UK Britpop Cover Band

You want to book a UK Britpop Cover Band to provide you with live entertainment. ‘Britpop Reunion‘ are available to book for your 90’s event throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and the rest of the world. All over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Our Brit pop group perform huge hits from Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, The Verve, Pulp. Continuing through James, Ocean Colour Scene,  Reef and more. Book a Britpop cover band who perform classic 90’s songs written by nineties superstars. Artists like Britpop Legends Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Richard Ashcroft, Gaz Coombes, Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker, Graham Coxon and more. Contact leader member Andy Starkey to check on price and availability for your britpop festival band, britpop party band, britpop wedding band, corporate entertainment band, charity event entertainment band and more. This is a booking you’ll never regret making when you hire professional musicians for your event. 

 

UK Britpop Cover Band
UK Britpop Cover Band

Book a UK Britpop Cover Band

As the United Kingdom’s best and only professional Brit pop cover band our 90’s tribute band will take you back to the best decade in music featuring the biggest and boldest nineties musicians. Britpop musician Andy Starkey from ‘Britpop Reunion‘ will have you thinking it’s the 1990’s all over again. Period guitars, amplifiers and drum kits mixed with retro 90’s clothing and nineties swagger. Established in 2014 Britpop Reunion instantly upped the game of what you should expect when you book a Britpop covers band. Massively entertaining performances and musicians engaging with the crowd. Therefore getting everyone to sing along and throw their hands in the air. Couple that with the best Britpop musicians around and you can be assured of one heck of a premium 90’s party.

 

 

 

 

 


 

You’ll be singing along to Britpop with us:

  • All the people so many people and they all go hand in hand, hand in hand through their Parklife.
  • So Sally can wait she knows it’s too late as she’s walking on by. Her soul slides away, but don’t look back in anger, I heard you say.
  • We are young, we run green, keep our teeth, nice and clean, see our friends, see the sights, feel Alright. 
  • I wanna live like Common People, I wanna see whatever Common People see.
  • Sometimes I, fantasise, when the streets are cold and lonely and the cars they burn below me.

 

 

All these exciting live performances you can see in our high end videos. We’re not just filming a local pub performance on a smart phone…. With terrible audio and video quality. We’re shooting on multiple DSLR and mirrorless cameras. With live audio expertly recorded from a mixing desk at high end bookings. ‘Britpop Reunion‘ put in all this extra effort to prove to your what we’re capable of. Read reviews and you’ll soon see how every single client who has ever booked Britpop cover band ‘Britpop Reunion‘ has given us a 100% positive rating. 

 

 

 

 

 


 

What you get when you hire a UK brit pop covers group 

Depending on the size of your event will depend on whether we bring along our state of the art PA & lighting system. For parties with under approx 150 guests its no problem for us to handle all the events audio for you. For events larger than approx 150 guests read more on what you get when you hire a britpop band. 

 

Britpop singer Andy Starkey and our Britpop tribute band will give you the sights and sounds of a real nineteen nineties live band. There’s no other britpop band out there who are capable of reproducing the 90’s exactly as it was as we do. Contact Britpop artist Andrew Starkey to check on price and availability of his fantastic 1990’s tribute band for your event. Or come and find us on Facebook for a chat.

 

 

 

 

 

Married With Children Oasis Cover Version Video Acoustic Britpop Tribute Band

To celebrate the anniversary of ‘Definitely Maybe’ Britpop musician Andy Starkey decided to take time out of his holiday to live stream this Married With Children Oasis cover version.  Andy hadn’t played this song for over 20 years and it is actually one of the first Oasis set of chords he ever mastered as a teenager. Married With Children is the final song from the Oasis debut album ‘Definitely Maybe‘ which was released August 1994 on Alan McGee’s ‘Creation Records’. Britpop Reunion perform many songs by Oasis from their nineties repertoire including Roll With It, Don’t Look Back In Anger, Wonderwall, Cigarettes & Alcohol and more.  To book a Britpop tribute band for a 90’s party contact Andy for more information on price and availability to hire.

Married With Children Oasis Cover Version Video

The lyrics to Married With Children were somewhat inspired by Louise Jones, who was Noel Gallagher’s girlfriend at the time . She was constantly being kept awake by the Oasis songwriter while he was writing songs and practicing his guitar. Louise would get annoyed telling Noel, “You’re music’s shite.” Gallagher said that he had to keep those lines and wrote them into this song. Those must have been fun times in their household in the nineteen nineties eh.

