New book! The Home Recording Handbook

A new book! Some blurb... "This is not a home recording handbook" says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled The Home Recording Handbook. Instead it's the long overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It's a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It's a broadside to the music business. It's a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It's a when not to and why not to rather than a how to. It's a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to popular song. It's a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners From Venus. Martin Newell - a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it's probably not a handbook. Available from Bandcamp & Dunlin Press. If you are ordering from the USA, we are holding stock in the US. So do order from Bandcamp to ensure best shipping rates. https://thecleanersfromvenus.bandcamp.com/merch/the-home-recording-handbook-pre-order