Tag Archives: Britpop

DEFINITELY A CLASSIC

What with the much heralded Oasis reunion and sold-out concerts everywhere, it seems fitting to revisit their first album. Some might say, why waste your time on those tossers? Well those tossers wrote some damned fine songs. And if we start chucking chaps out of the rock ’n’ roll circus for being jerks there’ll be […]

CAST AWAY

“If you gotta kill people, kill them with love, you fuckers!” John Power bellows at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire audience where his post-La’s band Cast are performing as part of their Troubled Times tour in 2012. As analysis of that extraordinary exhortation would require a major thesis*, we’ll just skip over his muddled proselytising and […]