8. Not Nineteen Forever

So here we are, twenty years on...


The UK indie guitar scene was a brief, bright moment where
exciting new bands emerged from all corners of the UK, and made
themselves available to fans. It was a time when young people
controlled the culture and left the major record labels in the
dust. It was an intoxicating era of community, messiness and
hedonism. And actually, there is a hunger for all of that now.
Many of the bands from that time are still going, and are playing
to more people than they ever have before. The UK Indie Explosion
holds a fascination for those audiences too young to have
experienced it firsthand, and those Gen Z-ers have popularised
the term ‘indie sleaze’. Meanwhile, guitar music is cool again,
with the likes of English Teacher, Wet Leg, and Wolf Alice
leading a rock revival.


Presented by Kate Nash Produced by Jack Howson & Rich Power A
Peanut & Crumb production for BBC Sounds & 6 Music
Commissioners for the BBC were Will Wilkin and Hannah Clapham


The producers would like to extend deep thanks to: Ed Greig for
additional (early noughties) production heard across the series
David Crackles for engineering every episode The BBC Archive
team, namely David Hyde, Joseph Schultz, and Colin Waddell