The introduction also hosts a critique of Glasgow City Council's treatment of its culture and heritage in the neglect of the local history museum, and a brief mention of Glasgow's time as the European Capital of Culture in 1990, which would be the subject of a more sustained satire in his novel Something Leather.
Since this happens to June in Something Leather, it can be read as a female equivalent to Gray's 1984 novel 1982, Janine.
leather | Nights in Black Leather | Imperial Leather | Tougher Than Leather | The Leather Boys | Leather Goddesses of Phobos | Something Leather | Peggy Lee Leather | Leather subculture | Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz | Black Leather Mojo | Tougher Than Leather (Willie Nelson album) | Stephen Leather | National Leather Association International | Morocco leather | Leather Pride flag | Leather District | Leather | Latigo leather | International Fur & Leather Workers Union | Diane Leather | Chrome and Hot Leather | Central Leather Research Institute | Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls |
Such unoriginality is pointed out in the afterword to the novel (a trick Gray employs earlier in Something Leather) by the literary critic Sidney Workman (a fictitious alter-ego used in his debut novel, Lanark).