This was an absolute landmark moment in British music. I love the music exec types just looking on in stoney silence. Britpop had landed, and it didn't give a fu@k!
The Drowners was their debut single, but this was the one that really caught the attention of the wider public. It's easy to forget how different they were to everything else that was happening at the time. Such a great band, then and now.
@@davidholly9878 I wonder if someone is going to post the entire concert like they did for so many other shows especially since it was the last us show ?
"I never liked the Brits and I never will and I think the feeling is mutual. It seems to reward sales over art, scale over content: a glitzy shallow parade of facades and bottomless egos, a room of overfed men and overdressed women making underwhelming conversation. We stumbled unwashed into the party with faded second-hand clothes and badly dyed hair and went about conducting an unruly insurrection of a performance, throwing down our instruments at the end and storming off in a kind of frothy, arrogant tantrum. The sea of shocked faces that stared back at us was just grist to the mill. We felt so wonderfully out of place, revelling in the glorious incongruity: the flies in the ointment, the worms in the apple." Brett Anderson - Afternoons with the blinds down (2019)
Genuinely thrilling stuff - and hilarious - the tuxedoed stiffs in the audience didn't have a clue what was happening here. They truly were special (and still are).
children. on this night. everything changed as the days of phil collins and bryan adams ruling the charts were gone in favor of something new and exciting. brit-pop began here.
This performance and this song was great and fascinating, but Brit Pop was terrible except a few really band like Oasis,blur,manics, pulp and suede. Others are just rip off of something and just ride the movement.
This was a big moment in my teenage years, the music I loved from NME and Melody Maker and the chart show Indie Charts on prime time TV. You could feel something was happening.
Anybody who loved The Smiths had to be excited when these guys first arrived, I know I was. Lost interest after the first album. I don't even remember why. Maybe Butler leaving?
Somebody please help me!!! The shirt Justine is wearing. Button up with double(?) the buttons, is this a particular designer or label? This is the second type I have ran across this style shirt and I am clueless. The first instance is when I noticed Jimmy Page himself wearing a similar shirt in old photos. Thank you internet. And long live Suede 👍👍
Brett Anderson in all of his androgynous glory - I love the way he makes homophobic guys uncomfortable, and that’s because they won’t admit they find him attractive.
No-one does the bare midriff better!! combined with those hip movements and the sultry smouldering looks.................makes me think of some Sultan's favourite who he has just where he wants......!!!
At the time I found this painfully derivative and unoriginal. I figured they were supposed to be the new morrisey and marr. Lots of glam rock imagery and even of Magazine’s sound. Brit pop sort of came on to the scene pretending that the music of 15-20 yrs earlier never existed.
