0:00:16 > 0:00:20Welcome to the '90s and a quick but invigorating spin around some
0:00:20 > 0:00:22top-drawer British rock performances.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25I say rock, but given that this is the dance decade,
0:00:25 > 0:00:28definitions of what is and what isn't heir
0:00:28 > 0:00:31to the Wishbone Ash millions are decidedly baggy
0:00:31 > 0:00:32and nothing wrong with that.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36So off we go with the London Suede, to give them their American name.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Viewers should note that this clip does contain
0:00:39 > 0:00:41some flashes of leopardskin posing pouches.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09# Like his dad
0:01:09 > 0:01:11# You know that he's had
0:01:11 > 0:01:15# Animal nitrate in mind
0:01:15 > 0:01:18# Oh in your council home
0:01:18 > 0:01:21# He jumped on your bones
0:01:21 > 0:01:25# Now you're taking it time after time
0:01:25 > 0:01:28# Oh it turns you on
0:01:28 > 0:01:31# On
0:01:31 > 0:01:35# Now he has gone
0:01:35 > 0:01:38# Oh what turns you on
0:01:38 > 0:01:40# On
0:01:40 > 0:01:44# Now your animal's gone
0:01:45 > 0:01:47# Well he said
0:01:47 > 0:01:49# He'd show you his bed
0:01:49 > 0:01:54# And the delights of the chemical smile
0:01:54 > 0:01:57# So in your broken home
0:01:57 > 0:01:59# He broke all your bones
0:01:59 > 0:02:03# Now you're taking it time after time
0:02:03 > 0:02:06# Oh it turns you on
0:02:06 > 0:02:09# On
0:02:10 > 0:02:13# Now he has gone
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# Oh what turns you on
0:02:16 > 0:02:19# On
0:02:19 > 0:02:23# Now your animal's gone
0:02:45 > 0:02:49# What does it take to turn you on
0:02:49 > 0:02:51# On
0:02:51 > 0:02:54# Now he has gone
0:02:54 > 0:02:58# Now you're over 21
0:02:58 > 0:03:01# Oh
0:03:01 > 0:03:05# Now your animal's gone
0:03:05 > 0:03:07# Animal
0:03:07 > 0:03:10# He was animal
0:03:10 > 0:03:13# An animal
0:03:13 > 0:03:14# Oh
0:03:14 > 0:03:17# Animal
0:03:17 > 0:03:19# He was animal
0:03:19 > 0:03:22# An animal
0:03:22 > 0:03:24# Oh-oh-oh
0:03:24 > 0:03:28# Animal
0:03:28 > 0:03:32# Animal
0:03:32 > 0:03:38# He's just an animal
0:03:38 > 0:03:40# An animal. #
0:03:40 > 0:03:45Suede, who in the '90s had Bob Dylan go on before them at one festival.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46That's courage.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49When a group appears on Top of the Pops singing a song
0:03:49 > 0:03:53which mentions places such as Knutsford, Scunthorpe and Hebden Bridge
0:03:53 > 0:03:57and in a way that other chart hits didn't, it's got to be special, right?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01And when that performance is also the birth of Acid Morris Dancing,
0:04:01 > 0:04:03this is great art in the making.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Savour, then, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
0:04:07 > 0:04:09performing 'It's Grim Up North'.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13# Crewe, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan
0:04:13 > 0:04:15# Leeds, Northwich
0:04:15 > 0:04:18# Nantwich, Knutsford, Hull, Sale
0:04:18 > 0:04:22# Salford, Southport, Leigh, Derby
0:04:22 > 0:04:25# Kearsley, Keighley, Maghull
0:04:25 > 0:04:28# Harrogate, Huddersfield, Oldham
0:04:28 > 0:04:31# Lancs, Grimsby, Glossop
0:04:31 > 0:04:32# Hebden Bridge
0:04:32 > 0:04:34# It's grim up north
0:04:40 > 0:04:42# It's grim up north
0:04:54 > 0:04:57# Pendlebury, Prestwich, Preston
0:04:57 > 0:05:00# York, Skipton, Scunthorpe
0:05:00 > 0:05:02# Scarborough-on-Sea
0:05:02 > 0:05:05# Chester, Chorley, Cheadle Hulme
0:05:05 > 0:05:08# Ormskirk, Accrington Stanley
0:05:08 > 0:05:11# And Leigh, Ossett, Otley
0:05:11 > 0:05:15# Ilkley Moor, Sheffield, Manchester
0:05:15 > 0:05:18# Castleford, Skem, Doncaster
0:05:18 > 0:05:22# Dewsbury, Halifax, Bingley, Bramall
0:05:22 > 0:05:24# Are all in the north
0:05:24 > 0:05:26# It's grim up north
0:05:32 > 0:05:34# It's grim up north. #
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Acid Morris dancing.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13I'm not buying it.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Do me a favour. Do that thing you do.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19OK. Now play the record a bit.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21DANCE MUSIC
