LEE PAYNE
An aspiring writer on sport, music, history and more
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The slightly prententious title to this week’s piece is not me trying to come across all earnest – it’s actually a lyric from the Arctic Monkeys song Anyways (which you can listen to below). I’ll be honest, I have been finding things a bit difficult recently. My anxiety remains, thankfully, at arm’s length but it…
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Hello again. This Wednesday I’m going to tell you everything I have on my mind in a handy bullet point format:
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That was it then. Christmas is over and done with for another year. Is it just me, or is Christmas Day itself always a bit of a downer? The best part of the festive season is the anticipation and the build-up. Going to see the lights being switched on, the parties, feeling the atmosphere when…
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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.