Chapter NineSix months on Nikki is in a dingy rehearsal studio, the damp is screaming off the walls and the haze of freshly extinguished cigarettes and joints still hung heavy in the air. She is rehearsing with her new backing band. The drummer, d**k Stick is a wide-eyed, highly strung, wiry type of character dressed in blue jeans and a T-shirt, bass player Bezz is a very laid back, modern, short curly haired hippy type, Rocko is a good looking lad with an Indie hairstyle and clothes that fit the bill and fills the guitarist role in the band, finally, Suzi Stripe a half-Oriental, half-English sexy, cartoonish looking girl is the keyboard player. They are rehearsing one of Nikki’s songs called ‘2095’. ‘It was a violent country when the ice age cameThe war was over the world was the same T

