21 October

When these guys got famous in the early 1990s I thought they were the only interesting new band I’d heard in years. Fantastic live too. Then they split up just as they were becoming really big. Very few bands come back from there. They’re back now, but mostly stuck on the nostalgia tour circuit. Pop music is as much cultural and social as musical. You get one chance at being only one age group’s soundtrack for their lives, with very rare exceptions.