Britpop Now - (BBC2 1995)

A selection of performances from the BBC archive celebrating all that is Britpop presented by Blur's Damon Albarn .

[@Bellocks1]

Damon and Graham: "Lets dress like country squires and not tell Alex and Dave".

[@markr.w8044]

This comment made me LOL for reals. Thank you!

[@REVOLREVOL]

i doubt graham got any choice

[@jilllmendoza]

Alex and Dave: “Let’s wear regular clothing and not tell Damon and Graham.”

[@user-xx1db5wu6i]

Lol

[@tlhull4460]

"We're not wearing that shite" - Alex and Dave

[@edwardbliss8931]

This is still better than all the commercial shit in 2023

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

There's a great underground punk scene in 2018 UK, lots of young mostly female acts - Hands Off Gretel, Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons, Louise Distras, The Kut, The Featherz, Maid of Ace, Hazard, Healthy Junkies, Wonk Unit. Dragster, Soap Girls etc etc

[@deckofcards87]

@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 Same here in Australia, loads of good underground Punk some of the best I've ever heard

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

@Alberto I'm not on about the aging riot grrrans which I'll grant you do pop up at Rebellion etc (although there are more beer-belly bloke bands of old geezers who reformed their old no-hope teen punk band after 35 years gap), I was talking about a bunch of really interesting young bands who happened to be mostly female/female led and who were afiliated to the punk scene in the UK in the late 2010s (although it's getting a bit more bridge-and-tunnel crowd since I wrote my comment in 2018.) Interestingly, the main UK champion of that generation of bands has been a guy in his 50s from Manchester called Steve Iles who ran the now defunct Stepunker KZbin channel and has worked as a fixer for bands to tour nationally, putting them in touch with venues and setting up transport/accomodation etc - all on the side of a delivery job at DHL.

[@gaudyeugene2016]

Blur - country house 1:31 Elastica - line up 5:40 The boo radleys - it's lulu 8:54 P J Harvey- meet ze monsta 11:35 Menswear - daydreamer 15:12 Echobelly - great things 17:18 Gene - London can you wait? 20:37 Supergrass - alright 24:13 Sleeper - inbetweener 26:48 Marion - I stopped dancing 30:10 Powder - afrodizyak 33:07 Pulp - Common People 37:21

[@flemwad]

+Lofan tai EXACTLY what i was looking for..tyvm

[@jamalb599]

Baaaawwwwsss

[@maxloraine1605]

Thank you

[@stevenwallace7002]

Wtf I forgot about menswear. Love them in the day. Still Gene are legends though. Sonya was and still is a babe the rest not interested. My opinion only.

[@DB-qj5kt]

No oasis in this

[@ichisanchi5334]

Ah, Louise Wener....she was a BIG part of my childhood. I spent a lot of time “thinking” about her.

[@bryskib9412]

Haha! Hell yeah mate, I just remember her perfect legs and miniskirts 😊

[@alerturner1963]

😉

[@painbow6528]

Ha ha wanking ha ha

[@jamalb599]

I think we cracked the code

[@stevenwallace7002]

More a Sonya fan myself

[@davidrobson1232]

Loved the britpop era,great times

[@LizHover]

Bloody brilliant. So many memories of seeing these bands live in the 90s.

[@inayyahh._]

licky

[@iainmair485]

The best times, the best sounds.

[@PD-fh4wj]

Certainly was mate

[@sherbert500]

worth sitting through just to watch pulp and Jarvis be awesome at the end

[@Maxim89Il]

It's great to see Damon Albarn, and there's some good music there, but except Blur and Pulp, none of the Britpop giants were there. It's very hard to talk about Britpop without Oasis, The Verve, the Manic Street Preachers, and Suede.

[@wahwahgaboor]

Supergrass were cool.. no Radiohead either

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

>The Verve, the Manic Street Preachers, and Suede I doubt any of these three would have agreed to join in. The lack of Oasis was remarked upon at the time and suspected to be due to politics between the Gallaghers and Damon.

