Tron Theatre, Glasgow Five stars Second comings are all the rage these days, as pension plan heritage rock tours cash in on a band’s influential legacy to claim their place in history. While such a fate is unlikely to befall the long lost quartet of David Keenan’s epic novel about the most famous band you’ve never heard of, judging by this scaled up revival of Graham Eatough’s bold stage version, they are already the stuff of legend. Or at least Ross Raymond seems to think so. As brilliantly brought to life by a wide eyed and restless Paul Higgins, Ross is the former fanzine writer who was at the centre of what passed for a music scene in Airdrie between 1983 and 1985, and witnessed the convoluted crash and burn of local anti heroes Memorial Device. Greeting the audience as if giving a library history talk, Ross unpacks a lifetime’s litany of reminiscences about Big Patty, Richard, Remy, and especially the mercurial power of band frontman and driving force, Lucas Black, represented i
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