Faster Than A Cannonball
1995 and All That

Some great fodder for the Cool Britannia obsessive (guilty at times) but the subject matter does most of the heavy lifting. The format of 12 chapters for the months of the year is initially charming but ultimately pointless as each chapter mainly focuses on a particular element of the scene and its......more

I turned 11 in 1995, so it's safe to say this book filled in the cultural context to the things I started devouring around this time. This oral history of the nineties shows how the period was born and where and how it likely died with arguably remnants remaining to this day. There's before and after......more

Exactly my kind of book. Interviews, insight and very much something I wanted to live through.......more

Faster Than A Cannonball starts out by aiming to focus on the year 1995 arguing that the central point of any decade is it's defining feature, the point where all that has come before it accumulates at it's peak. Therefore it would be fairer say this book focuses on the 20 year period surrounding 19......more

So Dylan Jones decides to give an oral biography treatment to the Britpop years and try to encompass them in a multi-contextualised way. And wouldn't you know it, it's overlong and repetitive and in the end a bit of a slog, but it also has some things going for it. (Brief disclosure: I was there and......more