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The Loners - Nigel P
Set in the Medway Towns in Kent during 1978 and 1979, The Loners filters a comic and foul mouthed tale of growing up, friendship, love, school, music and hubris through the eyes of an unnamed fifteen year old narrator, who may or may not be the loner of the title.
The Loners is the name of the band he forms, alongside:
Alastair H Bass – bass (of course, and unwarranted misogyny)
Sebastian Browne – keyboards (and cannabis)
Len White – drums (and horrible curly hair)
Ron Tuck – publicity (and bereavement
The Tank Room - Martin Craig-Downer
Set in Liverpool at the beginning of the nineteen fifties, Matt Dixon is immersed in the world of jazz moonlighting in bands for beer money and to meet girls. He becomes intimately involved with two women from very different backgrounds. One a fragrant teenage beauty, Yvette, a city girl, promiscuous and precocious with it; the other, Harry, boasting various lovers, the wayward daughter of landed gentry. Matt’s obsession with Yvette is strongly physical, his attraction to Harry more cerebral. Tangled relationships develop against a background of shabby ale houses, jazz clubs, shebeens, orgiastic all-night parties and recreational drug abuse. As the world - still refreshingly free from political correctness moves on, Matt has to decide whether to pursue the structure of a promising career or the nihilistic downward slide towards more sex and an increasingly appealing world of self-destruction.
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