![]() ![]() With the line “everyone is blond and everyone is beautiful”, I wasn’t slagging off Rotterdam – I was slagging off a certain type of person who exists everywhere. Let’s make sure he never comes back.” So they were trying to think of different excuses to move me on, like: “You can’t sit there, there’s a private party coming in.” I got really pissed off – and I wrote a short story that became a very bitchy song, scribbling it down while sitting there. They probably thought: “Oh God, we don’t want this bloke to be our regular. I wasn’t the sort the owners wanted in there. I’d probably been up all night drinking, I probably smelled, and I’d walked into their bar and plonked my bag down. It was in January 1996, about three in the afternoon. The bar was modern-looking and not friendly at all. I wrote the lyrics to Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) sitting in a bar on the north end of Lijnbaan, Rotterdam’s main shopping street.
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