"Live Forever - 25.000 fps" "Nuffin', nuffin'." " They turned to people and said..." " Oi!" ".."We're fuckin' brilliant." "You'll either listen to us or fuck off."" "And their attitude was "Oh, fuck that."" "That were right at the time, cos there wasn't anything." "I think a lot of young people had accepted... ..Conservative rule, and dole culture, and, er, daytime telly,... ..and, er, smoking a spliff for a living,... ..and going to the odd football match as, er, that was it." "You know, I think..." "Britain was dead in the '80s." " Terrible." " Yeah, absolutely." "Synthetic fuckin' rubbish." "I were growin' up in the '80s." "It were "What the fuck?"" "I think it was with Ecstasy, really." "I think that... ..it was the new posh designer drug, you know." "Once it... once..." "It was very exciting when it first happened." "Goin' to the Hacienda, and... ..and... ..literally listening to this music... ..which was fucking unspeakably rubbish." "And then you had an E,... ..and it was like listening to fuckin' classical music." "We get all over doin' it." "Travel about, and..." "It's top." "Better than workin', innit?" "That's the way I look at it." "Does everybody know that we're doin' an Oasis tribute band... ..or are you just gonna tell them how good it is?" " Who?" " You!" ""Tell us about your tribute band." "Oh, it's top!" "It's great!"" "It's an Oasis tribute band called Wonderwall." "And it's good, I'll go there now." "Carry on, Dean." " No, you're all right." " Self-indulgence." "Don't fuckin' interrupt me again." "I'm just lucky to have the part of Noel,... ..cos he finds it much easier to act like a twat." "( * Rock 'N' Roll Star)" "* I live my life in the city" "* But there's no easy way out" "* The day's moving just too fast for me" "* I need some time in the sunshine... *" "(* Pulp:" "This Is Hardcore)" "(* Blur:" "Debt Collector)" " (* Oasis:" "Rock 'N' Roll Star) - * Tonight" "* I'm a rock'n'roll star" "* Tonight" "* I'm a rock'n'roll star... *" "It was a decade of festivals." "People just didn't give a fuck, you know." " Rock 'N' Roll Star,..." " Cocaine." "..Live Forever, Cigarettes And Alcohol,... ..they're probably the three songs that sum up the '90s." " A lot of fun." " Ambition." "I don't think anyone thought about the consequences." "..more my thing." "I like to watch." "(* Stone Roses:" "Waterfall)" "* Chimes sing Sunday morn" "* Today's the day she's sworn" " * To steal what she never..." " lt was a sunny day." "The sunshine looked Day-Glo because of all the chemicals in the air." "There were thousands and thousands of teenagers there,... ..and I'd never seen so many..." "kids... ..um, smoking so much dope, and taking so many drugs." "* Tell me how" "* How does it feel" "People were really, really stoned." "On weed, and also on Ecstasy as well." "So it was a very, sort of, return of the '60s,... ..hallucinogenic type crowd." "* As the miles, they disappear" "It was a shit gig." "But it was a fantastic..." "The music, you know..." "From a technical point of view,... ..the wind was blowing the sound all over the place." "I don't think I got to hear one of the songs properly." "But that wasn't the point." "It was all them people there." "* She'll carry on through it all" "Spike Island.:" "that was the blueprint for my group." "We were then gonna become the biggest band in the world." "The Stone Roses, their impact,... ..and that gig, stretches so far beyond the gig itself and the music." "The Stone Roses need never have played a note at that gig,... ..the job was already done when the people were there." "* The hills as old as time" "Spike Island was a good feeling." "It was this feeling of space, a feeling of freedom,... ..after having been locked up... ..by 11 years of a Conservative government." "* Stands on shifting sands" "* The scales up in her hands *" "As the Scotland Yard inquiry gets under way, senior officers... ..have already said there was evidence of anarchists... (Margaret Thatcher) Ladies and gentlemen,... ..we're leaving Downing Street for the last time..." "..after eleven and a half wonderful years." "And we're very happy that we leave the United Kingdom... ..in a very, very much better state... ..than when we came here eleven and a half years ago." "(* Massive Attack:" "Blue Lines)" "When we were making Blue Lines,... ..it was the beginning of the post-Thatcher thing, the self." "It was all about self, and nothing about community at all." "I never felt that British, you know." "Everyone involved in making those records... ..came from totally different ethnic backgrounds, you know." "Jamaican, Barbadian, half-Italian for me, English." "There was never a British feel to it." "* ..existence just being" "* English upbringing, background Caribbean" "* It's the way that we ability, sharing a soliloquy *" "It always struck me about most British music,... ..in hip-hop and rock,... ..there was this weird lean towards Americanism in everyone's accents." "We never had the urge to do that, we always wanted to sound ourselves." "It wasn't the urge to sound British, or, like, er,... ..sort of, twee, or, you know." "It was trying to use references that meant something to us,... ..that people would get and pick up on." "(radio static)" "What happened after Spike Island... ..is that the Stone Roses completely fucked it up." "They were the group who were going to break through and make it." "And they didn't, because they lost their nerve." "And, so, um, there was a hole there,... ..um, within that particular aspect of pop/rock culture." "And that was very quickly filled by Nirvana,... ..and what became known as grunge." "( * Smells Like Teen Spirit)" "* Load up on drugs" "* Kill your friends" "* It's fun to lose" "* And to defend" "* She's overjoyed" "* Self-assured" "* Oh, no, I know a dirty... *" "Nirvana were incredibly forceful and incredibly powerful." "And one of the greatest rock groups of all time." "The... pendulum went back to America." "There's always this tick-tock, tick-tock thing... ..between the US and the UK." "Within the UK." "The US often does not give a toss about the UK." "So, within the UK, you suddenly had this grunge invasion." "And, actually,... ..the only decent group, really, were Nirvana." "* We can plant a house, we can build a tree" "* I don't even care, we can have all three" "* She said" "* She said" "* Said" "* Said" "* Said" "* Said" "* Said" "American bands were starting to dominate the music industry here,... ..rather like they are now." "You know, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, bands like that,... ..were cleaning up everywhere." "It was a groundswell of movement..." "Well, I mean, I wanted..." "I liked English music,... ..so I started representing English bands." "Blur started drinking here,... ..and Morrissey lived around here, and used to come in." "Pulp and Jarvis drank here, Suede did their interviews here." "Menswear formed in here... ..and, er, Elastica signed their deal in here,... ..famously on a matchbox." "Yeah, so a lot of significant bands were here." "(* Suede:" "Animal Nitrate)" "* Well, like his dad" "* You know that he's had" "* Animal nitrate in mind" "* Oh, in your council home" "* He jumped on your bones" "* Now you're taking it time after time" "* Oh, it turns you on" "* Oh" "* Now he has... *" "Select magazine wanted to do a feature about British bands." "Five of them, at the time, which was Suede, Pulp,... ..um, Denim, you know, who came out of Felt,... ..the Auteurs and St Etienne." "Three of those were representing my company,... ..so they obviously came through me to try and set it up." "They put Brett on the