britpop – Page 4 – A-Side Glance

Entry #39 – Be Here Now (a.k.a This review took 1000 days to publish, I kid ye not)

Hello from the past. I’m writing this at the same time I’m typing up the review for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and normally I would just wait until I’ve done one before I move on to the other. Because the day I’m writing this is 21st August 2020, the 23rd anniversary of theContinue reading “Entry #39 – Be Here Now (a.k.a This review took 1000 days to publish, I kid ye not)”

Entry #31 – The La’s (a.k.a The Forgotten Four)

History has unfortunately dictated the La’s as one trick ponies, as the only song of theirs that you still hear these days is the bittersweetly romantic There She Goes. And, of course, they only have that one self-titled album to their name. Which is a crying shame because the La’s were a band with soContinue reading “Entry #31 – The La’s (a.k.a The Forgotten Four)”

Entry #29 – Urban Hymns (a.k.a One Last Hurrah)

I’ve actually been in the presence of Richard Ashcroft. The final days of the 20th century, around Christmas ‘99, in Oxford Street, doing a bit of shopping with my Mum pushing me around in my pram. He just happened to be there, with an air of ‘Do you know who I am?’ about him. NotContinue reading “Entry #29 – Urban Hymns (a.k.a One Last Hurrah)”