Dive into the pulsating heart of Manchester music with this spellbinding memoir. Swerve provides intimate, eye-witness access to all the haunts and people associated with its golden era, both the icons and the ones less celebrated, from the early days of punk to the frenzy of Madchester. Mark Hoyle is in the middle of it all.

Plunged into the UK care system following the death of his mother, Mark escaped aged sixteen to find a surrogate family in the wider musical community that was exploding on his doorstep. Whether as a dedicated member of the Manchester Musicians� Collective, working at the Ha�ienda, or living amongst the creative chaos of Hulme�s notorious crescents, we witness an artist developing in the raw. Against this backdrop, Mark�s band Dub Sex emerge, into which everything flows.

Open, gripping and powerfully optimistic, Swerve is a portrait of the artist as a young man, Manchester style, where music isn�t just a soundtrack but a lifeline.