The Urine-8 Experiment - Nicholas Flower

'The new sexual awakening needed spokespeople, promoters of their perverse acts. It was an untapped market, waiting to be penetrated in all the ways that doctors said we shouldn't. Fuck Krafft-Ebing! was a lyric waiting to be written, and my boyband would be just the outlet to harmonize it.'

In 2014, writer, low-level administrator and "roaring unsuccess" Nicholas Flower - struck by the impotent failure of his creative ambitions and the reverberating shock of recent fatherhood - devoted himself to the instigation of a cultural revolution (plus menial work for money), beginning in Norfolk and moving, as it must, ever west from there.

At its centre was the self-styled Ballardian boyband URINE-8: wilfully unlistenable, cerebral and ludicrous, contemptuous and intellectual, subverting and deconstructing what a twenty-first century boyband could be and promoting a radical sexual ideology as a means of liberating the miserable and broken of the over-sexed if deeply unsexy postmodern age.

A celebration of the lasting power of music to effect real change and the importance of dissent, this book is a hilarious, absurd defence of the necessity of free thought and impossible demands, and a ridiculous distillation of the cultural analyses of our woefully recent past.