Event 183
Miranda Sawyer talks to Chris Power
Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs
– Wye Stage
Grab a backstage pass to Britpop’s Greatest Hits. When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. The journalist and author explores that mid-90s moment when British music suddenly meant everything, when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, Trainspotting was a global hit and fire-starting seemed like a good night out.
Travel back to the beating heart of the 1990s and relive the mad exhilaration of what it was like to hear Britpop – Oasis, Blur, Tricky, Pulp, Underworld, Manic Street Preachers, The Prodigy, Suede, Chemical Brothers, Garbage, Supergrass, Radiohead, PJ Harvey and more – for the very first time.
Sawyer discusses Uncommon People with writer and Guardian literary critic Chris Power.
