@PenderynPrize
2023 Prize Winner (announced 26th March 2023)
Video of the 2023 Prize Ceremony at the Laugharne Weekend
26th March 2023
'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. It is now in its 9th year.
The Launch Party will be at The Boogaloo, Highgate, London on Monday 13th March 2023
The Short List announced on 16th March 2023
The winner was announced at the Laugharne Weekend on 2pm, Sunday 26th March 2023
The winner was Bob Stanley for his book:
'Let's Do It'
Published in the UK by Faber & Faber
Bob Stanley (winning author):
'It is a genuine honour to have won this year's Penderyn. The competition on the long list, let alone the short list, was formidable. Plenty of books that explored pop music in non-obvious and fascinating ways, treating it as social history rather than just a niche, teenage affair. I believe the number of great music books published in the last few years, and the public's interest in them, is directly connected to the Penderyn Prize and its corralling of enthusiastic writers and publishers. It's a privilege to be able to say that Let's Do It won, and I hope the Penderyn Prize goes from strength to strength.'
The Launch Party will be at The Boogaloo, Highgate, London on Monday 13th March 2023
The Short List announced on 16th March 2023
The winner was announced at the Laugharne Weekend on 2pm, Sunday 26th March 2023
The winner was Bob Stanley for his book:
'Let's Do It'
Published in the UK by Faber & Faber
Bob Stanley (winning author):
'It is a genuine honour to have won this year's Penderyn. The competition on the long list, let alone the short list, was formidable. Plenty of books that explored pop music in non-obvious and fascinating ways, treating it as social history rather than just a niche, teenage affair. I believe the number of great music books published in the last few years, and the public's interest in them, is directly connected to the Penderyn Prize and its corralling of enthusiastic writers and publishers. It's a privilege to be able to say that Let's Do It won, and I hope the Penderyn Prize goes from strength to strength.'
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Jim Sclavunos interviews Richard Thomas,
organiser of the Penderyn Prize, on Soho Radio
Listen here
Previous Winners
2022
Darryl W Bullock - The Velvet Maffia (Omnibus Press)
2021
Pete Paphides - Broken Greek (Quercus)
2020
Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow - Up Jumped The Devil - The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Omnibus)
2019
Shirley Collins - 'All In The Downs' (Strange Attractor)
2018
Stuart Cosgrove - 'Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul' (Polygon)
2017
Daniel Rachel - 'Walls Come Tumbling Down' (Picador)
2016
Jon Savage - '1966: The Year The Decade Exploded' (Faber)
2015
Mark Lewisohn - ‘The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In' (Little, Brown)
2022
Darryl W Bullock - The Velvet Maffia (Omnibus Press)
2021
Pete Paphides - Broken Greek (Quercus)
2020
Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow - Up Jumped The Devil - The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Omnibus)
2019
Shirley Collins - 'All In The Downs' (Strange Attractor)
2018
Stuart Cosgrove - 'Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul' (Polygon)
2017
Daniel Rachel - 'Walls Come Tumbling Down' (Picador)
2016
Jon Savage - '1966: The Year The Decade Exploded' (Faber)
2015
Mark Lewisohn - ‘The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In' (Little, Brown)
2023 Short List - announced 16th March 2023
2023 Long List - announced 19th Jan 2023
Rickenbacker Guitars : Out of the Frying Pan Into The Fireglo - Martin & Paul Kelly (Phantom Books)
Soul Survivor - PP Arnold (Nine Eight Books)
Let’s Do It - Bob Stanley (Faber & Faber)
Pride, Pop and Politics - Darry W. Bullock (Omnibus Press)
Sound of Being Human - Jude Rogers (White Rabbit)
Some New Kind of Kick - Kid Congo Powers (Omnibus Press)
Electric Wizards - JR Moores (Reaktion Books)
Positive Vibrations - Stuart Borthwick (Reaktion Books)
Access All Areas - Barbara Charone (White Rabbit)
What Happened to The C86 Kids - Nige Tassell (Nine Eight Books)
What’s She Like - Helen O’Hara (Route Publishing)
Ten Thousand Apologies - Adelle Stripe & Lias Saoudi (White Rabbit)
Totally Wired - Paul Gorman (Thames and Hudson)
Sound Within Sound - Kate Molleson (Faber & Faber)
Soul Survivor - PP Arnold (Nine Eight Books)
Let’s Do It - Bob Stanley (Faber & Faber)
Pride, Pop and Politics - Darry W. Bullock (Omnibus Press)
Sound of Being Human - Jude Rogers (White Rabbit)
Some New Kind of Kick - Kid Congo Powers (Omnibus Press)
Electric Wizards - JR Moores (Reaktion Books)
Positive Vibrations - Stuart Borthwick (Reaktion Books)
Access All Areas - Barbara Charone (White Rabbit)
What Happened to The C86 Kids - Nige Tassell (Nine Eight Books)
What’s She Like - Helen O’Hara (Route Publishing)
Ten Thousand Apologies - Adelle Stripe & Lias Saoudi (White Rabbit)
Totally Wired - Paul Gorman (Thames and Hudson)
Sound Within Sound - Kate Molleson (Faber & Faber)
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2023 Judges
Charles Shaar Murray
Pete Paphides
Gillian Morris
Jim Sclavunos
Jo Kendall
Lenny Kaye
Pete Paphides
Gillian Morris
Jim Sclavunos
Jo Kendall
Lenny Kaye
