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Fury's Hour : A (sort-of) Punk Manifesto
Bok av Warren Kinsella
No-holds-barred political strategist Warren Kinsellas colourful, no-holds-barred look at punk rock, and how it influenced him and millions of other kids to strive for nothing less than changing the world.Playing bass for Calgary punk-rock quartet the Hot Nasties might seem a strange way for one of Canadas top political strategists to have spent his formative years, but in Furys Hour Warren Kinsellas exploration of punks history and heroes, its factions, failures and triumphs he shares his unique view into a subculture that has long encouraged people to think big about the world.From early meetings with icons Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer, Kinsella has gone on to interview a whos who of punk: Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Glen Matlock, Fugazis Ian MacKaye, Billy Idol, DOAs Joey Shithead Keithly, Bad Religions Brett Gurewitz, Blink 182, Good Charlotte and many more. Since he was a teenager, Kinsella has challenged his heroes to put into words the true value of the music. How, after decades of co-optation by the record industry, neo-Nazis and misdirected radicals, are new generations continuing what he calls punks search for the real?In Furys Hour, with the iconoclasm and passion that have marked his career in politics, Warren Kinsella searches for the soul of a sound that invigorated the way he and millions of others have grown up finding a way to turn anger into energy.