0:07:21 > 0:07:23All right. Now you do it.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Yeah! Yeah, I can see that! Thanks a lot, fellas. Keep in touch.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27BELLS RING
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Keep it down. I'm broadcasting over here.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33When Pulp released their single Do You Remember The First Time?,
0:07:33 > 0:07:37they made a short film of fans talking about their early sexual experiences.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41It included contributions from such as Jo Brand and Bob Mortimer.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44But nobody wants to see that. Well, let me put it another way.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Jo and Bob don't want anyone to see that.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50Instead, here's a rousing live version of the song from Pulp In The Park,
0:07:50 > 0:07:53filmed at Finsbury Park, London, in 1998.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10# You say you've got to go home
0:08:12 > 0:08:18# Cos he's sitting on his own again this evening
0:08:20 > 0:08:26# And I know you're going to let him bore your pants off again
0:08:26 > 0:08:30# Oh God, it's half past eight
0:08:30 > 0:08:31# You'll be late
0:08:33 > 0:08:35# You say you've never been sure
0:08:38 > 0:08:43# Though it makes good sense for you to live together
0:08:45 > 0:08:48# Still you bought a toy
0:08:48 > 0:08:51# That can reach the places he never goes
0:08:51 > 0:08:55# And now it's getting late
0:08:55 > 0:08:58# He's so straight
0:09:01 > 0:09:04# Do you remember the first time
0:09:05 > 0:09:08# I can't remember a worse time
0:09:09 > 0:09:13# But you know that we've changed so much since then
0:09:13 > 0:09:15# Oh yeah we've grown
0:09:16 > 0:09:19# Now I don't care what you're doing
0:09:20 > 0:09:23# No I don't care if you screw him
0:09:24 > 0:09:27# Just as long as you save a piece for me
0:09:27 > 0:09:29# Oh yeah now
0:09:29 > 0:09:31# Oooh
0:09:31 > 0:09:33# You want to go home
0:09:36 > 0:09:39# Well at least there's someone there
0:09:39 > 0:09:41# That you can talk to
0:09:44 > 0:09:47# And you never have to face up
0:09:47 > 0:09:50# To the night on your own
0:09:50 > 0:09:53# Jesus, it must be great
0:09:53 > 0:09:56# To be straight
0:10:00 > 0:10:02# Do you remember the first time
0:10:04 > 0:10:06# I can't remember a worse time
0:10:08 > 0:10:11# But you know that we've changed so much since then
0:10:11 > 0:10:13# Oh yeah we've grown
0:10:15 > 0:10:17# Now I don't care what you're doing
0:10:19 > 0:10:21# No I don't care if you screw him
0:10:22 > 0:10:26# Just as long as you save a piece for me
0:10:26 > 0:10:27# Oh yeah now
0:10:27 > 0:10:30# Oooh
0:10:30 > 0:10:32# You want to go home
0:10:37 > 0:10:39# You want to go home
0:10:44 > 0:10:46# You say you're going to go home
0:10:50 > 0:10:54# Now you want to go home
0:10:54 > 0:10:56# Oh-oh-oh
0:10:56 > 0:10:58# Oh-oh-oh
0:10:58 > 0:10:59# Oh-oh-oh
0:11:02 > 0:11:05# Do you remember the first time
0:11:07 > 0:11:08# I can't remember a worse time
0:11:10 > 0:11:13# But you know that we've changed so much since then
0:11:13 > 0:11:16# Oh yeah we've grown
0:11:17 > 0:11:20# No I don't care what you're doing
0:11:21 > 0:11:23# No I don't care if you screw him
0:11:25 > 0:11:28# Just as long as you save a piece for me
0:11:28 > 0:11:29# Oh yeah now
0:11:32 > 0:11:34# Do you remember the first time
0:11:35 > 0:11:38# I can't remember a worse time, no
0:11:39 > 0:11:42# But you know that we've changed so much since then
0:11:42 > 0:11:44# Oh yeah we've grown
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# I don't care what you're doing
0:11:50 > 0:11:52# I don't care if you screw him
0:11:53 > 0:11:57# Just as long as you save a piece for me
0:11:57 > 0:11:59# Oh yeah now
0:11:59 > 0:12:01# Oooh
0:12:01 > 0:12:04# You want to go home. #
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Pulp. Did you know that one of Jarvis Cocker's lyrics
0:12:11 > 0:12:16spans the entire side of one wall at Sheffield University?
