![]() ![]() “ looked fantastic, they had a very strong image, they hung out at the right places,” is how Matt Everett, now a BBC 6 Music presenter and producer, remembered his time as drummer with the aforementioned rockers in an interview in 2010. You are constantly aware that it can all slip through your fingers at any second, which of course it did.” But the biggest people in that world were obsessed with these things. “That was something you weren’t really allowed to discuss,“ she told the i newspaper, ”because you had to pretend you were indie and hip and didn’t care about chart positions or sales. “It was a competitive time,” reminisced Louise Wener of Sleeper of her Britpop years when the band released a comeback LP last year (in her time away, she had embarked on a second career as a novelist). Examples include Echobelly, fronted by the charismatic Sonya Madan (Echobelly reformed in 2009 and continue to tour and record). ![]() But then there is that vast middle ground of groups who initially appeared to do well out of the scene and the media attention, only for it all to unravel. The latter includes early casualties such as empty-suited rockers Menswear, who seemed to fall apart five minutes after they had formed. Among the former are Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Suede, Elastica and Supergrass. It was almost coincidental that it happened at a time when English or British bands would have been embraced far more.”īritpop’s winners and losers are obvious. “It happened that way for a lot of bands. “The whole Britpop thing was taking off and we unintentionally found ourselves part of it,” says Rowbottom. Only Martin Carr, the group’s songwriter and spirit animal, continues to pursue a career as a pop writer, though with nowhere near the impact of The Boo Radleys. Bassist Tim Brown teaches IT at St Louis Grammar School in Kilkeel, County Down, while Rob Cieka went on to have success as drummer for hire. ![]() It might as well be, considering he is now a successful counsellor and psychotherapist based in Oxfordshire. “It feel like a different life,” says 50-year-old Rowbottom. ![]()
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