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Is it really a quarter of a century since you could get arrested for wearing an Inspiral Carpets T-shirt? Emphatic in agreement, he nods, lowering the unlit cigarette again, “I’m wondering what could have happened to a teenage schoolboy to make him become Steve Ignorant? His friend Derek Birkett had told him about a band who were based at Dial House, a creative commune near Epping Forest, who were gaining notoriety in the area.

Having welcomed thousands of westerners with warmth and kindness, Otaga sadly passed away in 1973, the same year that the teenage Steve first came to Dial House.Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker also expressed his dislike for the term in an interview with Stephen Merchant on BBC Radio 4's Chain Reaction in 2010, describing it as a "horrible, bitty, sharp sound. New without tags: A brand-new, unused and unworn item that is not in its original retail packaging . Don Letts was running the PA, I don’t know if it was him, but after ten minutes someone turned us off. Luca had however been lucky enough to witness their legendary 1982 squat gig at the ZigZag in West London. The music room at Dial House was, in essence, an experimental DIY space and members often joined for just a session or two; “there was a lot of people going in and out,” he went on.

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Parklife continued the fiercely British nature of its predecessor, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year British alternative rock became the dominant rock genre in the country. Their final song Banned From The Roxy is still ringing in our ears, as we head off to Rebellion’s large but basic backstage bar. Generator – part funk-rave bloodbath on a factory floor, and part cocktail-sipping espionage drama set in the Swiss Alps, is an equally compelling smack.

Liverpool's Farm joined the baggy wave with their single Stepping Stone, but it was their single Groovy Train that made them household heroes. Stratton, eds, Britpop and the English Music Tradition (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), ISBN 0-7546-6805-3, pp. Apart from today’s interview, she arranged for me to bring a photographer to their recent Manchester show, and also helped me set up a meeting and photos with Crass co-founder Penny Rimbaud. Eve Libertine’s ‘feeble christ, the gravedigger of Auschwitz delighting in the bodies of Hiroshima’ was as intellectually measured as Steve Ignorant was seemingly mindless on that first album – ‘So what if Jesus died on the cross’ he screamed ‘So what about the fucker, I don’t give a toss’.