It dramatises all the stuff of Northern working class teenage life: Ford Fiestas, crappy takeaways and endless ladding about. His latest video, for forthcoming single ‘Befour’, was shot in Manchester’s grimy Miles Platting district just a few days ago. “When I go back to Bradford,” he says, “I just put me dad’s coat on and walk about. It feels like an oasis for a lost boy who can’t go down the real pub, but Zayn says he does sometimes get out into Realityland. There’s a One Direction platinum disc on the far wall and, above the door, a small plaque giving the names of Zayn’s maternal grandparents and the pub they ran, The Bradford Arms. There are a couple of taps, a collection of spooky skulls, some fake cobwebs probably left over from Halloween and a novelty beer helmet with funnels on it. Zayn’s got whisky in his tumbler and an emergency joint behind his ear. I like f***ing around with the nail gun…” “It’s in tribute to me grandad,” the lord of the manor explains of his booze-shed.
And there, across about a hundred square metres of lawn, connected to the main house by a rope bridge, is Zayn’s pub.
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Zayn Malik’s house is a big white cube with round windows and glass balconies, the sort of thing footballers would buy if they were too edgy for the faux-Georgian stuff. And by 8pm, we’re in a cab heading to London’s leafier edges, deep in the stockbroker belt. The shoot starts late and overruns to the point where we’re asked if we want to do the interview back at his “pub”.
“I called my security and I was like: I need to sort out a plane, I want to go home. So it wasn’t all that surprising when, not long after he’d been pictured with a girl who wasn’t his fiancée (Perrie Edwards of Little Mix) on a Thai beachfront, Zayn woke up knowing in his bones that he’d had enough of being in One Direction. In many ways, Zayn’s is a story we’ve all seen before: increasing ennui at being a children’s entertainer the uncomfortable growth of appetites – musical, sexual or pharmaceutical – beyond those suitable for 14-year-olds.
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