The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar

by Franz Nicolay

Book Overview

In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka "the world's greatest bar band." Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for their revolutionary days, Mongolian neo-Nazis in full SS regalia, and a gay expat in Ulaanbaatar who needs an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620971798
• ISBN13: 9781620971796
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 7.6"