front with a Union Jack behind him,... ..which was not a great idea, really." "And I think it was "This is something that is uniquely ours."" "(* Blur:" "Parklife)" "* Oi!" "* Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as" "* Parklife" "* A morning soup can be avoided * lf you take a route straight through what is known as" "* Parklife" "* John's got brewer's droop, he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons" "* They love a bit of it" "* Parklife" "* Who's that gut lord marching'?" "* You should cut down on your pork life, mate, get some exercise" "It started when we..." "Our second tour of America,... ..and I just became very disillusioned with what I was doing." "I s'pose, because we travelled on a bus and went to obscure places,... ..I got quite a..." "It was quite insightful." "Er, and I started to make a lot of connections between home and America." "All these American things we embrace." "* Parklife" "* And it's not about you..." "Plastic mouldings and obesity,... ..and, er, money for nothing." "And fun pubs really annoyed me." "They rip everything out and replace it with plastic." "I saw it coming over and I started to write songs about it." "* ..all go hand in hand" "* Hand in hand through their" "* Parklife" "It became terrifying." "We went up to collect our fourth Brit,... ..and I think it was kinda dawning on us that, um,... ..everybody had taken it all very seriously,... ..and missed the point of what the record was about." "* Parklife" "* All the people" "* So many people" "* And they all go hand in hand" "* Hand in hand through their... *" "You did grow up in the East End." "A lot of people.... (Damon Albarn) Don't believe I grew up in the East End." "A lot of people slagged you off for being a fake mockney cockney." "I was what I was." "I was born in Whitechapel hospital,... ..and I lived in Leytonstone until I was nine." "I went to the same school as Jonathan Ross." "Then I moved to Colchester,... ..and I felt completely like a fish out of water." "It was a... ..an almost exclusively white community." "It was pretty racist still." "Um, they'd, they'd, um,..." "They'd taken to Thatcher's dream, and they'd really gone for it." "(* Blur:" "Girls And Boys)" "But the price of it was just sort of, er,... ..I felt was too much, really." "And I, and I felt very out of place." "The way the sort of, the environment was just fucked up." "And the colour and, sort of, vibrancy of the countryside... ..was destroyed." "And within a couple of years, and Thatcher,... ..there were just, was just this kind of urbanisation." "You know, it was literally..." "Fields I was playing in one year were housing estates the next." "* ..the police" "* Following the herd" "* Down to Greece" "* On holiday" " * Love in the '90s..." " We went on tour with Blur." "The Parklife tour, and what I remember most about it,... ..was one gig about halfway through at the Shepherd's Bush Empire." "I remember, we'd done our support slot,... ..I remember watching Blur on stage." "There's three tiers of balconies." "And watching them literally moving up and down." "And they were jam-packed... ..with 15-, 16-, 17-, 18-year-old kids." "And this was a generation that had only known one establishment,... ..one order." "The whole lot of them had grown up under Thatcherism and beyond." "And there was a sense of, kind of, excitement,... ..that something was changing, perhaps." "Perhaps that this music was foreshadowing something else." "The thing about Parklife, it did capture that, sort of,... ..that sense of freedom you finally got when you left the fifth form." "Just sitting around in parks, drinking cider and booting footballs." "* Du bist sehr schoen" "* But we haven't been introduced" "* Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls" "* Who do boys like they're girls... *" "I remember the night we finished the first ever edition of Loaded." "When I finished, I put Boys And Girls on, danced around the office." "It was exciting, and had edge." "And I remember listening to that record,... ..and every desk in the office had been cleared, cos we were moving." "And I was just about to tip my desk into a crate,... ..when the phone went,... ..and it was somebody from the Daily Express saying... ..had I heard whether or not Kurt Cobain was dead." "Fans of the American rock band Nirvana... ..have been mourning the death of the group's lead singer, Kurt Cobain." "The self-confessed heroin addict..." "He shot himself at his Seattle home." "A suicide note was found beside his body." "(Jon Savage) What happened with Kurt Cobain's suicide,... ..was that there was this vacuum." "And the music industry and the media industries abhor a vacuum." "And Oasis came along at just the right time." "( * Live Forever)" "At that time, it was just Phil Collins,... ..and all these boring people in boring bands." "Who were playing big gigs, but it was "You've got nowt to say."" ""You don't look like rock stars, you look like dicks in tights."" "Like summat off a pantomime, d'you know what I mean?" "It was time for some real lads to get up there and take charge." " I think that's what we did." " * As it soaks you to the bone" "* Maybe I just wanna fly" "* Wanna live, I don't wanna die" "* Maybe I just wanna breathe" "* Maybe I just don't believe" "* Maybe you're the same as me" "* We see things they'll never see" "* You and I are gonna live forever" "I didn't like music then." "Just played football and come in late for me tea." "And knocked on people's doors and ran off." "Ran through people's back gardens and pinched things." "What sort of things would you pinch?" "Clothes off the washing line." "If I thought they looked cool, I thought "I'll have that."" "Mountain bikes,... ..anything, lawn mowers." "You used to nick..." "nick lawn mowers?" "!" "Mm." "And sell 'em." "For weed." "* ..to cry, now's the time to find out why" "* I think you're the same as me" "* We see things they'll never see" "* You and I are gonna live forever" "(Noel Gallagher) Who'd want to write about daily life in Manchester?" "In a fuckin' block of flats, smokin' shit weed,... ..doin' nothin', you know." "My songs are all about just getting out the city, and, I dunno,... ..living a better life, really." "I wrote it in India House, on Whitworth Street, in Manchester." "Flat 47, fourth floor." "It's where all the beautiful people in Manchester used to live." "But I wrote it in, er,... ..my bedroom, and I'd just been listening to Exile On Main Street." "And the melody from the first line..." "* Maybe, I don't really wanna know..." "That's from..." "* May the good Lord shine a light on you" "It only took an evening to write." "I played it to the band the next day... ..and the day after we played it at a gig at Manchester Hop'N'Grape." "* ..forever" "* Gonna live forever" "* Gonna live forever" "* Gonna live forever... *" "They were their own nation state, their own principality of Oasis." "They didn't belong to anybody." "They were completely un-self-conscious." "They were volatile, you never knew what they'd say next." "They just didn't give a shit." "They didn't give a shit about what people thought about them." "And it was very much from the gut,... ..and I think we'd waited a very long time... ..to have British pop stars that were like that again,... ..and suddenly two came at once." "Give it up for Oasis, making their TV debut with Supersonic." "* I need to be myself" "* I can't be no-one else" "* I'm feeling supersonic" "* Give me gin and tonic" "* You can have it all" "* But how much do you want it?" "* You make me laugh" "* Give me your autograph" "* Can I ride