"I don’t think I set out to write a book”, says Tracey Thorn, who, whether she meant to or not, has written a rather excellent book, called Bedsit Disco Queen, about growing up wanting to be in a band, making that dream come true and then being in turns bemused and amused by the reality.

She began as a member of the fondly remembered but undeniably shambolic Marine Girls, then went to Hull University where she met Ben Watt, who ...