A Guide To Happy Music: The Stone Roses’ ‘The Stone Roses’

Deep into the search for self, the spinning fractals of Madchester and its descendant indie scene light the way for the troubled teenager. Thirty years after its release, The Stone Roses’ eponymous LP remains the headlamp of choice, faint rumblings of revolutionary thought and grounding in the grounded classes guiding the only-slightly edgy into an individuality. An individuality shared with a million other individuals: the … Continue reading A Guide To Happy Music: The Stone Roses’ ‘The Stone Roses’

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Somewhere You’ve Never Been Before

AN: This is a piece I wrote for an assignment – go somewhere you’ve never been before. The sun shines through shredded sky, night disappearing. From the decaying footpath, behind there are motors, in front there is splendour, to the left there are grandparents, to the right there are daffodils. The colossus reaches up into the sky and across for two miles, its younger sibling … Continue reading Somewhere You’ve Never Been Before

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Brownie Points: Girl Guides For (and Against) the World

(As per, all names have been changed to protect the identities of those involved). When I was six, my nan showed me a picture of my mother from her childhood in Belgium. She was sat in formation with about thirty other girls, dressed in immaculate blue uniforms with white neckties, and a perfect scale model of the Taj Mahal between them. Later that evening, my … Continue reading Brownie Points: Girl Guides For (and Against) the World

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