Rock and Hard Places

Andrew Mueller is Australian by birth a Londoner by choice a wanderer by nature and a journalist by profession. Unable to decide between being a rock critic travel writer or foreign correspondent he hit upon the novel if time-consuming solution of trying to be all three at once. In Rock and Hard Places published originally in the U.K. in 1999 now re-envisioned and updated and available for the first time in the United States he travels to Lebanon with the Prodigy comes to America with Radiohead and goes all over the place with U2. He ventures to Bosnia Herzegovina with an aid convoy in the middle of the war sees Def Leppard play in a cave in Morocco and attempts to ask the Taliban not only what they think theyre up to but who they fancy for the World Cup. He flings himself head first down the Cresta Run sits in Stalins armchair chases ambulances through Moscow chases some kind of lost tribe in India wakes up at least once in a park in Reykjavik and strongly advises avoiding the seafood salad in Sapporo Airport. Hes funny. Occasionally he makes a point.