"Welcome to the Tour": This Place is Awesome by Adam PW Smith
This Place is Awesome: A Strange Funny Drunken Sad Noisy Week with the Dreadnoughts , by Adam PW Smith My Quick Take: I was taken on tour with The Dreadnoughts for a week and I really enjoyed the ride courtesy of some witty writing and fantastic photos. My thanks to the author for a gifted copy of the book! *I have a giveaway for this book live on my IG page until Feb 23* *** Let me take you back a bit to 2009, and a Vancouver band called The Dreadnoughts , five guys who played folk-punk and went on tour across Europe and the UK. Photographer Adam PW Smith , who’d long been documenting the local music scene, collaborated with the band to spend one eventful week with them as they toured Britain. And then he wrote a book about it. Photo: Adam PW Smith And a bit about me: I’d never heard of The Dreadnoughts. I also haven’t listened much to their music genre and have never been one to go see small, indie music shows. Happily, the author is a friend, and I really wanted to read h...
