Crikey, there's a lot in there. Thought there would be more Pulp though with Jarvis a colleague of Lamacq and Whiley now, maybe there will be.
A slight cross-over from the other thread, but I wonder how much material of the band the Beeb have which hasn't ever been broadcast. Live footage of We Can Dance Again from the Prince's Trust gig in late '94 is the one thing that really springs to mind.
I'm all for radio but my ideal Britpop season would be loads of 90's gig footage on tv plus The Girlie Show As well as all this radio goodness. And plenty of PULP, INCLUDING Jarvis on Dear Dilemma.
Ta.
*edit: just noticed that it is bbc4 too and not all on radio...
-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Monday 17th of March 2014 07:02:43 PM
I agree! The boy with the French exchange student :)
Yes! Jarvis can't bring himself to condemn his faithless behaviour "Ah, but, you know, she was Frrrench..!". Funny, after that, that he ended up married to a French woman!
The BBC Britpop poll: use it or lose it to Coldplay
Steve Lamacq on Radio 6 is asking for Britpop anthem suggestions for a longlist of 30 songs to be voted on via the website somehow next week. He just said Shed Seven seem to be doing well - I'm afraid the only thing I know about Shed Seven is that they're from York, so I have no opinion on whether this is a good or bad thing, right county at least!
There's a bit more detail about what's going to be on here:
Looks like Sky Arts might be doing their own bit of Britpopness. I'm just watching Blur Parklive now then is Oasis live after. hopefully more to follow.
Ok so this season of programmes starts tonight and despite my better judgement I actually find myself looking forward to them. If nostalgia is an illness then I have a terminal case sadly. Lots of stuff going on but I suspect this may be the pick for us on the first day.
I found Miranda Sawyer's programme yesterday, about Britpop and the media, terrifyingly interesting. There was a bit where a tabloid (Mirror, was it?) journalist of the time was talking about how Sorted-gate was promoted from one sentence in a minor column to a front page crisis because it was a slow news day approaching deadline time.
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Indeed, very enjoyable and always nice to see it get recognition, for what it's worth. Guess it shouldn't be a surprise, it is well-loved, but I just expected Don't Look Back In Anger.
Good that Disco 2000 made the cut as well - the same day as that Guardian piece giving it as an example of a song that 'doesn't age well'!
Oasis vote split at 3 and 4, Blur vote surprisingly low, though not surprising that the far superior Girls and Boys ended up below the grating Parklife. I wasn;t at all sure what the impact of the Radio 2 audience on the vote might be, I thought it was quite possible they would all have voted for Wonderwall. I was wracking my brains trying to work out what the one remaining in the top few was going to be given there weren't enough Blur/Oasis/Pulp songs left, didn't manage to come up with Bitter Sweet Symphony, but it is a great song. D2K @ 9 meant the vote wasn't split. The Sept 94 session version doesn't convey anything like the ultimate power that the song came to have by the next summer, interesting as it is.
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Yeah, the Peel Session version is pretty embryonic. Goes out with a whimper when it peaks at the climax of the recorded version.
Surprised that The Verve #2 were included in the whole Britpop tale they've been weaving this week - thought they were sticking to the 1993-'96 kinda received wisdom version of the story.
I think they said at one point they were bracketing it from the death of Kurt Cobain to the death of Princess Diana, so that includes 1997, though it's all a bit random. Paul Weller is not exactly Britpop, just because he might have released a record in the right time period and been an alternative type.
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I've missed most of the britpop programmes, much to my chagrin. If anybody has ripped any of them please think about sharing. I wanted to listen to them all.
That was nice. Good old Nick. He seems to have a bit more swagger/confidence when interviewed compared to the rest of them, certainly since the reunion (not that any of them have done much press in that time). Might be down to having teenage kids, (they'll tear your insides out).
For those of us who don't have access to the BBC iPlayer (I live in the US) did anyone rip these at all or are they available to listen to them again anywhere?
Thanks much in advance!
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Programmes only stay on the iplayer for 7 days, even for those of us in the UK, for copyright reasons.
Ah! But it seems the BBC have saved this but as a clip - they do that sometimes with stuff which a) they think is interesting and b) only contains their own copyright material i.e. no music and so on:
It's become so hard to download iplayer stuff since Radio Downloader was asked to 'cease and desist'. I think the only way to do it now is to listen to it and capture the stream in real time. I'm sorry but I simply don't have the time to do that.