Tony Blair Made Me Hardcore
The ‘rave nostalgia’ film Beats provides an image of collective joy with politicised resonances in the present.
Brian Welsh’s Beats follows a tried and tested feel-good formula; the ‘last night of adolescence’ movie. Two Glaswegian pals are going to be pulled apart by circumstance; Jonno is about to move to the Barratt-built suburbs with his aspirational mum and her new policeman husband, while Spanner is staying behind in the schemes with his […]