The Curse of... Dutch Courage

By David Luddington and Lazza Ogden

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The year is 1999 and John Leonard day dreams of being a rock star with his indie band Dutch Courage.

Can they make it big being stuck on a small record label based in Luxembourg and with a crazed kleptomaniac as a manager?

Get in the band's van, strap yourself in with the only working seat belt and prepare for a crazy comedic cosmic musical tour of Europe.

It's 10 days of ups and downs that might break the band as they encounter terrorists, extremists, punch ups amongst themselves & with their audience. Throw in a mad mystic, the obligatory booze and drugs and they soon find that life on the road isn't all it's cracked up to be. If it can go wrong, it does, and some might say that Dutch Courage are cursed.

Follow the band and their mad entourage as they end up in hot water in Paris and in cold water when their transport gets in trouble in the North Sea on their ferry trip home.

With Dutch Courage there is no plain sailing.

Who survives... if anyone?

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The Curse of Dutch Courage

A Riot of a black/tragi-com of laugh out loud proportions. Grab a huge slice.

Tom Foolery - Daily Spherical News.

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Got your attention? Good, please read on.

The year is 1999 and John Leonard day dreams of being a rock star with his indie band Dutch Courage.

Can they make it big being stuck on a small record label based in Luxembourg and with a crazed kleptomaniac as a manager?

Get in the band's van, strap yourself in with the only working seat belt and prepare for a crazy comedic cosmic musical tour of Europe.

It's 10 days of ups and downs that might break the band as they encounter terrorists, extremists, punch ups amongst themselves & with their audience. Throw in a mad mystic, the obligatory booze and drugs and they soon find that life on the road isn't all it's cracked up to be. If it can go wrong, it does, and some might say that Dutch Courage are cursed.

Follow the band and their mad entourage as they end up in hot water in Paris and in cold water when their transport gets in trouble in the North Sea on their ferry trip home.

With Dutch Courage there is no plain sailing.

Who survives... if anyone?

...............................................................................

The Curse of Dutch Courage

A Riot of a black/tragi-com of laugh out loud proportions. Grab a huge slice.

Tom Foolery - Daily Spherical News.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mirador Publishing
• Release date: Mar 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781914965364

David Luddington

In case you don’t know, I write comedy. Gentle British comedy. Having grown up with P.G. Wodehouse, the Ealing Comedies and the Carry On movies I like to think I’ve captured the tone of traditional British Humour but brought it firmly into the…where are we now? No… Not going to think about that. I also write to a theme. I write about identity, the personae we use to identify ourselves in the world and what happens when that’s suddenly taken from us. Who are we when the wave we’ve been riding all these years dumps us on the shores of Couldn’t-Care-Less and moves on? Having been dumped by two big waves I do feel somewhat of an authority. Primarily I write comedy because I want people to laugh a bit more. I believe in Hope and Second Chances and like to bring a positive feel to my writing. And it doesn’t matter if the glass is half empty or half full as long as it’s still got at least some beer in it. Although if you’re looking for cruel, biting satire then please buy my books anyway. You’ll be disappointed but I need the money. So, about me. I currently live in the Alpujarras in Southern Spain. I’m here on a fact finding mission for my next book. At least that’s what’s going on my tax return. I am fortunate enough to have been given a second chance at life. Having spent most of my working life in Sales and Marketing, at all levels and many different industries, I was finally dumped one last time when the industry I was in found it could no longer survive so much government help and finally collapsed. I now live in a funny little house in a strange little valley with my wife and soulmate (Just hope they never bump into each other), one dog and an indeterminate number of cats.