Sounds From The Junkshop Bonus - Footnotes 1997
So here's the weird thing - while the previous edition of SFTJ footnotes covering 1995-96 wasn't particularly Britpop orientated, this one is. I think this might be because while in those years, if you were a part of the Britpop scene then you could pretty much guarantee that a record deal and some success would be in the offing (I mean feck, even Menswe@r who, rightly or wrongly, were generally regarded as the most derivative Britpop band by some distance in '95 still managed five Top 40 hits) so it was unlikely that bands of this genre would fulfil the Footnotes criteria of getting a single or two, maybe an album, out to catch my attention and then freefall into oblivion before I'd really had the chance to check them out properly. By 1997 though, it's safe to say things weren't as clear cut. Blur had pretty much announced the death knell on Britpop with their self-titled album which saw them quickly abdicating their throne as kings of Mockney '60s influ...