Dr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Sorry about the sound but it’s worth it to see Glam-BritPop band Suede (No, I’m not calling them that other name) give one of the most blistering live television performances of the early BritPop era to the universe’s deadest industry audience ever.
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Suede- along with Placebo, who we will hear later in the playlist- is BritPop’s answer to David Bowie: Glamorous & unapologetically Queer: Drummer Simon Gilbert is gay, frontman Brett Anderson is bisexual and the song “Animal Nitrate” is about a particularly volatile gay relationship and the drug Amyl Nitrate
#ILikeToWatch #PrideMonth #BritPop #Suede
Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Suede released their most recent album “Autofiction” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwfEmRlRNFfRh22YDbQQ2vqb7T1zWx5XQ&si=mhv4fausBa-JrwzG) last year and it was one of my favorite albums of 2023. They’re currently on tour with Welsh “Cool Cymru” band The Manic Street Preachers and tbh they still got it! (see 2023’s Virgin Radio Sunset Sessions performance for proof: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTftnY8Ly9H2zI-z5L539HnJk&si=LP-plmqe6Dd82hCD)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Our first female fronted BritPop band on the playlist is Sleeper. They’re a London-based band that quickly became one of the most successful female fronted bands of the BritPop era. Some maybe remember them from their cover of Blondie’s “Atomic” (https://youtu.be/idonhqXpjAs?si=ooPeYRRHIwTs3OxL) from the first “Trainspotting” soundtrack.
#ILikeToWatch #Sleeper
SLEEPER - Atomic (TRAINSPOTTING Soundtrack)

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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
The band temporarily broke up for around 18yrs but as of 2017 they’re back on the road and making music. Their most recent album is 2021’s “This Time Tomorrow” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nS_AoYi5KAxDslYvr8Q6nJtmOX5zPVF88&si=yE-nvctY7orpgW3o).
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Gene was kind of a weird BritPop band in that the press and audiences may have loved them and for the most part when their Welsh frontman Martin Rossiter (currently works as a music educator for The British and Irish Modern Music Institute) came out as bisexual he got a fairly warm reception (he was more maligned for his Welsh socialism than his sexuality) but they were woefully under promoted so they sort of fizzled out due to frustration with it all by 2004.
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Gene’s show at Los Angeles’s The Troubadour in 2000 was broadcast over the internet in what was then a record-breaking webcast, screened to at over 60,000 people worldwide and was later released as the live album “Rising for Sunset” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUD5zovuYTAAN9qX2UmpDD_V7zQ4vWyCf&si=k0l1QJX8N7Ut9wPI)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
I think we all has some vague idea who double Mercury Music Prize winner PJ Harvey MBE is so.. here’s her song “Sheela- Na- Gig” the title refers to the Celtic folklore yonic statues. Her 2023 album “I Inside the Old Year Dying” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJ8jg3EaBClh0ZFzbeEOm73vIrlRbvJOU&si=iif-KTeeYvdIAc_J) was one of my favorites of last year. Also, a few months ago she did a really great Tiny Desk Concert (https://youtu.be/pSUgrhmtXIw?si=krte8x4wmGUGwTGy)
#ILikeToWatch #PJHarvey
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Ocean Colour Scene are an unlike most BritPop bands in that they’re bluesy. Similar to Gene, they had got shafted by record labels but still managed to be popular with critics and audiences. Unfortunately, Frontman Simon Fowler was forced to out himself as gay following blackmail from their former bass player (🤬) Unlike a lot of BritPop bands they never disbanded. In 2023 they released a retrospective boxset
#ILikeToWatch #PrideMonth #OceanColourScene
Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Irish band Lulabox were short lived (literally only together for a year!) and were moreso a shoegaze band but they had some BritPop-y type songs as well so.. yeah. Enjoy.
#ILikeToWatch #Lulabox
Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Gay Dad were a London-based band that unfortunately didn’t fully get their due because of accusations of favoritism/nepotism due to their frontman Cliff Jones being an active music journalist and their drummer Nick Crowe being a magazine publisher. That said, they did have the music to back it up but y’know.
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Joining them in the late 90s was nonbinary lesbian riotgrrl musician Charley Stone (they/she) on guitar. Following the band’s split in 2022, every member of the band continued to work in the music industry- with Jones and Crowe continuing their work in music and art journalism & publishing
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Kenickie were a Sunderland-based BritPop band that had a pop-punk bend to their music. Tbh they were more known for their onstage antics (they’d do some really funny skits and banter). Post their 1998 breakup, Frontwoman Lauren Laverne now works for BBC Radio you can listen to some of her stuff here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrv0l/episodes/downloads) & here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c000j)
#ILikeToWatch #Kenickie
BBC Radio 6 Music - The Lauren Laverne Podcast - Downloads