with you" "* In your BMW?" "* You can sail with me... *" "It was huge, by London standards at that time." "We didn't have any restaurants you went to in that way." "So, er,... ..I remember going in there thinking "This must have cost a fortune!"" "It was beautiful, Art Deco, very much my style." "Good use of colour." "And everyone just felt this optimism from that point." "Everyone thought "Anything's possible", cos it worked." "(* The Verve:" "Bittersweet Symphony )" "* Cos it's a bittersweet" "* Symphony" "* This life" "* Tryin' to make ends meet" "* You're a slave to money" "* Then you die... *" "There was something going on." "A new generation had come of age." "They had grown up loathing and despising American mass culture." "Um, when it came to music, movies, TV,... ..um, computer games,... ..it was all America." "And I think a generation of Brits... ..who came of age in the mid-'90s really resented this." "You know, they felt a nationalistic resentment,... ..at the fact that America enjoyed this unchallenged cultural hegemony." "And, consequently, there emerged this protest movement, if you like,... ..this new music, these new fashions,... ..which were more anti-American... ..and British in a slightly caricatured way." "That was enough for, kinda, the world to go nuts for a little while... ..about London's Second Coming." "(swinging music)" "Confidence was something that, in the past, we'd left to Americans." "The Americans have tremendous confidence, but not much talent." "And it just seemed that all those discussions you've ever had,... ..like "Wouldn't it be great if..."" "Well, that's what happened in the '90s." ""If" happened." "(* Supergrass:" "Alright)" "* We are young" "* We run green" "* Keep our teeth nice and... *" " (* Elastica:" "Waking Up)" " I'd work very hard" "* But I'm lazy" "* I can't take the pressure and it's starting... *" " (* Sleeper:" "Inbetweener)" " You were just my inbetween" "* Just my inbetween" "* You're such an inbetweener *" "(* Radiohead:" "Street Spirit (Fade Out))" "* And fade" "* Out" "* Again... *" "Why would you wanna turn over when Oasis are here to see ya?" "And they're gonna play the first ever TV performance... ..of their brand-new song, it's the best song around,... ..it is Some Might Say!" "(crowd cheers)" "Oasis were on Top Of The Pops. I think Some Might Say was number one." "I remember watching them and I just cried." "I thought "Something is really changing here."" "* Some might say" "* That sunshine follows thunder" "* Go and tell it to..." "It must have been early May." "They'd just had the council elections,... ..and the Tories finally had got trounced, they were really trounced." "Somehow, by accident, by design,... ..somebody captures the mood of the moment with a song." "That, to me, was the making of Oasis." "* On our thoughts today cos they hold sway over time" "* Some might say" "* We will find a brighter day *" "As Britain approaches the end of the century,... ..we have been with the same masters now for 18 years." "(dog whimpers)" "We still have the talent, skills and inventiveness... ..that we've always had,:" "probably more so." "But in a rapidly changing world... ..we seem somehow to have lost our sense of purpose." "(dog snores)" "Now, someone has emerged who is determined to give it back to us." "It surprised me the way New Labour explicitly aligned themselves,... ..especially, with music." "New Labour, by definition, was very young." "Tony Blair was young." "There was a guy who played rock music when he was at university,... ..rather than traipsed along on demonstrations,... ..and supported worthy causes." "Were you familiar with his band, Ugly Rumours?" "I don't know his band Ugly Rumours." "I'm afraid I was more boring." "We were at Oxford the same time,... ..but I was more of a tedious, sort or, political-anorak type." "(* Oasis:" "The Masterplan)" "Labour has come home to you, so come home to us!" "Labour's coming home!" "1 7 years of hurt never stopped us dreaming." "Labour's coming home!" "(Peter Mandelson) Tony was trying to generate a new politics,... ..a freshness in politics." "He needed ways to symbolise that freshness." "Doing headers with Kevin Keegan,... ..or, you know, talking to Noel Gallagher,... ..or whatever it was." "He went out into the country." "He established Labour's credentials to create a connection... ..between the new politics we were trying to create... ..and the country as a whole." "(cheering and applause)" "Oi!" "There are seven people in this room tonight... ..who are giving a little bit of hope to young people in this country." "That is me, our kid,... ..Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White,... ..Alan McGee and Tony Blair." "If you've got anything about you,... ..you get up there and shake Tony Blair's hand, man." "He's the man." "Power to the people!" "Britain had been so uptight and so under the cosh... ..for so long, er, and at war with itself,... ..and at war with its identity." "The '80s was when Britain stopped being Great Britain,... ..and stopped living that myth that we were some great state,... ..and the outsiders came in through the '90s,... ..and, um,..." "..it was their turn." "(* Pulp:" "Party Hard)" "It was an exciting time." "It was like the reinvention of what was back in the '60s,... ..and punk." "Maybe..." "It was maybe reminiscing a bit of the past,... ..but with a forward vision." "English tradition is fantastic." "I love the pomp and snobbery of it." "And so to take that and create something new and modern... ..is, for me, just the way forward." "* Oh, this man is dangerous" "* He just shed his load on your best party frock *" "We've had these times where, er, Britain was exciting,... ..London was exciting,... ..and I think this gave us an excuse to say it was exciting again." "And it, and it just happened... ..at a time when there was a lot going on." "I was doing my bit on the road,... ..McQueen doing his bit in Paris,... ..the Gallaghers were doing it around the world. lt was a great time." "(* Underworld:" "Born Slippy )" "* Drag boy, dog boy, dirty numb angel boy" "* In a doorway boy, she was a lipstick boy" "* She was a beautiful boy, and tears boy" "There's a kind of Jaws element to it." "If you just go "Right, I'll take that thing that scares you from Jaws... ..and put it there."" "All I had was an idea that I wanted it to be big enough to eat you,... ..and summat that could frighten you." "Not a painting, not a sculpture and not a lightbox." "I just wanted this thing that, that could create that actual fear." "But, then, I suppose, you know,... ..there was something in those times that made everybody feel... ..it was possible to go that bit further and larger." "* Drag boy, dog boy, dirty numb angel boy" "* In a doorway boy, she was a lipstick boy" "* She was a beautiful boy, and tears boy" "* And all in your inner space boy" "* You had hands girl boy" "We were never gonna make paintings and wait for somebody to come along." "It just wasn't like that." "It was, like, we couldn't wait..." "We were just "C'mon, let's get building, go out there and do it."" "The things we made didn't function unless they were in a space... ..with people looking at them." ""Now underpants are art."" "I remember the Daily Star standing in front of the fish piece,... ..with a bag of chips." "You get all that stuff." "People don't realise..." "They think that art's so sensational,... ..when really it's the stuff in newspapers which is more sensational." "When you actually go there..." "Like the cow and calf cut in half." "There's summat really sort of sad and tragic about