Northern Echo: Boys Don't Cry

Tiny Timpson is Willy Mitchells best friend they grew up together but drifted apart over the years. Willy agrees to meet Tiny for one last blast he heads to the Royal Oak in their childhood town all while knowing in his heart that something isnt right. Turns out Tiny has terminal cancer and makes Willy promise to one day tell their story of growing up in the North of England during the Punk Rock era and this is it Northern ECHO Boys Dont Cry.Its the seventies and dark clouds are surrounding Great Britain. A series of events has brought society and the economy to its knees. With few prospects for employment the youth have become disillusioned. As the punk rock scene spreads over the Atlantic from New York it transforms into a movement that soon becomes an unlikely catalyst and contributor to change. Caught up in the frenzy of such transformative times Willy and Tiny take a sometimes humorous eye-opening journey through one of the most interesting and challenging times in modern British history.Northern Echo: Boys Dont Cry is a social commentary of the musical political and social revolution that occurred as two boys grew up in a northern town in England during the Punk Rock era.Indie Author writer and storyteller Willy Mitchell masterfully tells this tale of two boys growing up on the crest of the Punk Rock wave the disenfranchised youth a crippled economy the sick man of Europe the Great in Great Britain had lost its shine. Northern ECHO provides insights to those times in this very personal story.