1997
March 5th, 2007 | music, researchmaterial
Gillen found this: David McNamee writes a terrific essay on Teen-C, a nebulous mini-scene/microsubculture that surfaced in the wake of Britpop:
In 1996, Bis, ‘the first unsigned band to play Top Of The Pops’, seemed like unfeasibly young pop stars � aged between 17 and 19. They wrote fanzines and encouraged everyone who followed them to write their own zines and start their own bands. As a kind of umbrella situationist ethic with which to guide people, they invented their own ‘movement’: Teen-C…
is the award-winning creator of graphic novels such as 
At last, the missing link between Stewart Home and the Powerpuff Girls is found.
I get to see bis live next month – reforming for three gigs.
I am strangely happy at this.
(Now all I need os Kula Shaker to start touring again…)
RE-found.
great post. and 3 gigs are not enough.
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