UP THE PACKET: SIMON WILLIAMS’ CRISP ODYSSEY

Rock 'n' Roll Book Club

The Affectionate Crunch! Man Writes Book About Crisp Packets. And Rock’n’Roll.

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Simon Williams, is a record company boss and crisp packet collector. Since 1977 he has amassed more than 8,000 crisp packets. They are all empty, they all live in shoeboxes, and they are all different. Apart from the swapsies.‘Up The Packet’ is a tale about those crisp bags and their amazingly zinging innards: from the Tayto potato to the Spudos spud; from the wartime birth of Golden Wonder to the 1990s stock &amp; awe of Walkers; from the ‘70s kid-friendly frenzy to the growth in grown-up snacks and into the indie credibility revolution. It takes the reader on a crunchy cultural journey through the entire history of the potato crisp, packed with solid packet factettes and frankly wild snacking theories.Oh, and it delivers some fabulous new full colour pictures of crisp bags through the past 50 years in the ‘Don’t Look Bag In Anger’ pull-out photo spread.But that isn’t all, because ‘Up The Packet’ packs in a heap of music references, as you may or many not expect from a book title which riffs on the Libertines’ debut album. Who is a Soho Salad? Why is Motörhead’s Backstage Buffet? What is Kid Jensen? Where is the actual epicentre of the actual crispy rock’n’roll universe? Is there parking?? Will there be snacks??? The fashions, the fads, the songs, the TV ads, the crazy flavourings and the hazy lost favourites and - of course - the long and fact-finding road from Smiths Salt’n’Shake to Splodgenessabounds, ‘Up The Packet’ is a crisp-lover’s paradise in rock’n’rolling form.Simon Williams spent eleven years at the NME, a much shorter time DJing at Xfm, and a much longer time running fierce panda records and promoting small gigs in smallLondon venues. ‘Up The Packet’ is his fourth book following‘The Kite Who Was Scared Of Heights’ (for children of all ages), ‘1-2 Cut Your Hair: The Story Of Johnny Moped’ (for proto-punk rockers of all rages) and ‘Pandamonium! How Not To Run A Record Company’ (for indie music fans at allstages). ‘Up The Packet’ might be his maddest yet. It’s certainly his crunchiest.Discussion/blind crisp tasting/Q&amp;A/Music/book signing‘

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UP THE PACKET: SIMON WILLIAMS’ CRISP ODYSSEY

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