On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir wrote:
Ah, the heady BritPop summer of '95. Happy days! oh, how i remember that magical summer of 95,, I had just turned 18 and was going to London for the first time- the city of Britpop( the wonder of it all).
That summer was a defining time in my life. I'd started University a year earlier, a reader of Q and a listener of Virgin 1215 -- an old fart before my time! However, in my first term, I fell in love with a girl who was a total indie-kid, which probably accelerated the change in my music taste. By the end of the year, I was an Oasis-T-Shirt wearing, NME-worshipping stereotype! My summer was spent going to see Oasis at Irvine Beach, T in the Park and Reading. I saw more live bands that summer than I have done in the rest of my life[1]! I was in record shops every week snapping up the 7"s that the papers were recommending. The week of the "Battle of the Britpop", I was in Belfast, relaxing in the sun with afore-mentioned girl. She got annoyed, though, because I bought Oasis and Blur, but not The Charlatans who were released the same week! It *was* a generation-defining moment, no matter what your opinions now of those bands involved.
I was watching bbc prime the other day and I saw a show called Britpop now- remember?
I've still got that show on tape. It also features the woe-fully underrated Powder with their hit-single "Aphrodisiac", which won brownie points just for mentioning the kids TV show "Crackerjack" (see also "Jackanory" in Country House)
it was in the blome of britpop and had: Blur(in school uniforms singing country house), Echobelly, Sleeper(oh they still exist), Elastica,Menswear and Supergrass,,, it took me back,,, some bands did come out of that area ok, and are still live and kicking and I dont mean to trash any of them.
Sleeper are rumoured to be no more. According to "those" in the "know" on uk.music.alternative, Ms Wener is now a solo artiste. The band wanted to split a while back, but decided (read: were forced) to stay together for the tour. Other rumours: Elastica have decided that everything they've recorded over the last year is shite (including the stuff recorded with Mark E Smith), and have wiped the tapes. Booo! Elastica at TitP'95 was one of the best concerts of my life.
But now I'm (almost) 21 and I look back to those days with a bit nostalgic mind I must say.
Me too! It's strange, but all I remember from that summer is hot sunny days, listening to great music, and metamorphising from the geek of old, to the geek of new!
on B&S content....ummm no I cant think of a thing.. I like them, did I mention that...?
Erm.... me neither... erm... I listened to If You're Feeling Sinister this morning, in the shower.
Could somebody pass Begbies homepage address to me, I've been to Sarahs and I want to judge which is better
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