On the eve of his new Netflix special, the Stath Lets Flats creator takes Esquire for a tour of his home town
“Just seeing those characters breathe and stuff, I think it absolutely makes up a huge percentage of my foundation for wanting to write characters.”
The pavements outside are frosty. Demetriou, wearing a big black puffer jacket and corduroy cap, takes me along Woodhouse Road, toward the house where his old indie-boys-with-cardigans band used to practice. Demetriou yearned to do big, soulful R&B ballads.We head towards Demetriou’s old school, a collection of anonymous three-storey newbuilds. It’s a lot bigger than when he went. “I definitely don't feel like I learnt anything, uh, academic. I mean, that's partly my fault.
We turn up a street of semis separated by concrete-posted fences, past an impractically slanted playing field. Those teenage years, when “you just lose days because something just got you,” are something he still draws on. One memory stands out.
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