As the grungy sounds of the Pacific North-West broke into the mainstream in 1992, a rom-com set in Seattle featuring flannel-clad Generation Xers and guest-starring local heroes Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains hit the multiplexes. But Singles was no cynical cash-in – indeed, filmmaker Cameron Crowe had begun his earnest love letter to Seattle back when the idea of a Sub Pop band scoring multi-Platinum success was laughable. A former rock critic prodigy who’d been interviewing the likes of Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone magazine since he was 15 (inspiring his autobiographical Almost Famous), Crowe had broken into Hollywood scripting landmark teen movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, before making his directorial debut with Say Anything…, starring John Cusack as endearingly iconocl...
