Top Highlights

• I liked the face-value, unveiled nature of the lyric: devoid of shades of meaning, simple and direct and forthright, somehow resonating with the superficiality of the subject matter.
• to look at my journey from struggle to success and to self-destruction and back again and use that narrative to talk about some of the forces that acted on
• For young men in their twenties there’s something thrillingly virile and tribal about being in a band and in that winsome period before the joylessness of repetition set in there was a powerful sense of belonging;
• The indefinite hiatus of the Stone Roses and the dead end of the shoe-gazing movement had created a vacuum into which was sucked a motley mess of ambitionless long-forgotten bands who dressed in shorts and sounded like students
• Regardless of how unfashionable a viewpoint it is, it has always struck me that any performance is essentially an elitist act and that the stage is there for a very clear purpose – to separate and elevate a band from its audience – and that the power differential therein is an essential ingredient in the drama.