Send us your thoughts on our night of programmes celebrating the 10th anniversary of Britpop. Use the form on the right to submit your comments and we will publish a selection below.
Your Comments
I thoroughly enjoyed Live Forever, along with The Britpop Story and Britpop Now. The Britpop Night was well filmed and gave an accurate and interesting look into the 1990s and the music scene. I particularly enjoyed the interviews with Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher during the night and believe they worked excellently. All I hope is that a similar programme or night could be made about the 1960s and the main rock scene (Beatles, Rolling stones, T-Rex, Kinks, etc).
Oliver Hills, Whitstable, Kent
Was equally gladdened and saddened watching this evening's 'anniversarial' coverage of the whole Britpop farago. I am now 31, and look back on the whole thing with equal measures of sentiment and cynicism. Can't help thinking that nobody seems to recall the era with any fondness, but it does deserve some qualified support. In the most simplistic terms, it was a rare joy to look forward to an episode of TOTP and know that at least three songs may be of some merit. I could expand on this, but it's probably better put in John Harris' masterly overview of the epoch, The Last Party.
Stuart Piper, Poole, Dorset
Just wanted to thank you for tonight's Britpop night. For the first time, I've really engaged with the channel. There's stuff I need to do but I can't stop watching. Thanks and I'll be looking out for more great programming.
Jack, Stoke, Staffs
A fantastic insight into the era that has swayed my musical tastes. Great to hear the reactions of those that were central to the making of Britpop. However, mixing music and politics has never worked and when people who have a massive influence on our generation talk negatively about politics, no wonder the polls are low.
Andrew Campion, Nottingham
The whole evening of TV was brilliant, hilarious and nostalgic. More stuff like this please!
Rob Hughes, London
My friends and I were those 16-year-old kids who'd just finished fifth form and Britpop formed the soundtrack to our coming of age - even now we still relate songs to times.
Em, Newport, Gwent
Britpop Now
What a shame this excellent BBC Four repeat was spoiled by needless and intrusive Steve Wright-era TOTP2-style 'information' captions. This sort of nonsense would have been bad enough on BBC Three, and so was completely out of place on BBC Four.
Carl, Swindon
The Britpop Story
Just a quick note to thank John for the tremendously insular view of Britpop or should that be 'Londonpop'? Nice to see that the scene occurred in Camden Town. It would also appear that Manchester was given the 'London, England' type of name check beloved by American TV networks. My address may give you some idea of why I complain, but it is a fact that I prefer Blurs' more recent output in all its incarnations to Oasis. So farewell then Camdenpop.
Mike Webb, Manchester
Live Forever
What a marvellous insight into a period of time that I grew up during and immersed myself in. Highlighted by this documentary the evening gave fascinating programming on a defining moment of the 1990s, clearly putting into question political motives behind the movement and pointing out a time that is still so memorable to those involved, but seems to have already slipped into the annals of history.
Jarrad, London
The success of Oasis in the 1990s and the undoubted contribution they made to British music at the time, may give Noel Gallagher the right to be opinionated and arrogant, but it doesn't give him the right to make offensive comments about people with disabilities.
Likening Junior S-Club 7 to a group of kids from a special needs school on a freebie trip to a recording studio was well out of order. My daughter Annie has special needs. She goes to a special in Southwark and sometimes gets the odd freebie trip. She loves music and she likes to dance in her own quirky style. What's so funny about that?
Ian Farina-Driver, London
