Meeting People Is Easy By Ted Kessler

Some kids want to be pop stars. Others want to be footballers.I hoped to be both, but, more than that, I wanted to be a music journalist. Specifically, I dreamt of sitting in pubs opposite smart-arse singers with galactic imaginations from the moment I first opened a music weekly as a teenager. What inspired this ambition was an interview with Mark E Smith of The Fall as he set the world alight from behind a half-cocked pint pot, his pinky-finger raised in threatening, all-knowing jest. A new Mark E Smith interview was almost as exciting as a new Fall LP. Some years, it was more exciting. As soon as anybody would let me, I started prospecting for the same contact-high I received from those early MES boozer-visions. The first pub interview I…

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