\n A spokesperson from publishers New Modern said: “A lot of the Smiths\u2019 past is already canonised. Rather than retelling those well-documented iconic moments, in The Drums, Mike conveys \u2018the feeling\u2019 of his time in the band. His off-piste, frank and witty perspective allows him to re-contextualise fan favourite moments through a beautifully vulnerable, human insight into his life.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The written history of the Smiths is not missing an encyclopaedic account of everything that happened over the years; but Mike\u2019s honest, entertaining and deeply human memoir is what Smiths fans have been waiting for. This book truly conveys what it felt like to be a member of the Smiths.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mike Joyce, The Drums (Image: Simon and Schuster)\n<\/p>\n
\n “In The Drums, Mike Joyce finally gives us the perspective of the self-confessed biggest Smiths fan in the world who from the start was just some lad from the suburbs of Fallowfield who played the drums.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Joyce, 62, played with The Smiths from their formation in 1982 until they disbanded in 1987, drumming on all four of their studio albums which all reached the top five in the UK charts. They are widely lauded as one of the most influential groups of all time.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has also played with Sinead O\u2019Connor, Public Image Ltd, Buzzcocks, Suede, Julian Cope, Pete Wylie and most recently has been occupying the drum seat with Peter Doherty.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mike Joyce: The Drums Book Tour visits Future Yard, Birkenhead on Thursday, January 2026. 7:30pm doors. Tickets \u00a313 from futureyard.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson from publishers New Modern said: “A lot of the Smiths\u2019 past is already canonised. Rather than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}