Failure is Always An Option : Glorious Adventures on the Beta Band Front Line and Other Tales - Steve Mason Genre:Music: styles & genres Spectator and moreWinner of the

Spectator and moreWinner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025`How else to put this

'A captivating heroine'

there is a resurgence of tyranny

it would be to trust in your ability to do this

Failure is Always An Option : Glorious Adventures on the Beta Band Front Line and Other Tales - Steve Mason Genre:Music: styles & genres Spectator and moreWinner of the`Pretty marvellous. A fabulous autobiography'Irvine Welsh`Full of beautiful, mad stories'Huw Stephens,BBC Radio 6The long awaited autobiography from the musical maverick, polymath and Beta Band front man. `Self destructive pop saboteurs who did it all wrong in all the right ways. Utterly brilliant' NMESteve Mason is a Scottish singer songwriter and founding member of the Beta Band. Formed in 1996 the band were quickly embraced in the media as The Next