Mailbag: Steve McQueen answers more questions

Hey hombre, I thought you would like to check out the ever-explosive Laze extravaganza. Forget the rest of the Wirral scene, the Laze are gonna put West Kirby on the map. No I’m not talking about an A to Z of the Merseyside I’m talking a big map, one that you have to unfold a lot, a map of the ****ing universe squared. Anyway us damned ****s are playing the Zanzibar in Liverpool (again...) on the 15th of November. You'll never forget it or regret it! Shine the torch in the corner of the room... I think I just saw something move. Boulder 'n' avalanche. Dave Legend (Merseyside)

Ahem... well at least you’ve got some free advertising for the gig now.

Steve, please tell me - what is the future of music? Tell me what's 'hip' these days, to keep me from my Manics' & Menswear collection. Confused By The Present, Manchester

My advice: keep going through your Menswear and Manic’s collection, and remember to use the past as a reference point, not a home. Despite that, Britpop will probably be back in next couple of years anyway, we’re in the Recycling Age. We’ve done the full spherical loop and now we’re just going back on ourselves. There’s a re-occurring pattern with British music, it seems that we always get a painful nostalgia for the stuff that was ‘hip’ in the last 20 years ago. Not only are we a nation prone to this nostalgia, but we only seem to truly embrace something when we have a perspective on it, and that perspective my son, is time.

Why did New Orders ‘Blue Monday’ all of a sudden become more appealing? Go back to 1989 when you were in school, and try telling one of your mates you like New order!? More like Guns’n’Roses or Metallica! We only seem to really appreciate something once it’s been completely dissected and stood the test of time. So as for the future of music – you can only go so far before you start going back on yourself. I don’t know, maybe next year it’ll be Country ’n’ Western / Folk / Rap / Goth / Rock / Death / Metal.

I just want to know what size G.H.D’s you are using, and is your hair colour natural? Kelly (Huddersfield)

I don’t answer questions about my hair anymore, think of something else.

I’m writing with regards to the current ‘Reformation = Deformation’ feature and want to know how the **** you can start an article saying how great Teletext is, and end in saying how great the Clash where (sic). Sorry, that’s the most random hunk of shit I’ve ever read. Mr McQueen shed some light on this please, tell me I’m right? Anal invader (Bristol)

Teletext is great, the Clash are great.

Did you see how I did that?

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