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Route is an award-winning, independent publishing house in the north of England with a principle commitment to authentic stories and good books.

24/01/2025

A few tickets have become available for this event next week in the intimate surroundings of The CAT Club. Please message us if you'd like to get a ticket. We'll point you in the right direction.

24/01/2025

Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018)

23/01/2025

We'll be setting up our book stall at The Brudenell Record Fair in Leeds this Sunday. Plenty of goodies on the table. Browse in advance here: https://www.route-online.com/

22/01/2025

HOUSE Of ALL SOULS. Released 14th February. Order link below.

The new arrival unboxing is always a big moment here at TGP HQ.

The white translucent vinyl version of House Of All Souls looks majestic, and it’s a special complement to the album’s magnificence. Few copies left to order, too.

Link to order: https://houseofall.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-all-souls

22/01/2025

SPIRIT: level is a music and visual arts project featuring Mark Hoyle and Wark. Here's a performance of theirs filmed at The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

SPIRIT:level perform live vocals and sonic experimentation to a sound and film narrative. Journeying backwards and forwards in time, searching for hope in th...

21/01/2025

Get 25% off In Search of Plainsong - and all other books - in our January sale. Signed first edition hardback or deluxe edition. Enter ROUTE25 as a coupon code at the shopping cart to get your discount:

In Search of Plainsong by Ian Clayton, a story from the golden era of English folk rock.

20/01/2025

As Blood on the Tracks turns 50, here's a brief overview of 4 days in a New York recording studio when Bob Dylan commenced work on his masterpiece album.

The Story Behind The Music: The Recording of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, a brief overview of the New York sessions taken from Clinton Heylin’s monograph ‘No One Else Could Play Tha…

20/01/2025

If you've enjoyed the film A Complete Unknown, this song from Blood on the Tracks - A Simple Twist of Fate (alternative take) - looks back on Bob's time in 4th Street with Suze (Silvie in the film).

More Blood, More TracksBuy/Listen: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/bd_mbmtAbout the Album:More Blood, More Tracks is the latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s highly a...

20/01/2025

Bob Dylan's album Blood on the Tracks is fifty years old today, released OTD in 1975. Read all about its creation in No One Else Could Play That Tune.

19/01/2025

And on 1st January 2000, Route Publishing was founded here with a mission to rebuild bridges 😉

18/01/2025

Lovely write-up of the Mark Hoyle event last Sunday in Walthamstow.

During a recent coffee n’conversation, catching up on matters relating to live entertainment and things-in-general, I was delighted to be asked to present a session at FastForward …

18/01/2025

Bob Dylan's First Manager Terri Thal Talks Greenwich Village and 'A Complete Unknown'

"I needed something to play for club owners, so I cut a tape at the Gaslight. Everybody said, 'Go away.'"

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Swerve | A Memoir by Mark Hoyle

Get 25% off Swerve - and all other books - in our January sale. Enter ROUTE25 as a coupon code at the shopping cart to get your discount. : https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve

Manchester Music Books

Trailer for our Manchester Music Books. They're the best! Signed copies on our website.

Swerve Reading | Mark Hoyle

Mark Hoyle reads from his book Swerve at a special Hulme launch event at Kim's Kitchen. Mark is reading from Chapter 22: Overground, the bit where Dub Sex play the Hillsborough benefit gig at the Hacienda and he spots someone in the crowd pointing a gun at him. More on Swerve here: https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve

Swerve | A Memoir by Mark Hoyle

Get 25% off Swerve - and all other books - in our January sale. Enter ROUTE25 as a coupon code at the shopping cart to get your discount. : https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve

Mark E Smith Get Well Soon Message To Bill Byford

It's Bill Byford's (AKA Heath Common) funeral today. Sadly, we can't make it physically, but will be there in spirit. Bill was a big Fall fan. On New Year's Eve 2008, his health was in a bad way. Mark E Smith sent him a get well soon message. Raise a glass for Bill. #FallFriday

Our friends Sons of Sevilla played The Deaf Institue, Manchester and The Jazz Cafe, London last week ahead of their album release. We're mightily impressed by them. Check out their album Lullabies for a Wildcat on their bandcamp page here: https://sonsofsevilla.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-for-a-wildcat

The Highlight of My Time in The Fall

The Fall's 'I Am Curious, Orange' 3-week run at Sadler's Wells in London started OTD in 1988. Here's Steve Hanley in 2014 talking to the late, great Heath Common (big Fall fan) about it being the highlight of his time in The Fall #fallfriday Bless Heath and all who love him.

Hanley Brothers on The N.W.R.A.

To celebrate the announcement of the live Grotesque album, here's a clip from a Q&A at the Rock'n'Roll Book Club in 2019 where the Brothers Hanley recall the origins of The N.W.R.A. Move over Noel & Liam 😉

The Liggers | Peel Session

In his memoir, 'Swerve', Mark Hoyle paints a vivid picture of how Manchester Musicians' Collective supported his first band Vibrant Thigh and gave a helping hand to many others, including The Fall and Joy Division. In this video, Mark's contemporaries, The Liggers, discuss the work of the Collective on their way to Maida Vale to record a Peel session. More on Swerve here ➡️ https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve

Anne & Betty: United By The Struggle

'Anne & Betty: United By The Struggle', the memoir of Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, two of the leading lights of the Women Against Pit Closures movement. Now available in paperback: https://www.route-online.com/all-books/anne-betty-united-by-the-struggle