I started writing about Britpop in June of 2017 with a short article on the wonders of Mantaray. That was at about the same time that I started using Twitter regularly as a means of finding people who might be interested in reading the fings wot I wrote. I quickly discovered that I wasn't alone [...]
"Oh, don't I look beautiful?" (Stargazer) "We're a mixture of hard and soft, masculine and feminine, which is a healthier outlook than being one or the other." (Gary Cosby, N.M.E, 3/6/1995) You don't even know that your favourite band of all time are Lick. How could you? You blinked and missed them. As the press [...]
From the opening shot when the camera closes in on a miniature replica of a bedroom which then reveals itself to be an actual bedroom I felt an enormous, and dreadfully real, sense of discomfort and unease. I felt as if someone had placed a wool blanket on top of me which had been soaked [...]
It's the night after the Glasgow School of Art and the O2 ABC were all but destroyed by a devastating fire. The air is still heavy with the smell of smoke. Fire crews are still dowsing the buildings in water. Roads are closed. Fortunately nobody has been hurt in either venue and because this is [...]
Attitude. Anyone who really cares about the glories, ecstasies and wonders of pop music understands that attitude is as important...more important...than silly things like being able to play instruments or write lyrics. Of course there is a place for both of those things...I'm not averse to boys and girls with guitars who have read a [...]
When Mrs Max told me she had a baby growing in her tummy I came over all peculiar. It was terrifying. I could barely look after myself, how was I going to help look after a baby? That was five and a half years ago and I am still terrified. I am also still unsure [...]
"The rude boy culture was everything that British youth culture wanted to be, it was edgy, it was dangerous, it was completely anti the mainstream and that is what youth culture should always be." (Wayne Hemmingway, 2012) "Skinheads definitely came out of the Mod thing, there's no doubt about that at all. They were the [...]
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