LEE PAYNE
An aspiring writer on sport, music, history and more
recent posts
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Have you heard the story of Gary the Gorilla? Gary – an 8 foot tall ornament – dutifully welcomed visitors to a garden centre in Scotland for a decade before he was stolen last year. As you can see, he did his bit during the pandemic by wearing a face mask and has also been…
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Friday 21st October. A package lands on the doormat. Could it be? The previous day’s postal workers’ strike had put doubt in my mind. It was the right size and shape. All the signs were good. I opened it. YES! It is! The new Arctic Monkeys album! Yes, I know I could get it on…
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I love music. I love all kinds of music. It doesn’t have to be a certain genre or style, it just has to make me feel something. One of my favourite bands is Blossoms, who I was delighted to discover when they were heavily promoted by Radio X (formerly XFM) in 2016. The five piece…
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In my younger days, I loved The Beano and The Dandy and my mum had both comics delivered to the house each week. I thought the smell of a fresh comic was one of the most intoxicating imaginable and was sold on their bright colours, gentle humour and simple charm. I have a large, very…
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You’ve had two number one albums. The first was the fastest selling debut album in British music history. You’ve won the Mercury Prize. You’ve headlined Glastonbury. Where do you go from here? Many would have been tempted to stick to the formula that had brought such huge success, releasing a rinse-and-repeat third album to please…
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Yes, I’m writing about Arctic Monkeys again. To go with my pieces on their first, second and sixth albums, I am going to take you track-by-track through the record that cracked America for the four-piece from Sheffield. One of the things I admire so much about Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Nick O’Malley and Matt Helders…
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The release of the debut album by Arctic Monkeys was a major cultural event. The kind that wouldn’t happen nowadays. The full story of the origins of the band is one to be told another day, but by 23rd January 2006 it’s fair to say there was rather a lot of hype surrounding the Sheffield…
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LEE PAYNE on a 2006 song about one night stands.
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