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Oasis and the Noelrock bands (Cast, Northern Uproar, the general dirty green anorak brigade) were generally thought of as a different wing of Britpop. This is more the Camden faction from the Good Mixer.

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

add Manics - they had lost Richey just months earlier and were still recovering at this point.

[@warrenbeer2737]

Manics weren’t a Britpop band.

[@cbn1976]

Had this on VHS and watched it over and over again in the 90s !

[@inayyahh._]

luckyy

[@jonasgi]

Same here! For some reason Danish television got hold of this, and my mother taped it for me a friday night when I was out having fun. Thank you mummy :-)

[@cbn1976]

@@jonasgi Jeg er også dansker ;-)

[@jonasgi]

@@cbn1976 Haha!! Fedt :-) Der er vidst basis for et dansk britpop society

[@father042]

Marion was one of the most underrated britpop bands

[@PD-fh4wj]

Sadly Jaimie is a wreck now I believe.

[@scart1981]

My first gig was seeing Echobelly. Supported by Longpigs and The Mystics. Great times.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

The horror!!!

[@scart1981]

@@AnthonyMonaghan Nah, lovely stuff

[@spacemanrob96]

Ah I would've killed to see Longpigs live

[@FunkinBuz]

20 years ago, I loved this. I recorded it on VHS and wore the tape out with replays. Now, 20 years later, I still love the songs but some of the live performances are awful !!

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

They were a bunch of indie kids, they'd been brought up on the idea that it was sinful and "fake" to be a good performer. Or to dress up, or to make records that don't sound all raw and trebly.

[@inayyahh._]

lucky

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

@@inayyahh._ not really. I'm lucky I got to see Kenickie perform several times and bought all their CDs and saw Orlando support them that first time. I'm lucky I bought the MM Romo special and had my life changed by that and now have a big collection of demos by Plastic Fantastic, DexDexTer, Sexus and Viva (and a couple of the Hollywood demos - one day I shall bag the full set of 11) as well as Xav from DexDexTer's solo album all mastered and of course the released Orlando and Minty albums. But living through Blur vs Oasis?That Lucky? Nah.

[@inayyahh._]

@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 i wasn’t speaking to u ..

[@inayyahh._]

@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 i wasn’t speaking to u ..

[@ughcreature]

also stop going off at damon, he didn't choose what bands got to play and it's not his fault that oasis and suede aren't on there calm :")

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Brett was too busy doing Smack.

[@rigsby1454]

Suede and Oasis refused I believe

[@joevolpini4038]

I think Oasis wasn't there because they would of fought Blur backstage.

[@ughcreature]

i love the way damon says "boo radleys"

[@chriswilliams6795]

A pertinent reminder that behind the somewhat lazy all encompassing media moniker of 'Britpop' there were some some great songs. Oh, and Pulp: stupendous.

[@HEWHOTAWNS]

im def quoting this comment whenever i can. so real

[@quickflash2studios232]

I love how everyone in these comments has a different favourite!

[@markogorman8448]

Had my 20s in the 90s brilliant time... not mobile phone in sight people living in the moment

[@philltolkien5082]

Big metal / hard rock fan. I didn't get brit pop, but I watched this and listening to mark and lard most days at work help change my mind.

[@brendandoherty7819]

Mark and Lard!! Good lad 😉 they were awesome on Radio One in the afternoon. Absolutely epic humour, never been beaten.

[@warwickdumas2573]

Thank you for putting this up. I'm sure I missed it 20 years ago, fuck it at least people can catch up now. Here's to when the world was younger and life was simpler for all of us.

[@newhoodie18]

This is amazing thanks for sharing

[@nicolausnaibaho433]

Dude!! this record is genius! thanks for sharing it!

[@karlprime3991]

Thanks for putting this up, Marion were superb, also loved Gene, Sleeper, Echobelly and Pulp.

[@father042]

lol at Gaz Coombes and his epic Sideburns

[@cpbamber]

Superb! Loved it then watching repeatedly on VHS, and loved going back through those memories again now!

[@ImperialsExplainedStarWars]

Watching this took me back in time to 1995. I even got to meet two of the lead vocalists in this line-up after gigs that year.

