Description
Book SynopsisDecades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was
the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published
High Fidelity, when James Brown's
Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). It was the year of
The Bends, the year Danny Boyle started filming
Trainspotting, the year Richey Edwards went missing, the year Alex Garland wrote
The Beach, the year Blair changed Clause IV after a controversial vote at the Labour Conference. It was a period of huge cultural upheaval - in art, literature, publishing and drugs, and a period of almost unparalleled hedonism.
Faster Than a Cannonball is a cultural swipe of the decade from loungecore to the rise of New Labour, teasing all the relevant artistic strands through interviews with all the major protagonists and exhaustive re-eva
