Miranda Sawyer

And that is like, Kill Your Friends is kind of based around the whole year of 97, actually, which I think is a great point to put it at.

But for you, you're now into 96.

You're like, I'm a successful A&R man.

And you're going to gigs and you're presumably being sent loads of tapes.

Were there moments where you thought, okay, I've definitely got something or, I mean, how does it, how did it work for you?

Publishing A&R's nice.

So would you like to sign five albums with us?

We respect you as writers.

And did you feel stressed though?

Yeah, and weirdly, I mean, Embrace did quite well.

You know, what's really funny is that when you, like, when you think about that time, because obviously there's certain bands that,

we can all remember because they're incredibly successful or maybe they have something that hit our hearts at the time.

But when I was rereading your book, there's an amazing amount of bands that you mentioned.

I was like, oh my God, I remember them.

You do a really brilliant thing where you list bands and they're like, some of them are real, some of them are not.

Some of them are successful, some of them are not.

And literally, there's like the Beekeepers, Luna, Feline, Proper, Lower, Arnold, the Dub Pistols.

Yes, we remember.

The Highbirds, The Aloof, Spooky Reuben, Sally Burgess.

You list all these ones, but then there's Finley Quay in there.