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Your first big musical love
What was the first band you got obsessed with and why? You know, that time when you realised that music could change the way you think about things...
Predictably enough my first obsession with a band was the Manics. It was actually round about the This is My Truth era, but trawling through their back catalogue was the thing that got me hooked. I spent the majority of my late teens obsessed with them (I stopped short of the Manics fashion though, I wasn't pretty enough to pull it off). Even now listening to The Holy Bible takes me back to that satisfyingly angst-ridden period...