The Number 37
WHAT I’m about to write is true. In 1996, the night before a big audition, I had a dream. It was a Thursday night I think. THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, that’s all I could remember of this dream. The Number 37, that’s all it...
More Mass Panic with El Pistolero Set to Run Riot
PANIC on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham… and a bit in Manchester, West Bromwich and Liverpool to remix a well-known Smiths intro. But despite the countrywide acts of a desperate minority, I’d say things are looking pretty positive – a mood...
LFC’S CHESTER STORE – BOLD COMMERCIAL VENTURE OR CYNICAL CASH COW?
GROWING up in North Wales, a trip to Chester of a Saturday afternoon was about as exciting as weeks got - at least weeks without the prospect of a trip to Anfield. Back in the mid 90s I had some favourite haunts which reflected my status as a particularly tragic form...
The crisis of the liberal as a schizophrenic Britain burns
ENGLAND is schizophrenic. There is one country on television, an End-of-Days-land, where swarms of black-hooded youths saunter from shop to shop, unchallenged, unabashed, looting, smashing, their destruction wanton and their authority absolute. This is England, broken...
Liverpool bands: Scouse, scally and stuck in the past?
SOME people have a crystal clear memory to call upon. They can pinpoint, to the day, even the hour, when significant milestones in their life took place. I can’t. So ask me what the first record I bought was and I don’t know. The first I can remember, actual vinyl,...
The Number 37
WHAT I’m about to write is true. In 1996, the night before a big audition, I had a dream. It was a Thursday night I think. THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, THIRTY SEVEN, that’s all I could remember of this dream. The Number 37, that’s all it...
More Mass Panic with El Pistolero Set to Run Riot
PANIC on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham… and a bit in Manchester, West Bromwich and Liverpool to remix a well-known Smiths intro. But despite the countrywide acts of a desperate minority, I’d say things are looking pretty positive – a mood...
LFC’S CHESTER STORE – BOLD COMMERCIAL VENTURE OR CYNICAL CASH COW?
GROWING up in North Wales, a trip to Chester of a Saturday afternoon was about as exciting as weeks got - at least weeks without the prospect of a trip to Anfield. Back in the mid 90s I had some favourite haunts which reflected my status as a particularly tragic form...
The crisis of the liberal as a schizophrenic Britain burns
ENGLAND is schizophrenic. There is one country on television, an End-of-Days-land, where swarms of black-hooded youths saunter from shop to shop, unchallenged, unabashed, looting, smashing, their destruction wanton and their authority absolute. This is England, broken...
Liverpool bands: Scouse, scally and stuck in the past?
SOME people have a crystal clear memory to call upon. They can pinpoint, to the day, even the hour, when significant milestones in their life took place. I can’t. So ask me what the first record I bought was and I don’t know. The first I can remember, actual vinyl,...