My dream of opening a Liverpool nightclub crumbled!

Former ECHO writer Paddy on his new book chronicling his lifelong love of music

- By CONAILL CORNER

FORMER ECHO journalist Paddy Shennan has written a new book described as 'a love letter to music fans everywhere' and a tribute to his own teenage obsession with post-punk.

Not JUST About The Fall: 50 Adventures in a Post-Punk Paradise will be published by Earth Island Books on November 14.

It serves as a prequel to Paddy's 2022 release, The Talk of Liverpool, which chronicled his more than three decades at the ECHO.

Paddy, who worked at the paper from 1987 until 2020, said: "I was lucky enough to interview so many of my music heroes people like Mark E Smith of The Fall, Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks, Mick Jones of The Clash, Vic Godard of Subway Sect, Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit, Pete Wylie of Wah! Heat and The Mighty Wah!, Julian Cope of The Teardrop Explodes, Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen, Henry Priestman of Yachts, It's Immaterial and The Christians, and Frank Sidebottom the man with the magnificent papier-maché head!"

The new book focuses on Paddy's teenage years in Preston, where he first fell in love with music.