it... ..when you see it again." "The same with the shark." "But, then, you know, we do have a few heads blown off and things in there." "We're not averse to that." "(* Blur:" "Country House)" "* And so the story begins" "* City dweller" "* Successful fella" "* Thought to himself "Oops, I've got a lot of money"" "* Caught in the rat-race terminally" "* I'm a professional cynic" "* But my heart's not in it" "The video was quite Benny Hill, wasn't it?" "(Damien Hirst) That's what I did." "I put on the thing "Very Benny Hill"." "That was the whole scripts for it." "I did..." "Damon cut out a load of shots, which was really bad,... ..cos he didn't wanna alienate his female fans." "I had, er, Jo Guest, in a nurse's uniform,... ..running on the spot, with big in-and-out cleavage shots." "In a way, for me, that kinda made it." "It was always..." "I think the song was kinda like that, know what I mean,... ..at the end of the day." "* Blow me out" "* I am so sad" "* I don't know... *" "Two of Britain's most popular pop groups... ..have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years." "The Manchester band Oasis... ..and their arch rivals, Blur, released new singles today,... ..each hoping to reach the number-one spot next week." "The music industry hasn't seen anything like it... ..since the Beatles fought it out with the Rolling Stones." "The NME wanted to stoke the fires of a war between Blur and Oasis... ..and stand back and see who survived." "Um, Blur fell for it a bit too much." "I don't think Oasis were too worried by it." "I think everybody at the NME wanted Blur to win that war,... ..because, you know, they were nice, middle-class boys,... ..and the NME was an Oxbridge paper." "Um, they were a bit annoyed... ..when the working-class oiks from Manchester won out." "And there was that whole nonsense between you and Oasis." "I mean, how did that all come about?" "Er..." " We don't need to talk about that." " OK." "Just because, er,... ..everyone knows about that, you know." "For you, that must have been..." "I'm not gonna tell you the real reason why." "Because, er, you know,... ..there are other people involved..." "..in the real reason why we fell out so, er, kind of, publicly." "It's been described as the British heavyweight pop music championship." "In one corner, four young middle-class men from the South,... ..collectively known as Blur." "In the other corner, five young working-class men from Manchester,..." " ..called Oasis." " * You gotta roll with it" "* You gotta take your time" "* You gotta say what you say... *" "They're the two most popular bands in Britain,... ..having sold millions of records." "They're engaged in a chart war... ..that's set the music industry alight." "We are now in the golden era again of British pop music." "These are two groups, Oasis and Blur,... ..who actually formed on the indie circuit,... ..who have grown more and more popular... ..through playing lots of gigs around the country,... ..and who have now crossed right over to the public at large,..." "..and are duking it out, to see who is the biggest." "The way I see it is Steve Sutherland saying to Damon Albarn,..." ""Release a single on the same day as them."" ""We'll sell a shitload of papers and you'll sell a shitload of records."" "That's the way I see it." "We were quite offended at the time." "We were sat in Rockfield and Alan McGee come and said... .."Well, they've moved their single back."" "They had it ready to go two weeks before,... ..and they decided to move it back so it was on the same day as ours." "And, um,... ..Alan McGee and that were saying... .."Well, just, like, move yours back again."" "And we were saying "No, fuck that."" "So, it was a chance, their last chance, really,... ..to drag themselves up on the coat-tails of my band, really." "And, you know, the NME losing readers by the thousands every week..." "Um..." "I suppose... ..it was summat they didn't think would get as out of hand as it did." "But, then again, you get Damon Albarn on the ten o'clock news, you know." "I ask you, what the fuck is all that about, you know?" "When the record-shop doors opened this morning,... ..battle commenced." "The chances are both singles could have been number one... ..had they been released on separate weeks." "I'm a little nervous about the whole thing." "Obviously, because both bands have really upped the stakes,... ..and someone's gonna come out on top and someone's gonna come second." "And by the very nature of being in a band... ..you're always quite competitive... ..and, um, you wanna come top, really." "I found myself on the News At Ten... ..in this kind of... battle." "Supposed battle." "All really odd." "You were saying to me last time we met that, you know,... ..when you were walking around in the street, you were getting..." " ..heckled." " Yeah." "But also cheered as well." "I don't think it's..." "I don't wanna cast myself as, like,... ..you know,... ..you know, poor little Damon, everyone started picking on him." "Just..." "It wasn't really like that." "But it was a bit unnerving on occasions." "I mean,... ..everywhere I went,..." "..l'd be reminded of it." "Blur didn't come out of it too well." "They were the middle-class band,... ..and you guys were the working-class heroes." "I wouldn't say Blur didn't come out of it well,... ..but that's what they are." "And that's what we are." "You can't, you know, you can't..." "Don't dress it up and make it summat that it's not." "They've never been on a building site." "Not to say that that's..." "You know, not to say that the dirt under your fingernails... ..is some sort of badge of honour." "It's not." "It's just a fact." "They never had a paper round, you know." "I had a milk round and stuff like that." "Um,... ..I worked on building sites." "That fundamentally makes my soul a lot more purer than theirs." "The strange thing about it... ..is that you were suddenly..." "Blur were the, sort of, inauthentic, middle-class pop band,... ..and Oasis were the real, gritty, working-class heroes." "Mm." "How did you feel about that?" "That was a very intelligent observation by whoever made it(!" ")" "What do I think about it?" "Yeah." "Well, how did you feel?" " That whole time..." " How did I feel?" "I felt stupid." "And I felt, er,... (sighs)" "I just felt... very confused." "Basically." "Didn't really... realise that my, kind of, flippancy... ..was gonna have such, um,..." "..you know,... ..a profound sort of resonance in my life." "And, um, I changed quite dramatically after that period." "(* Massive Attack:" "Protection)" "* This girl I know" "* Needs some shelter... *" "I just didn't understand why... ..two bands suddenly became the barometer for the whole music scene." "For us, and other bands, who were not at all interested,... ..it became a little more difficult to make your presence felt,... ..because you had to have this kind of..." "You had to be part of this great, sort of, this battle,... ..almost take sides,... ..and you weren't interested in the fucking first place." "So you just got on with it and waited for it to abate." "For us, and for other bands living in Bristol,... ..I think the last ten years have been the most creative of our lives." "* (Portishead:" "Roads)" " (* Pulp:" "Misshapes) - * ..on a diet of broken biscuits" "* Oh, we don't look the same as you" "* And we don't do the things you do" "* But we live round here too, oh, really" "* Misshapes, mistakes, misfits" "* We'd like to go to town, but we can't... *" "Around that time, it seemed like something was happening." "It was exciting for me, because... ..it seemed like... ..there'd