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“Metroland is Burning”, with its dreamy, nostalgic ‘80s synths, sounds cheery enough on the surface but its lyrics seethe with rage. It’s a youthful fantasy of burning down an amusement park inside a shopping mall. Specifically: Metroland inside the MetroCentre in Gateshead. “Not the place there now, the one in my head from when I was a teenager,” explained singer Jonathan Higgs. With its teenage moods shifting between affection and angst