The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect: The Last Indie Music Scene 2000–2010 – Book Review
By
Thomas Sidwell
1d ago· 7 min readNews
A review of Janine Warren's oral history of the UK indie scene 2000–2010: vivid, generous, and guaranteed to induce nostalgia
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