Spacemen 3’s Will Carruthers Selling Music, Books to Pay for Hepatitis C Treatment

Spacemen 3’s Will Carruthers Selling Music, Books to Pay for Hepatitis C Treatment

Will Carruthers is a bassist who has played music with Spacemen 3Spiritualized, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spectrum, and others. Last year, he released a new memoir called Playing the Bass With Three Left Hands. In the book, he writes about living with hepatitis C. Now, he’s launched a crowdfunding campaign to help him cover the cost of the medicine that could cure him. Cheekily titled “musician needs money for drugs,” the campaign offers an hour of new music, signed prints, Skype conversations with Carruthers, rare handmade copies of his book, and more. Find more information here. In the campaign, Carruthers wrote about considering the alternatives to crowdfunding:

I briefly considered armed robbery… but the sound of gunfire plays havoc with my tinnitus and I have an irrational fear of getting caught and thrown in jail. There was the possibility of the Spacemen 3 reunion… but then there are fates WORSE than death and it would also play havoc with my tinnitus. I considered going back to the building site and saving up a hundred quid a week. I considered all of these unrealistic options while laying in my sickening bed with a wonky liver. I considered not fucking bothering at all and hoping for a quick kill and some strong painkillers when the end arrived. I considered the death of David Bowie. “How did Mick Ronson die?” I thought. The magic of Google quickly brought me an answer to that question that I kind of wished it hadn’t.

Musician needs money for drugs. Fire sale. Everything must go. https://t.co/vWikMrldlh

— will carruthers (@willcarruthers) June 2, 2017

Watch Carruthers read an excerpt from his book:

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