{"product_id":"anoint-my-head-andy-macleod-9781917274326","title":"Anoint My Head: How I Failed to Make It as a Britpop Indie-Rockstar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Captures the time and the aspirations of a young band brilliantly. A great eye-opener into the absurd thought process of what it might take to headline Glastonbury!\" Steve Lamacq, \u003ci\u003eBBC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA coming-of-age story about pursuing your dreams and what happens when reality gets in the way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1992 and Andy (aka Horace) dreams of becoming a rockstar with his band, the Pointy Birds. The only problem is that his day job (mis)filing vinyl in a Soho record store is stealing all his time and energy, plus rival bands like Suede, Blur, Pulp and Radiohead are moving on to bigger and better things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But everything changes when someone called Ricky Gervais offers his services as a band manager, and at last the dream can start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnoint My Head \u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a band who didn't become rich or famous, but had a manager who did. It is also the story of a musical era, documenting the rise of some of the biggest Britpop bands of the nineties, plus a comedian who went on to write quite a successful sitcom about a paper merchants in Slough, popularly known as \u003ci\u003eThe Office.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If \u003ci\u003eThis Is Spinal Tap\u003c\/i\u003e is the quintessential rock mockumentary, \u003ci\u003eAnoint My Head\u003c\/i\u003e is the closest you'll get to that in book form.\"-- Loz Etheridge, \u003ci\u003eGod is in the TV\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy MacLeod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917274327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917274326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnibus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy MacLeod","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001244393727,"sku":"9781917274326","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anoint-my-head-andy-macleod-9781917274326","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}