John Robb lives in Manchester and was the first journalist to write about The Charlatans in the national press. In his acclaimed first book, The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop he evocatively captured the heady amphetamine rush of the rainy city's post house guitar boom. In We Are Rock he breathes the same stale air of the small clubs that gave birth to the bands, surfs the freaked excitement of the tight circle of creative minds at the centre of the storm, and bears witness to the birth of a music scene that now dominates Nineties British pop.
