Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

[Stuart Gardiner]

> > >Ah, the heady BritPop summer of '95.  Happy days!

Oh yes, I remember that summer well... (I'd love to be able to write the
rest of this in sepia, but it's a bit difficult on email... oh well,
you'll just have to imagine it...). I'd just finished school, waiting
anxiously for exam results to see if I'd got into Uni, lazy sunny days,
working in the local McDonalds. Oh dear, it doesn't seem quite so romantic
any more.

> 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! 
> 
I really got into indie music purely thanks to the Radcliffe graveyard
shift show. I remember listening to the first ever show he did on Radio 1
(and even a few of the shows he did on Radio 5 on Wednesday evenings - Hit
The North I think they were called) and thinking, yeah, it's really funny,
shame about the music. This was in a period of my life when my taste
wasn't very developed (Confession time: forget Menswear, anyone remember
the London Boys?!?) and Radcliffe's music seemed too obscure. But as time
went on, and I listened more and more, I came to love the music as much as
the comedy, and I haven't looked back since. The man is indeed a genius.
And that's where I first heard B&S...

By the way, the other DJ that has been mentioned recently is Chris Moyles;
and guess who is sitting in for Mark and Lard in the afternoon slot for
the next 2 weeks while they're on holiday...

> 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!
> 
I still remember the day of the denoument, the Sunday afternoon when the
chart was announced and we found out who had won. I wasn't anywhere near a
radio at the time, I was walking across a field carrying a sleeping bag
and some alcohol on my way to meet a friend to go with him to a party
('cos he had a car). After waiting outside his house for about an hour,
wondering who was number 1, I gave up and went home - it turned out I'd
got the time wrong and I should have been there an hour earlier. So I
missed the party, and still didn't find out until the next day what had
happened.

On a completely different (and almost entirely irrelevant) note, has
anyone out there seen Acetone live? They're described in this month's
Select as an "American Belle and Sebastian", and they're supporting
Spiritualised here on Saturday; is it worth turning up early for them?

Listee Maximus

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