I’d known Paul for years. Sitting in Mike Whitton’s kitchen, laughing about it all, it struck me how long ago it all was now. I wondered how Paul’s relationship with drugs was going. I remembered that we all used to joke that he could sniff a line from five miles away. Before he met Jackie, … Read More
It was nine on Sunday morning, and me and Mike Whitton had been up all night. We were drinking neat gin, straight from the bottle. That started out as a joke because we’d run out of rum, but we accidentally did the whole bottle in. Our reminiscences about Paul and Jackie had turned into a … Read More
My life in Leeds has taken me to all sorts of places, and eventually it took me to living on my friends’ sofa during lockdown. That wasn’t as bad as it sounds. In fact, it was the happiest I’d been in a long time. The weekend before they relaxed the lockdown rules, I headed back … Read More
My first year in Leeds was hard. I chose to move here because it was where everything was happening with the music I was into. I loved going out in Leeds, and I’d met a lot of sound people at parties, but actually living in this city, before I’d really made it my home, wasn’t … Read More