Thirty years since Blur beat Oasis in the Battle of Britpop, I chat with a lost Britpop hero about what really happened in the sparkly corners of the scene.
Category: Gigs
Live Forever: The ’90s in one song
I try very hard not to like Oasis in the mid-1990s, even wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of their rivals Blur, to the famous gigs in Knebworth Park. But something about Liam Gallagher’s agitated sense of hope gets my attention.
The drunk crucifer
It’s Christmas so here is the gift of chapter sixteen from my book, Connection is a Song: Coming Up and … More
A lost Britpop classic – Further by Geneva
We were spoilt in the mid 1990s, with new bands and new musical movements being touted every week by a … More
Connection is a Song – A book about you
Hello, it’s been a while since I posted here and that’s because I spent 2023 writing a book. It’s called … More
30 years of Little Baby Nothing, a hazy blackness descending
In my kitchen cupboard there’s a mug in red, black and white. It sits there next to the Leeds mug, … More
Jumbled pebbles of sound
I used to write pretty lists and carefully crafted summaries at the end of each year, imagining myself into a … More
The beautiful Caribou circle
“They’re like the band we’d create for ourselves,” we say. “They’re the band that seem to have got inside our … More
Lockdown LPs – Let’s play all our records!
Right. I’m going to do something I’ve always wanted to do: A near-300 LP DJ set over several months. The … More
Kate Bush: We need to check that you are human
From Cloudbusting to Captcha crunching: how the chase for Kate Bush tickets made us pine for days spent queuing in … More
For your savage amusement 