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Exclamation perfume, focus points and Sun-In hair bleach
Recognise any of these from your 1990s bedroom?
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Fancy a night out in 1994…?
GEN ❌ - remember what a glorious night out involved in the mid 90s..? 📵 No mobile phones - you arranged everything in advance… and stuck to it…
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Have yourself a merry 90s Christmas
Hi everyone. It’s fair to say I’ve become really crappy when it comes to keeping my blog and substack mailouts up to date. In fact, I think the sun was…
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A nostalgia ride through 1990s Hull
5 Hull venues as featured in my books
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5 reasons vinyl’s lost its buzz
I was shopping in HMV the other week looking for a new album and was overjoyed to walk upstairs and find the vinyl collection to be less the expected…
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Trans Pennine
A fun and nostalgic little read for a Sunday evening. Can you tell where we are, music fans? It’s like supermarket sweep…but the stakes are way higher…
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1996, bragging rights…and another Kindle countdown deal!
Hi everyone, Just a very brief one tonight (in between watching episodes of Narcos and drinking chamomile and honey tea - yes, I’m a contradiction…
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School's out - how we spent a 1980s summer holiday
It’s coming to the end of the summer holidays, and I’ve been sitting feeling ridiculously restless today, so decided to share a blog I wrote about the…
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Hull - where culture existed way before 2017
Hull made the headlines as City of Culture in 2017. It also, as I recall, made it to the top of some ridiculous list called Britain’s Crappest Towns (or…
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Adventures in vinyl
The piece I wrote for last weekend's record store day....as seen on Standard Issue: It’s 1996, I have literally 97p to live on ’til Tuesday and I really…
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