been this long, you know, long period of time... ..when, um,..." "..things from the kind of world I was from... ..were considered very marginal." "A lot of people were considered marginal,... ..because if you lived on the dole in the mid-to-late '80s,... ..you were just scum of the earth, weren't you?" "And, er, I suppose it was on the back of Thatcher's Britain,... ..so you were kind of used to being this kind of marginal piece of turd." "And then, suddenly, the piece of turd was moved into centre stage." "So that, that felt exciting." "It felt like... ..a revolution was in progress, or something." "( * Common People)" "(wild cheering)" "That song you did, Common People,..." "Mm." "..I heard it described... ..as the perfect encapsulation of the Britpop aesthetic." "Oh, dear." "Right." "* Wanna sleep with common people" "* I wanna sleep with" "* Common people, like you" "It was only a real story that had happened when I was at art college." "This Greek girl did say she wanted to move to Hackney, actually,... ..and live like the common people." "And me saying that couldn't happen,... ..because she could live in those circumstances,... ..but she would just be acting a role,... ..because she knew she could always escape from it." "* So it started there" "* I said "Pretend you got no money."" "* But she just laughed and said" "* "Oh, you're so funny!"" "* I said "Yeah." Huh." "* "But I can't see anyone else smiling here."" "* Are you sure..." "* You wanna live like common people?" "* You wanna see whatever common people see?" "* Wanna sleep with common people?" "* You wanna sleep with common people like me?" "*" "Working-class culture was often sneered at as being crude and stuff." "Then suddenly... ..people... ..maybe cottoned on to the fact that it was a bit more alive... ..than the supposedly highbrow culture." "And, so,... ..were desperate to say they'd been hanging around with some..." "You know, "I went to a great caff."" ""It was really, you know, authentic." "The cutlery was so dirty."" "It's not a choice that's made for you." "You don't leave school and go... (upper-class) "It's important that I'm working-class."" "That's just the way that I was born." "I was born into a fucking life... ..of menial fucking jobs." "My dad was a labourer,... ..my mam was a cleaner and a dinner lady." "Um..." "And that was it, you know." "What aspirations did we have?" "None." "All we had was rock'n'roll." "It were an explosion, weren't it?" "Yeah, it was quite mad." "They got that big that..." "Every pub you went in, Oasis tunes were on." "Every venue in England..." "All of a sudden, when you get that big, there wasn't any." "You'll get three gigs in the country out of Oasis." "That's where we fill in the gaps, because they couldn't get to see 'em." "So when did Wonderwall start?" "Er, ninety... '96, were it?" "(* Oasis:" "Wonderwall)" "Summat like that." "A long time ago." "Done some fuckin' miles on the road." "We have, yeah." "It's a long time." "We had a mad couple of year... ..when Don't Look Back and all that were released." " It were... fucking unbelievable." " Silly." "Probably busier than Oasis, us." "* Today is gonna be the day" "* That they're gonna throw it back to you" "* By now, you shoulda somehow" "* Realised what you gotta do" "* I don't believe that anybody..." "What's a wonderwall, Dean?" "It's s'posed to be about his bird." "Meg Matthews at the time, he wrote it for her." " Wall face?" "!" " She went "What?" "!"" ""What the hell does that mean?"" ""You saying I've got a face like a wall?"" "* ..in your heart is out" "* I'm sure you've heard it all before" "* But you never really had a doubt" "* I don't believe that anybody" "* Feels the way I do" "* About you now *" "(Noel Gallagher) When Morning Glory come out,... ..it got universally slated by the British press." "And then it went on,... ..you know, to do whatever it done." "It was just madness." "We sold more singles than people sold albums." "I think... ..Don't Look Back In Anger sold well over a million singles." "* ..but I don't know how *" "I personally think Definitely Maybe is a far better album." "And for the life of me, I can't understand... ..why, in this country in particular,... ..when people bought Morning Glory, they didn't buy Definitely Maybe." "And I'd like to say, where do you fucking get off on that?" "When you go to HMV to buy Morning Glory,... ..you don't buy Definitely Maybe." "What's that all about?" "Do you just do it to piss me off?" "I would..." "It's a source of..." "I could think about that for hours." "Have you got Definitely Maybe?" "And Morning..." "See?" "Now, I can understand that." "People are fucking weird." "(* Mike Flowers Pops:" "Wonderwall)" "* And maybe" "* Are you gonna be the one that saves me?" "* And after all" "* You're my wonderwall *" "(helicopter)" "(* Oasis:" "Champagne Supernova)" "* Faster than a cannonball" "* Where were you while we were getting high?" "* Someday you will find me" "* Caught beneath the landslide" "* In a champagne supernova in the sky" "* Someday you will find me" "* Caught beneath the landslide" "When I stood at Knebworth and watched Oasis,... ..I turned to Alan McGee and said... .."This is it, the battle has been won."" "It seemed that throughout that time in the '80s,... ..when we were putting on bands in little clubs,... ..or doing fanzines, doing flexi-discs or records,... ..or just trying to get an article about a small band on the radio,..." "..or an article on a small band in the music press, or what have you,... ..it seemed like everything that had been done..." "..was, was finalised at Knebworth." "That's what it felt like." "Here was the greatest band in the world, the biggest band in the world." "For once, the biggest band in the world were the best in the world." "* Slowly walking down the hall" "* Faster than a cannonball" "* Where were you while we were getting high?" "* Someday you will find me" "* Caught beneath the landslide" "* In a champagne supernova in the sky" "* Someday you will find me" "* Caught beneath the landslide" "* In a champagne supernova" "* A champagne supernova" "* Cos people believe" "* That they're gonna get away for the summer" "Were you aware at the time that you were making history?" "Um..." "I think everything..." "It got to a certain point after Morning Glory come out,... ..and Wonderwall took off,... ..it felt like everything was leading up to something that would define,... ..er, not only the size of the band,..." "..but what British pop music was about at that time." "So it all felt like it was leading to Knebworth." "But, you know, we were too busy..." "I think we were too busy doing it to worry about..." "But I think if we'd have sat down... ..and calculated we were gonna make history, we'd have..." "I'd have certainly worn a better outfit, put it that way." "I may have gone to bed earlier and tried to keep Liam off the sauce." "This one's for..." "This one's for, like, anyone." "(* Wonderwall)" "(wild cheering)" "We'll have less of that." "Calm fucking down." "(crowd clap in rhythm)" "(Scouse) Calm down!" "The biggest free-standing gig in history." "Mm." "I'm very proud of that." "What do you remember of that day?" "Nothing." "Not a lot, really." "I remember forgetting..." "I thought we were only doing one night." "And then we done the second." "So I got really drunk after the first night." "I can't remember anything else." "* Today is gonna be the day" "* That they're gonna throw it back to you" "* By now, you shoulda somehow" "* Realised what you're not to do" "* I don't believe that anybody" "* Feels the way I do" "* About you