BETWEEN ROCK & A HARD PLACE, (a memoir)

367pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2019

Musician, club owner and festival organiser Carsten Rasch’s memoir of South Africa’s counter-culture punk and new wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

"A great book about zol, jol and beautiful losers struggling to make a buck and topple apartheid in the days when that shit really mattered," Rian Malan, author of My Traitor's Heart

"This is history like you've never read it. Read it. You'll laugh out loud." Mike Nicol, author of A Good-Looking Corpse

"Turn this book up loud!" Gus Silber, journalist

Carsten Rasch is presently a music curator and the drummer for the Cape-based band, Hearts of Darkness. He is a director of STARTfest (Stanford Arts Festival) and the founder of the music startup Gigll.