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Peter Bradshaw: The Gallagher brothers are the only things cheering up John Dower's documentary about the golden age of 90s Britpop and all its related Zeitgeist trimmings
  
  


The Gallagher brothers are the only things cheering up John Dower's documentary about the golden age of 90s Britpop and all its related Zeitgeist trimmings.

Along the way there are all the usual pundit suspects. James Brown obviously had a great time editing Loaded and good luck to him, but what an unbelievable bore it is listening to him banging on about it yet again. Pert pop writer Jon Savage is three parts Peter York to one part David Dickinson; he says he cried watching Oasis on Top of the Pops performing Some Might Say - if only we had footage of that remarkable event.

The stars include a prickly, defensive and whingeing Damon Albarn and an almost clinically depressed Jarvis Cocker, interviewed in what appears to be a B&B scheduled for demolition. Only Noel and Liam are cheerful and amusingly unrepentant about everything.

Most annoying is Peter Mandelson, smugly praising Tony's guitar-playing sympathies with the rock'n'pop generation. This is workmanlike, but with nothing new to say and nowhere near the class of producer John Battsek's last project, One Day in September.

 

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