Summertime
<p>&quot;When it was originally written it was one of the first, if not the first, songs I wrote when I came out of Take That and the feel of the song is a complete juxtapose of how I was at the time. When I wrote Summertime, which is a very euphoric, up song, I don&rsquo;t think I could have been anymore depressed, deluded, lost. I remember I went down to London in a pair of Vivian Westwood tartan bondage trousers, a pair of black Patrick Cox and a lovely white Vivian Westwood shirt... I was skinny as, a right proper raver, and I moved in with a lady on New Year's night, and by February I was just fat! Fat and horrible and lost, all over the place. That was when I met up with Ant Genn and we wrote the song together, Ant was my indie enfant terrible; I adored him 'cos he was cool as fuck and Northern and funny. I wanted to be him, but drugs took their tole on both of us. At least I have a lasting memory of an amazing yet catastrophic summer, plus I love the fact that little bunnies freeze in the snow.&quot;</p>