Here's Warner on ecstasy use.
take note space boy.
AW: That (the chemical generation) was something invented by an editor called Sarah Champion [music journalist and editor of the 1997 anthology Disco Biscuits, which included a short story, ‘Bitter Salvage,’ by Alan Warner]. I mean I think you can write a good story about a nightclub but I don’t think you can base a whole literary movement on writing about nightclub life and ecstasy use. What bothered me about it is it was getting to be more about the writers than the writing, there was something egotistical and silly about it, "Look, we go to nightclubs but we are writers," so fucking what. I’m interested in great books not the social life of writers. On a personal level I used to take ecstasy and go to Edinburgh Zoo. It was much better than a rave, cheaper admission, prettier girls, colourful parrots and there’s even a little licensed bar there. No bouncers either, just kangaroos.
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See I remember that book coming out. Can't say I ever read it... Think that I remember the review in mixmag. It surprises me though that that's where the term comes from. I'd have thought it was something dreamt up in the Sun about how a whole generation was frying their brains taking drugs that no one knew the long term effects of. Morning Che..
sorry just reread the post.. guess that he doesn't say it was in that book. The rest still stands.
if he'd been there, he probably wouldn't have written any books ;-)
Actually i think he's been to a rave or two in his time.
what's everyone up to for the rest of the week?
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