Category: Blog
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Apathetic Fabulosity! *My years as an Electroclash fan*
While everyone else in the world infatuated themselves with The Strokes and their retro rock revivalism, I threw my lot in with Electroclash, which immediately appealed to me on the most basic of levels. The aesthetic was both shiny and tacky, reveling in it’s meretricious presentation. Electroclash was a brilliant mixture of super serious and […]
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Aurora Gory Alice by Letters To Cleo
Letters To Cleo are brilliant and this is my favourite album they did. Let’s take a quick look at how I found them – and how long I had to pause the tape to see their name in the credits!
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Oh Marina Girl by Graham Lironi
I look back at Oh Marina Girl, the Glesga cult novel that I felt never got the attention it deserved…
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My favourite things of 2021
It’s that time of year again where everyone posts a blog about their favourite things of the years. “Things” mean different things to people, but for me it means books, music, film, TV, and moments that stick out for whatever reason. Let’s get stuck into the year we’re living through, now we’re nearly at the […]
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The It Girl by Sleeper
Britpop fascinated me while I lived through it, because I never quite belonged to it, yet somehow it filled the charts and radio playlists with guitar bands. Even as a teenager, I felt something about Britpop was a little too masculine, overly laddish, which wasn’t me at all. The entire scene, I’d later discover, was […]
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A Christmas Record (Ze Records)
Ze Records was one of the hippest labels of the time. This was their attempt at a Christmas album. It’s…something.
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Tickling the back of your throat with a feather, AKA why I love Vurt by Jeff Noon.
Jeff Noon’s Vurt was a seminal novel for me, strange and beautiful, it felt like the future – but not one I’d want to live in. Here’s my story with this book…
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Return to Horror High
The school I spent nearly six years of my life has changed beyond recognition, but I’ve changed too. For years I wrote books for young adults, but somehow against the odds successfully switched the writing adult fiction. But while I wrote books for teenagers, I found myself touring, hitching my way around schools across Scotland. […]
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Lycanthropy by Patrick Wolf
I saw Patrick Wolf very early on in his career at the original Stereo while he was touring Lycanthropy. The gig wasn’t very well attended, which made sense because Patrick was most definitely a cult artist at that point, beloved by critics and photographed for all the coolest magazines, who presented him as the coolest […]
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