A tired rock star and a judgemental gardener…what could possibly go wrong?

The Purple Lizards are a rock world phenomenon, but lead singer Martin’s tired of his rock-and-roll persona. He’d rather be at home with his garden. When he gets home from tour he finds his gardener has had a heart attack and Simon, his grandson, is helping him out. Simon’s different to Fred. He talks, for a start. Martin and Fred have a perfectly functional friendship based on long silences and discussions about heritage vegetables. Simon talks about personal things as well. It makes Martin prickly.
Simon’s at a bit of a loss. He stepped up to help his grandfather whilst he was in hospital despite his misgivings about the absent Martin. But Fred clearly likes him, which is unusual for a start. Fred prefers plants to people. That he actively likes a rock star who used to smash up hotel rooms is really strange. Simon’s reserving judgement. Apparently the band have a break in their tour coming up. He’ll see whether he can work for the man once he’s spent some time with him. A tired rock star and a judgemental gardener…what could possibly go wrong?

A pining drummer and a snarky sound engineer have been walking around each other for months…

Heggarty’s Bow drummer, Mordant, sticks firmly to the adage ‘don’t screw the crew’. He’s seen bands crash and burn over something like that before and he’d rather not risk the band dynamic. However, he knows he’s attracted to the charms of Pink the sound engineer and he’s determined to keep him at a distance. He’s got no interest in becoming just a notch on his bedpost, anyhow.
Pink is surprised and a bit hurt that Mordant makes no secret of avoiding him like the plague. Mordant’s a quiet, laid back guy most of the time, but he only interacts with Pink to criticise his work. Pink’s decided it’s best to just try to ignore him. He’s got enough history with moody blokes that he doesn’t need to take on any more trouble. He just needs to get on with things.
When one of Pink’s ex shoves him and he falls down the stairs at work, though, he’s surprised to find Mordant the one who volunteers to take care of him. Mordant is surprised as well. Where will the two of them go from here?

An oblivious roadie and a lighting designer with self-confidence issues…will they ever manage to communicate what they want?

All Dave wants is a low-stress job driving gig equipment around, loading and unloading, rinse and repeat. Then he can go home and spend what time he can with his kids, listen to music and gardening podcasts and dream about the life he’s never had. He’s known Richie for years and he’s never thought of him as more than a mate. With two ex-wives behind him, he’s never thought of himself as anything other than straight. It’s a shock when he suddenly realises he has a massive crush on a guy.
It’s more than a shock for Richie when Dave turns up at a Heggarty’s Bow gig with an empty truck instead of a van full of kit, it’s possibly career-ending. There’s no time for Richie’s usual low-key flirtation with the oblivious Dave whilst they’re sorting out how to rig the show, but there should be plenty of time to catch up with each other properly on the drive back to London. It’s not Dave’s fault the steering on the van blows out on the way home.
Thrown together overnight in a hotel, will Dave confide his attraction to Richie? Or will Richie snap first and make a move? Surely all the time they’ve spent in the van driving around the country means they’ve had plenty of time to talk. Or does it?

A bassist, an AV technician and a whole host of attachment issues. It sounds like the start of a joke, except this is Nathan’s life now.

Spicer and Nathan don’t like each other much, but that doesn’t stop them falling in to bed. They’ve been going at each other hard for a few months now and Spicer’s finally getting what he needs in the sack without having to bother drawing diagrams first. Nathan’s happy to get together when they cross paths and walking straight out the door afterward. They don’t owe each other anything.
Now though…Nathan’s running the AV on the overseas leg of the Heggarty’s Bow tour. Spicer’s estranged from his entire family apart from one great uncle who dies whilst they’re in Japan. He can’t quit the tour to go home and leave them without a bass player; and why would he want to? The family won’t let him participate in funeral plans anyway and they certainly won’t offer him any comfort. He’ll deal with it like he’s always dealt with family crap—alone.
Is he as alone as he thinks though? He finds himself leaning more and more on his connection with Nathan. And Nathan lets him despite being a self-described proven flight risk. Where do they go from here?