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	Espedair Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1987.
		The book tells the (fictional) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir ('Weird'), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.
		Espedair Street is also a real street in Charleston, Paisley, where some of the significant events in the book take place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Espedair_Street (541 words)

	Iain Banks: Espedair Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Espedair Street is a novel which is pretending to be a rock star autobiography; the story of (fictional) seventies band Frozen Gold as told by bass player and song writer Danny Weir (known as Weird).
		Espedair Street is about the emptiness that can come to fill the life of someone who has realised all his dreams on a massive scale.
		Espedair Street's main weakness is the sentimentality of its ending; this quality begins to creep into Banks' writing from this point onwards, making it more accessible but bringing occasional disappointment.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev1184.html (267 words)

	Laverock: The Worlds of Iain Banks
		Espedair Street, as the title suggests, is focused for much of the action on Paisley and Glasgow (Espedair Street is a real street in Paisley).
		Like Espedair Street this is a straightforward novel in structure, using flashbacks to the preceding generation and the lives of Prentice McHoan’s father and uncles and aunts.
		For those knowledgeable in the field of contemporary rock music, Espedair Street is full of references to and echoes of bands and musicians that have figured in the charts of the Seventies and Eighties, recalling the sustained use of the same popular culture in The Bridge.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /ScotLit/ASLS/Laverock-Iain_Banks.html (4384 words)

	Iain Banks
		Told from the point of view of 16 year old Frank Cauldhame, a self-confessed multiple murderer, the novel dealt quite graphically with the torture of small animals and the murders of young children.
		Subsequent novels such as Walking on Glass (1985), The Bridge (1986), Espedair Street (1987), and The Crow Road (1992) have dealt with a variety of themes and character types, ultimately garnering Banks enormous popular and criticial acclaim.
		His Espedair Street was produced as a BBC Radio 4 series (for which Banks wrote the accompanying music and lyrics) and a film version is planned.
	www.nndb.com /people/494/000044362 (434 words)

	Espedair Street - Iain Banks - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Espedair Street - Iain Banks : Mad fer it, with little or no regrets
		'Espedair Street' is the second book by Banks that I've read, and upon recommendation by dooyoo's jillmurphy, and co-incidentally read somewhat at the same time as hugon, who's posted a more than adequate review of the book recently, so damn!
		At 250 pages divided into 15 chapters, Espedair Street isn't a particularly long book, but the length I found was precisely adequate; everything was condensed and accurate and non-bloaty.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/espedair-street-iain-banks (315 words)

	Iain Banks - Interviews
		I think `Phlebas' came out in the spring, of '87, I think it was, and Espedair Street in the autumn.
		In The Bridge it's done by having the guy in the coma, just imagining everything, but in Espedair Street it's imagining a way in which working-class kids can get to have VAST amounts of money at a disgustingly early age, and far too much sex and drugs as well...
		The exact place is fairly well-defined, because it's on a corner between three different streets.
	homepages.compuserve.de /Mostral/interviews/timeoff95.htm (2821 words)

	Espedair Street
		Espedair Street: TV Room, Dudley: Jay Self Portrait: Glasgow Sky: Night Hawk: Grampa: Malley: Rosie: Tim Wheeler of Ash: Barrhead Reservoir: Candleriggs Pavement.
		This issue the book biography centre spread is for Espedair Street, along with a special Unwritten Banks that looks at the radio series, the film, the album and the musical that it has inspired - not...
		Espedair Street (1987) draws on the author's enthusiasm for rock music and tells...
	iainbanks.femsbanks.com /espedairstreet (646 words)

	Whit Information
		By judicious use, otherwise known as flmail, of her grandfather she furthermore becomes the unofficial leader of the sect.
		It's lacks the over-arching weirdness of 'Espedair Street' or the background murder mystery thread that binds 'Crow Road' together.
		It simply is a story about Isis and her adventures, and subsequent loss of faith, when she journeys into the real world away from her Sect.
	www.khantazi.org /Rec/IainMBanks/Whit.html (856 words)

	Espedair Street
		Experimental feature: Order Espedair Street from the UK, Canada, Germany or France by clicking an appropriate flag below.
		Review: Having recently read Espedair Street and seen Almost Famous (directed by Cameron Crowe) in the movies, it's kinda logical to compare those two pieces.
		As a start I gotta say first, that I liked both handiworks and it's tough to tell if one was better than the other.
	www.jules-verne.co.uk /science-fiction-books/0349102147/Espedair-Street.html (1249 words)

	CD Baby: WILLIAM BARBERO: Espedair Street
		A mixture of contemporary styles of music where the guitar plays the main character with highs of pure virtuoso lines but never reducing the whole thing to a mere "fretboard showoff" - Anything goes, from Gypsy Jazz, to Heavy Metal
		"Espedair Street" is a collection of songs written by William Barbero through a wide stretch of time of about 5 years.
		Opening with the pop-oriented twin guitars of "Newsong", the album quickly moves to the prog odd time signatures of "Seven Eleven", probably to this date the manifesto of William Barbero's playing.
	cdbaby.com /cd/barbero (357 words)

