Renegade

Unutterably funny...a riot of aimings and blamings and score-settlings. Smith manages to have a right laff, and reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import

Independent on Sunday

Ranting, raging, burning...relentlessly splenetic, a long and sustained rant...may also be the funniest music book ever written

Observer

Unutterably funny...a riot of aimings and blamings and score-settlings. Smith manages to have a right laff, and reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import

Independent on Sunday

Remarkable, brilliant. A provocative joy. Smith's rant gushes like a furious fountain of razor-sharp invective over his childhood and the early days of The Fall, relationships/ marriage, the record industry/ musicians and his views on everything from football to mobile phones, from drinking and drugs to driving, from books to bankruptcy, from Paul Morley to pubs. Unbeatable' Time Out

Engrossing, exhausting, dense with fascinating detail. As both memoir and cultural history, Renegade is a remarkable achievement

Daily Telegraph

A hoot

Hot Press

Stuffed with crazy wisdom

London Lite

Hilarious

Scotland on Sunday

A wide-ranging, eccentric set of fugitive opinions, a smart marshalling of numerous rambling pub conversations

The Times Literary Supplement

Vicious, funny, always contrarian

Daily Telegraph

Smith's about as reliable a narrator as the members of Motley Crue were in their depraved memoir The Dirt. And just as entertaining. Delving into Renegade is like listening to Smith hold court down the pub...it contains far too many astute, poetic observations to be dismissed as colourful ramblings from a committed curmudgeon

Scotsman