"Brilliant stuff. It captures the terrific, obsessive, ludicrous pomposity of every music fans youth in an utterly definitive way." Irvine Welsh"I wanted to live in this book." -- Kim Gordon
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, 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.
- ISBN10 0571340172
- ISBN13 9780571340170
- Publish Date 1 February 2018 (first published 31 January 2017)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English