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, and openDemocracy.net. He is the author of ''Rock & Hard Places'', ''I Wouldn't Start From Here'', ''It's Too Late To Die Young Now'', and was a contributing editor to the fifth edition of Robert Young Pelton's ''The World's Most Dangerous Places''. He was Reviews Editor for ''Melody Maker'' 1991 to 1993. In 2005, whilst researching a book on "unrecognised states", he was detained by Cameroonian paramilitary gendarmes along with members of an Anglophone separatist group. He was released after intervention from the Australian consulate and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Andrew Mueller was quoted in Richard Dawkins' book, ''

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'': He is also the frontman of UK-based alt-country band The Blazing Zoos, whose debut album, "I'll Leave Quietly", was released in 2010. He is a patron of

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Collaborations

* '' the North Sea Scrolls'' (with

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and Andrew Mueller) — 2012

Publications

* ''I Wouldn't Start From Here: The 21st Century And Where It All Went Wrong'' (2008) * ''Rock & Hard Places: Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows'' (2012) * ''It's Too Late To Die Young Now: Misadventures in Rock And Roll'' (2014) * ''Carn: The Game, and the Country that Plays it'' (2019)

References

External links

Official Site - www.andrewmueller.net

"Andrew Mueller"
at guardian.co.uk
The Blazing Zoos at MySpace
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