"Holy shit, I'm out of my fucking mind"

Could there be anything worse as a serious, well-respected music writer with leftfield tastes in both politics and tunes than suddenly discovering you're a racist Libertines fan? In a piece for Vice, John Doran, founder of the Quietus, has recalled the personality change he experienced after being knocked down by a van two years ago. On the surface it might seem absurd, even comic, and Doran doesn't deny that - but the reality, as he makes clear, was utterly terrifying.