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In the Jingle Jangle Jungle

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RESIDENT'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

'[Joel's] got me glued to these pages . . . I think my brother knows how to feel' KURT VILE

'A new postmodern Beat sensation' RICHARD MILWARD

'Peppered with breezy humour' DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great contemporary cult American rock 'n' roll bands. At the peak of their anarchic reign in the San Francisco underground of the mid '90s, their psychedelic output, '60s sensibility, incendiary live shows and rivalry with friends, rivals and nemeses The Dandy Warhols, were almost as infamous, prodigious and impressive as their narcotic intake. A righteous account of the hazards and pleasures of life on and off the road, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle lifts the curtain on life in the band.

Funny as hell and shot through with innocence, wonder and sparkling humour, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle is destined to take its place alongside cult classics in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll literature.

'One can only hope that Gion is prepping memoir number two' IRISH TIMES

'A riotous, yet strangely graceful walk through a life of deep bohemian adventure' THE QUIETUS

Critics Review

I shot the perfect bootleg video of Joel with the BJM once: he's menacing but perfectly in the pocket with his tambourine and I just couldn't turn away. Damnit, now he's got me glued to these pages in a similar way... I think my brother knows how to feel.
Kurt Vile
Tales told through the prism of San Franciscian subterranean psychescenster Joel Gion. Casted into the fray via the vanguard of an embryonic yet already near mythical BJM brethren, bubbling up from faded Victorian grandeur bedsit land streets, as a new youth guitar scene thus unravels into existence. Surely genuine psychedelia's last stand
Sam Knee
A new postmodern Beat sensation. Gion steers us through the hedonism and headaches of the BJM's alternative America with spontaneous-prose sincerity, ecstatic warmth and a Brautiganesque eye for the absurd. Love it.
Richard Milward
Candid, insightful, and by turns both hilarious and regretful... Engaging, unique and endlessly quotable, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle is a must-read for fans of turn-of-the-millennium psychedelic rock 'n' roll.
Shindig!
A riotous, yet strangely graceful walk through a life of deep bohemian adventure
The Quietus
'[while] peppered with breezy humour, it pulls a few punches in exposing the uglier side to life in a struggling rock band'
Daily Telegraph
Provides a fresh perspective to the fabled events witnessed in Dig! plus a panoply of debauched tales from Gion's personal life... Gion is a fount of vibrant storytelling
I Newspaper
The memoir draws to a close as the band tours their 1998 album, Strung Out in Heaven, and such are the insightful, acerbic details presented here, one can only hope that Gion is prepping memoir number two
Irish Times
Author Joel Gion
Narrator Joel Gion
Duration 12 hours and 5 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781399618328
Format x-book®
Publisher Orion
Genre Memoirs, Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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