Tim Rogers Has A New Book Out

“Don’t let there be, something sour in my coffee, as 14 year olds screaming get out of my country… If half of what I’m saying, if what I’m saying’s, true!” For Australian kids who grew up on Recovery and Rage through the 90s, there were a lot of Australian musical heroes to look up to. At the top of them was Tim Rogers, the frontman of the best goddamn Australian rock’n’roll band of the last 25 years, You Am I. With two albums in various top 100 greatest Australian albums of all time lists – Hi-Fi Way and Hourly Daily – and perhaps his two greatest written songs of all – “Heavy Heart” and “Berlin Chair” – appearing on neither of those, Rogers has written some of Australia’s most adored guitar hits. A true blue, hard drinking (not that that should be celebrated), footy loving rockstar/poet/theatre actor, he’s finally released a memoir and it’s honest, dark, brutal and beautiful reading. Get on it. – harpercollins.com.au