now" "What are the characteristics of a great rock band?" "Havin' it." "Just havin' it." "I don't know what it is." "You've just gotta have it, and I've got it." "* I'm sure you've heard it all before" "And by us havin' it,... ..hopefully some other people will learn how to have it." "Know what I mean?" "* About you now" "* And all the roads we have to walk are winding" "* And all the lights that light the way are blinding" "* There are many things that I" "* Would like to say to you" "* But I don't know how" "Do you enjoy the celebrity?" "In the beginning, of course." "I loved all that at the beginning." "Meeting people you'd only seen on telly." "And, um,... ..you know, supermodels and all that stuff." "Actors and all that." "Yeah." "Meeting Ewan McGregor for the first time was fucking ace." "Uh." "Ahhh." "Ah-ha!" "Uh." "(train horn)" "Danny Boyle did a very clever thing." "He brought all the Britpop luminaries and whoever in,... ..and asked them all to do songs for it and we just kind of did it." "And it was cool, it was good fun." "The whole of creativity that came off the streets, er, surprised people." "They were making Hollywood movies... ..about... ..tales of smack addiction... ..in tenements in Glasgow." "What was all that about?" "* Oh" "* A-ha, make me tonight" "I had a fucking great time." "And, er, every single day... ..between 1 994, spring '94 and spring '97,... ..there was something, there was some excitement." "We used to row at Loaded about whose turn it was... ..to go and get the champagne." "(* Blur:" "Song 2)" "I used to really enjoy going out and going to openings,... ..and going out, being in a suit one minute,... ..and being on your knees the next, looking like a tramp." "And being surrounded constantly." "People going "He's lost it." "Oh, no, he's really together."" ""Oh, no, he's lost it."" "There's a lot of enjoyment about something like that." "For a while, we all had a lot of fun." "I certainly did." "* Whoo ooh!" "* Whoo ooh!" "* Whoo ooh!" "There was a cultural change." "It was all right to be a lad." "Yeah, but it's, I think it's like anything like that." "Because it had been so beyond the pale to be like that for so long,... ..it was kind of a breath of fresh air when people were quite crude." "* Whoo ooh!" "* Whoo ooh!" "One of the odder things about this whole twinning... ..of Britpop with lad culture,... ..um, is the fact that, um,..." "..people were scared... ..to talk about what it actually is that makes a rock star." "An example of this is Liam Gallagher,... ..who, at various points,... ..looked quite androgynous." "What does that mean?" "That you have a feminine quality about you." " I have a what?" " A feminine quality." "What does that mean?" "Well, you're not just some..." "I'm a bird?" "(laughs) No, I'm not saying you're a bird." "What does that mean?" "Well, it's like you're not some 1 5-stone hulk." "You have, you have that kind of..." "Androgynous, you've got a bit of feminine in your masculinity." "Have I?" "Explain." "What does that mean?" "I suppose just in your looks." "I'm a pretty boy, yeah." "Yeah, I'm pretty good-looking." "I take care of me hair." "Bit obsessed with me hair." "You've gotta have a decent haircut if you're the front man of a band." "Yeah, man." "(* Radiohead:" "No Surprises)" "A lot of the people were ambivalent about being in Vanity Fair... ..in connection with Cool Britannia." "Yet on the other hand, they kinda did wanna be in Vanity Fair." "It was as though, if something hasn't been noticed by the US media,... ..particularly New York glossy magazines,... ..it's as though it hasn't really happened." "So, even though Cool Britannia was this, sort of, violent reaction,... ..um, to things precisely like Vanity Fair,... ..and their enormous influence,... ..saying "We don't care what you think." "We don't care about America."" "But at the same time,... ..they wanted to be photographed, they wanted to be in the magazine." "One of the touch-and-go people, for a very long time, was Tony Blair." "One of my jobs was trying to persuade people in Tony Blair's office... ..that it would be a good thing, politically,... ..for Tony Blair to pose in the Vanity Fair Cool Britannia issue." "And, um, that was extremely tough,... ..because, on the one hand,... ..the whole cultural phenomenon had occurred... ..under John Major's premiership." "So, in a sense, the Tories could take credit for Cool Britannia,... ..so why should Tony Blair in any way endorse it?" "Um, but on the other hand,... ..Cool Britannia did seem to be... ..a harbinger of a new mood in Britain, a new optimism." "And that was very much something Tony Blair hoped to... ..sort of, catch the coat-tails of in the '97 general election." "* No alarms" "* And no surprises" "* No alarms" "* And no surprises" "* No alarms" "* And no surprises" "* Silent" "I thought he looked like an absolute fuckin' idiot." "And, er, cos they wanted me and Liam to do it." "I remember taking the phone call... ..and somebody saying... .."If you don't do it, Blur will."" "To which I laughed, and handed the phone to Liam." "And I was, like, "Oh, fuck, I'd better do it, then(!" ")"" "And, er, and, yeah, Liam ends up on the cover... ..with a nipple on his head, looking like a fuckin' baby's bottle." "With his fuckin' missus." "In a Union Jack bed, that's the one." "Topless." "Ooh(!" ")" "Um..." "Rubbish." "(* Pulp:" "Glory Days)" "* Come and play the tunes of glory" "* Raise your voice in celebration" "* Of the days that we have wasted" "* In the café" "* In the station" "* And the meaning of existence" "* In fortnightly instalments" "* Come share this golden age..." "Tony Blair was carried into Downing Street today... ..on a political landslide... ..and on a wave of Labour jubilation." "He'll have a majority in the Commons of 1 79,... ..Labour's best result ever." "* Glory days *" "(Louise Wener) It so depressed me when Noel went to Downing Street." "You see those pictures of him now, you see the news report,... ..and he's got his nice neat haircut and his posh jacket on,... ..and Meg's bought herself a nice new dress." "What he was about, that he didn't belong to anybody... suddenly he did." "He was right in their pocket." "And, in that very instant,... ..he was neutered." "It was like somebody came along with a knife and cut his bollocks off." "I defy anybody... ..to have an official fuckin' thing pop on their letterbox,... ..you know,... ..while you're dressed like... ..an Afghan clown, fuckin' at five in the morning,..." "..you know, off your fuckin' head on acid,... ..and going "It's from the fuckin' Prime..."" ""It's from the Prime Minister!"" ""What does it say?"" ""He wants us to go round for a fuckin'..."" ""Fuckin'..." "He's inviting us to his house, for a drink!"" " "We've gotta go, then." - "Fuckin' right we've gotta go!"" "Were you invited to Number Ten?" "No." "And I wouldn't have gone anyway." " Why not?" " It's not my place to..." "Why would I?" "I've got nothing in common with any of them." "I don't know anything about politics, don't want to." "Looks like a shit house, anyway, so why go there?" "Why do you think Noel went?" "Cos he's mad for it." "He wanted to get in there and have a nosey about." "And part of you goes "Yeah, I'd have gone, just to have a look around,... ..and part of you goes "I won't, cos it's not my cup of tea"..." "..and part of you goes "Fuck that, I don't wanna go out tonight."" ""I'm gonna stay in."" "Why didn't I go?" "Um... (sighs)" "Because it..." "I just realised that we'd all been taken for a ride." "And that everyone would be dropped." "Er, you know, the sort of, the promise