I don’t really buy merch anymore, but this prompt took me back to when I first started buying records and collecting memorabilia. That would have been around 1990, and there weren’t many bands from my hometown played on the radio or featured in the music press. Back then, all eyes were on bands from Seattle or Manchester. But there was one that garnered a lot of attention, and for a time, they became my favourite band. Around then, I was being bullied at school, at home I would retreat to my bedroom which was covered in posters and magazine cuttings of The Wonder Stuff. I’d listen to their records and imagine they were my friends and I suppose, in a way, they were.
