Hardcore Leeds

Original post here – http://undeleted.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/hip-replacement-4-hip-hop-by-chris-cuevas-atlantic/ IT WAS a long, sultry summer evening in Leeds, the kind of perfect night that just seems to go on forever until you blink and suddenly it’s midday. Nicki’s mum was having a party in the back garden of her house on Spencer Place. All manner of mad-heads, oddballs, students,… Continue reading Hardcore Leeds

Love Decade

Original post here http://undeleted.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/feature-ten-years-on-from-love-decade/ [This piece originally appeared in The Big Issue in the North in July 2000] IT WASN’T so unusual that someone threw a party in Gildersome, just south of Leeds, 10 years ago. What was unusual was the fact that 836 people were arrested for attending it. The party wasn’t for anyone’s… Continue reading Love Decade