Sounds From The Junkshop #120 - The Glitterati
"We got sex and drugs and friends at the bar..." - The Glitterati - Back In Power The time was somewhere around 2005. The place was a gig at Leeds Cockpit. Myself and the bassist from my then-band Brookside Riot Squad (just to say hanging on at this time before we decided to turn off our life support the following year) were at a gig by hometown lads the Glitterati handing out some flyers for an upcoming gig of ours at the Vine. At this point the Glitterati were in a bit of a weird position as they were being lauded by both the NME and Kerrang! and by being able to dip a toe in both pools it had actually taken them to proper Top 40 success. Anyway, Brookside Riot Squad's slogan which we put on all of our flyers was "No emo. No trendies. No bullshit. Just proper fuckin' punk rock."* Our wander around the bar saw us handing the flyers to a couple of Julian Casablancas wannabes hanging around at the edge of the venue and one of them simply fixed me with a s...