My Childhood Bedroom
It still exists, architecturally speaking, my childhood bedroom, but the various skins it has shed exist only in memories. It changed with the times, my needs and my tastes, but… Read more My Childhood Bedroom →
Coke-Cola BlāK
Launched in 2006, discontinued in 2008, never launched in the UK, Coke-Cola BlāK was one of the finest drinks ever made. Marketed as coffee flavoured cola it was in reality… Read more Coke-Cola BlāK →
Steller’s Sea Cow
They died out before my time of course. 1770 or something like that. But still, somehow, they feel only just out of grasp, and more than any extinct animal they… Read more Steller’s Sea Cow →
A Different Manchester
The first time I visited Manchester was exactly four months after the IRA bombing. The fifteenth of October. I can date it precisely because I was at a concert, Metallica… Read more A Different Manchester →
Dream Cities
There is a city of shifting skyscrapers that exists only in my dreams, parts of which I have glimpsed once and others I return to again and again. There is… Read more Dream Cities →
Rochdale McDonald’s
Rochdale hasn’t been lucky when it comes to chain stores. The largest shop in the centre of town was the Woolworths. Remember it? No? It was opposite the Body Shop.… Read more Rochdale McDonald’s →
Star Fleet
Star Fleet wasn’t even called Star Fleet. If you are thinking of buying the DVD you need to search for X-Bomber. Star Fleet was the BBC name, back in the… Read more Star Fleet →
The Dorchester
Not the hotel, the night club. Whether you have heard of it will depend largely on whether you lived in Wolverhampton, at a certain point in time, and liked indie… Read more The Dorchester →
