Rough Trade need someone with technical and logistical knowledge.

Nick Cave’s first band, The Birthday Party, have the plug pulled on their Manhattan gigs. Depeche Mode play their first gig in New York and flunk it. It could only get better for them once Gerri was on board.

Bankrupt New York City is dangerous and unsafe. Gerri books bands from Mute, 4AD, Cherry Red and Factory Records into clubs, then goes on the road to tour manage. In a friend’s loft next to CBGB’s she listens to their new album on vinyl, then goes and picks them up at Kennedy Airport. No emails or skype chats; just listen to the music, meet the artists, and go. A Certain Ratio, Modern English, The Birthday Party, New Order, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Durutti Column are some of the artists relying on her. She becomes the first woman to mix and create live soundscapes for bands. They need to break America. It nearly breaks Gerri.

This is a story of tenacity, survival, of a single mother leaving children behind to go on tour. How crashing and burning meant tough life and death decisions. How leaving the music industry became the only option and how creating a new path as a psychotherapist brought insight and raised important questions about the choices women have to make.

It’s New York in the early eighties.  Diadora, singer superstar is dead. Her lover, Kate, takes us around the wheels of a music business that spin through New York, Berlin and Paris to early 90’s London telling the story of a woman who loved another woman, to death.

From the inside of a music business you won’t recognise, sound engineer, Kate, tells the story of her passion for Diadora and reveals the relationships behind the songs, the T-shirts and tours. These are the scenarios that inspire the gold and platinum sales, the lives of the people who create gossip and fantasies millions of ordinary people speculate about and share.

In 90’s London, Kate thinks she’s left it all behind until she receives a call from Diadora’s husband, Connor Powers, that throws her world into disarray. She clings to her current relationship with Alexi, a lawyer who knows nothing of her past.  Her younger son is asking questions about the father he never knew. Connor has his own agenda to pursue.  Kate is remembering, and her memories are being harried by a forthcoming tell-all publication.  Suddenly it seems that everybody wants a piece of Kate, who only wants resolution for herself and her children.  And, through it all, the public never lets the music die.