.D. Hitchin Joe Ambrose's rough and ready short stories are located in, amongst other places, London, Ireland, the Mojave Desert, and the Moroccan city of Tangier. They deal quirkily with the universal themes of sex, death, and money. What they've said about Joe Ambrose"A Romantic to his bones, he gets down and dirty with an episodic, discursive novel that's a paean to the drug-fueled psychosexual excesses of eighties Rave culture and the hip-hop club scene. Arrogance, ennui and motiveless acts of vulgarity rule out redemption. Inexhaustibly nasty and unputdowna...
Moshpit
Joe Ambrose has spent five years talking to the fans and the bands who subscribe to the violent culture of the Moshpit. A riveting expose of rock's darker side.
Pirate
In this heart-pounding nautical action adventure, intrepid British intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everyone and everything in their headlong rush towards world domination. Aboard the Star of Shanghai in the south of France, an American spy is held captive. He possesses vital, explosive intelligence linking two nations and one horrifying plot. If he is not rescued, he faces certain torture and inevitable death. In Paris, a ruthless descendant of Napoleon has risen to power, hell-bent on restoring France's former glory. His fiery ambitions are cynically stoked by a coterie of cold-blooded Mandarins, plottin...