Podcast downloads for The Lauren Laverne Podcast

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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Most consider Lush to be a shoegaze band and they are but towards the end of their career they branched out into poppier fare "500 (Shake, Baby, Shake" was written by secondary frontwoman Emma Anderson about her Italian city car The Fiat 500. This is from “Lovelife” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n6Zmp0TNfq_1A6G8trF-O2BX6Cw5nV3xs&si=9U0YTSPAMIvamhNI), their most commercially successful album. The band officially broke up in 1998 following intense pressure from their record label & the tragic death by suicide of drummer Chris Acland.
#ILikeToWatch #Lush
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
The band briefly reunited in 2015 to make the “Blindspot” EP (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kGLAivBQeSwYZfxt_F8EIDuWnU52S5xhE&si=ans0XTBM9T3HpCLJ) before calling it quits for good. A short documentary titled “A Far From Home Movie” about Lush was released this year and it’s currently available on CriterionChannel (http://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/lush-a-far-from-home-movie)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Bloc Party are a London-based band that is technically a little after BritPop BUT they are extremely BritPop influenced (in addition to post-punk like Joy Division). Frontman Kele Okereke is openly gay and is on record as being influenced by A LOT of queer BritPop artists. Their most recent album was 2022’s “Alpha Games” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mP7ciB5vDxXG0pVEBElIPl9MGRG1i89jw&si=sXa9NLMuPJ4zgDeg)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
I think everyone knows who Garbage is so yeah. Shirley Manson (She/They), a longtime androgynous icon came out in recent years as nonbinary. The band is currently on the road and their most recent album is 2021’s “No Gods, No Masters” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mP7ciB5vDxXG0pVEBElIPl9MGRG1i89jw&si=sXa9NLMuPJ4zgDeg)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Popguns- TheWendy Morgan fronted, Brighton, England- based band The Popguns are one of the oldest bands on this playlist having started in the mid1980s (“Waiting for the Winter” is a 1989 release that pre-dates BritPop!) but that doesn’t mean they’re any less BritPop. They took a 16yr hiatus but as of 2012 they’re back both on the road and making music. They released an EP in 2023 called “Popism” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kKm6EwSrO7DgwGi-J-LBaLyDNl5lE2pb4&si=LbfLD7aPBQB121qr) that’s full of the jangly BritPop they do best.
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Kitchens of Distinction are a Tooting, London- based band that like Lush and Lulabox are a bit more shoegaze than BritPop but they have some pop-y type songs like this one that is unapologetically Gay because Frontman Patrick Fitzgerald is as well. They technically broke up for a bit in the early 90s but as of 2014 they’re back out on the road and they released the album “Folly” (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAIBfQz-dEXWt6jyTxV2u6S3-8CSAfWl&si=ZCu0356Lt2ovvkaR)
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Placebo is primarily the duo of Queer European multi-instrumentalists Stefan Olsdal (Gay and Swedish) and Brian Molko (They/He) (Nonbinary Bisexual and Belgian born but Scottish-American). Like Suede, Placebo was mentored by Bisexual icon David Bowie. To date, after 30yrs together all 8 of their studio albums have reached the Top 20 in the UK. Also, they’re one of my favorite bands
#ILikeToWatch #PrideMonth #Placebo
Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
Lead singer Brian Molko recently made headlines when Italy’s facist racist prime minister Giorgia Meloni had them investigated and sued for defamation because they called her facist and racist onstage (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/18/italy-investigates-brian-molko-placebo-singer-calls-giorgia-meloni-racist-fascist)
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Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’

Brian Molko criticised Giorgia Meloni during a concert at the Sonic Park festival

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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezJun 30, 2024
And finally: Elastica. Formerly of Suede: Justine Frischmann (also of Blur) and Justin Welch and a few friends. The band called it quits in 2001 after only 2 albums.
#ILikeToWatch #Elastica
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Also, for anyone interested I maintain playlists of cover songs that Suede (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfvAwScQtV_iKDzOmGYrOZ4E&si=sRkILVckga4Zc8xc), Placebo (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfvdmShZE-oPEh9oGNGaOeMG&si=F9hIwem7mDTVC6-8), Garbage (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfvs1Zy43kvsCc-NqNb5fY5c&si=x2ULYfNEViQTDrjS) and PJ Harvey (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfvxjNbzNQ_x39JYkl51OxZL&si=HM6_QXcj3cagRzQn) have done over the years
#ILikeToWatch #Suede #Placebo #Garbage #PJHarvey
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