Clandestino

Clandestino by Peter Culshaw. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781846681875.

A decade ago, Manu Chaos band, Mano Negra, toured Columbia by train, negotiating with government troops and rebels - an episode described at the time as less like a rocknroll tour - more like Napoleons retreat from Moscow. He is a multi-million selling artist who prefers sleeping on friends floors to five-star hotels, an anti-globalisation activist who hangs out with prostitute-activists in Madrid, a recluse who is at home singing in front of 100,000 people in stadiums in Latin America or festivals in Europe. Clandestino has been five years in the writing, as Peter Culshaw followed Manu around the world.