Gutter to the Stars

<p>Can those who yearn to truly LIVE stomach a life of quiet correctness?</p><p></p><p>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets On The Road in this visceral Gen-X memoir of chaos music and hard-won redemption. Gutter to the Stars: Memories of a Post-Grunge Drifter follows one relentless anti-hero through decades of beautiful disasters as he pushes his life past every breaking point-and somehow survives to tell ​t​he tales.</p><p></p><p>From the frozen Gulf Islands of 1980s Canada to the brutal regime of a New Zealand boarding school. From the feral bush raves of 90s Aotearoa to the Gothic rooftops and unforgiving streets of early-2000s Sydney. This is the story of a generation that spat in the face of safety.</p><p></p><p>Along the way: chance encounters with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman a young Ryan Gosling and a cast of misfits who prove that art rebellion and madness don't just intertwine-they ​​explode.</p><p></p><p>These stories shouldn't be possible​ and may seem hardly believable. But every word is true.</p><p>Wildly funny brutally honest and seared into memory this is nostalgia with teeth​.​ Proof that some of us were born to live on the edge and somehow not fall off. For those who were there: your time machine. For those who weren't: a window into a world you thought was myth.</p><p></p><p>Burn bright. Burn loud. Just don't burn out.</p><p></p>