This is Memorial Device
An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-punk Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and Environs 1978-1986
London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: vi, 298 pages ; 21 cm
Ross Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk scene of the early 80s the glory years when anything and everything seemed possible. Looking back on that time the people, the bands, the underground legends they piece together a story which has at its core Memorial Device, the greatest band youve never heard of. Featuring a cast of misfits, artists, drop-outs, small-town visionaries and musicians, This Is Memorial Device is a dark, witty novel depicting a moment where art and the demands it makes are as serious as life itself.
Subjects:
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
Airdrie (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Coatbridge (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
Airdrie (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Coatbridge (Scotland) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780571340170
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Keenan | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |