Why a booktrail?
The battle of the bands reaches Hull, and the outcome is not a pretty one. Hull’s most successful band of the 1990s is making a comeback…but not everyone is happy.
Story
New Holland, Hull’s most successful band of the 1990s is making a comeback and reforming. Their break up was a bad time for many and no one really wants to think about that now so manager Kane Major is keen to keep things civil. One journalist is given the privilege of documenting the whole event and Joe Geraghty PI is tasked with overseeing everything goes smoothly.
However leader singer Greg Tasker goes missing and it turns out that many people wanted him gone. Is there more to this case than meets the eye and should Joe get any more involved?
Place and setting
89 De Grey St
Live music dating back more than 20- years
Princes Avenue
Where Joe is driving along at the start of the novel as he heads along Springbank and towards the city centre
Wilerby Square
where the boutique is where Tasker’s girlfriend lives and works
Hessle Road
where Tasker’s recording studio is situated on an industrial estate
Old town of Hull – http://www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com/hey/hull-old-town.aspx
Where the PI office is, where many of the city’s oldest drinking places are situation and where Joe thinks ‘ it wan’t change for the better in my eyes
Cue the music for a little bit of nostalgia from the 1990s and a band reforming that many have missed.
New Holland was everything that the 1990 was renowned for – music you could dance to and get lost in, new music like that of Oasis and Blur – gritty with a heavy dose of reality as it reigned supreme over the airwaves for a while.
But the Hull of the 90s was different to the Hull now. Things have changed, the city has changed yet some still hark back to the good old days which may not have been as good as they remember. The famous Adelphi club evokes a time and place and its mention in the novel more than sets the scene.
People change, the city changes and not always for the better. Some people want to live in the past and never grow up. Hull or the characters > they are both very closely tied together in fate.
The secrets of what happened when the band broke up will reveal a lot about why the comeback may not be such a good idea after all. Is revisiting former glory ever the same the second time around?
There’s someone on their way from London to warn Joe off the case, even the police are reluctant to get involved, and Joe’s mentor Don is quick to warn him too.
But this case forms part of Joe and his memories of Hull. Both tied to each other he can’t let go. the city and its people are evoked via 90s nostalgia and a great crest of a musical wave which flooded the city and which now threatens to do the same again but not in the same way.
The book trail 