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Students!
0:12:17 > 0:12:22Now to PJ Harvey and what seems to be her wonderful numerical fixation.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26She's written songs called 30, 66 Promises, 97 Degrees,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29but this evening, we'll go with 50 Ft Queenie,
0:12:29 > 0:12:33possibly inspired by the film Attack Of The 50 Foot Insect,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35or Here Comes Half A Centipede.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I'm so sorry, PJ. I'm doing what I can!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55# Hey I'm one big queenie
0:12:55 > 0:12:57# No-one can stop me
0:12:57 > 0:12:59# Red light red green
0:12:59 > 0:13:01# Sat back and watching
0:13:01 > 0:13:03# I'm your new one
0:13:03 > 0:13:05# Second to no-one
0:13:05 > 0:13:07# No sweat I'm clean
0:13:07 > 0:13:09# Nothing can touch me
0:13:16 > 0:13:19# Tell you my name
0:13:19 > 0:13:21# F U and C K
0:13:21 > 0:13:23# 50 foot queenie
0:13:23 > 0:13:24# Force ten hurricane
0:13:24 > 0:13:26# Biggest woman
0:13:26 > 0:13:28# I could have ten sons
0:13:28 > 0:13:30# Ten gods, ten queens
0:13:30 > 0:13:32# Ten foot and rising
0:13:32 > 0:13:34# Hey I'm the king of the world
0:13:34 > 0:13:36# You ought to hear my song
0:13:36 > 0:13:38# You come on and measure me
0:13:38 > 0:13:40# I'm twenty inches long
0:13:55 > 0:13:56# Glory, glory
0:13:56 > 0:13:58# Lay it all on me
0:13:58 > 0:14:00# 50 foot queenie
0:14:00 > 0:14:02# 50 and rising
0:14:02 > 0:14:03# You bend over
0:14:03 > 0:14:06# Casanova
0:14:06 > 0:14:07# No sweat I'm clean
0:14:07 > 0:14:09# Nothing can touch me
0:14:09 > 0:14:12# Hey I'm the king of the world
0:14:12 > 0:14:13# You ought to hear my song
0:14:13 > 0:14:15# You come on and measure me
0:14:15 > 0:14:17# I'm twenty inches long
0:14:17 > 0:14:19# Hey I'm the king of the world
0:14:19 > 0:14:21# You ought to hear my song
0:14:21 > 0:14:23# You come on and measure me
0:14:23 > 0:14:24# I'm thirty inches long
0:14:24 > 0:14:26# Hey I'm king of the world
0:14:26 > 0:14:28# You ought to hear my song
0:14:28 > 0:14:30# You come on and measure me
0:14:30 > 0:14:32# I'm forty inches long
0:14:32 > 0:14:34# Hey I'm king of the world
0:14:34 > 0:14:36# You ought to hear my song
0:14:36 > 0:14:38# You come on and measure me
0:14:38 > 0:14:40# I'm fifty inches long
0:14:40 > 0:14:42# 50 foot queenie
0:14:42 > 0:14:43# 50 foot queenie
0:14:43 > 0:14:45# 50 foot queenie
0:14:45 > 0:14:47# 50 foot queenie
0:14:47 > 0:14:49# 50 foot queenie
0:14:49 > 0:14:51# 50 foot queenie
0:14:51 > 0:14:53# 50 foot queenie. #
0:14:59 > 0:15:01That was, to quote Count Arthur Strong,
0:15:01 > 0:15:04PG Tips... PG Wodehouse... PJ Proby...