The song was also inspired by the USA sitcom “Married… with Children”. Noel Gallagher told nineties music paper Melody Maker “I looked at them two in the show (Al Bundy & Peggy Bundy), and looked at us two, and I thought, that’s us, that is!” (i.e. he, Noel Gallagher and his girlfriend Louise Jones). Furthermore he said “It’s another song that anybody could relate to, because if you live with a girlfriend or just a flatmate, there are always petty things that you hate about them. And this song’s just about pettiness”. Yeah, isn’t that right eh.

Married With Children Oasis Cover Version Video Acoustic Britpop Tribute Band
Married With Children Oasis Cover Version Video Acoustic Britpop Tribute Band

Further musings about the Oasis song Married With Children.

This original of this very acoustic sounding song is actually ever so slightly out of tune from regular 440Hz tuning. This suggests it was probably slowed down slightly after recording. Married With Children was an album only track and was never released as a single. Andy’s Married With Children Oasis cover version stays close to the original but has the guitar solo section removed as he preformed it solo. It would have sounded empty without another guitar strumming chords under a solo otherwise.

Noel Gallagher is known for borrowing/plagiarising other artists songs.  If you listen to Lithium by Nirvana (From their 1991 sophomore album ‘Nevermind’) you’ll notice it has very similar chords played with a similar rhythm.

The final song was supposedly recorded in about half an hour on a broken Four-Track multitrack recorder in producer/engineer Mark Coyle’s bedroom.
The very dry sounding guitar part was played by Noel on a Gretsch ‘Country Gent’ that used to be owned by John Squire from The Stone Roses that was round at Owen Morris’s house. The final products is a great link between the demo stages with Mark Coyle and the finished album track.

Alan McGee from Creation records was quoted as saying “It works and when it works its charming and when it’s charming it goes on the record”. Which is a great ethos.

During the recording of Married With Children the following musicians and producers were involved with Oasis (Although not all featured on this song).

  • Owen Morris & Mark Coyle – Producers
  • Liam Gallagher – Lead Vocals
  • Noel Gallagher – Lead Guitarist & backing vocals
  • Paul Arthurs (aka Bonehead) – Rhythm guitar
  • Paul McGuigan (aka Guigsy) – Bass guitar
  • Tony McCarrol – Drummer

Married With Children Lyrics

There’s no need for you to say you’re sorry
Goodbye I’m going home
I don’t care no more so don’t you worry
Goodbye I’m going home

I hate the way that even though you
Know you’re wrong you say you’re right
I hate the books you read and all your friends
Your music’s shite it keeps me up all night, up all night

There’s no need for you to say you’re sorry
Goodbye I’m going home
I don’t care no more so don’t you worry
Goodbye I’m going home

I hate the way that you are so sarcastic
And you’re not very bright
You think that everything you’ve done’s fantastic
Your music’s shite it keeps me up all night, up all night

And it will be nice to be alone for a week or two
But I know then I will be right, right back here with you, with you….

There’s no need for you to say you’re sorry
Goodbye I’m going home
I don’t care no more so don’t you worry
Goodbye I’m going home


Chords to Married With Children by Oasis

Slightly above a beginners level of playing, yet still pretty simple enough. You can play along to Andy’s Married With Children Oasis Cover Version Video by following the following guitar chords.

E G# C#m A C B7 E
A A7 E – F# A G

Earlier recordings of Married With Children.

A demo version of Married With Children was released on the Deluxe Edition version of the Oasis debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’. A slightly less refined version yet it doesn’t actually differ very much from the final album release. But it does feature a very loud shaker throughout and then a loud tambourine during the solo. Also it has slightly clearer lyrics sung by Liam. It clocks in at one second shorter than the final album release being three minutes and sixteen seconds.

If you are looking to hire an Oasis wedding band , or 90’s tribute band then contact band leader Andy Starkey at Britpop Reunion for a quote. 

