· This is a post-punk rock odyssey, Memorial Device being one of the many bands kicking around between 19– “what I call the glory years,” says Keenan’s narrator Ross www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. · Scottish music in This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February , pp, £, (paperback) News of the death, back in June, of Bogdan Dochev, the Bulgarian linesman who failed to flag up Diego Maradona’s handball in Argentina’s win over England at the World Cup, prompted me to revisit some stills of that infamous goal: the diminutive forward Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. David Keenan is an author and critic based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has been a regular contributor to The Wire magazine for the past twenty years. His debut 4/5.
Scottish music in This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February , pp, £, (paperback). News of the death, back in June, of Bogdan Dochev, the Bulgarian linesman who failed to flag up Diego Maradona's handball in Argentina's win over England at the World Cup, prompted me to revisit some stills of that infamous goal: the diminutive forward. Somewhere amidst Almost Famous, Alan Bissett's Boyracers and Channel 4's nineties series, Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, sits David Keenan's recently published novel, This Is Memorial www.doorway.ru in Airdrie, the Catholic west of Scotland, this debut novel by Keenan is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the late s and early eighties as they were. An oral history of Memorial Device, a post-punk band, the greatest rock group never to leave the city limits of Airdrie. Keenan has taken his clear passion for the music scene in his hometown during the 70s and 80s and transformed it into a surreal, grimy and often laugh out loud funny joy-ride.
This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small working class towns in western Scotland in the late s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. This is Memorial Device. The following is from David Keenan's novel, This is Memorial Device. A fictional oral history, the book follows misfits and musicians in s western Scotland. At the center of it all is Memorial Device, a post-punk band of hard-partying visionaries. This is a post-punk rock odyssey, Memorial Device being one of the many bands kicking around between 19– “what I call the glory years,” says Keenan’s narrator Ross Raymond.
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