This is the 9th year for the Penderyn Music Book Prize and the longlist has just been announced. See below. The judges are: Charles Shaar MurrayPete PaphidesGillian MorrisJim SclavunosJo KendallLenny Kaye The prize will be announced at the Laugharne Weekend on Sunday 27th March 2023. Long List Rickenbacker Guitars : Out of the Frying Pan Into The Fireglo – Martin …
The Penderyn Music Book Prize, now celebrating its 8th year, is the first UK-based prize specifically for music titles (history, theory, biography, autobiography). The prize is awarded at the annual Laugharne Weekend, and is sponsored by Penderyn Distillery. The prize is for UK published books only and was launched in 2015. Darryl W. Bullock, 2022‘s winning author for ‘The Velvet Mafia’ (Omnibus) said:‘I am …
The Penderyn Music Book Prize 2021 has been won by the wonderful autobiography, ‘Broken Greek’ by rock journalist Pete Paphides, published by Quercus Books. Pete Paphides said: ‘My celebrations began the day I learned that Broken Greek to had made it onto the shortlist of nominees for the 7th Annual Penderyn Prize – among authors, musicians and broadcasters whose work …
The Penderyn Music Book Prize is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography, autobiography. It was launched in 2015, and is now in its 6th year. The shortlist for this year’s Pendeyrn Music Book Prize has been announced by organiser Richard Thomas, at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, London. The winner will be announced at …
The Penderyn Music Book Prize, now celebrating its 6th year, is the first UK-based prize specifically for music titles, including history, theory, biography, and autobiography, with the NME calling it, ‘The Mercury Prize For Books.’ Organiser Richard Thomas: ‘It’s long been an oddity that while there are prizes for the best sports book of the year, the best travel book, …
This year’s prize was won by folk legend, Shirley Collins, who collected the award at the Laugharne Weekend on Sunday 7th April from our media manager, Jon Tregenna. The prize was a bottle of Penderyn Single Cask Whisky and a cheque for £1000. This is the 5th year of the prize and it was a close run thing as the …
The shortlist for 2018’s Penderyn Music Book Prize was announced by organiser Richard Thomas (see pic below) at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, London on Tuesday 6th March. The shortlist is: Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg (Faber), First Time Ever: A Memoir by Peggy Seeger (Faber) and Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni …
The Mercury Prize of Books’ – NME The Penderyn Music Book Prize is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography, autobiography. The 2017 award ceremony took place at the Laugharne Weekend, on Sunday 9th April. The winner was Daniel Rachel for ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down’ (Picador) He is pictured above (from left to right), …
The Penderyn Music Book Prize (‘The Mercury Prize of Books’ – The NME) is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography, autobiography. The 2017 shortlist was announced at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, and you can see a video of the announcement by prize organiser, Richard Thomas, here. In attendance were authors Brix Smith …
Long-awaited memoirs from musicians Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Marr and Robbie Robertson have all made the longlist for the 2017 Penderyn Music Book Prize. Now in its 3rd year, the prize is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles (history, theory, biography, autobiography). It was recently described as ‘The Mercury Prize of books’ by the NME. The shortlist will …