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This is Memorial Device, an hallucinated oral history of the post-punk scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986, David Keenan

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This is Memorial Device, an hallucinated oral history of the post-punk scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986, David Keenan

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

This is Memorial Device

Oclc number

987900923

Responsibility statement

David Keenan

Sub title

an hallucinated oral history of the post-punk scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986

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 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

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