Nite Songs

  And so the Footnotes section of SFTJ, where we look at bands who had a minor influence on my music taste during a certain era but either went off the boil or simply disappeared before they could really have made enough of an impact on me to justify a full entry to themselves, trundles into the Britpop era. Don't let the above photo fool you though because of the six bands from this era who I considered were worth a mention, nearly all of them only really share the timeframe with the whole circular shades, union jack guitars and '60s influence aesthetic of Britpop. A lot of them instead represent the freaks and weirdos who either tiptoed around the edge of the scene or simply existed in the same venues but had hardly any relation to the sounds that were in vogue back then. And that's probably why they made a brief impression on me but weren't long stayers in my music collection - by 1996 I was 17 years old and finally able to get into gigs without any real hassle. Sudd...