Ah "The Quietus", the online music magazine where only the most obscure and most obtuse of bands will do. It's a safe haven for people who think that pop music is the lowest art form, a place for the sort of boys (and it usually is boys) who decide that a bands value lies in [...]
Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. It's five minutes before nine on a wet and windy Wednesday night on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street. Inside the O2 Academy something is stirring. There is a buzz of energy, a hum of anticipation, an awed reverence for that which is to come. Only one band can [...]
The Bluetones are on the road bringing their loyal (blue) army a celebration of their first ten years. That first decade includes four studio albums, three of which went top ten, and fourteen singles , thirteen of which went top forty, and overall a body of work that stands side by side with any British [...]
@Britpopmemories has more Britpop memories than most. A scroll through his Twitter feed reveals a rich library of old photos, magazine articles, anniversary reminders of key events/releases and all sorts of other Britpop loveliness. He joined me for a chat about our favourite Britpop albums...do you agree with our choices? Let me know in the [...]
Hitchin. It's a small town...a nowhere town? Fewer than forty thousand people live there. It's probably best known for...Valerie Singleton? Oh, Charles Dickens daughter and granddaughter came from Hitchin too. But that was a long time ago. And they probably only lived there...they were never real Hitchin folk. 0800 1994 097 "Thank you for calling [...]
25th April 1994. I'm in the attic bedroom of an elderly couple called Edna and Danny Stables. There is a bed, a TV and my stereo. I can hear Edna and Danny downstairs in the kitchen. Then things go quiet. A minute later Edna calls my name and I bound down the stairs. She leads [...]
Britpop wasn't just about pop. Britpop wasn't xenophobic. Britpop wasn't nationalistic...well, not in that way. Britpop was outwardly inward looking. Britpop was about the village green and spiders from mars, it was about the black and white of two-tone, it was about the technicolour of swinging sixties Carnaby Street, it was about outsiders winning over [...]
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