Sounds From The Junkshop Bonus: Footnotes 2002
Looking back from two decades' distance, 2002 was a weird year and This Footnotes column is likely to be a little more, how shall we say, obscure than the ones that have come before. As 2002 rolled around, I was now out of the other side of Uni and drifting between various jobs (most of which were either warehouse or bottom of the rung admin employment) and accommodations (a fallout with my parents led to me essentially being a bed and breakfast man for a good bit of this year before finally settling in with some bandmates in a house in Kirkstall which was basically rotting away from the inside) Luckily though, as the internet started to expand, other places started to spring up aside from the obvious two to get my fix of good new music. My Wildhearts fandom had led me to the excellent Five Miles High webzine (run by Darren Stockford who'd previously run Ginger 's Silver Ginger site) while as I've mentioned elsewhere, it was also around this time that I...