Eamon Nancarrow
Eamon Nancarrow's autobiography is making everybody laugh.
From the media to the public's reviews on Amazon, his life is giving everyone a lift and they can't stop praising 'Holywood Star: The life and times of a rock and roll misadventurer'
"If you grew up in Holywood in the 80s, it’s worth the cover price for the first 100 pages alone" Slugger O'Toole
"Laugh-Out-Loud Funny - Irish News"
"Hilarious" Prog (Classic Rock Magazine)
"In short I can't recommend it highly enough, a brilliant read." Nail Mullan
"Never have I laughed so much at someone else's mis-fortune" John Jameson
"I finished the book in a couple of days because I kept finding myself wanting to read "just" one more page." Paul Smyth
"I felt at times as though he was actually sitting in the room with me relating his tales." G Forbes
"This is by far the funniest and most addictive book I have ever read." Daniel Kendall
Now on sale at Amazon:
Holywood Star: The Life and Times of a Rock and Roll
Misadventurer
The book's background...
Ever since the Rolling Stones burst onto the music scene thousands of would-be rock Gods have picked up an instrument hoping to find similar success. Ask them why they failed and a whole host of reasons will bubble up: band members hated each other, manager let them down, misplaced pyrotechnics causing agony, girlfriends trying to kill each other and finally, the realisation that children have to be fed through a regular job.
Eamon Nancarrow experienced all of the above and much more. In his memoirs `Holywood Star' you'll find yourself bursting out with laughter at events that would stop sane people performing forever; yet these calamities somehow propelled him towards another moment of madness.
Born in 1965, Eamon grew up on a council estate in Holywood, County Down and fell in love with 70's and then 80's rock music. His first goal was to form a band and then conquer the nearby Belfast. Following that London and soon after the rest of the world. Maybe he's achieved that aim in his book...
EAMON NANCARROW was born at an early age, but grew up fast, so fast in fact, that he outgrew his hair. He always considered himself to be a bit of a rock star with a fine singing voice, however it wasn't until the GP presented an ill-fitting truss that he developed his astonishing vocal range. Sounding like a cross between Donald Duck and Tiny Tim made him an attractive catch for bands desperately seeking a singer.
From the age of fifteen he has assaulted the eardrums of the general public without a concern for the damage he was causing. He has used music to achieve his goal of living in abject poverty and boy was he good at it. His life can be mapped out in chapters of the bands he has formed or joined and funnily enough that's mirrored in the book.
After failing miserably in the music business he decided that a new career was necessary, unfortunately for the sanity of his poor family this didn't happen until he was thirty.
Eamon resides in Belfast with his partner Donna and his two kids Teelin and Tara. He still screams rock and roll at the weekends but makes a living as a specialist Infection Control Nurse (God help us all).
Eamon's bands: Guilt Edge, No Hot Ashes, Nellie Dean, Social Idiot, Strictly No Ballroom (current)
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