Elastica - Elastica

Brit Pop was the most moronic non-event in the history of things that have been completely made up by the media. A musical movement made up of British bands making pop music. Like that's never happened before or since.

It was Blur and Oasis's fault. They were both reasonable bands and they kept falling out with each other and thus produced some memorably vitriolic quotes. It was like the whole east coast/west coast rap thing only with name-calling instead of gangland shootings. I'm on about the east and west coast of the US, by the way. There was no East Anglia/Welsh domestic hip hop stand-off that you missed, don't worry.

Clinging to the coat tails of Blur and Oasis were a whole host of bands who were arguably more shit than Northside, but who hung around in London and played guitars and were therefore part of the Britpop 'scene'. Heading this list and admittedly marginally less shit, were Elastica.

Elastica's singer, Justine Frischmann, went out with Damon from Blur, so they were a sort of red-wine-and-trips-to-Ikea version of Kurt and Courtney or Sid and Nancy.

I said that they were less shit than some of the other bands of the time, but were they? They didn't really do anything. I can never escape the feeling that people are hearing something different to me when I read about them. At least they were better than Echobelly.

Come on everybody. Let's all share a house with a group of young professionals, watch This Life, listen to Elastica and desperately hope that someone kills us in the night with a claw-hammer.