Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1 Ginger Beer in Teacups, and Leaves on the Lawn - Oscar Wilde, Just William, Sherlock Holmes and The Age of Innocence 6
Chapter 2 Bedazzled in Soho - from Evelyn Waugh to Shelagh Delaney and Peter Cook 11
Chapter 3 Astronauts of Inner Space - Syd Barrett, Nick Drake and The Birth of Psychedelia 16
Chapter 4 Velvet Goldmines - David Bowie, Lindsay Kemp and Kate Bush 22
Chapter 5 Disco Lento and The New Europeans - Depeche Mode, Ultravox and Hurts 26
Chapter 6 Catching That Butterfly - Alan Sillitoe, Paul Weller and Liza Radley 30
Chapter 7 Interzones, Edgelands, Psykick Dancehalls and Shamans - Gary Numan, Joy Division and Mark E Smith 33
Chapter 8 Beyond the Boundaries of Pop and Rebellion - The Jimmy Savile Scandal 43
Chapter 9 Under the Fridge - from Stephen Fry to Caroline Aherne, Johnny Vegas and James Acaster 49
Chapter 10 The Moors and Man About the House - Morrissey's Psychogeographic England 58
Chapter 11 Victoriana, Candlesticks and Mist - The Cure and the Art of Negation 63
Chapter 12 Pigs, Riots and Taffeta - Brett Anderson's Blakeian Visions 67
Chapter 13 The Other Morrissey - Paul Gascoigne, TFI Friday and Ladettes 72
Chapter 14 Feather Boas and Crimplene - Pulp, Romo, Placebo, Velvet Goldmine and PJ Harvey 77
Chapter 15 Ghosts, Hauntings and Mezzanines - Massive Attack, Tricky, Dizzee Rascal and Stormzy 86
Chapter 16 Dickensian Pop and Arcady - The Libertines, Queen Boadicea, Patrick Wolf and Billy Childish 92
Chapter 17 Pencil Skirts and Motorway Modernism - The Long Blondes and Black Box Recorder 99
Chapter 18 Tennis Courts, Cellos and Yorkshire Valleys - Goldfrapp and My Summer of Love 104
Chapter 19 Non-Place and Negative Space - Gazelle Twin and JG Ballard 110
Chapter 20 Looking for Albion 114
