GUEST COLUMN – Steve Rastin – “THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT”

You could take a walk through the streets of any town pre-COVID and witness gangs of kids hanging around and often creating (mostly) low level nuisance, primarily through sheer boredom.
Nowhere to go and nothing to do except stay in their bedrooms playing on their Xboxes and munching Pringles, something that they then get criticised for anyway by older generations who can’t wait to have a pop at “the bloody kids of today”.
The obvious solution would be under 18s gigs where young bands, DJs and soloists could take their first tentative steps into public performance and where their mates could hang out, but these events have been conspicuous only by their absence in North Wales in recent times.