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The Late Greats by Nick Quantrill
5.0
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.
Booktrail of the locations in the novel Booktrail map of The Late Greats
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.
Booktrail of the locations in the novel Booktrail map of The Late Greats
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.