Insomnia by Faithless. Live on a 1997 edition of Later… with Jools Holland.
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Britpop Now (BBC2 /1995)
And here is a mid-90s Britpop-related show. ‘Britpop Now‘ featured performances by Pulp, Blur, Supergrass, Elastica and others – and all with very little filler. Oasis are, however, notably missing.
Continue readingLithium / Polyphonic Spree
The Polyphonic Spree‘s cover of Nirvana‘s Lithium.
Perseus Galaxy / NASA
The deeply haunting sounds of the Perseus Galaxy‘s pressure waves, pitch shifted from 57 octaves below middle C. Via the NASA News Room.
It’s Grim Up North / The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
‘…Bradford, Buxton, Crewe, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan, Leeds, Northwich, Nantwich…’
‘…Manchester, Castleford, Skem, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Hali-fax, Bingley, Bramhall, Are all in the North…’
It’s Grim Up North by the The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. From the cancelled The Black Room.
Mad Rush / Philip Glass
Bulimic Beats / Catatonia
Bulimic Beats by Catatonia. From 1999’s Equally Cursed and Blessed.
All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre / ALISON COTTON
…gone full Clockwork Orange…
Classical music. Electronic-style.
Pulp
And today with have two Pulp documentaries.
No Sleep Till Sheffield: Pulp Go Public (1995)
Short and not particularly deep but a lovely throwback to the mid-90s. Also old enough that it still has (for whatever reason!) a random spot of Gary Glitter.
The Story Of… Pulp’s Common People (2006)
Longer and somewhat more in-depth, though with a tendency to wander off – the pub analysis was un-needed – and stray from from the narrative under construction. No obvious disgraced celebrities feature in this one but there was a small callout out to Rolf Harris and his stylophone.