“Libraries gave us power/Then work came and made us free/What price now for a shallow piece of dignity?!” Hollers James...
This year has seen a number of Britpop survivors in sticky situations. Oasis briefly shuffled onto Glastonbury for a badly-received...
Its 1996, you could pick up Melody Maker for a mere £1.60 and read about real music by real writers...
Another Britpop band who I discovered through a tape that was given away with an issue of Smash Hits. I’ve...
Did anyone see Danny Baker’s Rockin’ Decades the other night (Feb 12) on BBC Four? The third and final part...
So we come to the Manics secret History. A collection of 35 b-sides and rarities is named “Lipstick Traces” after...
When Birmingham mod-rock revivalists Ocean Colour Scene arrived into the charts in 1996, a lot of people were unaware that...
It’s Thursday 27th January 1994. A band called Oasis are about to step on the stage at 328 Grays Inn...
(Continued from HERE: Musical Memories from 1984 – 1993) You can only like what you know, and you can only...
Although they’d been around as long as all the other Britpop bands, it wasn’t until 1996 that I heard Shed...
As someone who is about to turn 30 years old in 2014, it’s fair to say that Britpop was the...
As 1995 turned into 1996, Oasis became unavoidable. You could not escape from their music, and they were everywhere. Because...
When Britpop started booming, record labels devised a cunning plan to flog as many versions of each Dodgy single as...
I wish I could say that I’d heard of The Boo Radleys before they had a huge hit with this...
As we draw into the heart of Britpop Month on GIITTV, we shine the spotlight on another under appreciated band...