So we can start over again.            It next happens a week later; Blur are still the chart kings and I’m counting down the days until The Great Escape is released. While I’ve been consciously avoiding the area around the music shop – I’d...

  And so began the story of a charmless man.                 “You have GOT to be kidding...” he moans balefully as I pick up my tape of Country House, “I saved you so that you could give money to the Colchester cocks?”...

  Because maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me...                 “Get off me!” I shriek in a whisper. Excellent, fresh meat for them, a prey to let out their frustration on. Frustration that seemingly stems...

  Back into the hole where I was born. This is not a Mancunian road. It can’t be. There are crazed Manchester City fans, loitering in their front rooms with the radio turned up, listening to the game. Badly-daubed splashes of grey chewing gum decorate the pavement. Glistening glass fragments...