Dancing in the Darkness

As the pirate bass warrior in The Darkness, Frankie Poullain was rocketed to the dizzy heights of fame overnight. 4 million album sales and a thousand cock-ups later, he has just about lived to tell the tale. In this off-beat, hilarious, hare-brained manual on fame, fortune and the universe, Frankie offers a unique slant on the bigger questions in life in an attempt to help readers (and himself) arrive at a greater understanding of the world through the excesses of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Thanks to a revolutionary process called the 'Mind Sweeper', devised by his Polish cleaner, he is able to make sense of his life before, during and after 'that band' he played in...

Frankie Poullain was an award-winning tour guide in Venzuela until he was bullied into playing bass guitar for the glammetal pranksters The Darkness. He was all set to sail back across the Atlantic before a load of publishers started molesting him about writing a book. The first one never saw the light of day. He began to show signs of improvement under the tuteluge of his Polish cleaner, until one day he secreted this gungy stuff that glues eyeballs to a page...