White Owl

Of course grunge wasn’t really about pop, it was rock music - without any of the roll.

I had to write about what it was really all about and what it was really like for a kid like me, living in a coastal town in Scotland where ambition burned low and where dressing a bit like Jarvis Cocker at any point before 1995 would have resulted in physical violence from the boys who would later form the core demographic for the likes of Oasis.

“Britpop was a laddish, distasteful, misogynistic, nationalistic cartoon.” (Brett Anderson, October 2019, BBC “Hardtalk”

The Britpop scene was a tidal wave of joy for me at the time and the music continues to bring warm feelings and good memories years later.

wo nobodies in nowhere - the Suede demographic.

og Man Star’ had been a gothic glory, ‘Coming Up’

Come friendly bombs and fall on Kirkcaldy.

I didn’t have to affect an accent and not talk proper, because I already had an accent and didn’t talk proper

it was the moment when indie music and the indie aesthetic burst into the mainstream. From 1991-1994

nasty party’. The destruction of mining communities