Trailblazing indie icon and now author Miki Berenyi joins Paul for a frank and open chat on the eve of the release of her memoir Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success.

In the nineties, her band, Lush, makers of ethereal, jangly yet citrus-sharp pop music signed to 4AD and their albums Gala and Spooky inadvertently perhaps helped define what was just becoming termed by the music press as shoegaze. Their 1996 album, Lovelife, recorded during the height of Britpop moved the band higher into the charts with the caustic hit Ladykillers - a song which basically pre-dates the notion of the softboi by a good twenty years.

Miki was the cool as flame-haired frontperson of the sharpest indie gang: a little bolshy, cig in hand, spinning dreampop, yet, as her memoir goes into, music was a way of finding her voice and connecting with people through an eventful, unorthodox upbringing. Miki and Paul chat about finding spaces of social connection within scenes, the perils of music press and so much more.

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Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. 

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By Miki Berenyi 

Published by Nine Eight Books on 29 September in hardback, audio and eBook

Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O

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