October 2010
2 posts
Name-droppy vignette
I was once sent by the NME to interview Daft Punk. I love them still, but back then their music was an obsession. I’d played Discovery over and over again, every day, since it had been released the previous month. This passion, plus the fact that it was my first major interview for the paper, meant I was less a bag of nerves and more a rucksack of panic.
I take the Eurostar to Paris with...
The Beatles: A Warning From History
The Beatles are my generation’s World War Two. We will, seemingly, never forget. Nor, indeed, will we ever escape. Endlessly turned over on TV, and in magazines and books, the history of the Fab Four is now, undoubtedly, as woven into the fabric of British cultural and social discourse as our victory against the Nazis.
There are fallen heroes (Lennon, who would’ve been 70 yesterday);...
