A poet is a rock star without the sexndrugs, or the rocknroll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig , he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls (not all the authors own), Yorkshire life and death, Gig is about the dream and A poet is a rock star without the sexndrugs, or the rocknroll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig , he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls (not all the authors own), Yorkshire life and death, Gig is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been.