Slip inside the eye of my mind. You know what you might find. A better place. Usually that better place is sometime in nineties Britain. The sun is often out. There are girls who like boys and boys who like girls. Everyone wants to live like common people. There was a new generation from satellite [...]
"I disassociated myself from that very early on, as soon as I saw what I saw as becoming this kind of laddish, jingoistic, cartoon happening, which became Britpop, I very quickly distanced Suede from that...I saw what was happening with Britpop and, for me, it felt quite distasteful. It felt nationalistic, it felt like there [...]
London. Home of the brash, outrageous and free. Today it is bathed in the golden glow of an Indian summer. The sun is high. People's spirits are higher. Short sleeves. Bright smiles. The intoxicating whiff of mild inebriation. I am in Kentish Town. I'm with an old friend from back when we were...younger. Times have [...]
This is the sound of youth. Frantic. Frenetic. Furious. Frenzied. Fast. Flirtatious. Fabulous. I know. You are just like me and your youth was rarely, if ever, any of those things...at least not for any extended period of time. In truth my own adolescence was a messy blend of acne, angst, anxiety and self-loathing. These [...]
Back in 1983 when the only things we had to worry about were the Falklands War, the terminal decline of our traditional industrial heartlands, mass unemployment, riots, police brutality and a Conservative government Hell bent on giving a helping hand to the people who least need a helping hand, a band made up of two [...]
“For Manchester is the place where people do things… ‘Don’t talk about what you are going to do, do it.’ That is the Manchester habit. And in the past through the manifestation of this quality the word Manchester became a synonym for energy and freedom and the right to do and to think without shackles.” [...]
After the cryptic messages. After the teasing. After the seven year itch from his defenestration. After the yearning, the longing and the praying. He will return. Today Martin Rossiter, with a little (maybe more than a little) help from his friends at Star Shaped, has announced that he will return for one final time [...]
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