The 90s and all that came crawling across its carpet as a giant button-shaped climax that was always destined to self-destruct before supergiant stars go totally supernovae.īut he made it out alive. Happy in the dense, accessible haze of another drunken hour that did more damage than good. The first drunken member, THE drunken member, was guitarist Graham Coxon. The time when the Sun equated to the NME – it was tabloid, it was too good to be true, it was exciting, enticing, it was front page, it was everywhere and utterly inexorable in their power to push buttons, to pull strings, to create a moral panic, to invent handsome folk devils, to design poster girls who want boys who like boys to be girls.Ī lot like the cute little milk cartons on the run made for each other in the Coffee and TV video from 1999’s 13, Coxon was in the middle of the mayhem a rogue, his effigy as the little blue milk carton that wanders around the streets of London with a picture of the man himself on the side: ‘MISSING’.Īlex James, the bass player from Blur, in standard self-deprecating humour laced with hedonism and darkness often associated with the bar stool prose of Wilde and the prophetic anxieties of Auden, proclaimed, even proudly, himself to be ‘the second drunkest member of the world’s drunkest band’. From pits of crippling anxiety when his future forced his present self to freeze, from coffee and tv and the British symptom where the insatiable taste of a boy band was too good for the fierce, frantic, squealing teams of ravenous, rabbiting media manipulators to miss. Like Will Sergeant’s equally excellent Bunnyman autobiography, this is a total page-turner from a genius guitarist, brimming with a feast of wild, weird, accessible confessional moments, taking the reader through strife and triumph a stark, sordid, often psychedelic overview with unparalleled insight in how the fun run of childlike analogies and simple, whimsical anecdotes leap from the page like a humble frog on a lilypad during a warm drizzle.īut it’s also a guidebook about addiction that uses the gutted stomach of love as the desired ink – the plectrum as Coxon’s quill throughout that anchors him to some kind of reality even though it was melting around him in the form of a bottle. Aggressive and regretful but progressive and buoyant in how one section of his life tumbles and turns and twists into another as a fan at the foot of the universe holding little but his heart in his hands and the guitar to confront all it throws at him. The contemporary dairies of one of the 90’s finest musicians emerge. The full version of the software costs $25.00, giving access to all functionality, free customer support and a lifetime of free point software updates.From the pretensions reflected back at the wannabe godhead in a cocaine-stained hall of mirrors to the addicts and music obsessives amongst us all, Graham Coxon’s autobiography is a must-have, go-to survival guide about not just the 90s, not just the now but virtually a 300-page meditation on youth and manhood, any walk of life interested in life, in art, in looking back, in letting go, in moving on will delight in reading. Tune Sweeper is available as a free trial download for Windows and Mac. Tune Sweeper is compatible all versions of iTunes and the Mac Apple Music app. The latest addition to Tune Sweeper 4 feature set is the ability to identify tracks from Apple Music, making it easy to see which songs will vanish from iTunes if you cancel your Apple Music subscription. Furthermore, Tune Sweeper can download any missing album artwork for you to complete your music collection, as well as allowing users to view a quick overview of their iTunes statistics. Tune Sweeper 4 can also find and download any incorrect track data for your songs, fixing any tracks labelled “track 01”, “track 02” etc. To help users tidy up their iTunes library further, Tune Sweeper also contains the ability to find and delete missing tracks in iTunes, as well as being able to locate any tracks on your hard drive which are not currently in iTunes and add them to your library if required. It displays your iTunes duplicates in groups so that you can easily select which of the tracks you want to remove from your iTunes at the click of a button. Tune Sweeper can scan your iTunes library for duplicate tracks based on your preferred search criteria. Tune Sweeper 4 is an easy to use utility which lets you quickly and easily clean up your iTunes Library.
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