Stags, Hens and Bunnies
2014
$57.00
First edition of Stags, Hens and Bunnies by Dougie Wallace (2014). Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Shelf wear to outer cover. Please see photos for reference.
About
Like a proper ‘Weedgie’, Dougie Wallace doesn’t patronize but sees humanity and pathos in the carnage that is Blackpool. – Irvine Welsh Dougie Wallace has captured Blackpool in all its profligate glory. – Alan McGee Blackpool, a Northern English town once the granddaddy of the seaside resorts. It has now an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties. A dirty great whorl of debauchery, licentiousness, laughter, vomit, furry handcuffs, fancy dress and drunken oblivion. Turned every weekend into the heart of social darkness. Marauding packs of brides and grooms, close friends and family, on a mission to consume dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before the conventions and responsibilities of marital life, mortgage, children. Once a fun diversion from the industrial heartlands – a bit like Las Vegas with a Victorian twist – is a town that has a palpable and genuine energy of its own.
Dougie Wallace has captured a town heaving with everything from bunny girls to banana men. Girls dressed in togas, all matching gold handbags and neatly-done hair, giving it the ‘when in Rome’ treatment, devil girls, pink ladies, Brownies, guys in drag, stuffed into nuns’ and nurses’ outfits, wearing salacious T-shirts with ‘Johnny’s Last Night of Freedom’ – each group with the same singular objective, to get as ‘fucked up’ as possible.
