Gig

Introduction : Eric Brown
Cover Art : Michael Darby

Mik Half

Mik Dyer is a successful rock star who craves release from the pressures of fame. Kim Reid is the obsessive fan who intends to make his wish come true.

Mik’s band God Dog are about to play the final date of their latest tour, promoting their fifth album Deified. In interviews Mik has promised that this closing show, in his music-mad hometown of Rotor City, will be a night to remember. Only one person in the entire God Dog entourage, Mik’s long-time friend Dave, suspects there may be more to this promise than mere hyperbole. Over the course of the tour Mik has become increasingly withdrawn and morose, evincing deep unhappiness that God Dog are becoming more an international phenomenon and less just a band. Dave has no idea what is going to happen this evening, but he believes, and fears, it will be Mik’s most brilliant moment yet.

This is one half of Gig, a pair of back-to-back interconnected novellas which may be read in either order and which, together, combine to tell the story of two mirror-image people – star and fan – whose identities are as diametrically opposed as their destinies are inextricably linked.

Kim Half

Mik Dyer is a successful rock star who craves release from the pressures of fame. Kim Reid is the obsessive fan who intends to make his wish come true.

Kim is a boyish androgyne who eats, sleeps and breathes God Dog and has styled herself to look as much like Mik as she can, right down to his trademark “7-inch single” hairstyle. In a drug-induced vision she has, she believes, received orders from her idol – orders which revolve around the God Dog concert tonight in her and Mik’s music-mad hometown, Rotor City. Crucial to the success of Kim’s mission, however, is an access-all-areas backstage pass to the concert. Her search for this elusive artefact takes her across a city buzzing with God Dog fever and, like Mik Dyer himself, seemingly on the verge of meltdown.

This is one half of Gig, a pair of back-to-back interconnected novellas which may be read in either order and which, together, combine to tell the story of two mirror-image people – fan and star – whose identities are as diametrically opposed as their destinies are inextricably linked.

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