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The Lilac Times

By The Lilac Time

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Colour photograph of Stephen Duffy

The Lilac Time in their own words

As we’ve just finished recording our eleventh long player and since it seems I’ll never finish writing a book on my own, The Lilac Time are going to tell stories about how we got from 1987 to here. Most of us are related and those who aren’t might as well be, and as it is in the band, so it is in the book – I rely on them to accompany me through the songs and the stories of how we got here.

There’ll also be previously unpublished photographs, notebooks, memorabilia, and ephemera in The Lilac Times: the story of a very English band of folk devils…

Black and white photograph of the Lilac Time performing on stage
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