'In one hand she clasped a copy of her new book, in the other a pint glass (half-full) which dangled louchely against her thigh. People who write books aren't meant to look this cool.' Anthony Brockway of Babylon Wales
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REVIEW FROM: Rock Sound August 2007
In a sort of twisted Almost Famous style, 'Dial M for Merthyr' documents award-winning (and rather talented) author Rachel Trezise’s travels and time with Welsh rockers Midasuno over 16 months. Anyone who’s familiar with this fantastic band, though, will know they’re not quite Stillwater in terms of celebrity and glamour, but although she’s not the admiring teen in years, Trezise does little to mask her adoration of Midasuno. None of this detracts from the story, however, which is told in marvellously eloquent observational prose. Communicated in a first person, semi-autobiographical style by the author, it’s a tale full of charm and humour, but one that, inevitably, deals with how shite and unglamorous life can be for rocks stars who tour in their time off and are tour managed by the drummer’s dad. But tales of rich, bloated, egotistical rockers slowly killing themselves aren’t necessarily any more entertaining than the gritty truth about a bunch of kids from a down-trodden town in south Wales daring to dream. Or they’re certainly not in this instance. And anyway, Midasuno’s new album ‘Songs In The Key of Fuck’ is out in August and it’s bloody great; so hey, here’s to the follow-up about their exploits once they finally do become superstars. 8/10 Tim Newbound - Rock Sound August 2007
RACHEL TREZISE grew up listening to the rock stars of the 1980s and harbouring an ambition to write a warts ’n’ all rockumentary. This is the story of her quest for the perfect band – and the band she found.
At a rock gig in a Rhondda pub, she discovered MIDASUNO, a gaggle of Merthyr kids with a ton of conviction and a penchant for neck breaking guitar riffs. She booked a back seat on the tour bus they call Black Betty to track the band as they razed the British toilet circuit...
Part reportage, part social history and part memoir: DIAL M FOR MERTHYR records the struggles of a band from the wrong side of the tracks trying to stay afloat in an ever changing musical and social climate.
‘Trezise writes with an irresistable self-indulgence - the same complete command of the English language as the heavyweights of contemporary fiction.’ The Big Issue
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