This Is Memorial Device A Novel Author:David Keenan "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 everyt... more »hing 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.« less