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| Joe Ambrose |
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| Joe Ambrose |
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Music biz roman-a-clef about an Irish band on the cusp of fame. Narrated by Subliminal Kids' manager, Kim, Serious Time is a story of being foreign in London, of how losing your sense of belonging can alter your outlook. It is also about squat culture, the London music secene and life in Brixton in the late 80s, with the cracks in the veneer of boomtime beginning to show. As Thatcher's empire crumbles, Subliminal Kids are on the up, and as the new dance/rave subculture takes hold, their long night's journey into day climaxes. |
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Joe Ambrose is a historian and member of "rai-hop terrorist" band Islamic Diggers. A former music journalist and critic, previous non-fiction writing credits include biographies of William Burroughs and of IRA leader Dan Breen. |
| "Inexhaustibly nasty and unputdownable." | The Guardian | |
| "Beg, borrow, blag or even buy a copy of this book." | Howard Marks | |
| "Ambrose eschews Irish literary allusions for a high octane hybrid of London squatspeak, American rap-metal slang, Beatspeed and present tense amoralism." | The Hot Press |
1 901072 10X / NOV 98 / £8.99