In the first interview about his new album, the Lancashire producer Jack Bowes talks to Fergal Kinney about Preston grime, absent fathers, and why he’s exhausted with the discussion about class in British music. CW: Mentions suicidal ideation
Set in the grimy pre-unification Berlin of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Einsturzende Neubauten, Christiane F. is a stylish, low-budget tale of teen heroin addicts with a cult following – now at risk of being commodified into an idea rather than anything real, finds David Robb