Britrockers in a bad way pt 2 - selected by the commentariat

William nominates Tim Burgess and his bleached bowlcut

Phil Knight feels we should keep on piling on Captain Rock aka Richard Ashcroft (but he also concedes that A Northern Soul was a good record... (Personally I'm quite partial to the early shoegazey stuff, or was at the time... and who can deny "Bittersweet Symphony" and "The Drugs Don't Work"?) )

Matt M finds amusement in Justine Frischmann's post-musicking career: 

Television

In 2003, Frischmann co-presented a series called Dreamspaces for the BBC Television about modern architecture. In 2004, she presented The South Bank Show and was a judge for the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture.

Art

In 2005, Frischmann moved to Boulder, Colorado, to enroll in a masters program in visual arts at Naropa University, a small, Buddhist-inspired liberal arts college, and "become a nobody". In 2012 her work was shortlisted for the UK's Marmite Prize for painting, and she has been included in The Amsterdam List of 1000 Living Painters.

In a 2016 interview regarding her art career, Frischmann stated, "I don't really have any desire to make music, to be honest."

Frischmann has said, "The themes and ideas I am working with are in direct relation to an ongoing personal narrative; the big questions are reflected in the choices I make in my art ... [including] my ever-evolving relationship with my spiritual faith. I think my approach and aesthetics reveal internal struggles and speak to my family origins and history."

Personal life

... In the spring of 2000, Justine took up competitive fencing. She married a meteorologist, Professor Ian Faloona in 2008, and lives and works in the United States.

This motley aftermath-to-fame relates to something I have been meaning to blog about, a sequel  to(more like a twist on)  Wiki-Fear. But I will save those thoughts for a later juncture. 

Phil, just getting warmed up, zeroes in on another televisual moment of awkwardness, this time involving Bobby G. 

I dunno - I feel Bobby was caught between a rock and a hard place here. How else was he supposed to negotiate this moment of absolute idiocy? Join in? (And what the fuck is that record and the dance that went with it? Was this some kind of UK-only Macarena craze I completely missed?)

Stylo swipes Jarvis Cocker (I think you have to scroll in a ways before you get to the embarrassing bit, JC's imitation of Rolf Harris)

Phil points to another example of the indie/cheese interface - "what we've got here is proto-cheese" says Alex from Blur. 

I dunno - cheese is pretty incredible stuff, really, I can sort of see it as a new vocation in life...  At least he's not done the typical rockstar with lots of spare time on his hands thing i.e. picking up a paint brush and having vanity exhibitions in galleries. 

This below (suggested by Stylo) is some kind of nadir-al convergence of ShitBrit, though - circumstances here

Creator of The Big Feastival - for food, music and drink enthusiasts, hosted at his Cotswolds farm - and of a Britpop cider. 

I suppose the Feastival is the logical corollary of expensively-priced vinyl being on sale in Whole Foods. The embourgeoisifcation of rock.  But also only a slight extension of the family-friendly and foodie-friendly evolution of Glastonbury and other summer festivals. 

Straying off topic really, but a couple of examples of indie / Britpop parody, from Tyler and that man Phil again

After I expressed mild amazement that the words "Ian" and "Brown" had not come up yet, people came with the goods

Strangeways, there he went (Stylo)

bizarre Welsh nationalist monkey protest (Phil)

Phil piles on the Libertine again, with this story about another associate who met a sticky end, drugs-related as opposed to tumbling off a balcony in cloudy circumstances. 

Tragic.... what struck me also was the extraordinary background of the deceased, which includes extreme wealth and arty bohemia. 

"The photographer and film-maker had spent the past few years making Road to Albion, a documentary following Doherty after he left The Libertines. She had become the unofficial photographer of Doherty's new band, Babyshambles, and was reportedly working on another film about the singer in recent weeks.

"She is the granddaughter of the late Teddy Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist magazine, and great-niece of the late billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith.

"Her mother, Dido Whitehead, is a cousin of Jemima Khan and Zac Goldsmith, and her father is the 1960s film-maker Peter Whitehead" 

The latter most known for his psych-era Pink Floyd-soundtracked film Tonight Let's All Make Love in London. 

Another example of the entanglement of the upper classes with the counterculture / bohemia...