Sylvia Patterson: I'm Not With The Band

In 1986, Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full of vinyl records, a peroxide quiff and a dream: to write about music, for ever. She got her wish. Writing in the heyday of music journalism, Patterson’s I’m Not With The Band recounts her time at Smash Hits and later at the NME with much hilarity as she dishes the dirt on the divas, darlings and downright deadbeats. A celebration of the absurdity of life and wearing Spike Miliigan’s wife’s nightie.