Hanley largely avoids rumour and relies on firsthand accounts, and most helpfully adds personality to the largely serious faces that adorned the records over the years. An indie band that never made it big, nor brought in flourishes of cash, is a hard thing to trudge through for nineteen years but if you’re paying attention it was the music, both in the book or outside it through the timeline of albums, that you can understand what made Hanley last so long. God bless Steve Hanley for every one of those years.
