This is Memorial Device
Subtitle: an hallucinated oral history of the post-punk scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986
By: David Keenan
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780571340170
Subjects: Fiction
Description: 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.