Festival review: Rosie Wilby: How (not) to make it in Britpop; The Bongo Club (venue 143)
Beginning in 1997 with a bit about the Verve’s Urban Hymns – an album that effectively signposted the death of Britpop – and presenting the Spice Girls as the age’s arch-nemeses, the show isn’t actually about Britpop at all, but rather the depressing phase of popular culture superseding it, a period difficult to recall with any great fondness.
Read more universally as a bittersweet reminiscence on the passions, romances and friendships of wasted youth it’s relatable enough, but the jokes are weak and the songs weaker.
Rating: * *
Until today, 2:30pm.