[@sofiaplatini1148]

God I remember watching and filming and loving it and rewatching it on. VHS

[@smeightytwo]

remember watching this when I was 13. Pulp showed everyone else who the kiddies were

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Exactly. The only decent band in the studio.

[@zadiebuckley8830]

@@AnthonyMonaghan blur and menswear and elastica: am i a ~joke~ to you?

[@antwan.]

Gaz Coombs effortlessly slaying the competition as always

[@sunepedersen8537]

never thought PJ harvey was considered britpop, but i guess it makes sense

[@haircut.]

I was thinking the same

[@BLTKellys]

She wasn't Britpop, they just wanted as much credibility as they could get. The whole thing was bullshit.

[@sherlocksounds6987]

@@BLTKellys I always thought she fitted into the britpop category

[@SWPeake]

She definitely wasn’t Britpop

[@strzxgvnuvwvfld3597]

When this programme was first shown "Britpop" was only just starting to become commonly used and I don't think it had the specific definition it does today. It was more a catch-all term for emerging UK bands of the time. The press were using "new wave of new wave" to describe quite a few of these bands just a few months prior. You could've also added Radiohead or Portishead on this show and at the time and they would've fit, where as shortly after "Britpop" began to mean something quite specific.

[@amora_obscura]

pulp were absolutely perfect

[@marthallen]

i cant look into jarvis eyes kinda makes me blush

[@AdamJX]

Great upload. tnx from Israel

[@user-bd2bh1cw3p]

Damon Alabarn is a Genius!!Love Britpop!!!!! I,m 47 years old ,and i fully experienced that fantastic musical period❤

[@casaraku1]

The country and horns were a blur 2 me.... love elastica.

[@bigcheese2001]

LOVE the BRITPOP... but just figured that Country House on x2 speed is really fun :D :D :D

[@wolfebeardsnarl5691]

Ska 🤣 And seeing as oasis is missing, just listen to boo radley's on .75 speed🤡

[@anarchovegan9738]

BEST performance comes from Marion at 30.10 and Pulp at 37.21

[@jamalb599]

It’s Lulu always reminds me of the theme to Pugwall’s summer

[@strzxgvnuvwvfld3597]

hahah I've never noticed it before, but I can see where you're coming from!

[@deadlynightshade6581]

This takes me back to when I was 14 and obsessed with britpop especially Suede lol 😂

[@markgreet3543]

Britpop amazing times

[@thomas79marshall]

Menswear were like a Fast Show parody of britpop.

[@shamblesuk]

“Common People. National anthem for the Netto generation”. Brilliant.

[@ConceptCarMusic]

Hahaha, that Menswe@r tune is literally one fucking chord!!!

[@davidk6271]

Drummer on Elastica track sounds like he had a dodgy kebab the night before

[@jaysterling26]

Actually, it was healthy 'n' tasty but he wasn't used to that.

[@filipecoutinho5706]

Those old timers performing with blur are having the time of their lives kkkkkk

[@dermotoblong]

Marion. Fucking hell, it's like a revelation

[@TheAstronomyFloyd]

Does anybody know where I can get the newer version of this that was shown on BBC 4 about 2 years ago for Britpop's 20th anniversary? It was remastered and was longer including the likes of Oasis, and it was just titled Britpop at the BBC

[@TheAstronomyFloyd]

This one, is there anywhere I can find this? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0409s91

[@Harpdashian]

TheAstronomyFloyd It's shown on TV from time to time and was on BBC iPlayer recently but noticed it was gone when i looked for it yesterday.

[@inayyahh._]

OMG THIS IS THAT VIDEO 😢😢 britpop has ended now

[@verydirtyflow]

I wore this VHS out. Still amazed it took 5 people in menswear to do that

[@crouching0tter]

Poor Graham Coxon having to play the Oom Pah song.

[@piccupaul]

I always got the impression it was a song the whole band tried to distance themselves from after a while. It was precisely the kind of thing they buried with the following album (Blur). Still, it made them a ball of money so I doubt they dislike it THAT much.

