Ebook: Something Quite Peculiar: the Church. The Music. The Mayhem

Step inside the world of the enigmatic Steve Kilbey - frontman of The Church, one of Australia's best-loved and most successful bands, and 40-year veteran of the music industry, in his memoir, Something Quite Peculiar. Singer, songwriter and bassist. Ethereal, psychedelic and indefinable. Journey through his migrant ten-pound pom childhood and garage-band adolescence during the hey-day of the Beatles, Dylan and the Stones. Laugh at his failed attempts at the 9-to-5 life. Jump aboard his wild adventures with The Church as they conquer Australia, and then the world. The tours.;Cover Page -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Introducing -- PART I -- 1 It's a Boy, Mrs Kilbey, It's a Boy! -- 2 The Difficult Second Chapter -- 3 That Awkward Age -- 4 A Summer Holiday -- 5 Becoming a Groan-Up -- 6 The Four Track, London and Sydney -- 7 The Church of Man, Love -- 8 The First Blush of Success -- PART II -- i sing the infernal eternal tour -- 9 The Church Invades the Northern Hemisphere -- 10 Smorgasbords and Ombudsmen and Malibu -- 11 Cruising Down this Shuddering Highway -- 12 Poems and Tantrums -- 13 Starfish and Chips -- 14 A Hundred and One Gigs.