First published in The Times, Friday August 12 2022
FOUR STARS
Edinburgh may be sweltering in the glare of a heatwave, but in the main room of the Charteris Centre (temporary home of Just the Tonic) we are in rain-soaked Aberdeen. Not to be confused with its Scottish namesake, the industrial city in the Pacific Northwest is notorious as the crime capital of Washington state and was once nicknamed “the hellhole of the Pacific”. It has also produced a startling number of artists and musicians, most notably Kurt Cobain of the rock band Nirvana.
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