Echo & the Bunnymen are, in my educated opinion, one of the best bands of all time.

Listening to their music growing up I found their songs, and their style, mysterious, detached, magical even, and so when guitarist Will Sergeant had his first memoir published, Bunnyman, in 2021, I dived right in, delighted to peak behind the veil.

Part two of his memoir series, Echoes, was released this summer, and while I haven’t quite finished it yet, it made me feel the same as the first did: sure that Echo & the Bunnymen are one of the best bands of all time, and also that Will is one of my favourite ever musicians. We share a literary agent, so it was easy to get him on the Zoom for a chat about the writing of his books. But as soon as the subject of Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch came up, the temperature didn’t half dip...

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