'Lescar' is a collection of stories set in a real Sheffield pub called The Lescar Hotel in around 2004. The charcaters are fictional, but the setting is real enough and so is most of what they do. I used to drink enthusiastically in that place and genuinely loved it and wanted to evoke something of what it was like. I mean, I wasn't fantastically happy at the time or anything (I was actually completely pissed most of the time) but it was an important little period in my life spent with some people who really were losers and dregs and yet were absolutely brilliant human beings on a different level.
Stuff like the football hoolganism and the drugs was just part of what was going on, both in the Lescar and in my life. Not that I was ever a 'hooligan' myself, I was a bit of a 'casual' and got into the clothes and the lifestyle a bit, but scrapping at the match was never really my thing. You'll have to look elsewhere for a definition of the term 'casual', but there's enough places to look. The project isn't finished yet. More Lescar stories will appear over the next few years. I want to explore some of the female charcaters a little more. Maybe I'll do 'Lescar Women' or summat.

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