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Join us for an evening with Jeff Young (author of 'Ghost Town' and 'Wild Twin') in conversation with Andrew Barker as he takes us through his ourney across multiple countries and reflects on the music that accompanied his travels. Followed by sets from Guerrilla Biscuits and The Owlys.

One morning in the 1970s, Jeff Young slips out of his parents’ home with the intention of hitch-hiking to Paris in search of a version of himself he calls the ‘wild twin’. He falls headlong into a fever dream of dive hotels, rough sleeping, getting lost, violence, poverty, thieving, illness and madness. Journeying across Europe, Young returns to present-day Liverpool. There, he cares for his dying father in the house he ran away from fifty years before, remembering the past with a man who can no longer remember.

Join us for an evening with Jeff Young in conversation with Andrew Barker (Director of Library Services, Lancaster University) as he takes us through his physical and emotional journey across multiple countries and reflects on the music that accompanied his travels.

Following the conversation, Lancaster Music Co-op bands Guerrilla Biscuits and The Owlys will perform sets in the atmospheric Great Hall Complex which has welcomed such legends as U2, New Order and Dire Straits.