The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
· 1 h 07 min · Episode 896
Episode The shameless age of Britpop in ‘the wildest year of the 90s’
Dominic Mohan saw Britpop on the inside from the showbiz desk of the Sun in the days when it sold 4.5m copies, a series of heated memories recorded in ‘1996: My Backstage Pass to the Wildest Year of Britain’s Wildest Decade’, a lost age of hedonism, stupidity, drunkenness and creativity. He makes a compelling case in this very funny and colourful podcast which stumbles into …
… the advice David Hepworth gave him when he was 16
… Euro 96 and headlines you couldn’t run now
… how the deaths of Kurt Cobain and John Smith changed the picture
… doorstepping Phil Collins’ ex-wife
… the wreath for Noel Gallagher “the fat dancer from Take That” sent to the Sun
… Cool Britannia and that brief love affair between music and politics
… on the dancefloor at the Labour Conference with Mo Mowlam, John Prescott and Chris Evans
… Knebworth 1996, the perfect marriage of alternative music and club culture with a £250,000 bar bill
… the debt Pulp, Oasis and Blur owe Ray Davies - “less the Godfather of Britpop, more a concerned uncle”
… is it hard to identify a new zeitgeist when people don’t congregate as much?
… the ‘reverse-ferret’ from American culture towards bespectacled blokes from Sheffield
… the shameless age before people public apology
… how the post-Spice Girls TV talent shows soaked up the budgets and column inches
… and Madonna dancing with Dennis Hopper.
Order copies of ‘1996’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/1996-Backstage-Wildest-Britains-Decade/dp/B0FZBZHPNR
The Barbican Show curated by Dominic: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/1996-a-celebration-of-the-wildest-year-of-britains-wildest
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