This is memorial device : an hallucinated oral history of the post-punk scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986
Keenan, David2018
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This is the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. It follows a cast of misfits, drop-outs, small town visionaries and would-be artists and musicians through a period of time where anything seemed possible, a moment where art and the demands it made were as serious as your life. At its core is the story of Memorial Device, a mythic post-punk group that could have gone all the way were it not for the visionary excess and uncompromising bloody-minded belief that served to confirm them as underground legends.
Keenan, David, author
London : Faber & Faber, 2018.©2017
vi, 298 pages ; 21 cm.
First published: 2017.Includes index.
9780571330850 (paperback)
823.92
English
352793
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