REAL WILD CHILD: An insider's tales from the rage couch
Narelle Gee
QUESTION:
What happens when the world's biggest musical acts sit down on Australia's most
famous couch?
ANSWER: Drunkenness, dark introspection, mania,
hilarity, incoherent rambling, sharp-edged commentary and fiery 'artistic differences'.
Oh, and the occasional food fight …
Narelle Gee and the
'rage' couch have shared many secrets. Over more than twenty years of 'rage',
the couch has seen it all: the famous golden bottom of Kylie Minogue and the partly
leather-clad, mostly bare buttocks of KISS rocker Gene Simmons; the contortions
of Courtney Love; the tattooed muscles of Henry Rollins; the dark and light sides
of Nick Cave, Trent Reznor, Gwen Stefani, Billy Corgan, Marilyn Manson, Michael
Hutchence, Jack Black, Lily Allen, Green Day, Beastie Boys, Silverchair, Public
Enemy, the Prodigy, the Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters, Powderfinger, Coldplay,
New Order, the Strokes, Sonic Youth, Kings of Leon and many, many more. Its fabric
has been marked by cheap wine, fine Champagne, cocktails, beer, coffee, pizza,
hamburger, cigarette ash, and other substances. Once, it was touched by fire.
(Some electronic artists have a fondness for arson.)
With
the biggest names in music and juicy backstage anecdotes, 'Real Wild Child' is
packed with real wild moments, rock and roll tales, and plenty of secrets from
the couch …
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Narelle
Gee was the 'rage' programmer for fourteen years, and has been described by the
Sydney Morning Herald as 'Australia's foremost authority on music video'. Prior
to working in TV she was a print journalist. She lives and works wherever her
laptop is. This is her first book.
'Real Wild Child'
is available now.
