BBC on Brit-Hop

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4455862.stm

Brit-hop is coming OMG OMG etc - yeah good work BBC but look at the comparison to Select magazine's "notorious" Britpop cover!!

Did anyone else buy this at the time? (1993) and what did you think?

Also if someone could YSI a few good recent (like last 6-12 months recent) hem hem Brit-hop records I'm sure we'd all be grateful.

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BBC on Brit-Hop

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a theory of that Select cover: it had a lot to do with internal politics. Collins, Maconie and Steve Lamacq, recently arrived as a package deal from the NME, had no particular love for Cypress Hill, who were the office faves of the day. What they shared with boy editor Andrew Harrison is that they weren't really rock fans, and thus had no great love of the wave of sludge that surrounded (rather than followed) Nirvana. The flag-waving followed from that, rather than being the starting point.

Re: BBC on Brit-Hop

[(Anonymous)]

what's interesting (?) abt that theory is that collins was one of the authors of the 'union jack-wielding morrissey is a racist' nme cover a year previously.

how dyou mean they arrived as a 'package deal' though?

hkm

Re: BBC on Brit-Hop

[(Anonymous)]

They all walked out on the NME when Steve Sutherland was appointed editor and arrived at Select as what at least seemed to be a bloc.