Tambourine player and frontman at – The Brian Jonestown Massacre – American band is coming to Nottingham’s Rough Trade to discuss his memoir

The tambourine player to a popular American rock band is coming to Nottingham to discuss his memoir which tells the story of the band’s first 10 years.

Joel Gion of The Brian Jonestown Massacre will be presenting In The Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre at music venue Rough Trade.

The frontman of the band and star of DIG! the infamous documentary that made them famous 20 years ago, will attend the event on March 2.

Joel Gion's memoir tells the story of the first ten years of the band from the Duke Seat.

A righteous account of the hazards and pleasures of life on and off the road, the memoir takes us behind the scenes.

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle is destined to take its place alongside cult classics in the pantheon of rock and roll literature like Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands, Head On, and 45 by Bill Drummond.

It also features a foreword by Anton Newcombe, fellow member and founder of The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Author and band member Joel Gion, said: “This is the band’s story from my own angle, from our early San Francisco nickle-and-DIYn' days to another entire movie's worth of equally out-there 'missing scenes' from the documentary period.

“I'm not just telling the story, readers will be inside of it with me through scene and voice, and in that sense, I think of it less as a music memoir and more a personal memoir written by someone who happens to be a musician.”

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle will be published by White Rabbit on February 29 in hardback, trade paperback, audio and ebook.

Lee Brackstone, publisher at White Rabbit, has acquired World English rights from Natalie Galustian at Greyhound Literary Agency for the memoir.

Lee Brackstone said: “If ever a fin-de-siecle band were deserving of an intimate insider portrait, psychedelic warts and all, Brian Jonestown Massacre are it.

“Clearly, all those years of keeping time with the BJM have given Joel a natural sense of rhythm because In the Jingle Jangle Jungle moves with the same effortless, swaggering storytelling verve that will be so familiar to fans of the cosmic counter-culture of west coast America.

“To imagine, that twenty years ago, when I first saw the band and watched DIG! I would be publishing this book is truly mind-blowing.”