Frank Kogan

A story of the decade for me (not the only one but, looking back, probably the most important) is the idea that nothing is ever lost anymore. All my favourite records of the last few years are reissues or first-time-commercially-available recordings from the pop's past. The internet has obviously helped unearth long-forgotten things too, things that didn't get much of a chance at the time or were simply out of their time.

The story here isn't so much that everything's available now. This is almost true - though you'd be surprised at how much stuff reissued in the 90s and early 00s is now OOP again and impossible to find even in digital form, and besides there's now too much "stuff" out there, more than any one person can ever get to grips with. Rather, the story is that I'm having re-think my view of the past as each new nugget is dug up and brought back into the light. In other words, my (main) story of the 00s is actually the re-writing of my stories of the 60s and 70s... and if I wanted to be argumentative about it, everyone's stories of those decades ought to be re-written.