Saint Etienne
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Sleeve notes by Jon Savage, Mantra Records, 1989
There are still plenty of real Londoners who sleep the night in London as well as work the day there – some in love, some ...
Football Songs: The Final scores
Report by Martin Aston, The Independent, 16 May 1990
For this year's World Cup, England has its most sophisticated anthem ever. Martin Aston reports ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 13 October 1990
ST ETIENNE might have covered Neil Young's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart', but they are not the hippies that people imagine. This is Brit ...
St Etienne, Flowered Up: The Underworld, London
Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 5 January 1991
THOSE WHO believed the rumour that Happy Mondays were to be the surprise guests at St Etienne's Christmas trash will probably still be waiting by ...
St Etienne: Debut That's Alpha Oscar Kilo
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 20 October 1991
ON THEIR delightful debut album, Foxbase Alpha, St Etienne mix contemporary house rhythms with the string-swept melodrama of Sixties pop. Amazingly, the creators of this ...
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 2 May 1992
Stop farming your hair for an instant and smell those flowers! Perfect pop is back and ST ETIENNE will be drifting it blissfully up to ...
St Etienne: Brighton Centre East Wing
Live Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992
KITSCH OF DISTINCTION ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 17 October 1992
I wanted to talk to St Etienne because I don't like their records as much as everyone else seems to. I don't believe that they're ...
St Etienne: Drop the stuffed tiger
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 24 October 1992
St Etienne vs. Top of the Pops — Caitlin Moran referees a mis-match ...
St. Etienne: Saint Misbehavin'
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 31 October 1992
POP QUIZ! Which band have covered a Neil Young song, a Fall song, and a Right Said Fred song? St Etienne — who else but, ...
Saint Etienne, Pulp: Mayfair, Glasgow
Live Review by Pete Paphides, Melody Maker, 6 March 1993
WHAM BAM, THANK YOU, GLAM! ...
St Etienne, Pulp: Mayfair, Glasgow
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 6 March 1993
A MIRRORBALL of confusion spins and sparkles over the hall. Blank faces stare at the stage where Pulp are playing. Is this pop? ...
Saint Etienne: Saint No Mountain High Enough
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 1 May 1993
Who do SAINT ETIENNE think they are? One minute they're just the weekly music press' favourite pop group, the next they're working with Kylie and ...
St Etienne: Hacienda, Manchester
Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 14 September 1993
BRITAIN'S NATIONAL popular music convention In the City, Manchester's five-day jamboree of industry chatter and on-stage over-drive, adds weight to the argument that the place, ...
St Etienne, Oasis: Birmingham Institute
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 11 December 1993
HIP POP... HOORAY! ...
Review by Stuart Maconie, Select, April 1994
THE TROUBLE WITH Saint Etienne is they're too clever. And this should be said while wiping the lager foam from your lips and turning over ...
Saint Etienne: Cats Eyes and Legless
Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 30 April 1994
You know Saint Etienne as the flop band living within the pages of Kay's Catalogue and fronted by Emma Peel's understudy. But their pals reckon ...
Stalkers: Ever-Present Possessive
Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 January 1995
Business is booming in the protection business. Now many of those being protected are women pop stars targeted by dangerous stalkers ...
Saint Etienne: Trapped by a tongue twister
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 3 November 1995
...or why the St Etienne lads may become Spud for a spell — while Sarah goes solo ...
Saint Etienne: Garage, Glasgow
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 14 May 1998
IN THEIR perfect world, Saint Etienne's new album, Good Humor, would be battling it out with the Beatles and the Prodigy. The Prodigy? Yes, because ...
Saint Etienne: Good Humor (Heavenly)
Review and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, June 1998
FACED WITH Sarah, Bob and Pete's latest creamy confection, smothered in schmaltz and techno-lite topped off with Astrud Gilberto vocals, it's easy to dismiss them ...
Eyewitness December 1993: Oasis Support The Verve
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, July 1998
Freshly signed to Creation, Oasis venture out on UK tour earning £50 a night supporting The Verve – known at the time as just plain ...
Saint Etienne: Town Hall Crypt, Middlesbrough
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, July 1998
What's a nice, fey band doing in a place like this? ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
BACK IN the early Nineties, St Etienne were ubiquitous, perhaps a little too ubiquitous. Rarely out of the music press, constantly hovering on the edge ...
Review by Melody Nelson, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
Saint Etienne: The Sound of WaterBent: Programmed to Love ...
Holly Valance: Footsteps/LeAnn Rimes: Twisted Angel/Saint Etienne: Finisterre
Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 11 October 2002
BEFORE BOY BANDS began breeding it was singing soap stars who were the plankton of pop. ...
Saint Etienne: Palladium, London
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 16 December 2003
IN ANOTHER LIFE, Saint Etienne are pop royalty. In this one they practice a kind of pop-not-pop: exquisitely crafted and arranged songs that are always ...
Saint Etienne: Lives Of The Saints (And Their Kids)
Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 3 June 2005
Saint Etienne have produced a concept album and a set of children's songs. But they aren't Yes ...
Saint Etienne: London Conversations (Heavenly/Universal)
Review by Jude Rogers, The Word, October 2008
IT'S ONE OF life's lovely ironies that Saint Etienne, an English group named after a French football team, tell us everything there is to know ...
Saint Etienne: Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 13 December 2015
SAINT ETIENNE are frequently sublime, but they can also be ridiculous. It is surely beyond the ability even of Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley to ...
Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 7 June 2017
In the early 90s, a trio from south-east England set out to fulfil pop's potential. Nearly 30 years later, they're still making bold, inventive music. ...
"The 90s seem like yesterday": Saint Etienne on 30 years as pop auteurs
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 5 September 2021
SARAH, BOB AND PETE talk about recording their mesmeric new album via Zoom, the reality of the 90s and the oddness of pop parenthood. ...
see also Sarah Cracknell
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