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 [...]
A low ceiling. A dark basement. A tiny stage. This is the definition of an intimate venue and, while I happen to think that Salad should be headlining Glastonbury and filling enormo-domes, the truth is that this is the perfect place to see one of the best bands of the nineties never to have enjoyed [...]
Look everyone...it's another Guardian article on Britpop! Hooray! This time its the TEN BEST songs of the entire era that forms the focus of this piece of "journalism". Our guide through the Britpop era is going to be Caroline Sullivan who, to be fair to her, appears to be better dressed than Wooly Willy from [...]
The portmanteau horror film returns in this classy piece of British cinema starring Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Andy Nyman (who co-directed along with Jeremy Dyson) and a very welcome return it is too. In the 1960's and 70's the portmanteau was a regular feature on the big screen with films like "Dr [...]
Ladies and gentlemen of the Britpop community...and it really is a community...here, from 2014, are the considered thoughts of a professional journalist on the biggest moment and movement in British popular music since the 1960's and, arguably, the last great British youth cultural movement. Before I present the argument from professional journalist Michael Hann why [...]
Back in 2014 WIRED ran an article by Graeme McMillan entitled "12 Tunes You Need to Know to Sound Like a Britpop Expert". Here is part of the introduction to that piece... "Worried that you don't know enough to bluff your way through any kind of discussion of the genre? You're in luck. We've compiled [...]
This is the tale of some Northern souls. Floating like a butterfly across a storm in Heaven. Singing urban hymns. Heading forth because they were not prepared to simply sit and wonder. Born without a silver spoon. This were The Verve. Wigan is the home to one of the most unusual youth subcultures in [...]
Right. First things first. I really don't care. I don't care that you think Daphne and Celeste were rubbish. I don't care that you think less of me for writing this gushing article (and believe me...I am going to gush). I don't care that you think that the fact they don't have greasy hair, bad [...]
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