Days and Days

“Leatherface fans don’t just discover the band, they fall in love. In Chris MacDonald’s deeply personal book, he and others in and out of the band narrate their love story with punk’s greatest romantics.” — Franz Nicolay, The Hold Steady keyboardist and author of Someone Should Pay for Your Pain, a Rolling Stone best book of 2021“MacDonald’s intimate and exuberant personal reflections are the highlight…This buoyant ode to a favorite band charms.” — Publishers Weekly“The strength of this memoir is MacDonald’s experiences traveling through the United Kingdom. Recommended for fans of MacDonald’s writing, Leatherface’s music, and the UK punk music scene.” — Library Journal “Overall, Days and Days: A Story about Sunderland’s Leatherface and the Ties That Bind is a great book to read. It’s interesting, gripping, and occasionally shocking!” — Punktuation! Magazine“Days and Days is a pitch-perfect celebration of perhaps the last great traditional sounding punk band … it’s a book that, most importantly, does this complex and brilliant band justice.” — Louder Than War“The Ontario-based punk rocker and tattoo artist takes a compelling approach to chronicling the life and times of your favorite band’s favorite band … it’s a compelling tale of struggle and the increasing knowledge of the self that said struggle can build in us as humans.” — Dying SCene“In Days and Days, author Chris MacDonald has put together a fantastic book documenting not only the history of the band but the web they built across the world.” — Razorcake“With Days and Days, Chris MacDonald has written a scrappy, charming memoir about his awakening to the self-affirming power of punk rock. It’s also a subjective and digressive history of Leatherface, a British band largely unknown to mainstream audiences but praised by a cultish fan base.” — Literary Review of Canada

Chris MacDonald is a writer and tattoo artist based in Toronto. His first book, The Things I Came Here With, was called “a heartfelt memoir with wide appeal” by Library Journal and was nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award.