Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out

Britpop.

The reaction you’ll have to that word will vary; your eyes may go moist at the thought of simpler times, of your personal heroes being beamed into homes and on to front pages. Of some great music, several great bands and a palpable sense of excitement or pride.

On the other hand, you may sneer at the ultimately meaningless word (British pop doesn’t and shouldn’t reflect a handful of bands from a specific period of time), and cringe at the mod cuts, the Fred Perrys and the overbearing laddishness.

You may find yourself somewhere in the middle, but you’ll have a reaction of some sort.

A fact that has been somewhat lost in the mists of time is how few artists readily attached themselves to the ‘scene’: Blur championed it, used it to their advantage, then quickly moved on, but the Colchester art-poppers aside, one struggles to recall an act proudly declaring themselves ‘Britpop’.

Longpigs wanted nothing to do with it, although their story is perhaps the most typical of the era and time. 

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