Podcasts by BritPopCast
Have you ever wondered what Jarvis Cocker has on his tour rider? Or what aftershave Liam Gallagher wears? Or how the boys from Supergrass grew such impressive sideburns at such a young age?
Stuff like this is all that comedians George Lewis and Paul McCaffrey ever think about.
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EP19 - Mark Sutherland of the NME, Melody Maker and Smash Hits from 2021-03-08T00:01
Mark Sutherland is a renowned journalist who was at the eye of the storm as Britpop hit the World. Hear him tell Paul and George about the importance of magazines like the NME, how open the bands a...
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EP18 - Gary Stringer of Reef from 2021-02-11T00:01
Reef were the hairy brothers in the world of Britpop and carved their own niche whilst enjoying massive success with Place Your Hands, Naked, Come Back Brighter and others. A modified Place Your Ha...
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EP17 - Bez of The Happy Mondays and Black Grape from 2021-02-04T00:01
Truly an icon of British music Bez is synonymous with pills ‘n’ thrills and a whole lot more. From the bands origins, successes, to moments of having nothing to his name Bez spills all including ho...
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EP16 - Nigel Clark of Dodgy from 2021-01-28T00:01
Dodgy captured the complete feel good nature of Britpop with songs and a presence that couldn’t help but make you smile. It wasn’t all plain sailing for the band though. Frontman and songwriter Nig...
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EP15 - Lisa Moorish of Kill City and more from 2021-01-21T00:01
Lisa Moorish came into the music business as a 17 year old providing vocals on a number of tracks before releasing her own solo material and even dueting with George Michael. She was also at the ce...
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EP14 - Mat Flint of Death In Vegas from 2021-01-14T00:01
Death in Vegas were a musical sponge soaking up influences from dub, electronica and psychedelica to fuse into their own style. Mat Flint served as their bass player and serves up memories to Georg...
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EP13 - Tom Gray of Gomez from 2021-01-07T00:01
Gomez burst onto the scene in 1998, scored a Mercury Prize, a headline slot at Glastonbury and a change of musical direction on the Britpop scene. In this episode Tom Grey takes Paul and George thr...
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EP12 - Chris Helme of The Seahorses from 2020-12-31T00:01
The Seahorses were John Squire’s post Stone Roses band and were fronted by this episodes’ guest Chris Helm. Chris talks candidly about the control of the band, from songwriting to interacting backs...
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EP11 - Peter Hook PT2 - The Stone Roses, The Light, Monaco and the Yorkshire Ripper from 2020-12-24T00:01
In part 2 of Paul George’s chat with the legendary Peter Hook they cover producing The Stone Roses and being forced to choose production jobs, facing Joy Division trolls and how he got pulled into ...
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EP10 - Peter Hook of Joy Division, New Order and more. from 2020-12-17T00:01
As a member of arguably two of Britain’s most iconic bands, Peter Hook has had a front row view of some very special musical moments. In the first of two parts, Hooky talks Joy Division, New Order,...
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EP9 - Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets from 2020-12-10T00:01
Keyboardist in the Inspiral Carpets Clint Boon laid part of the foundation for Madchester and Britpop. After the band split it took Clint back to reality but also to solo success and a new career a...
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EP8 - James Walsh of Starsailor from 2020-12-03T00:01
In what the NME described as “the new acoustic movement” Starsailor scored a massive Platinum debut album with further success to follow. Frontman James Walsh joined the BritPopCast to talk about t...
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EP7 - Jane Savidge the press instigator of Britpop from 2020-11-26T00:01
Britpop’s PR pioneer and the author of the brilliant Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History Of Britpop And Excess in 13 and a 1/2 Chapters, Jane Savidge joins Paul and George to talk representing...
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EP6 - Rick McNamara of Embrace from 2020-11-19T00:01
Rick McNamara and his brother Danny began Embrace at the bottom of their garden in a shed before going on to release 7 studio albums to date. Their albums Out of Nothing and This Day have been give...
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EP5 - Rick Witter of Shed Seven from 2020-11-12T00:01
George and Paul are taken through Shed Seven's formation and first gig by frontman Rick Witter plus almost breaking the abstinence of a true American rock n' roll legend, the success of Shedcember ...
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EP4 - Jagz Kooner of The Sabres of Paradise and 90s remix King from 2020-11-05T00:01
Jagz Kooner is the king of remixes in the 90s working with the likes of Primal Scream, but not only that he formed part of The Sabres of Paradise with the late legend Andrew Weatherall. In this epi...
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EP3 - Rowetta of The Happy Mondays from 2020-10-29T00:01
Rowetta takes Paul and George on a trip as she recalls setting her sights on being in The Happy Mondays, who she had to win a competition to make it on tour whilst in the band, reliving the drama o...
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EP2 - Brian Cannon designer of the Oasis logo and more from 2020-10-21T23:01
Which member of Oasis was fast asleep photographing the now iconic album cover for Be Here Now? Before that, how was Berwick Street chosen for (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? How do you react whe...
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EP1 - Brian Cannon on introducing The Verve to Oasis from 2020-10-14T23:01
Welcome to the BritPopCast with George Lewis and Paul McCaffrey. In our debut episode we get the pleasure of speaking to Brian Cannon, a man who’s work you’ve laid eyes on more times than you’ve re...
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BritPopCast: The Trailer from 2020-10-07T21:36
Episode one of the BritpopCast arrives 15th October so hit subscribe so you don't miss it and here's George and Paul with more about the podcast.
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BritPopCast: The Trailer from 2020-10-07T21:36
Episode one of the BritpopCast arrives 15th October so hit subscribe so you don't miss it and here's George and Paul with more about the podcast.
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