After my fellow Britpoppian, @BritpopMemories, shared his views on the highlights of 2018 I thought it only proper that I prove we are not the same person, or the product of some Russian bot farm, as none of you think by providing my own little list of good things from 2018. Are you sitting [...]
"I am missing that relationship with my brother, I literally woke up in tears this morning. I just want the relationship with my brother." (Matt Goss) At the height of the mania that surrounded Bros from the moment they set foot into the public sphere my cousin was a Brosette. Bandana around her neck, Grolsch [...]
The band who... Delivered a debut album that caught the ear of Noel Gallagher, who knows a thing or two about writing songs, and then went on to worm its way into the ears, hearts and souls of a dedicated group of fans. Shifted nearly three million copies of their second album...going platinum nine times [...]
Alright. I had a fine time. I'll stop doing that now. I have a memory of seeing Cast in a venue, half the size of the O2 Academy, at the height of the Britpop era...it was in Dundee, I had hair, I was two stone lighter and the future lay ahead of me; all glistening [...]
To the stars through difficulties In the year of two thousand and eighteen a strange, peculiar, wonderful and poorly written thing happened. This. The Mild Mannered Army. Of course the truth, as ever, is not quite as pure or simple as that. The truth is that The Mild Mannered Army started in July of 2014 [...]
Well, hello everyone.Here we all are again.Again.After publishing my list of the "definitive" records of the Britpop era I asked people to let me know which records they would have included, because I knew that there was no way everyone was going to agree with my choices and that some people were going to be [...]
Following on from my "Quintaginta" Britpop story, where I attempted to tell the story of the era in fifty "definitive" records I have decided to try and discover which of those songs is greatest... A series of mini battles will be waged in the Twittersphere between now and the end of 2018 culminating in one [...]
Manchester. So much to answer for. Home, at least spiritually, to some/most/all of the best bands ever to spring forth from the fertile soil of this sceptred isle. Something in the water. Tonight two of the best (the two best?) are sharing the stage. There is no support act. Not really. One is simply appearing [...]
When Sleeper played the Star Shaped Festival at the end of 2017 it was a wonderful reminder of quite how good they were. Every song they played sounded like it should have been a number one hit. Choruses that were so catchy that the Centre for Disease Control in the States along with the World [...]
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