Night Comes Down

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Night Comes Down by Bob Short</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If nothing is true and Gods and Morality are banished is everything permitted?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For some Punk was about a handful of big‐name bands who built careers fighting about their supreme importance in the general scheme of things. For most of us spikey haired critters punk was a lifestyle a place where all the weird kids got together to play; all those outsiders who could never go home anymore. Sure most of us formed bands or wrote fanzines or did something. The most important thing was he had a world of own. However whilst raising two fingers to the establishment may have been fun it did not come without an equal and opposite reaction. The sun may rise but night comes down. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bob Short writes about his involvement in the punk scene on two continents not so much as a hero but as a witness of the good the bad and the downright ugly. It is a story about the deaths of people dreams and ideals. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But don't worry. Some of it is pretty funny. Some of it may even be true. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Foreword by Tony Drayton.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>326 pages b/w</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>198 x 129mm </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At its best Night Comes Down contains some of the most compelling writing about punk anywhere. Eschewing tepid tales about boring bands Bob accurately describes how life was really lived - and death really died - in extreme conditions of debauch and poverty underpinned by a sense of overwhelming stare‐at‐the‐wall‐drooling boredom punctuated only by outbursts of violence and furore as well as creativity of course usually fuelled by whatever substances came to hand. It's an underworld of alienation loneliness hopelessness and anger. Well it was either that or get a job... </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Richard Cabut - Author of Looking For a Kiss and Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bob Short hasn't tackled life in half measures. He's been neck deep the entire time well outside the flags and a day's walk from the splash zone. Short tour guides that trek with commanding unflinching prose and zero toilet breaks. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Murray Engleheart - Author of Radio Birdman: Retaliate First AC/DC: Maximum Rock and Roll and Blood Sweat and Beers: Oz Rock from the Aztecs to Rose Tattoo. </span></p>