Neon Screams!
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blissblogger
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Fun fact - he left school at 16. This means he is the most street credible British music writer since Julie Burchill.
Plus he lives on a street where kids listen to drill on their phones while selling drugs.
Plus he lives on a street where kids listen to drill on their phones while selling drugs.
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blissblogger
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Actually a better analogy since he went straight to writing a book without any intervening period of journalism is Colin Wilson.
Not quite as hardcore as Wilson, who wrote The Outsider in public libraries and cafes while sleeping at night in a tent on Hampstead Heath (so he wouldn't need to pay rent, so he didn't need to have a job, so he had the free time to write the book)
Not quite as hardcore as Wilson, who wrote The Outsider in public libraries and cafes while sleeping at night in a tent on Hampstead Heath (so he wouldn't need to pay rent, so he didn't need to have a job, so he had the free time to write the book)
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shakahislop
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god i love these kinds of stories. have a vague impression that people don't do that kind of thing as much as they used to. but i love it. i'm going to live in a tent while i put together the dissensus alt country top 100
Poet for Hire
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Fun fact - he left school at 16. This means he is the most street credible British music writer since Julie Burchill.
Plus he lives on a street where kids listen to drill on their phones while selling drugs.
thats makes someone credible? jesus your bar is low.
Corpsey
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I found this book in a second hand place when I was a teenager and became obsessed with it. It introduced me to some sort of concept of mindfulness, I believe? I can't remember now, going to have to dig it out of my parents' attic.
Right. which is what Craner wants me to do when I read neon screams, go on a long diatribe about how he hasn't read Jayce Clayton on Mena autotune in the mid 00s.
I'll refrain from that though, just make my point with examples.
Yeah lol Simon, not your brightest post this one, it has to be said.
Benny Bunter
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Over halfway through my 2nd read, gonna lap corpsey
craner
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I haven't even received my copy yet and I'll probably lap Corpsey.
To be fair you could live in pretty much any street in London and be in very close proximity to drill-listening, drug selling youtsFun fact - he left school at 16. This means he is the most street credible British music writer since Julie Burchill.
Plus he lives on a street where kids listen to drill on their phones while selling drugs.
Yeah I mean Skepta even dissed Wiley around 2008-09 era by saying that he knew mans in barnet shifting keys of coke by the dozen. It's just standard. It's not the 1980s anymore.
It wasn't a good diss really Dirty Goodz is the one who can merk Wiley, but as a point of fact what Skeppy said was true.