Miranda Sawyer

There's Tiger in there, who I remember, obviously.

Robbie Williams, you know, Knicky.

But there's also people like Foil, Peach, Ether, Charlotte Kelly.

And all these people at the time were considered to kind of be on the same level, weren't they?

But you do.

I mean, you sign Mogwai.

But it's funny because also at the time, obviously, there was Radiohead.

doing actually quite mad stuff Radiohead really and you know like OK Computer for quite a lot of people was like a big shock it just happened that everybody liked it but because of that you're always going to get bands that are a bit like that that come through and some of them are going to be successful we could say Travis Coldplay those kind of bands but for every one of those there have been 50 other bands that sound quite similar

Yeah.

But you know what that thing is about the singer, which you do also mention in the book, is that absolute drive.

So with Damon, I remember meeting him, I suppose, when they were Blur because food records were just around the corner from Smash It.

So we all used to drink in the same pub.

And the main thing that was really obvious with Damon was that he needed to succeed.

And in fact, he became a nicer person once he became Blur.

Successful.

And I think that you write a really brilliant kind of, I mean, there's a lot of ranting in the book.

That's a funny trope.

A really brilliant rant where you say that.

Yeah, but you say here, like you say, Madonna, Bono, the Spice Girls, Noel Gallagher, Kylie.

Do you really think any of that lot are talented?