Festival review: Rosie Wilby: How (not) to make it in Britpop; The Bongo Club (venue 143)

Despite all the natural, easy-going likeability of musician-turned-comedian Rosie Wilby, this show recalling her days fronting late 1990s indie-rock also-rans Wilby is patchy and ill-conceived.

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.

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