Mark Mordue is an Australian writer, journalist and editor. He is a co-winner of the 2014 Peter Blazey Fellowship, which recognises an outstanding manuscript in the fields of biography, autobiography or life writing, and also the author of Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip. He lives in Sydney.

A fascinating read, both as an occult history of Australian punk - it's hard not to like the sound of the Filth, a Sydney quartet whose audition for a major label involved their lead singer repeatedly head-butting a door - and a kind of rake's progress.

• Prologue: The Journalist and the Singer Part I: The Rider 1: Such Is Life 2: King and Country Part II: The Good Son 3: Man in the Moon 4: Down by the River Part III: Sonny's Burning 5: The Word 6: Double Trouble 7: Zoo Music Girl 8: Boy Hero Part IV: God's Hotel 9: Shivers 10: Flight from Death 11: Crime and Punishment Epilogue: The Singer and the Song

Mark Mordue is an Australian writer, journalist and editor. He is a co-winner of the 2014 Peter Blazey Fellowship, which recognises an outstanding manuscript in the fields of biography, autobiography or life writing, and also the author of Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip. He lives in Sydney.

A fascinating read, both as an occult history of Australian punk - it's hard not to like the sound of the Filth, a Sydney quartet whose audition for a major label involved their lead singer repeatedly head-butting a door - and a kind of rake's progress.

• Prologue: The Journalist and the Singer Part I: The Rider 1: Such Is Life 2: King and Country Part II: The Good Son 3: Man in the Moon 4: Down by the River Part III: Sonny's Burning 5: The Word 6: Double Trouble 7: Zoo Music Girl 8: Boy Hero Part IV: God's Hotel 9: Shivers 10: Flight from Death 11: Crime and Punishment Epilogue: The Singer and the Song

Mark Mordue is an Australian writer, journalist and editor. He is a co-winner of the 2014 Peter Blazey Fellowship, which recognises an outstanding manuscript in the fields of biography, autobiography or life writing, and also the author of Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip. He lives in Sydney.

A fascinating read, both as an occult history of Australian punk - it's hard not to like the sound of the Filth, a Sydney quartet whose audition for a major label involved their lead singer repeatedly head-butting a door - and a kind of rake's progress.

• Prologue: The Journalist and the Singer Part I: The Rider 1: Such Is Life 2: King and Country Part II: The Good Son 3: Man in the Moon 4: Down by the River Part III: Sonny's Burning 5: The Word 6: Double Trouble 7: Zoo Music Girl 8: Boy Hero Part IV: God's Hotel 9: Shivers 10: Flight from Death 11: Crime and Punishment Epilogue: The Singer and the Song