of..." "Well, OK, put it this way,... ..maybe I was just delusional,... ..but I'd been given the impression... ..that, um, I was asked there... ..because they had an interest in what I had to say." "Um..." "But by the point that they got into power... ..it was pretty evident to me that..." "..us lot, i.e. the artists,... ..and the entertainers,... ..were, um, you know..." "Basically, if, you know, if you went there,... ..you were gonna go through the front door and just be shown the exit... ..as soon as you got in." "As long as it all got on, um,... ..all got on telly and in the papers,... ..that's all that mattered." "Then it was "Now we're running the country, fuck off."" "I've never had good feelings about Tony Blair." "Or New Labour." "It's a measure of how conservative the music business... ..and the music press was then." "You absolutely couldn't say that without getting slapped." "You could not criticise New Labour,... ..you could not criticise Blair." "It was, you know, verboten, it was not allowed." "Um, so desperate was everyone to believe... ..in the con that it was." "What really pissed me off was, um,... ..when I kind of made a comment about... ..I didn't really understand, or didn't feel he could justify... ..sending his kids to private school, or "grant-funded", sorry." "That's a... euphemism." "Er, and I got a letter from his office,... ..saying "Don't talk about that."" "And that was really the end of my, kind of, er,... ..brief flirtation with them, you know." "Which is why, when they got in,... ..and there was this five minutes of thanking everyone... ..who helped promote him,... ..I didn't really feel like I was part of the party." "But, you know, you can get these CDs now, where you can play along." "He'd stayed up to watch the election all night,... ..and I asked him how he managed to stay up all night." "And he leant into me and said... .."Probably not by the same means you did."" "And at that point I thought "You fuckin' smartarse."" "And he was right, you know." "Um, I thought that was hilarious." "I had a lot of respect for him after that." "But there you go." "Photograph looks a bit shit, though, don't it?" "(* Pulp:" "The Fear)" "* This is our music from a bachelor's den" "* The sound of loneliness" "* Turned up to ten" "* A horror soundtrack" "* From a stagnant water bed" "* And it sounds just like this" "* This is the sound of... *" "I got the fear." "Um..." "That's true." "Er..." "Well, because I got what I wanted, I suppose,... ..what I'd been after for, er,..." "..for the most, for the... ..the majority of me life." "And, then, the actual reality of that... ..l... thought were rubbish." "It's Saturday night... ..and we're about to discover who's got Stars In Their Eyes!" "(cheering and applause)" "He's a bright boy turned pop star,... ..because tonight, singing live, Gareth Dickinson is... ..Jarvis Cocker!" "(cheering)" "(* Common People)" "* She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge... *" "Oh, yeah, well, you just realise that you've become a knobhead." "It was like you've lived..." "I don't know how old I was, 32, or something,... ..so you've lived your life up to a certain point... ..for 30 years, and then, suddenly, all that experience..." "..and life that you've led seems to not count for anything any more." "You can't do them things any more,... ..cos you've got all these people going "Urrgghhh!" at you." "So, you, er..." "And yet the world that's supposedly now opened its doors to you,... .."Yes, welcome, sir, welcome to the celebrity club",... ..just seems to be really shite." "And..." "So, my way of dealing with that situation... ..was to get as hammered as possible." "Biff Avery screen test, take two." "(* This Is Hardcore)" "I didn't take her to the motel, she took me." "I'll tell you the unwritten law, you dumb son of a bitch." "Hey, I went to college once." "But all they found were rats in my head." "Did you find This Is Hardcore, the album, a struggle to write?" "This Is Hardcore?" "Yeah, it was awful." "And it was definitely the worst period of me life." "Without question." "I mean, really." "Cos I was just a mess." "Why?" "Um..." "Well, I mean,... ..taking drugs doesn't help." "That never helps in a situation, you know." "You don't often hear people say... .."Ooh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person."" ""He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice." "He's blossomed."" "(James Brown) That was Damon's accurate line of the '90s." "There was a blizzard going on." "It just became the accessory." "For me, running Loaded,... ..the toilet became the new golf course." "It was where all the deals were being done." "The amount of features that I got out for the magazine... ..from sitting chopping stuff out over a table or a toilet,... ..or a..." ""Oh, yeah, I'll be in it!" "No problem." "Have another line."" "(* Blur:" "Beetlebum)" "It's another English..." "sort of, classic English queue." "You know, another great..." "The cocaine queue." "* Beetlebum" "What was your favourite substance?" "Well, all around that time was people taking loads of coke." "Coke suddenly did become, I mean, suddenly huge... ..and very readily available." "Well, it's a very self-congratulatory kind of a drug, you know." ""Ah, yes, we're inventing the future(!" ")"" "* Get nothing done" "* Hey a hey ah" "* You beetlebum" "* Oh a hoo" "* Just get numb" "* Now what you done?" "* Beetlebum" "* And when she lets me slip away" "* She turns me on" "* Then all my violence is gone..." "The mid-'90s was a very up time." "But, er,... ..I don't think really anyone was thinking about the consequences." "You know." "The Government as well, I think,... ..got carried away." "It was just "My God, we've got a change."" ""A change in climate."" "* Hey a hey ah" "* She'll make you come" "* Oh a hoo" "* Cos she's your gun" "* Now what you done?" "* Beetlebum" "* And when she lets..." "It's become an urban myth,... ..but a lot of people say Beetlebum is about heroin." "I don't know. ls the La's song There She Goes about heroin?" "Does it matter?" "Does it matter?" "I mean..." "Obviously Heads And Shoulders,... ..or whoever it was that used it on their advert, didn't think so!" "* There's nothing wrong" "* She turns me..." "I hit that point where I didn't feel like nothing could hurt me." "Once you start to feel a bit more vulnerable,... ..your outlook changes." "* He's on He's on" "* He's on it" "* He's on" "* He's on" "* He's on it" "* He's on He's on" "* He's on it" "* He's on" "* He's on" "* He's on it" "* He's on He's on" "* He's on it" "* He's on He's on" "* He's on it" "Today was the day Oasis fans at last got their hands... ..on the group's new album, Be Here Now." "It's their first for two years." "As the Gallagher brothers might have put it themselves,... ..the fans were mad for it." " (* D'You Know What I Mean) - * ..my people right here right now" "* D'you know what I mean" "* Yeah yeah" "It's something you can tell your grandchildren." "The biggest album of all time, I mean, I was there first." "I've only heard the first few tracks, but from what I hear... ..it's gonna be wicked, much better than the first two albums." "It's their best one yet." "I think it's the best album of this year." "I don't think Oasis will do any better than this ever." "No, I don't like the album." " Why don't you like the album?" " It's just the same old stuff." "It's, like, guitar rock, dadrock, all the same." "It's the sound of... ..a bunch of guys... ..on coke, in the studio... ..not giving a fuck." "There's no bass to it at all, I don't know what happened to that." "It's