It Ruined My Life… Rikk Agnew
Metal Machine Music – Lou Reed The first time I heard this was at a rehearsal studio in 1977 that I shared with a Group called THE MECHANICS. I had just bought my copy that…
Metal Machine Music – Lou Reed The first time I heard this was at a rehearsal studio in 1977 that I shared with a Group called THE MECHANICS. I had just bought my copy that…
A short story changed my life. No, really, it did. I was twenty one years old and in my final semester at college. One of the last undergraduate courses I took was an intro to…
While this story begins with me being diagnosed with cancer, that is not the one thing that changed my life forever… rather, it lead me to the one thing that did. While I won’t deny…
The year is 1995, and 17 year old me had just rushed to Spillers Records in Cardiff to get my mitts on \”Born In \’69\” – the brand new single from Rocket From The Crypt….
Of course Punk Rock Ruined My Life – that’s why I’m half way through writing a book with the same title Drifting awkwardly through teenage years in the mid-seventies in Blackpool like a lonely seaside…
Genre. That word. That’s what ruined my life. Five letters, two syllables, and two years too early. What the hell am I talking about? School. In particular, comprehensive school, in what was then called second…
Rather than mope on about something tragic that irreversibly coloured my adult life, and there have been a few game-changers, I can tell you, but I’m past feeling sorry for myself, I’d rather talk about…
It was the best holiday I ever had. We spent a week in the south of France at a house in a hilltop town. The house belonged to a friend’s parents. The bunch of us…
I can think of several incidents that had the potential to ruin my life. But these weren’t the kinds of events I’d enjoy talking about here. However, the incident that changed my life dramatically –…