Britpop Artist Andy Starkey

Britpop Artist Andy Starkey has seen it all and done it. All the way through the 90’s and also into the modern day Andy has been pushing live nineties Britpop out to mass audiences. He performed in original Britpop bands throughout the nineteen nineties in Camden Town, London. As an accomplished Britpop musician Andy Starkey then moved onto the professional tribute scene. He now fronts the UK’s only professional Britpop tribute band ‘Britpop Reunion‘. Contact Andy to check on price and availability to hire a Britpop artist for your next live event and relive some 90’s nostalgia.

Britpop Artist Andy Starkey
Britpop Artist Andy Starkey

Andrew Starkey and his band ‘Britpop Reunion‘ capture exactly what it is to be Britpop artists. You’ll hear live performances of songs by Britpop bands like:

 

But more than just the music you’ve also got the indie image, the original period guitars, amps and clothing too. Also with the bands Britpop 90’s swagger you’ve got one heck of a live performance too. Britpop Artist Andy Starkey knows how to handle crowds of all sizes and has been doing so for the past 30 years. Whether you’ve got 20 guests or 60,000 Andrew will have them eating out of the palms of his hands.  He’ll make sure everyone’s singing and dancing along to his britpop band. “Hand in hand, through their, Parklife“. “And after all you’re my Wonderwall“. “Lets all meet up in the year 2000“. Yep, you know them all don’t you so you’ll be singing along too. 

 

Andrew Starkey Britpop Artist performs live songs like:

  • Don’t Look Back In Anger, Roll With It & Wonderwall
  • Parklife & Country House
  • Disco 2000.
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony.
  • Alright.
  • There She Goes.
  • Laid and more.

When you think of Britpop artists you think of:

  • Guitar based indie pop.
  • Brit pop hair styles.
  • Cool guitars by brands like Fender & Gibson and also Epiphone Sheraton.
  • Telecaster, Stratocaster also ES-335 guitars. Fender Precisions bass guitars.
  • Amplifiers by Vox and similarly Marshall.
  • Clothing by brands like Fred Perry, Adidas Originals and more. 
  • Wooden beads and necklaces.
  • NME & Melody Maker newspapers.
  • Also magazines like Select.

All this attention to detail by Andrew Starkey and his fellow brit pop artists make Britpop Reunion the ideal choice for your festival band or wedding band. Similarly hire a birthday party band, corporate event band or band for a ticketed event. Contact Andy to check on price and also to enquire about availability to hire a britpop artist.

Andrew Starkey Britpop Artist
Andrew Starkey Britpop Artist

Britpop Musician Andy Starkey

Britpop Musician Andy Starkey is pictured below with his 1994 Fender Precision bass guitar on Top Of The Pops. Andrew Starkey has a wealth of knowledge in all things Britpop and the 1990’s. He lived through the British music based culture genre of the 90’s performing in various indie bands. Andy’s Britpop bass guitar heroes are Alex James from Blur, Mick Quinn from Supergrass. Also Mat Osman from Suede and Steve Mackey from Pulp. Additionally as a lead singer Andy Starkey’s Britpop vocal influences include Liam Gallagher from Oasis, Damon Albarn from Blur and Jarvis Cocker from Pulp. Also Richard Ashcroft from The Verve and Gaz Coombes from Supergrass brit pop singer

Britpop Musician Andy Starkey
Britpop Musician Andy Starkey

Book a Britpop musician

If you’re looking to hire a Britpop musician, Andrew Starkey and his UK Britpop cover bandBritpop Reunion‘ will be perfect for your festival, wedding or party. The UK’s only professional britpop band can be hired for any type of event where live music is required. Huge Britpop songs like Wonderwall, Country House, Common People, Disco 2000, Alright, Bitter Sweet Symphonyand more. Depending on the size of live event you are holding will depend on what equipment the band will bring along with us. Hire a Britpop festival band, book a Britpop tribute band. Also hire a Britpop wedding band.

 

If you’re holding a smaller britpop event up to approx 150 guests then you can book Britpop musicians with our full PA system and lighting rig. To book a band for a larger scale event (Such as a festival or with more than approx 150 guests) then you will usually need to provide your own PA system, stage and lighting. Find out more about what you get when you book brit pop musicians.

 

 

Britpop frontman Andy Starkey

Andrew Starkey is a fantastic Britpop frontman. He has the skills to make sure all your guests and festival crowd sing the entire night away with him and his Brit pop cover band. Contact to check on price and availability to book a brit pop musician for your party. 

Britpop Musician Andrew Starkey
Britpop Musician Andrew Starkey