Hit Factories
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The vibrant story of how the sound of British pop music was shaped by its industrial cities



The vibrant story of how the sound of British pop music was shaped by its industrial cities
Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney explores the zones the city's denizens and tourists easily overlook, finding hidden places and untold stories in underground rivers of the Liberties, on the derelict sites once earmarked for skyscrapers in Ballsbridge, in the twenty Dublin homes once inhabited by Joyce, and in innumerable other marginal zones and dark corners. Hidden City shows us a Dublin - or a collection of Dublins - that we've never seen before, a city hiding in plain sight