Constable buys second volume of Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Sergeant's memoirs

Constable has bought a follow-up memoir from guitarist and founding member of Echo & The Bunnymen, Will Sergeant, entitled Echoes. The best-selling Bunnyman was published by Constable in 2021.

Andreas Campomar, non-fiction publisher, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Matthew Hamilton of The Hamilton Agency. Echoes will be published on 24th August 2023.

The publisher synopsis reads: “Scenic Wye Valley isn’t the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo & the Bunnymen hit the studio to record their ground-breaking debut album, ’Crocodiles’, it was anything but ordinary. The album was the making of the band – cultivating a cult following which would soon evolve into staggering mainstream success. Their lives would never be the same again.”

Sergeant said: “The book’s starting point is when our brilliant young drummer Pete de Freitas joins our three-piece band in late 1979. This felt like the afterburners had just kicked in and is the real start of the journey for the Bunnymen. The power Pete brought made us all better.

“This is the ongoing story of my part in Echo & the Bunnymen; a saga that, amazingly, still continues to this day. I have documented key points on this great adventure the way I personally saw them unfold.” 

Campomar commented: “Echoes is Will’s second volume of memoirs, following on from the Sunday Times best-selling Bunnyman, and recounts the band’s rise to stardom. With his trademark wryness and intelligence, Will shares never-before-told anecdotes and recounts the recording of the albums ‘Crocodiles’, ‘Heaven Up Here’ and ‘Porcupine’.”