This Is Memorial Device

About this book

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In Airdrie in the early 80s, the post punk scene burns with the feeling that anything might be possible. Ross Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are fanboys devoted to those glory years, holding tight to the bands, the people, and the underground legends that made their small town feel briefly limitless.

Looking back, they begin to piece together a story built from memory, devotion, and the stray details that survive when the music has stopped. At its core is Memorial Device, the greatest band you have never heard of, half myth, half proof of what the scene could summon into being.

With a cast of misfits, artists, drop outs, small town visionaries and musicians, This is Memorial Device moves through a moment where art is not an accessory to life, but something that demands everything. Dark and witty, it treats the stakes of creation as seriously as the stakes of living.