No Off Switch
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"Passionate and furiously funny - Andy Kershaw is unfailingly fearless." - Dame Ann Leslie
"A staggeringly good read. It takes a lot for me to laugh heartily. I'll be stealing openly from it. This book is magnificent." - Nigel Blackwell, Half Man Half Biscuit
"Andy Kershaw's memoir zooms along with the high-velocity recklessness of a TT racer. It's impossible not to cheer him on as he accelerates round the hairpin bends of his life, yelling hilarious defiance at anyone who tries to stop him." – Francis Wheen
"He's always wired himself up to the action. A very entertaining book. Keep it goin', Andy!" - Ralph Steadman
'Fabulously well-written - the wit, the brimming enthusiasm and the outrage all come direct from the broadcasting voice' --James Medd, Word Magazine
"The boy wonder has survived it all and this thoroughly absorbing journal bears witness to that. Kershaw's integrity and humility shines throughout. I couldn't put this down." - Blues & Soul
"It's his ability to convey a sense of moment-by-moment aliveness that makes Andy Kershaw, the greatest living English-language broadcaster... He's an intermittent eruption, making everything before and after sound as if it were made by zombies." -Toby Litt, New Statesman
"Andy Kershaw will always be something of a hero." - Daily Mail
"Hilariously opinionated" - The Independent
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Andy's most recent compilation CD.
With a sleeve illustration by the great Glen Baxter.
Stephen Fry on Andy's autobiography, No Off Switch..."I make it a rule not to puff books but Andy Kershaw's No Off Switch is sensational. An amazing read. An amazing man." - Stephen Fry tweet, 21 December 2011. Please retweet- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Andy Kershaw has led an extraordinary life. His unrivalled role in bringing World Music to the ears of the west is just part of the story of this man whose zest for life, music, people, experience and travel made him the finest British broadcaster bar none. That his life has had its ups and downs is to say that the Alps have snowy peaks, but throughout this dizzyingly paced and often wildly hilarious book he brings alive his matchless career, and the cultural life of a Britain that seems to be vanishing. Forget Media Studies and a life of student debt: read NO OFF SWITCH and learn what it is to be a real broadcast journalist, a real achiever. A real someone." |
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"A gloriously cheeky bastard. Read this book. A handbook for these times." - Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend on stage with The Who for Live At Leeds Again, the Refectory, Leeds University, 17th June 2006. (Photo: Leeds University). |
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"Andy Kershaw is such an enthusiast. He made me travel a little further than I normally do. He has an ability to do things first and ask questions afterwards. Not a recipe for a safe, secure life, maybe, but it makes things a lot more interesting for the rest of us!" - Michael Palin |
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"Andy Kershaw is a compulsive truth teller and he does it with verve, wit and passion. He is one of the few truly original voices in broadcasting and his book is already a classic. A total triumph!" - Fergal Keane. |
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Picture1 by Roger Short. Pictures 2-5 by Peter Greste. More photos - click here.Click here to read No Off Switch - press cuttings and extracts
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"Andy Kershaw - without you we wouldn't know nothin'!" - Joe Strummer (2001) |
