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Just before premiering their brand new video for single ‘Synchronicity’ here and heading out to play some UK festival dates, Free Love, the girlfriend/ boyfriend synthpop duo of Lewis Cook and Suzi Rodden, FKA Happy Meals, lounged on the grass in a Glasgow park with Claire Sawers and talked clean buzzes, future utopias and why it was time for a new name
To see himself through lockdown, James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has been compiling tailor-made crossword puzzles for his family and friends. He tells Patrick Clarke about the therapeutic effects and extreme cultural wormholes they can inspire. Plus, solve an exclusive '80s indie crossword compiled by JDB himself!