“I’d like to take you on a journey through time and place. We’ll begin in an early 1970s seaside corner of Great Britain, and join a mixed-race kid with a ‘dad shaped gap’ on a search for identity. You’ll step into the ragged beauty, light and shade of a painter’s life, the paradoxical world of Martial Arts, love, loss and hedonism of the 90s, and a star- crossed musical voyage in a 21st century Blake’s ‘London’. On we’ll go, to a final reckoning, then home, for tea. Is that a yes? Good…hold tight!”-Andy Onyx. The tales are streaked with humour, heartbreak, anger, pain and joy. All seen through the prism of social upheaval and changing soundtrack over four decades, amidst the creative luminaries of Paul Weller, the Style Council and Primal Scream.The events and perspectives of dadless are also an apt and timely reference point for progress on the current issues of race, identity, mental health, and most importantly redemption facing Great Britain and it’s youth today.