Britpop : Time For Reevaluation?

Luke Haines
Crispin Hunt
Suggs
Curly-haired twat who used to drum for Stereophonics
Some bloke you don't recognise in a stupid hat
Skin

Junkie wife of dude from Supergrass

John Robb will be on it

Then I won't be watching it

At least one of Terrorvision.

Crispian Mills
Buster Bloodvessel
Danbert Nobacon
Bez
Crispin Glover
Beaky

Some bloke you don't recognise in a stupid hat = Shovel Out Of M People

Nah, I recognise Shovel. He's that bloke in the stupid hat out of M People.

I feel a Weakest Link "Some bloke you don't recognise in a stupid hat" Special is but months away

MC Tunes

Freddie Garrity
that dead bloke out of Lush
Mika
Jack White

Freddie's Dead

Phill Jupitus
COMEDIAN

xpost

So's that dead bloke out of Lush.

Is he?

This is how it goes: Pop star states a liking for some TV show. TV show exec gets overexcited, releases press statement about getting them on the show. Pop star says no.

Morrissey : Eurovision was the last one.

Phill Jupitus
COMEDIAN

Not when I saw him at Edinburgh festival.

I'd like to see an "all dead people" edition of TWL. Especially with Anne Robinson hosting.

Jamie Oliver
Jamie Bell
The Bridewell Taxis
Aleister Crowley
Dr Albarn

Shampoo
PJ & Duncan
Sean Maguire

The not famous Gallagher brother.

Pete Best
Pete Burns
Pete Hooton
Pete Noone
Pete's Dragon

PD Heaton FTW

take that

Jaz Mann
Leeroy out of The Prodigy

Jimmy Nail
The Mad Stuntman
John Selwyn Gummer

Jyoti Mishra
Scatman John
Sylvester Stallone's mum
the one out of Atomic Kitten who isn't a crackhead

I hate to break it to you jim, but the scatman has gone to the great jazz club in the sky.

Oh no! Say it ain't so!

He's scatting for Jesus now.

FUCK

RIP Big Fella. Heaven needed some dude with a big moustache.

"Scat Paradise" (EP) [*] (1995) #45 Japan

^^^ This was epic

Scatman John RIP

Shocker

The show's bosses...

"bosses"?? lol britspeak

its an american term tho, like poobah

Christopher Biggins
Guru Josh
Someone out of the Longpigs who isn't Richard Hawley
Someone out of Hepburn
A COMEDIAN you've never heard of but the BBC have this deal they can't get out of

Calum Waddell

Really am counting down the days until Calum turns up as a talking head on some BBC3 list show.

ILILX?

Dressed in a banana suit.

Why is Norway performing so well culturally in the 00s?
Why are their musicians willing to be more creative?
Does a smaller country facilitate music to thrive more easily compared to other larger European countries?

We surely have our share of really bad copies of English/American teen pop/MOR. It's just that you guys never get to hear that shit. It stays all over the radio here, without ever reaching abroad.

(Even if Idol is a completely ridiculous concept that does music no good, the acts that have come out of the Norwegian Idol are probably better than the average Idol act though - Margaret Berger has even released two excellent albums)

Let us discuss the group "Boys Wonder".

http://downwithtractors.blogspot.com/2008/01/boys-wonder-shine-on-me-expanded-second.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pagLNqe_eUg
http://www.myspace.com/boyswonder

OG proto britpop from 1987!

I mean, they weren't actually good or anything... but, still.

But this is not run of the mill rock’n’roll, it is decidedly English in flavour. Big Ben’s cockney vocal charm reflects everything that was essentially English about Anthony Newley, early Bowie (‘Love You Till Tuesday’) and the Small Faces on ‘Lazy Sunday’, while the hard and loud guitar pop has been compared to the finest moments of this country’s yob rock: The Who, Slade and the Sex Pistols. The national identity of their music is very important to the Boys.

“We want to sound as English as possible,” explains Ben. “A lot of people think it’s hard to sing in an English accent but I don’t find it hard at all. I think it’s more exciting… we’re from London and we want to get that London sound.”

http://www.chrishunt.biz/features38.html

I have only the vaguest memory of this shower, but I think they did get quite a bit of coverage when they were current? The singer in his get-up was something you saw a lot for a month or two back in the day. I suppose they were a bit proto-britpop in retrospect. Music was a bit nowt-nor-summat thought.

Weirdly, I just came across them again on youtube myself. They seemed to be featured in every single issue of i-D magazine between 86 and 88... but no one was 'aving it.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/6/1325942/boys%20wonder.mp3

http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2007/8/6/1325942/boys%20wonder%20dean%20final.mp3

Very interesting! I can't figure out why I don't remember this band at all.
I'm not sure whether I think they're all that good or not, but I can see how they would have seemed markedly different to what else was going on at the time.

That myspace is puzzling. Who would set up a page about this band just to zing them?