Interview - Louise Wener, Sleeper

Louise Wener speculates: “Given what’s happened subsequently, and the last few years, it feels like a golden period. That rose-tinted spectacled view of it is only going to entrench. It could be the last magic moment in the way we lived in western democracy, who knows?”

“We were at peace because we didn’t care as much. It was just a construct. I don’t think New Romantic bands sat and thought about their New Romantic-ness. It’s either over-analysed or people are ‘blah’ about it. It’s either too much or too little, but it’s somewhere in the middle.”

“We were just chancers trying to make a record that someone liked. We didn’t sit there thinking about our place in this commentary of Britpop. I think the way it’s written about now is overwrought. It didn’t bother us because we didn’t give it validity.”

Right, that’s the compulsory Britpop question out of the way. On to business.

https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2021/02/live4ever-interview-sleeper/