Beautiful youth
18 August 2005 @ 12:16
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Warhol-esque it was not. As usual the first programme - ‘The Britpop Story’ no less - was presented by some sudo-intellectual (not like me at all then…) wazock NME ‘journalist and author of a definitive study of the Britpop era’ (according to BBC4). He waxed lyrical on the great surge of British re-birth music (apparently this included Sleeper, Elastica and Manswear…) and the brilliance of Blur, Suede, Oasis, Suede, Pulp and, er, Suede, whilst not actually talking to anyone involved more than Justine Frishman and Graham Coxon - who spent most of the time being aggressive about Damon Albarn. Nice. And what was the legacy of Britpop, prey tell? Oasis are still here, you know! |
I tried to watch BBC4’s ‘Britpop Night’ on Tuesday, partly because I love abit of ‘pop culture’ and partly because I find it both exciting and worrying that I lived through and remember things that are now being regarded with pop culture nostalgia (OK, yes, I watched ‘Live Aid’ but it does not have that hazy rose-tinted remembrance of the summer of 1995).
