White Owl

Of course grunge wasn’t really about pop, it was rock music - without any of the roll.

I had to write about what it was really all about and what it was really like for a kid like me, living in a coastal town in Scotland where ambition burned low and where dressing a bit like Jarvis Cocker at any point before 1995 would have resulted in physical violence from the boys who would later form the core demographic for the likes of Oasis.

“Britpop was a laddish, distasteful, misogynistic, nationalistic cartoon.” (Brett Anderson, October 2019, BBC “Hardtalk”