It's really vividly written. The characters, the places, the venues all come flooding back. Band on the Wall, Berlin, Middleton Civic Hall, The Venue, The P.S.V., The Kitchen, John Kennedy, Lee Pickering, Karl Burns, Martin Coogan, Aubrey, Stephen Bunn, Phil Korbel, Sarah Champion, and of course Rat. And the early chapters of Mark growing up in the early 70s are absolutely amazing. It tells us a lot about him as a determined human being, to make something of himself, and to make a life and a work out of what he went through in his childhood. And there's lots of Hulme stories. My God, the wild days.
