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Saint Etienne


CAST your mind to a far-off time, if you will: the 1980s and before. And then: the Christmas music you’d hear. Back then, before t’interweb and swipe-right, there wasn’t really a great deal on offer for the discerning music fan come the festive season. There was the glam band having another go at boozy, seasonal …

In 1993 I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah Cracknell at a signing at an  HMV store. It was Sheffield sound city and the Saint Etienne were doing the signing ahead of their set. I took along my copies of  ‘Foxbase Alpha’ and ‘So Tough’. I had never really met any singers or bands before …

“Sorry if i kept you waiting, I was mucking around with a Vocoder and lost track of time” To be honest, my conversation with Pete Wiggs doesn’t get any less scattershot as it goes on.  If he were given the task of telling his life story on the pages of a novel, he’d probably count as …