People's History of Pop BBC Music

The best venue in the Midlands and still going strong.
I spent many a Thursday night in the mid-90s taking advantage of the £1 entry fee and have seen pretty much all my favourite bands play there.

This is the original 1993 Oasis Live Demonstration Tape – one of the few! This is the real deal, it is not one of the recent promo tapes that Oasis issued to promote the anniversary re-issue of Definitely Maybe.

(Some of) my Top of the Pops tickets from my days of being a late 1990s/early 2000s pop groupie! Had some of the best times of my youth there with my pop fan friends. Saw and met hundreds of artists there over the years.

Hanging out with the Spice Girls at Abbey Road Studios, summer 1999. They were recording their third album and we went down to meet them many times over the fortnight they were recording. We used to chat to them either when they arrived or when they were getting in their cars to drive home. This picture was taken on the final Friday evening when Mel B and Emma were heading out for a night out on the town and they were larking out being stupid with us. We got to know them all quite well over the years, meeting them at airports, TV studios, their houses. They were really nice and we used to always have a joke with them.