0:15:04 > 0:15:06PJ Harvey.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11When Portishead pitched up at the Roseland Ballroom in New York in 1998,
0:15:11 > 0:15:15they recorded an extraordinary concert with a 35 piece orchestra
0:15:15 > 0:15:18and most of the audience sitting on its dancefloor.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20Here, they capture beautifully
0:15:20 > 0:15:23the slow burn of Glory Hole... Glory Box!
0:15:41 > 0:15:45# I'm so tired of playing
0:15:46 > 0:15:49# Playing with this bow and arrow
0:15:49 > 0:15:52# Going to give my heart away
0:15:52 > 0:15:57# Leave it to the other girls to play
0:15:59 > 0:16:03# For I've been a temptress too long
0:16:05 > 0:16:07# Just
0:16:07 > 0:16:12# Give me a reason to love you
0:16:15 > 0:16:20# Give me a reason to be
0:16:22 > 0:16:24# A woman
0:16:28 > 0:16:32# I just want to be a woman
0:16:38 > 0:16:40# From this time
0:16:40 > 0:16:42# Unchained
0:16:42 > 0:16:45# We're all looking at a different picture
0:16:45 > 0:16:48# Through this new frame of mind
0:16:50 > 0:16:53# A thousand flowers could bloom
0:16:56 > 0:16:58# Move over
0:16:58 > 0:17:01# And give us some room
0:17:01 > 0:17:03# Yeah
0:17:04 > 0:17:08# Give me a reason to love you
0:17:11 > 0:17:16# Give me a reason to be
0:17:19 > 0:17:21# A woman
0:17:25 > 0:17:28# I just want to be a woman
0:18:08 > 0:18:11# So don't you stop
0:18:12 > 0:18:14# Being a man
0:18:17 > 0:18:19# Just take a little look
0:18:19 > 0:18:22# From outside if you can
0:18:25 > 0:18:30# Show a little tenderness
0:18:34 > 0:18:38# No matter if you cry
0:18:41 > 0:18:45# Give me a reason to love you
0:18:49 > 0:18:54# Give me a reason to be
0:18:56 > 0:18:58# A woman
0:19:02 > 0:19:05# I just want to be a woman
0:19:08 > 0:19:11# Cos it's all I want to be
0:19:11 > 0:19:13# Is a woman
0:19:13 > 0:19:15# Yeah
0:19:21 > 0:19:24# For this is the beginning
0:19:24 > 0:19:28# Of forever and ever
0:19:51 > 0:19:55# It's time to move over
0:19:55 > 0:19:59# Cos it's all I want to be
0:20:00 > 0:20:04# I'm so tired of playing
0:20:04 > 0:20:07# Playing with his bow and arrow
0:20:07 > 0:20:10# Going to give my heart away
0:20:10 > 0:20:14# Leave it to the other girls to play
0:20:17 > 0:20:21# For I've been a temptress too long
0:20:24 > 0:20:25# Just
0:20:25 > 0:20:30# Give me a reason to love you
0:20:34 > 0:20:38# Give me a reason to be. #
0:20:50 > 0:20:53That was Portishead from the Roseland,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56which I hear is due for closure some time soon.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00Then again, so is my heart and Beverley Selway, 1966.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04It's not possible to cover the '90s without The Happy Mondays'
0:21:04 > 0:21:08Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches album, which is still great.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Recorded in London and, bizarrely,
0:21:10 > 0:21:12the Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles,
0:21:12 > 0:21:14it produced the band's biggest hit Step On.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18The video for this, shot at Sitges, near Barcelona,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21was made by two Geordies - Phil Shotton and Keith Jobling -
0:21:21 > 0:21:24and it was the latter, let history note,
0:21:24 > 0:21:26that actually coined the term "Madchester".
