Mid-Week Culture Blast

My ten best summer pop songs, on video, as of 14:12 on Wednesday 9 July.

Warning: this will all change by 14:13. No returns.

1. Dungarees. Warm ankles. Messing around with cars. Hedge hair. Gobs full of bananas. Fire escapes and the Empire State Building glowing behind three messy friends. They don’t seem to care about being left “here on my own”. I have never wanted to be in a band more.

2. New York clubs at night. Heat. Arthur Baker in the back of your cab. Pizza slices past midnight. Sweaty dancefloors. Four kids from the North-West leaping into another life. Being young.