{"id":29350,"date":"2026-11-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=29350"},"modified":"2026-11-14T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T21:21:20","slug":"cockney-reject-ii-i-love-being-me-jeff-turner-cadiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=29350","title":{"rendered":"Cockney Reject II – ‘I Love Being Me’ Jeff Turner (Cadiz)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pull up a chair, throw another log on the fire, and pour a nice cold beer, when you’re sitting comfortably, let Uncle Jeff begin. ‘I Love Being Me’ is a all to brief book written from the head of Jeff ‘Stinky’ Turner with the help of Guy Shankland and having seen JEff do his debut stand up many moons ago in Blackpool his stories were skattergun, emotional, funny, not funny, apologetic, unapologetic and everything in between but the one thing you would say walking away was you think the guy is at least honest about what he says and to be fair he did say about the time in south Wales he and his muckas came unstuck in Port Talbot on the way to Swansea and living in the area I have to agree don’t fuck with the jacks haha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book clocks in at less than 150 pages with some wonderful pictures in the middle and jumps from story to story, which sort of flows like a Stinky spoken word show as he flits back and forth and talks about his love for the scene and what it has given him and the rush of those early years in the fag end of Punk in the 70s to what Oi! became.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter One is fairly recent, with the passing of Tony in 2015 and Vince rejoining the Rejects because Mick wouldn’t do it any other way. To be honest, I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of Mick either, and I only review their music and live shows, thankfully all positive, phew. Jeff’s analogy of Vince turning up to play the encore and Tony’s reaction is worth buying the book in itself made me proper laugh out loud, it did. Wedding cake, for fucks sake, hehe! And to reveal the thoughts you have in your head but put them down on paper in a book fair play, Jeff, fair play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapter about America is like something on the cutting room floor of the Spinal Tap film script, but so, “rejects” it’s sad and amusing at the same time, and you can feel Jeff’s blood pressure rising as he recounts the tour and the fella in charge of managing this runaway train. This book isn’t going to win any prizes for prose or literacy but what it makes up for is heartfelt truth and Stinky’s honesty and his side of the story, which he also readily admits might not always be the right side, but he does show his human side often and wears his heart on his sleeve, and you have to love him for that. Mick & Jeff almost coming to blows, and Jeff finding out he would have been replaced it has to sting. There’s no holding back the names either; Jeff names names and doesn’t hide his rage. Print or be damned seems cathartic for Jeff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book jolts from story to story, and in between band business, Jeff Taxi machete story and running down a high street waving a weapon is disturbing as it’s jaw-droppingly funny. Everyone knows the Rejects are forever tied to the ‘Ammers’ that’s West Ham United for those not into football. Jeff regales tales about his football adventures and his passion for the Irons in several chapters well worth a read even if you are only here for the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tale he tells about PRS and royalties is as old as time, and still, when I hear bands I like going on about signing records they’ve never seen before or royalty cheques or Streaming, PRS payments, it’s heartbreaking because we all know someone somewhere is sitting on a fat mountain of dosh, no doubt about it. Jeff says about having a gold disk for an album that shifted in excess of 100,000 copies, yet the amount of royalties and publishing he had to show for it is criminally low. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colour pictures in the middle are of family first, and band pics second, and that’s something I’ve always understood with Jeff he loves his family and the way he speaks and acts shows he wears his heart on his sleeve and would literally do anything fo rthem and that has always come across in bi gneon letters he may well have one of the shortest fuses and come across as brash, course anda bit abrasive the few occasions I’v emet him hes always been warm and come across as genuinely grateful and this is how his book reads as well what you see is what you get a lovely, funny, mental book that you can read in one or two sittings and chuckle to yourself or your mates as you regale some of his one liners. Jeff ‘Stinky’ Turner, I love you being you as well. Great book, buy <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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