This is a book about music, popular culture, and being a teenager in Apartheid era South Africa where both were hard to come by.
Remember making a cassette compilation for someone? Remember the agony of trying to make songs fit the exact length of one side? Pouring over which ones might best describe what you were feeling, and in what order those songs might be presented for maximum effect. Remember being given a compilation cassette of your own? Being turned onto new songs, new bands, new sounds - getting those warm, light buzzes that come when something personally beautiful finds you. Music has always been like that - ethereal, intangible, and best enjoyed in a collective. This book honours that tradition. It is a compilation in words, a cassette for the kindle. Tune in and turn up.