This is Memorial Device : an hallucinated oral history of the post-punk scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs, 1978-1986 /
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 Memori...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Faber & Faber Limited,
[2017]
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| Summary: | 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 you've never heard of. Featuring a cast of misfits, artists, dropouts, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 298 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780571340170 0571340172 0571330835 9780571330836 |