The Band That Time Forgot
A group of Skiffle musicians in a run-down English seaside town never made the transition to Rock ‘n’ Roll, and, fifty years later, they are still performing end-of-the-pier shows, playing songs which were never popular back in the 1950s, and of which few if any people have any memories at all, let alone fond ones. Tribute bands may be profitable in the early 21st century, but no-one is nostalgic for the aging tunes knocked out by these greying relics of a dead genre who, even in their heyday, failed to warm the world of popular music, much less set it alight.
It so happens that the parents of a record company scout have retired to the town in which they spent many a happy holiday when he was a child. He has fond memories of the end-of-the-pier shows that he saw when young, and one wet Thursday evening in August, after visiting his parents, he decides to see what the pier has to offer these days. The band playing that night are bad, but, he thinks, they are perhaps so-bad-that-they-are-good. Will The Band That Time Forgot finally get a record contract?