Dance On Fire - A Novel

What do you do when sex and drugs and rock and roll are no longer enough?
At one time, Transmission were probably the most famous rock band on the planet. Now, even as they approach their twenty-fifth anniversary they are still up there, one of the top ten bands of all time.

However, each of the surviving members of the band feels something, somewhere, has gone wrong, and the rock and roll dream they used to believe in so much has become an empty and hollow routine.

Dance On Fire is an exploration of the relationships between the remaining original members of Transmission, and their manager, as the band enters their 25th year together. The novel charts their growing realisation that rock music no longer has any meaning for them, and they are - at best - still going through force of habit - 'We've become our own tribute band.' Dance On Fire is a novel about the shallowness of everlasting adolescence and the vacuity at the heart of the rock and roll mythology.

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Dance On Fire - Chapter 10

About a month or so after becoming their manager, Stan called the band together during a break in rehearsals. ‘I think it is decision time,’ Stan said.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 01

'Where the fuck have you been?’ Stan, standing at the reception desk in the hotel lobby, had a large wad of cash in one hand, and a phone pressed against his ear by his shoulder.
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Dance On Fire - Chapter 02

‘I’ve heard so many stories about how Transmission started,’ Suzy said. ‘Which one of them is the truth?’

Dance On Fire - Chapter 03

It looked dark out there. The roar of the crowd was low, dull, echoing around the arena like the moan of some mythical beast. Pete saw the sudden flash of a torch from near the opposite wing.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 04

Back at the hotel, Pete lay naked in bed, smoking a spliff and drinking Californian red wine from the bottle. He was watching Suzy packing her things away, ready for the morning.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 05

‘So, what happened next?’ ‘What?’ Pete was on the verge of sleep. He struggled against his heavy weary body, forcing himself to sit up.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 06

Pete lay on his back staring up at the ceiling of the hotel room.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 07

Once the tour was over, Suzy stayed with Pete - in his London hotel room - for another three days, and - of course - the nights.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 08

‘And now a closer look at some of today's papers.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 09

The final notes hung there, suspended in the clear air of the white room.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 11

Spike came back into the white room, carrying about half a dozen bottles of beer she had found in the kitchen. ‘I went to see my parents on the way here,’ Pete said.

Dance On Fire - Chapter 12

‘Can you remember, back on the tour bus when we were talking to Suzy about the first time we met?’ Pete said.