February 1994
Lucy Cooke
Presenter
1st February 1994
Out now, the latest edition of SELECT magazine (an early champion of the Britpop movement) features Justine Frischman from Elastica on the cover above the headline ‘This Is The Future’.
Select Magazine Cover
2nd February 1994
Echobelly Record Session for the Evening session.
Tracks Perfromed: Taste of you, Father Ruler King Computer, Call me names, Give Her a Gun.
5th February 1994
The new issue of NME features a trio of Brat Award winners on the front: Brett Anderson, Justine Frischman and Thom Yorke
NME front Cover
8th February 1994
Liam and Bonehead of oasis are detained on a cross channel ferry for fighting in a bar en route to a gig in Amsterdam.
Transcript from infamous ‘Wibbling Rivalry’ interview
Noel: The thing about getting thrown off ferries - blah, blah, blah - and getting deported is summat that I'm not proud about because...
Liam: Well I am, la.
Noel: Yeah, alright. Well if you're, right, well if you're, right, well if, if you're proud about getting thrown off ferries, then why don't you go and support West Ham and get the **** out of my band and go and be a football hooligan, right? Coz we're musicians, right? We're not football hooligans.
Liam: You're only gutted coz you was in bed reading your *******' books...
Suede play Worthing Pier Pavillion (with dates to follow at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom on the 11th and Edinburgh Queens Hall on the 12th)
SETLIST:
Pantomime Horse
This Hollywood Life
We Are the Pigs
Animal Nitrate
Heroine
My Insatiable One
My Dark Star
He's Dead
Metal Mickey
New Generation
She's Not Dead
So Young
Sleeping Pills
Stay Together
The Next Life
12th February 1994
First reviews of the Oasis gig at London’s Water Rats hit the press.
Simon Williams Review for the NME: So Liam toys languidly with a star-shaped tambourine. Smart. So his brother Noel knocks out all these spangly, never-ending guitar licks, most of which resemble the last 30 seconds of The Edge's axe solos circa Red Rocks, albeit without the leather waistcoat. So 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' is a complete rehash of 'Get It On', down to a T-Rex, and one song sounds exactly like Blur, and Oasis should, by rights, be unmitigated crap but...they are in fact more fun than a mudbath with a meerkat.
14th February 1994
Suede release new single ‘Stay Together’
Suede Stay Together Front Cover
21st February 1994
Primal Scream are back with new single ‘Rocks’
Primal Scream Rocks Cover
22nd February 1994
Donna Mathews from Elastica’s old friends 60FT DOLLS support Elastica at the legendary Newport TJs.
23rd February 1994
on tour this week, Oasis play Bedford Angel tonight, London’s 100 Club the following evening and Tunbridge Wells Forum on the 26th
Oasis 100 Club
24th February 1994
‘Shagging In The Streets’ is the first proper release on the new Fierce Panda record label, spear-headed by NME journalist Simon Williams. The double seven-inch EP, which features bands including Blessed Ethel and SMASH, is launched tonight with a gig headlined by These Animal Men at the Islington Powerhaus
Streets Cover
24th February 1994
On the same night as the Fierce Panda gig, blur Play Girls and Boys on Channel 4’s The Word
25th February 1994
Salad play London’s Kentish Town Bull & Gate, which is quickly becoming one of the key showcase venues for emerging Britpop style guitar bands. Other regular haunts include the Dublin Castle, the Highbury Garage and The Laurel Tree
Bull and Gate Pub
