Embed and breakfast man: Dubstar

I can't believe there hasn't been a Dubstar weekend already. Perhaps I've just been waiting for an excuse. And the release of I'm In Love With A German Filmstar in a couple of weeks is excuse enough, don't you think?

They started life as The Joans, a boy-boy two-then-three piece which made the big change when one member went off to build a career with British Airways. (That might have seemed a smart move at the time.) Sarah Blackwood was drafted in by Steve Hillier and Chris Wilkie to make up the numbers. A bit of name changing, a deal with Food Records, and before you knew it they were all over the radio. They were helped by disc jockeys not listening too closely to the words of their songs, and assuming Not So Manic Now was a jolly, Christmassy tune.

They did decide to try an actual happy song, managing to release it - Cathedral Park - on the Monday after a drunk guy crashed the car with Princess Diana in it.

There were three albums, and then a decade silence - until now. Sarah Blackwood has been off doing interesting things with Client (and, as a solo extension in the form of Client B), so there's been plenty of stuff to keep us going. But new Dubstar? That feels special.

Let's start with the biggest hit - Stars, which took a rerelease to get to number 15. Here, it's live at Glastonbury 1997:



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Dubstar across the weekend
I Will Be Your Girlfriend
No More Talk on Top Of The Pops
Not So Manic Now & Anywhere
Self Same Thing

Back in space and time: Glasto 97

Another slice from the field from 1997. The Prodigy doing Firestarter, admittedly five years or so after they were at their peak.



Full list of Glastonbury 97 clips

Beck in space and time

Continuing our collection of Glasto from ten years back, here's Beck doing One Foot In The Grave. Not an Eric Idle cover, sadly:



Links to all the Glasto 97 stuff on the Ray Davies post

Back in space and time: Glasto 1997

Radiohead doing No Surprises from Glastonbury ten years ago

Back in space and time: Glasto ten years ago - Placebo

Continuing our trail through the festival from a decade ago, Placebo battle the sinking stage to do Teenage Angst:

Back in space and time: Glasto ten years ago

As if you're not having a hard enough time trying to balance out the sixty-three streams of BBC TV programming from the current Glastonbury (all, admittedly, showing Gogol Bordello on differing lengths of time-delay) here's a spot of YouTubeage from the festival ten years ago. Ray Davies, doing Waterloo Sunset:



Also:
Placebo
Radiohead
Beck
The Prodigy
More to come across the weekend