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. (Still courtesy Brian Welsh/Wild Bunch)

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 […]

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