Blue Wicked
Ryan felt little motivation to talk. Instead, he nodded and aimed a smile just off to the left of Zoë’s head. She sat cross legged on the floor and began to talk; first about her father — a conductor of music, rather than — say… electricity, then about how her parents had insisted she take an academic degree, just in case. She didn’t drink much (but liked the smell of blue WKD), she smoked the occasional joint and she loved dancing and road running and drawing pictures of her dead grandfather who she never had the chance to meet. Her first love, well, looking back, he was a sweet, sweet boy and what happened was a shame. But her more recent ex-boyfriend, well, he was a prick.
By Richard Owain Roberts.
The Field: An Excerpt
I wanted a song that I felt comfortable with, one that was uplifting and made me feel great. I chose ‘Another Girl Another Planet’ by The Only Ones. I’d recently heard a debate on the radio about the way music effects us physically and emotionally. There’s evidence that music excites receptors in the brain that in turn release chemicals that give us feelings of pleasure and euphoria, in much the same way as taking opiates do. Ironic then that this song has such a profound effect on me and yet contrary to common belief, the song is about taking heroin and not a love affair. In the conventional sense anyway. I handed over my CD and Cath said, ‘Fantastic – I haven’t heard this in years.’ She seemed genuinely excited. She put the disc into the CD player.
An excerpt from Gary O’Connor‘s novella, The Field.
The house I grew up in
Featuring Johnny Marr.