Music - Punk; Current Affairs
- Political • Random House Canada • Trade
Paperback, 304 pages • August 2005 • $27.00
• 0-679-31325-7
ABOUT THE BOOK
No-holds-barred political strategist Warren Kinsella’s
colourful, no-holds-barred look at punk rock, and how
it influenced him and millions of other kids to strive
for nothing less than changing the world.
Playing bass for Calgary punk-rock quartet the Hot
Nasties might seem a strange way for one of Canada’s
top political strategists to have spent his formative
years, but in Fury’s Hour —
Warren Kinsella’s exploration of punk’s
history and heroes, its factions, failures and triumphs
— he shares his unique view into a subculture
that has long encouraged people to think big about
the world.
From early meetings with icons Joey Ramone and Joe
Strummer, Kinsella has gone on to interview a who’s
who of punk: Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Glen Matlock,
Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye, Billy Idol, DOA’s
Joey “Shithead” Keithly, Bad Religion’s
Brett Gurewitz, Blink 182, Good Charlotte and many
more. Since he was a teenager, Kinsella has challenged
his heroes to put into words the true value of the
music. How, after decades of co-optation by the record
industry, neo-Nazis and misdirected radicals, are
new generations continuing what he calls punk’s
“search for the real”?
In Fury’s Hour, with the iconoclasm
and passion that have marked his career in politics,
Warren Kinsella searches for the soul of a sound that
invigorated the way he and millions of others have
grown up — finding a way to turn anger into
energy.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
photo credit: Bruce Peters
Warren Kinsella is a lawyer, pundit, political consultant,
and a newspaper and magazine columnist. He is the
author of Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics
and the bestselling Web of Hate.
He lives in Toronto with his wife and family, still
plays in a punk band and has a dog named after a Ramones
song.
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