Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll… and the supernatural
Are indie band Beam the next big thing?
Their record company thinks so - they’ve sent the band away to a pricy residential recording studio for a month to record their next album. However the large Victorian building in the wilds of Devon has an unusual history.
When singer Wendi starts experiencing odd things she can’t be sure whether they’re a symptom of the strange experiences she’s been prone to all her life or something to do with the very ground on which the studio stands.
She’s always been a bit of a weird one but when the persona she adopts when on stage starts taking on a life of its own it becomes difficult to tell where she ends and the façade begins…
A 1990s Indie Music Business Urban Fantasy
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Genie has everything - a BRIT award, a singing career, the attention of the press and Oliver Fox, a pretty boy who looks good on her arm.
Until he dies.
His death brings Genie's long buried feelings bubbling to the surface. Her grief over the death of her lover Wendi who introduced her to this world. Her self doubt and fear that she will be exposed as a fraud.
How far is she prepared to go to fix things?
The afterlife isn't the most comfortable of places for anyone who's still alive, but Genie's not going to take any crap from the dead - she's got years of experience in the music business.
Sometimes going to Hell and back takes a lifetime...
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Chris Limb is a writer and designer based in Hastings, UK.
After many years hovering on the periphery of the music industry – originally just going to gigs but graduating to selling T-shirts and badges plus operating the lighting rig, running fan clubs and eventually playing in bands – in 2011 Chris published a pop memoir I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan, which captured the imagination of its core audience, received good reviews and continues to sell at a steady rate.
A number of Chris’s short stories have been published over the past few years. Thirteen of these tales have been gathered in the collection The Demon Face.