[@zagozago9893]

I recall recording this when it aired. Only for my dolt of a brother to tape over it.

[@20centurygirl21]

damon's outfit😍

[@OkSharkey]

Goddamn I love Debbie Smith. She DJed at one of our gigs (the night Beckham get sent off against Argentina in '98) and at one point I noticed everyone was staring just above all our heads - turned out she'd put some lesbian porn on the projector screen behind us. Probably saved our bass player's life seeing as he'd worn an Argentina shirt and announced us as the world's best "Argentinian punk band."

[@danielespitia866]

I´M A CRAZY IN LOVE OF BRITPOP.

[@JohnTaylorMusicClips53]

Damon sounds changed... oh darling those dreadful days are behind me... fetch my wine deary

[@wheeliejim]

Echobelly sound amazing here..awesome guitarists..

[@ryansams1268]

Damon's "S's" are so whistley.

[@TheCinemaElite]

Bro I watched this when it aired

[@kokocostello972]

Blur is leader 😎😎😎

[@stevenfagan917]

For Pulp/ Marion and Echobelly the rest Ill leave to the dust thanks

[@jorgeenriquellaminarenas8895]

hola amigos, saludos donde encuentro los subtitulos en ingles ??

[@00retro]

So many bands had a logo then. Do they still have that?

[@dansimpson9214]

PJ Harvey transends all of these bands hands down. But its great to see Pulp, Echobelly, Sleeper and Elastica as these bands shaped my music tastes as a teenager.

[@titpisser]

In your stupid opinion.

[@darrenkaskie2648]

Completely transcends everyone else’s performances here.

[@eleanorferguson3421]

PJ Harvey best performance by a mile. Magnetic. Her performance here played a big part in my sexual awakening.

[@wanwans4147]

on saxophone Blur - country house are John Zorn?

[@lptomtom]

Goddammit Justine makes me feel all strange and bothered

[@painiscupcake5433]

Brett Anderson and Damon Albarn approves this comment

[@markfrench1177]

Classic forgotten British pop.

[@JoeVolpini]

Damon didn't want Oasis. He was afraid they would stole the show.

[@liamgallagherssexy1737]

HAHAA damon’s outfit in country house!!

[@iainmair485]

Many other 90’s bands not mentioned.

[@martinmullan3661]

Everybody Damon hadn't fallen out with i.e Suede and Oasis !

[@morellimark]

um what about shed 7

[@timeismyeverything]

Was thon boy from the Boo Radleys deliberately trying to look and dress like Dr Evil from Austin Powers?

[@markgreet3543]

If only there were more down to earth people in the world.but what's worst rich people acting poor or poor people trying to be rich

[@theartoffemaletvpresenters68]

34:54 Ouch! That false note.

[@forgottentelevisiondrama2750]

Tx: 16 August 1995

[@MyFlippinValentine]

I could have sworn that Oasis were featured on this when I watched it on TV

[@CarlDraper]

blimey, for me Supergrass the my favourite of the bunch. And bloody ell did Pulp go on for so long with Common People!

[@placidcasual9872]

I just want to shout out two bands missing here - Super Furry Animals - who are/where a criminally underrated band by those not in the know who produced a run of albums that stand comparison to most - also want to shout out the bluestones..... I know they had their limitations but I liked em back in the day lol

[@iggypopisgod9]

And Blur wonders why they never made it in the states....exhibit A

[@fluff2001]

Blur is like a joke .... Are they trying to be funny ? What the hell was UK thinking ? Oasis yes... Blur NO .......

[@emilialevitt4195]

don’t think they ever wondered that to be honest, they knew they were “defiantly british” at least during their britpop era and seemed at peace with that

[@Sekret1k]

well… few years later Gorillaz made it. So, i don‘t worry for mr. Albarn. Great times anyway

[@user-bj2lu9qt3o]

S u p e r g r a s s 🤩

[@MarkARhodie]

A few bands I'd never hears of.

