{"id":729278,"date":"2026-08-06T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:14:10","slug":"heavy-metal-book-released-documenting-lowestoft-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729278\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy metal book released documenting Lowestoft music scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Marcus Jervis, a well-known local musician in the 80s and 90s, has published a book about his experiences as part of the Lowestoft music scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During that time, Mr Jervis played with bands like Merlin, Stormchild, and Rosie Blue as a drummer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Not only that, Mr Jervis DJ\u2019d at venues like the South Pier and The Fighting Cocks, while also working as a music writer for the Lowestoft Journal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Lowestoft musician publishes book about town&#8217;s music scene (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He also carved out a career as a writer for heavy metal magazines and websites which saw him cover bands across Europe and beyond, where he met and worked with members of rock music&#8217;s A-list, including Alice Cooper, Slash, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Titled &#8216;The Metal Diaries: how I failed &#8211; and succeeded in the world of heavy metal&#8217;, the book is now on Amazon Kindle on 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Jervis, a well-known local musician in the 80s and 90s, has published a book about his experiences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729278","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=729278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}