{"id":81410,"date":"2016-09-02T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=81410"},"modified":"2016-09-02T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T12:10:20","slug":"will-carruthers-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/will-carruthers-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Carruthers: in conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rough Trade East, London E1<br \/>\nWednesday September 21, 7:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/b092f6ca32c655347bb05395f7fc300c.jpeg\" alt=\"b092f6ca32c655347bb05395f7fc300c\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In support of his forthcoming memoir, <em>Playing The Bass With Three Hands<\/em>, published by Faber &#038; Faber on September 1st, author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/3am-top-5-will-carruthers\/\">Will Carruthers<\/a> will be appearing in conversation about his chequered career, which has frequently veered from the sublime to the ridiculous and rarely lacking a sense of humour about the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p><em>Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands<\/em> tells the story of one of the most influential, revered and ultimately demented British bands of the 1980s, Spacemen 3. In classic rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll style they split up on the brink of their major breakthrough. <\/p>\n<p>As the decade turned sour and acid house hit the news, Rugby&#8217;s finest imploded spectacularly, with Jason Pierce (aka Jason Spaceman) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/taking-drugs-to-make-music-to-take-drugs-to\/\">Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom)<\/a> going their separate ways. Here, Will Carruthers tells the whole sorry story and the segue into Spirtualized in one of the funniest and most memorable memoirs committed to the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough Trade East, London E1 Wednesday September 21, 7:00pm In support of his forthcoming memoir, Playing The Bass With Three Hands, published by Faber &#038; Faber on September 1st, author Will Carruthers will be appearing in conversation about his chequered career, which has frequently veered from the sublime to the ridiculous and rarely lacking a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}