{"product_id":"stranded-9781953835086","title":"Stranded","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive book on Australian punk and post-punk music, long unavailable, now reissued in a much-expanded new edition with 175 photos. \u003cem\u003eStranded\u003c\/em\u003e offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Laughing Clowns, the Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, the Triffids, the Moodists, the Scientists, and many more great Australian bands, told by a writer who witnessed it all first-hand and is acknowledged as the leading chronicler of the Australian music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalker, Clinton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Clinton Walker is a Sydney-based writer the \u003ci\u003eSun-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e has called 'our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture.' Born in rural Victoria in 1957, he published his own fanzines in the late '70s and established a colourful reputation in the '80s freelancing for newspapers and magazines such as \u003ci\u003eRAM, Rolling Stone, Roadrunner, The Age, Stiletto, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e. He has since published ten books, worked extensively for television, for example as co-writer and principal interviewer on ABC-TV's hit 2001 Oz-rockumentary series \u003ci\u003eLong Way to the Top\u003c\/i\u003e, and compiled and annotated a score of anthology CDs. www.clintonwalker.com.au","brand":"Visible Spectrum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444903514386,"sku":"9781953835086","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_49aad8e1-4be3-439e-bec8-e1cefcb7ed2c.jpg?v=1729691949","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stranded-9781953835086","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}