	Espedair Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		As I've mentioned before, one of the things that makes Iain Banks so great is his refusal to repeat himself, all of his novels, SF or not (and this one is not), are different animals, tackling different subjects in various ways.
		And we agree that her husband Bruce may be the boss of Jungleland, but Patti Scialfa owns 23rd Street.
		This is a disc that everyone, and I mean everyone should own!
	www.freeglossary.com /Iain_Banks/Espedair_Street (419 words)

	Espedair Street - Iain Banks
		Espedair Street tells the story of a suicidal millionaire ex-rock star's attempt to return to his old life, and traces the rise and sudden collapse of his band in a series of lengthy flashbacks.
		Espedair Street - about an ex rock-star - is moving, and at the same time hilarious.
		It genuinely had me laughing out loud (on the Tube, not the done thing).
	www.clanbrandon.co.uk /book-shop/espedair+street+iain+banks_0349102147.html (658 words)

	immediacy: Whit or, Isis among the Unsaved
		Personally, the one Banks novel that I have not cared for was The Bridge, and I suspect that my opinion of that book would change if I read it today.
		While I can not put Whit next to The Player of Games, Espedair Street, or The Crow Road as one of my favorites, I enjoyed this book much more than I expected given its reputation.
		The title refers to the last name of the main character, one she shares with several other characters in the book including her grandfather, Salvador Whit, the charismatic leader of the Luskenyter cult.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/whit_or_isis_among_the_unsaved.html (412 words)

	Inveresk Street Ingrate: 'PASSPORT TO PITTENWEEM'
		With regards to Will Rubbish's comments about the quality of Banks's writing, well, I don't read Science Fiction but people I know that do, say that his Iain M. Banks novels are uniformly excellent.
		I read a couple of his non-science fiction novels, 'Crow Road' and 'Espedair Street', a few years back: I wasn't impressed.
		I quite like him, but perhaps more as a person than as a writer, and I think that, unfortunately, he's on the way down.
	invereskstreet.blogspot.com /2004/10/passport-to-pittenweem.html (757 words)

	Espedair Street - Iain Banks - Review - Tonight, I'm a rock and roll star!
		Espedair Street - Iain Banks - Review - Tonight, I'm a rock and roll star!
		Daniel Weir was a famous - not to say infamous - rock star.
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	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/espedair-street-iain-banks/302044 (1148 words)

	Ian Banks in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Well I enjoyed The Crow Road too but best of all was The Bridge and also Complicity.
		Wasp Factory was first one I read and remained a fave for ages but it can't really be re-read like Espedair Street.
		Espedair St is great, as is The Bridge, and Complicity is a goodun also.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Arts-and-Literature/Question292944.html (421 words)

	Beautiful 3 Bed Flat available to rent on Paisley's Espedair Street - Paisley - Glasgow houses / flats for rent
		Beautiful 3 Bed Flat available to rent on Paisley's Espedair Street - Paisley - Glasgow houses / flats for rent
		Gumtree > Glasgow Classifieds > Flats / houses to rent > Property to rent > Beautiful 3 Bed Flat available to rent on Paisley's Espedair Street
		Beautiful 3 Bed Flat available to rent on Paisley's Espedair Street (£600 pcm)
	glasgow.gumtree.com /glasgow/64/6109264.html (103 words)

	Peterborough science fiction club (UK) : Reviews - Radio - Espedair Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Iain Banks' 1987 rock roll novel 'Espedair Street' was adapted for the radio with more input than usual for such a project from the original author.
		All the songs that Frozen Gold play, (performed in the series by Nigel Clark, Brian Celleck, Nick Clark, Gordon Wilson.
		Full credit to Iain for writing them, and to Nigel Clark, who also arranged them.
	www.psfclub.btinternet.co.uk /reviews/radio/espedair_st.htm (277 words)

	Espedair Street Landmark inferno
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		The "church" or the bar there he broke the aquarium?
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	Espedair Street Details, Meaning Espedair Street Article and Explanation Guide
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	Amazon.co.uk: Espedair Street: Books: Iain Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A 'debriefing from someone who has been there, and survived', it was said.
		Where Hype is in places cynical and darkly sinister, however, Espedair Street is a delight.
		Fiction I couldn't put down: A list by "edgeoftheworld"
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349102147 (1062 words)

	NEWS
		15/07/2005 - New review of "Espedair Street" on MWE3.com.
		Sorted alphabetically, the review is listed under FInlay Cat Records
		05/12/2004 - The new album "Espedair Street" is out on December the 9th !!!
	williambarbero.tripod.com /id16.html (145 words)

	immediacy: Against a Dark Background
		Which might mean that Banks has achieved a formula that has become predictable in its unpredictability.
		All in all, Against a Dark Background is not a worthless experience, but Banks has done much better in other books (I suggest The Player of Games for SF, Espedair Street for non-SF).
		Posted by Glen Engel-Cox on August 19, 1993 06:25 AM
	www.engel-cox.org /text/against_a_dark_background.html (309 words)

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		You're missing the greatest Iain Banks book, Espedair Street.
		Haven't read any of his stuff for years after ripping through all of those in about a week.
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