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A view from the childhood kitchen

  As a 28 year old homeowning man, my Friday nights now consist of watching finales of popular reality television and trawling the website of my local council to find out how much it costs to have a garden waste bin & essentially being a slave to my two cats.  It was whilst performing these menial tasks & scrolling some social media hellsite did I discover it was 20 years since the release of Arctic Monkeys debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Or the ever succinct acronym of WPSIATWIN. (Muscle memory from the Indie Twitter days meant I was able to type that with more speed and accuracy I care to admit).  Upon this realisation I immediately threw it on (played it through my airpods) because a) I like to have my finger on the pulse & b) it’s not something I’d done in years. It turned into quite a grounding moment; in my mid teenage years this band & album was absolutely everything to me. But in reality it goes back much further. I’m of...
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What even is this, anyway?

 Right then, here goes - something, I guess.  I never did know how to start these things.  In my late-teens and (on two occasions) very early 20s I sporadically wrote about music on my one-man-band of a music blog https://anothergenericmusicblog.blogspot.com/ - it's still up & live, adding to the infinite amount pages on the web that gather dust. It's of its time in every aspect, but none more so than how the internet used to be. I told myself - and others - that I did this with the primary objective of it looking good on my UCAS application as I looked to fulfil my desire of reading Journalism at University and subsequently writing for / owning a music publication of sorts. Long story short, I started a journalism course in September of 2016 at Bournemouth University. I lasted all of 6 weeks before dropping out. Since then I've never really written on a regular basis - the odd article here and there, what I was required to do for my subsequent English Literature...
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