I was staff at the NME when ‘Daddys Gone’, the impossibly brilliant, desperately emotive single by Glasvegas landed on our desks. And I was staff when the group’s self-titled debut album followed. These were times when I - and I was far from alone in thinking this - thought that the Glasgow band were not only the best band on the planet, but would perhaps be the most important band for the following decade and maybe beyond. 

But hey, those were crazy times, we’re all a lot older now, and a lot has happened between now and then. Because the career of Glasvegas didn’t quite pan out that way. My career didn’t go anywhere like how I expected too. And so now it’s 2023 and me and singer James Allen are speaking via Zoom, and we’re attempting to fill in the blanks between when we met last and where we are now... 

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