0:21:39 > 0:21:40# Twisting my melon, man
0:21:40 > 0:21:42# You know you talk so hip, man
0:21:42 > 0:21:44# You're twisting my melon, man
0:21:48 > 0:21:50# Call the cops
0:21:59 > 0:22:03# Hey, rainmaker, come away from that man
0:22:03 > 0:22:07# You know he's gonna take away your promised land
0:22:08 > 0:22:12# Hey, good lady, he just wants what you got you know
0:22:12 > 0:22:16# He'll never stop until he's taken the lot
0:22:26 > 0:22:31# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
0:22:31 > 0:22:35# Don't you know he can make you forget you're a man
0:22:35 > 0:22:39# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
0:22:39 > 0:22:44# Don't you know he can make you forget you're the man?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46# You're a man
0:22:47 > 0:22:48# Twisting my melon, man
0:22:48 > 0:22:50# You speak so hip
0:22:58 > 0:23:02# Hey, rainmaker, he got golden plans
0:23:02 > 0:23:03# I tell you
0:23:03 > 0:23:07# You'll make a stranger in your own land
0:23:07 > 0:23:11# Hey, good lady, he's got God on his side
0:23:11 > 0:23:13# He got a double tongue
0:23:13 > 0:23:15# You never think he would lie
0:23:17 > 0:23:19# Ooh, he lied
0:23:19 > 0:23:23# He's twisting me melon, man
0:23:23 > 0:23:26# Ooh, you're twisting my melon, man
0:23:26 > 0:23:29# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
0:23:29 > 0:23:34# Don't you know he can make you forget you're a man
0:23:34 > 0:23:39# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
0:23:39 > 0:23:42# Don't you know he can make you forget you're the man?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45# You're the man
0:24:06 > 0:24:09# He's gonna step on you again... #
0:24:24 > 0:24:29Shaun Ryder, who was last spotted on TV presenting a series about UFOs.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Some people claim to have seen it,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34but it was probably just a weather balloon or a trick of the light.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37And our 1990s are almost at an end.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Time just to include a band of outsiders who initially
0:24:40 > 0:24:42nobody fancied too much,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45but who went on to become massively successful,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48doing things their own way too, and more power to them.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Filmed live at the Astoria in London in 1994 performing The Bends
0:24:52 > 0:24:56before it had even appeared on an album, Radiohead.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59And nobody likes a laugh more than Radiohead.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Goodnight.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02This is about knowing who your friends are.
0:25:23 > 0:25:28# Oh
0:25:31 > 0:25:35# Oh
0:25:39 > 0:25:41# Where do we go from here?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43# The words are coming out all weird
0:25:43 > 0:25:48# Where are you now when I need you?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51# Alone on an airplane
0:25:51 > 0:25:56# Fall asleep on against the window pane
0:25:56 > 0:25:58# My blood will thicken
0:26:10 > 0:26:14# I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
0:26:14 > 0:26:19# Cos I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath
0:26:19 > 0:26:22# But who are my real friends?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24# Have they all got the bends?
0:26:24 > 0:26:29# Am I really sinking this low?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34# My baby's got the bends
0:26:34 > 0:26:36# Oh, no
0:26:38 > 0:26:42# We don't have any real friends
0:26:42 > 0:26:44# Oh, no, no
0:26:44 > 0:26:47# Just lying at the bar with my drip feed on
0:26:47 > 0:26:51# Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
0:26:52 > 0:26:55# I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be happy
0:26:55 > 0:26:58# I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
0:27:03 > 0:27:05# Where do we go from here?
0:27:05 > 0:27:09# The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
0:27:09 > 0:27:11# And where are you?
0:27:12 > 0:27:17# They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines
0:27:17 > 0:27:19# To blow me away
0:27:19 > 0:27:23# To blow me sky high
0:27:23 > 0:27:28# My baby's got the bends
0:27:31 > 0:27:36# We don't have any real friends
0:27:38 > 0:27:40# Just lying at the bar with my drip feed on
0:27:40 > 0:27:44# Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
0:27:45 > 0:27:48# I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be happy
0:27:48 > 0:27:50# I wish, I wish, I wish that something would
0:28:15 > 0:28:18# I wanna live, breathe
0:28:18 > 0:28:22# I wanna be a part of the human race
0:28:25 > 0:28:27# I wanna live, breathe
0:28:27 > 0:28:31# I wanna be part of the human race
0:28:31 > 0:28:35# Race, race, race
0:28:35 > 0:28:38# Where do we go from here?
0:28:38 > 0:28:40# The words are coming out all weird
0:28:40 > 0:28:44# Where are you now
0:28:44 > 0:28:49# When I need you? #
0:28:49 > 0:28:51APPLAUSE