Sandra Harris Writes

THE MANCHESTER REVOLUTION, BRITPOP AND THE OASIS REUNION: WHY I’M STILL MAD FOR IT AND ALWAYS WILL BE. BY SANDRA HARRIS. © First came the ‘Manchester Revolution,’ an explosion of bands from the home of iconic soap opera CORONATION STREET onto our radios and television music shows in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Remember the Stone Roses, with their baggy jeans, floaty tops, bucket hats and trippy riffs? Remember the Happy Mondays, the Inspiral Carpets, the Charlatans, Candy Flip, who did a rather divine covers of the Beatles’ hit, Strawberry Fields Forever ? I was still a young one at this stage, still child-free, and I loved music. I’d spent the whole of the 1980s with my Coca-Cola-bottle-shaped radio clamped to my ear (mainly ‘cause the batteries were always running down, lol, so that was the only way I could hear it) , and every Sunday afternoon I’d be found on the couch watching MTUSA.  This was an American music programme presented by Irish chap Vincent Hanley that just...