all... (makes static noise)." "And all the songs are really long, and all the lyrics are shit,... ..and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word... ..there's a fuckin' guitar riff in there, in a Wayne's World stylee." "You know." "Fuckin' air guitar gone mental." "But Liam thinks, Liam thinks it fuckin' rocks." "At that time, we thought it was fuckin' great and I still think that." "It just wasn't Morning Glory,... ..and I'm sick of these people going on about Definitely Maybe." "Fuck Definitely Maybe." "It's over, you know." "Fuck Morning Glory, that's over." "People can bitch about it for the rest of their lives, you know." "But, you know, fuckin' sell it." "You'd get four or five quid for it." "Come round my house, I'll sign it for you." "Probably get a tenner then." "I thought it were all right, actually." "I thought there were some great tracks on it." "But it were hyped up that much,... ..that they couldn't live up to what everyone were expecting 'em to do." "It ruins 'em." "It ruins people, that." "Then they're analysed because every track isn't a number one." "Which isn't fair,... ..because I look at them and think they're not gonna get a chance." " What you doin' now?" "!" " Opening this." "Fuckin' hell, that's why he has a Liam bib, him, as well." "(laughs)" "The end of Britpop was... ..if nothing else, was that Oasis third album, Be Here Now,... ..which, actually, isn't the great disaster that everybody says." "Um..." "It's about..." "There are two or three really good songs on it,... ..but it was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record." "Labour got in, Oasis were preparing their big statement,... ..and it comes out... ..three or four days before Princess Di gets killed." "The whole Britpop thing died quite quickly." "And it left a huge gulf." "There was, like, a vacuum there that needed to be filled." "And with the music business, it has a default setting,... ..and its default setting is pop music." "And luckily for the music industry, Robbie Williams was there to fill it." " (* Angels )" " I sit and wait" "* Does an angel" "* Contemplate my fate" "* And do they know... (Louise Wener) We were recording our last album... ..and Robbie was recording his first... ..in the studio next door." "Elton John was taking him to rehab the next day,... ..and, for whatever reason, he wanted an indie band... ..to come and listen to this record that he'd made." "He dragged the whole band in to listen to his recording of Angels." "And he said that he thought it was, er, an 11 out of 10,... ..which it was,... ..and you sort of knew that this was gonna be the new force." "Robbie Williams making music kind of like Oasis." "So once he was doing it,... ..you knew it was over, that was the moment it was finished." "* And through it all" "* She offers me protection" "* A lot of love and affection" "* Whether I'm right or wrong" "* And down the waterfall" "* Wherever it may take me" "* I know that life won't break me" "* When I come to call" "* She won't forsake me" "* I'm loving angels instead *" "(* Massive Attack:" "Inertia Creeps)" "* I want to x you" "* I want to x you..." "What do you make of Britain culturally at the moment?" "What kind of place is this to live at the moment?" "It'd be easy to say it's very American,... ..but I don't think it's quite true." "We've obviously changed a lot in the last 1 5, 20 years." "Um..." "I find it quite an anonymous place." "City to city, I don't feel, when I go to a place,... ..that I feel a lot of that place." "There's an overall feeling of Britain,... ..which is everything is quite uniform." "Everywhere you go, everything's in the same place." "All the sounds are the same." "Everything's become so pop,... ..and so, kind of, calculated,... ..which has worked in certain areas of the music business,... ..cos it's been going there for a good six, seven years,.." "..this whole, kind of, karaoke, build-your-own-band thing." "* Say inertia creeps" "* Inertia creeps *" "(* S Club Juniors:" "One Step Closer)" "* One step closer to heaven, baby" "* Means one step closer to you" "* There'll be no more living without you" "* Baby, I'm counting each minute till I'm back to you..." "Actually, we were mixing The Hindu Times in Olympic Studios, in London." "Where the room is, where we're doing this mixing,... ..is like a conservatory-type thing." "And there was all these kids... ..doing their fuckin'... ..dancing thing." "Liam and Andy Bell walked in." "I went "Have you seen them kids?"" "And he went "You mean Junior S Club 7?"" "It took me 20 minutes to realise "How do you know what they're called?"" "I thought they were kids from a special-needs school... ..hanging out at a recording studio, cos it was free food, or summat." "And they knew their names." "I don't mind S Club Juniors, they're all right." "Better than them fuckin' other ones." "Good little kids, man." "And where did all this come from?" "Have you ever noticed these knobheads from Pop Idol?" "It's like all the boy bands or girl bands." "What does this mean?" "You know." "What..." "I don't get that at all." "All the..." "The choreographers have taken over the world, man." "Everything's choreographed now." "It's fuckin' rubbish." "* (electronic voice) The beat is coming at you, baby" "* It's coming at you, baby" "* It's five, six, seven" "* It's coming at you, baby" "* It's coming at you, baby" "* It's coming at you, baby" "* It's getting loud *" "I was in LA a few weeks ago, in a restaurant, and Simon Fuller,... ..who was one of the conspirators behind Pop Idol,... ..came up to me and I said "Oh, hello."" ""All right?"" ""Lovely to meet you."" "Er..." "And I said "What are you doing?"" "And he said "We're just finalising our deals... ..to, er, bring Pop Idol to America."" "And I went "Oh, great."" ""That's really good news."" "So..." "Well, you know,... ..I s'pose we've gotta give 'em something, they've, kind of,... ..given us... ..(American accent) a heck of a lot." "(* Rock 'N' Roll Star)" "* It's just rock'n'roll" "* It's just rock'n'roll" "* It's just rock'n'roll" "* It's just rock'n'roll... *" "(* S Club 7:" "Reach)" "* When the world" "* Leaves you feeling blue..." "Why Oasis?" "Why not Blur?" "* Whoo hoo" "* Well, I feel heavy metal" "* Whoo hoo *" "So that's why not." "* All your hopes and dreams" "* Are a million miles away..." "Liam started believing what was written in the NME about him." "It was a good couple of weeks that he was talking in a Scouse accent." "Now, I'm all for madness in rock music,... ..I'm all for surrealism, but... ..he was trying to convince me that, you know,... ..that I should call him John!" "* So reach for the stars" "* Climb every mountain higher" "* Reach for the stars" "There was lots of weird things going on." "There was, like, this bloke..." "There was this bloke who dressed..." "The bottom half of him was female,... ..and the top half was male." "Er, he was quite strange." "He gave us some wood for a bonfire once." "* There's a..." "* ..dreams all come true" " * Fly away - * Fly away" "* Swim the ocean blue..." "Me and our kid had a bit of a scuffle." "* Leave the past behind..." "And I come home with a broken arm,... ..broken leg and a shotgun on me shoulder." "And me mam goes (Irish) "Fuckin' kind of music are you making down there?"" "* ..keep building" "* Never, ever forget that" "* I've got you" "* And you've got me" "* So reach for the stars" "* Climb every mountain higher" "* Reach for the stars" "* Follow your heart's desire" "* Reach for the stars" "* And when that rainbow's shining over you" "* That's when your dreams will all come true *"