Boy About Town Number 34: What Do I Get?
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published in paperback by Windmill Books, August 14. ‘What do I Get?’ was the Buzzcocks’ take on the Ramones’ chainsaw...
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July 18, 2014
James: La Petite Mort pour toujours
My favorite lyricist is indelibly associated with Manchester, though he doesn’t originally hail from there. His name is Tim Booth and time and time again, over the quarter century-plus that...
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July 17, 2014
Boy About Town Number 35: Life From A Window
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. There were ‘flight’ cases lined up against the far wall, and people watching the show...
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July 11, 2014
Boy About Town: Full Yellow Jacket
The full yellow jacket for Boy About Town, mass market edition. Published by Windmill Books in the UK, August 14, and in the US, October. Web site to follow....
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July 8, 2014
Heads Held High: The USA’s Triumphant World Cup
Early on the morning of June 21, 2002, just two hours after watching England lose 2-1 to Brazil in the Quarter-Finals of the World Cup, and on just about no...
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July 2, 2014
Boy About Town Number 36: Jamming
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Once I got over the disappointing realisation that In the City had not been an...
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June 30, 2014
World Cup Allegiances: Why I Support The USA
It’s that time when every expat’s thoughts are presumed to turn to their home country. I’m talking about the World Cup Finals, and the notion that we are all birth...
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June 20, 2014
Boy About Town Number 37: Do Anything You Wanna Do
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Sounds was the music paper of choice for us third years. Not Melody Maker, which...
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June 13, 2014
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