The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 133 Majoribanks Street

It was a big old house on Marshbanks Street and my cousin Mark got the lease for half of it in 1982.

I’d been living in a little room in a boarding house on The Terrace and getting hassled for writing songs too loudly in the middle of the night. My girlfriend Nikki used to visit me via my window to avoid the other residents. I wasn’t particularly happy t…