The singer and guitarist discusses her memoir ‘Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success,’ which is out now.
Former Lush singer and guitarist Miki Berenyi is the author of a new memoir, “Fingers Crossed.” Miki Berenyi says that she’s not a writer. But the former singer and guitarist of Lush, whose memoir “Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success” is out now, did keep diaries.
Born to a Hungarian journalist and Japanese actress, Berenyi was raised in London, where she lived primarily with her father and grandmother after her mother moved to Los Angeles. In “Fingers Crossed,” she writes about the upheaval in her early life and the abuse she remembers receiving from her grandmother. She also recalls trips to 1980s-era Los Angeles and bonding with friends in London through music.
The band broke up in 1996 after drummer Chris Acland died by suicide. Berenyi took a long sabbatical post-Lush and found work as an editor. She adds, “You can’t take for granted that people know exactly what you’re talking about when you’re talking about publishing deals or how it works to go on tour or blah blah blah. Actually, that was more interesting to me, to explain that to the outsider.”
“Allow us to have a little bit of a laugh at your expense,” she says, arguing that so many songs allege “some pretty grimy stuff” about women. “Surely, you can take one song … about how tiresome it is to get some guy thinking you’re going to fall for some asinine line.”
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