weekend bits & bobs

• YouTube: BBC's The Britpop Story - pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.4 [30mins total]

• The Smiths on YouTube:
  UK Music Hall Of Fame [8mins. Includes Noel Gallagher & Bernard Butler]
  "The Queen Is Dead" [Manchester '86]

• Rufus Wainwright - "Casanova In Hell" [live cover of a new PSB song.]

• Elefant session-tracks, 2 electric and 2 acoustic.

• Catherine Wheel 7-song live set from '95.

• Jeremy Enigk 5-song session from '96, backed by a 9-piece orchestra.

• Vox Magazine 1996 cassette of radio-sessions turned into mp3s.

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation mixtape (Slowdive, Pulp, Blur, MMJ)

• TDR offers up 3 songs from good new English band Fields.

• Hotels are a good new band from Seattle who are now living in NYC:

Comments

[johnnylloydrollins]

thanks for the youtube britpop story..

I used to think that the "live forever" dvd was the definitive timeline of britpop.. but that bbc footage was more outlined and linear than the live forever dvd was.

thanks man.

cheers

[torr]

yep, the "live forever" documentary focused too much on just blur & oasis.

[johnnylloydrollins]

thats funny.. I thought the same thing.. and in the bbc footage.. I thought they did the opposite.. it was like if you combine the two you have a balanced footing on what really was "britpop"

whats funny is the seether chick gets the most face time in both!!!

hhaha..

she is hot! even preggers!! yeya!!

[Pete]

This BBC thing was by John Harris, the same guy who wrote the brilliant book The Last Party. It's really well written and brilliantly combines the story of Britpop, New Labour and the whole Cool Britannia of mid-to-late-'90s. Well worth checking out!