[@tyronerodgers]

I can see why people are having a go at the line up of the program and sure Damon must be super embarrassed now. I remember as a 15 year old being super excited when I saw it announced in the TV schedule (of course pre Internet video) but as I watched it, towards the end, I did feel disappointed a tad (apart from Common People that is). Yes. Someone else curated the line up! Maybe Steve Sutherland from the NME? ha! But anyway, I still cringe at Blur wearing the upper class country attire on Country House. I am sure they were only taking the piss but even as a favorite band for me at the moment then as a teenager, I knew it looked shit.

[@alfsmith4936]

Yes.. They were far better when they pretended to be working class.

[@prochoicenotantivax119]

Damon dressed as a country squire haha

[@michaelsnow7252]

the coining of the phrase...

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

Nirvana and Alice and Chains were the best that Grunge had to offer; however, the glory of that era was short lived in the U.S. British music has no doubt been better over all and has had more longevity before and after. From a 'Yank.'

[@jaysterling26]

Nice 2 c a septic not being sceptic.

[@fluff2001]

Congratulations ......... You made the stupidest comment on KZbin for the day ......... Dude, you are really dumb or you're 12 years old and have no idea what you are talking about ......

[@austinsideburns]

What hapened to Marion? they had that late 90's indie sound at the wrong end of the decade

[@MrMmnngghh]

Blimey, who was botching the guitar levels at the mixing deck? All over the 'ockeh

[@borostu]

This is absolute peak Louise Wener. The rest of the vid is pretty forgettable, and I was a massive britpop fan circa 1995.

[@fac5275]

What joggers is Gaz wearing

[@tiggerdwc]

Gene ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jemima216]

Of course Nirvana's dominance of American music was over by 1994, as Damon's introduction states: Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 8th that year. Dear oh dear.

[@aewreddit2220]

But not grunge

[@keangutierrez3655]

​@@aewreddit2220Grunge in America is kinda slowly dying in 1994 and 1995 and is being overtaken by Punk-Rock and Power Pop bands like Green Day The Offspring and Weezer even Seattle joined the Power Pop scene with the band called The Presidents of the United States

[@fsheehanx1482]

What. Is. Damon. Wearing

[@edencollegeteacher4493]

This lad had no idea what Oasis was about to do

[@venomous1908]

Where's oasis?

[@flashboy2020]

I actually think the Powder song is really cool.

[@woutwout8398]

@@adrianh6182 what's your problem? Can't I like a song that you don't like.

[@matthewmcmillan8718]

Bona Drag... I absolutely agree. This is one of the best performances on here by a band that by all accounts struggled to get anywhere or acceptance. I think its brilliant and love Pearl Lowe.

[@butternutcrunch]

Gene hold up best. Class.

[@SuperRichierich77]

It is strange looking back at Britpop, I was 17 nearly 18 when this came on TV and loved the scene and bands especially Blur ( still do). Most of the artists became caricatures of themselves inflated by success and the media hype, underneath many were/are talented musicians/songwriters. Damon is a good example of this and likely looks back with a little embarrassment to this kind of umpa umpa/chas n dave/ carry on type performance, though he did change much on the Blur Blur album both musically and the way he became more 'himself' and less parody. He wasn't the only one. I agree with others that there were often some far better album songs than the singles for Blur. Oasis often wanted to distance themselves from the Britpop tag and the more arty/quirky elements so perhaps they wouldn't have done this show even if asked, plus there was already some animosity between Damon and the Gallagher's at this point.It could easily be argued that Oasis were more real but even this 'realness' got ramped up until they were somewhat parody too.

[@dakotaredband2093]

Richierich77

[@dakotaredband2093]

Did you really type all that. .. jesus

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Interesting how Louise Wener and John Stewart are BOTH playing black Gibsons after that whole "Telecasters=Good Gibson SG =Baaad" moral lecture he gave her in the guitar shop in 1994.

[@elfeling7187]

Noticeable absence of Oasis, which ought to have been mentioned (and I'm saying this as a definite pro-Blur fan!). Just amusing to see this twenty years later.

[@harismosaid]

only if suede, oasis, lightning seeds didn't captivated on that era..haha