‘The three-day benders would put me in hospital now’: why I left the 90s music scene behind

2:30am PDT - October 16th, 2018    james karen - The Guardian (AU)

John Niven lived every part of the rock’n’roll lifestyle. Then one day at a gig, aged 35, he saw the fate awaiting him … The playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem, Mojo) and the musician Alex James (Blur, cheese) were staggering out of the Groucho Club back i…