fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days agoEverybody comes from a place of mundanity': northern gothic, the strange music scene rooted in small-town Yorkshire and Lancashire
He's referring to Withernsea, a faded seaside resort near Hull, where he grew up and then desperately wanted to leave. I remember feeling so resentful, he says. I heard Tracey Chapman's Fast Car and thought: is this song about me? He duly got out aged 17, eventually settling in London and finding success as a visual artist and musician. But in recent years, the 46-year-old began hearing younger avant garde musicians talking about their satellite towns in other often forgotten corners of the north.
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