Pulp drummer Nick Banks announces new memoir

Nick Banks, drummer of Pulp, has shared details of his new memoir: So It Started There: From Punk To Pulp.

The Britpop heroes recently performed a huge gig in Dublin's St Anne's Park, and are set to play Finsbury Park for the first time in 25 years this week.

Banks joined the band in 1986 and played on all of their albums since 1992’s Separations. The dummer will now tell the story of his life and career in the book, which is due to arrive on September 28.

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Pulp (non)fiction! One of Britpop’s mightiest drummers tells all in this illuminating autobiography, which Jarvis Cocker has called “Great stuff”!
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“Nick Banks is the time-keeper of Pulp, and within these covers are the early times, the good times, the not-so-good times and the WTF time,” Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker remarked. “Do You Remember the First Time? Nick does. Great stuff.”

So It Started There: From Punk To Pulp will include a foreword by Pulp collaborator and former live guitarist Richard Hawley. The memoir been described by publishers Omnibus as “a chronicle of the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in one of the UK’s most iconic and beloved bands”.

“Beginning with his childhood in Rotherham, Nick recounts his personal and musical journey through the genres, first as a punk, then as a goth; how it all started when he was first inspired to pick up the sticks by Sex Pistols drummer, Paul Cook,” the synopsis reads.

“Flash forward to the ’80s, Nick has been playing in a handful of Sheffield groups and spies an ad from his favourite band, Pulp, in a local club. He pays Jarvis and the gang a visit and the rest is history.”

The synopsis continues: “From there, Nick describes his growth as a professional drummer and musician, the trials and tribulations of chasing success in the music industry, touring triumphs and horrors, the band’s journey from relative obscurity to becoming a global sensation, and the process of writing and recording their most famous albums.

“Written with warmth, humour and inimitable northern charm, Nick tells all. And with it, tells the story of a band that defined a generation.”