London's coke craze
Author: www.skrufff.com
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
The Independent On Sunday branded London ‘the cocaine capital of the world’ this week and claimed ‘the lack of stigma attached to the drug have led to ‘soaring use at every level of society’.
The paper interviewed Mixmag editor Nick Stevenson whose magazine reported last month that clubbers are increasingly ditching pills for powder as prices have dropped from £60 to £30 a gram in five years. Mixmag’s annual drug survey also revealed that one in ten of their readers now take two grams of cocaine a session; ‘the equivalent of 40 lines’ the Independent pointed out.
“This is not some dirty subculture, our readers are everyone who likes music, from students to civil servants,” Nick Stevenson told the paper, “and the price means it’s not just the preserve of rock stars”.
The Independent’s story prompted an amused response from rock star/ clubber Felix Buxton from Basement Jaxx, however, who admitted he has intimate knowledge of clubland coke culture. “How can they call London the cocaine capital of the world- All that means is that the journalists are thinking; ‘all our friends do coke so it must be so’,” Felix laughed.
“Generally I’ve noticed that as far as the music industry is concerned it’s usually the hangers-on who are doing coke; the great artists and people really doing things often don’t seem to do any drugs at all,” he mused. “I’ve done coke very occasionally but I remember taking it once years and years ago, going out and meeting a girl I’d been seeing and behaving like a complete wanker to her,” Felix confessed.
“When I got home I just thought to myself I don’t like the way I just was’. I was terrible to her, I was really mocking another human being and for what- The reality was that taking cocaine didn’t make me feel good, it just made me feel really shallow which is a basic coke thing. Sure it keeps you up and alert but I think it’s a wanker drug. It’s not good for the soul and that’s why I don’t do it.”
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