Author: 90's Cover Band

Watch A Live Cover Version of Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve by premier Brit pop tribute band ‘Britpop Reunion‘ to 1500 students at a 90’s night. While viewing you’ll see that this 90’s song is massively appreciated by the students. Watch as they go wild jumping around and crowd surfing to this song written by Richard Ashcroft. Book a Britpop tribute band for any event such as a birthday, wedding, festival or corporate event. Contact bass player Andy Starkey from a professional Britpop cover band to check on price and availability. 

A Live Cover Version of Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve

Often mislabelled as Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve this song was released 16th June 1997 and has had one heck of long story in and out of court due to it sampling The Rolling Stones The Last Time cover by Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra.

The Verve actually split up for a short while after the single “History” was released in 1995. A short while after they were joined for a very brief period by Suede guitarist Bernard Butler before Nick McCabe rejoined. This single comes from the highly acclaimed album Urban Hymns (Released 29th September 1997). Richard Ashcroft currently writes and tours as a solo artist and performs The Verve songs at live shows too. 

If you need to hire a 90’s tribute band for a festival, wedding, corporate event, private party or birthday then get in touch to check on price and availability. 

Check out many, many live videos of Britpop Reunion performing live since we formed back in 2014. You’ll soon see why we’re the number one goto Britpop and 90’s band for live entertainment across the UK and Europe. Band leader Andy Starkey has a wealth of knowledge in live music and will make sure your event goes off as smooth as silk. 

How to play Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve on acoustic guitar

Andy even produced a short video on how to play Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve on acoustic guitar. Its very easy and just the same 4 chords all the way through. E – Esus4 – Dsus2 – A

A massive hit for Pulp and a much loved song by all of our clients and their guests Disco 2000 by Pulp (aka Deborah) always gets everyone up onto the dance-floor. We’ve been performing this Pulp song since we formed in 2014 and we perform it very closely to how Pulp perform it live. Britpop Reunion also perform the other Pulp hit Common People too and it always goes down equally brilliant. Late bloomers Pulp (Previous known as “Arabicus Pulp”) struggled with nearly 15 years of obscurity until they picked up steam when “His n’ Hers” (Featuring the singles Babies, Do You Remember The First Time, Lipgloss and Razzmatazz) was released in 1994.

This was followed up by ‘Different Class’ being released in October of 1995 and commercial chart success and fame was finally theirs. Disco 2000 was the third of four singles released from the Pulp album Different Class. Common People, Mis-Shapes / Sorted for E’s & Wizz (Double A-Side) and Something Changed all charted very well in the UK singles charts. Hire a Pulp tribute band or Brit pop tribute band for your live event. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability to hire a Britpop band. 

Videos of Disco 2000 by Pulp by a Britpop Cover band

Video number one shows Britpop Reunion performing at Silverstone Festival to a few thousand festival goers. As ever captured perfectly both video and audio.

Video number two shows massive Pulp fan bride Natalie on stage with us at her wedding. She had come up with her own dance routine for the song and we loved capturing her performance. 

Video three is from back in 2016 where Britpop Reunion performed at a small festival in a marquee. It also includes other Britpop hits too. 

Pulp band members performing on Disco 2000:

• Jarvis Cocker
• Russell Senior
• Candida Doyle
• Nick Banks
• Steve Mackey (Died 2nd March 2023)
• Mark Webber

What in your opinion is the song that sums up Britpop and Pulp the best though? Is it Common People or is Disco 2000? Or maybe it’s another song by Blur, Oasis or Supergrass? No matter what band is your favourite Britpop Reunion perform music by all of these 90’s band and more at parties, festivals, weddings and corporate events. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability to hire a Britpop cover band. 

Watch as ‘Britpop Reunion‘ the UK’s best 90’s tribute band perform a cover of Parklife by Blur live at various festivals, birthday parties, weddings and more. Guests go absolutly nuts for this 1994 indie pop song. They love to call back “Parklife” to us then sing-along with “All the people, so many people, and they all go hand in hand, hand in hand through their, PARKLIFE”. Punters sing it so loudly that Britpop frontman Andy Starkey doesn’t even need to sing it himself most of the time. You too can hire a 90’s tribute band for a live event, festival, wedding or party. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to check on price and availability. 

First up A Cover Of Parklife by Blur at Silverstone Classic Festival

A massive crowd at a huge festival singalong with Britpop Reunion 100% live.

Secondly performed to 6000+ festival goers at RAF Brizefest Brize Norton

Sthirdly the Blur song Parklife performed live at a festival near London in Claygate. Britpop Reunion headlined ‘Gig On The Rec’ on a lovely Summer’s day and both us and the festival goers all had a superb fun time. It really was an amazing festival and th sound was superb too. 

Fourthly ‘Britpop Reunion‘ cover band perform Parklife taken from the Blur album Parklife at a wedding.

Fifthly Park live at a 40th birthday party in London at Nambucca Club.

Sixthly Park life live at St Gemma’s Hospice G-Fest 2024 festival Glebelands Recreation Ground, Garforth, Leeds to 4500+ festival goers. 

Finally Parklife at another 40th birthday party band in Gloucestershire. 

During a small Christmas Festival in Staffordshire

Information about the Blur song Park life

Parklife was written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree. It was produced by Stephen Street, John Smith and Blur themselves. The single was released on 22nd August 1994 and strangely only reached number 10 in the UK charts. 

It features guest vocalist Phil Daniels from Quadrophenia fame singing the verse with Damon Albarn taking over on the bridge and chorus. The song is taken from the third Blur album (Previous albums were ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ and ‘Leisure’) of the same name ‘Parklife’ released on 25th April 1994.

Other songs released from the Parklife album include “Girls & Boys”, “To the End” and “End of a Century”. 

Blur have reformed again for some live shows in 2023 including Wembley Stadium and some warm up gigs in May 2023. 

The James song Sit Down cover is an absolute indie classic banger. The 1991 release is the most well known version (The original meandered on for a massive seven plus minutes before it was chopped down into the radio friendly pop song it’s known as now). It has a huge chorus that everyone loves to singalong too and throw their arms around their friends. (Or in some cases just sit on the floor to). You probably didn’t even realise that the song only has the same three chords throughout. It has the same three chords for the verse, bridge, chorus and middle 8. Simply E – A – B. Sit Down can also be played quite nicely on a guitar with a capo on the 4th fret using the chords C – F – G.

Britpop Reunion are a live 90s indie pop tribute band performing all your favourite brit pop songs from the Cool Britannia movement. Massive hits by James, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass, Reef and more. Contact bass player Andy Starkey to hire a Brit pop Tribute band now. As well as Sit Down Britpop Reunion also perform crowd favourite Laid at live events too. What more could you want at your event or party? We’ll also give you the Battle Of Britpop.

James song Sit Down A Faithful Cover Version

Firstly here we have Britpop Reunion performing Sit Down by James cover version at Silverstone festival to many thousand festival goers. Watch as everyone sings along with us having the time of their lives. We’ve been doing this since 2014 so we know exactly how to whip the audience up into a frenzy.

Secondly Britpop Reunion performing a cover of the James song Sit Down at a 40th birthday party in London. See how we can also expertly entertain smaller groups of guests at parties too. We can handle all sizes of venues as we’ve been there and done it all before. 

Thirdly another festival performance of this classic 90s James song to a few thousand people. 

Fourthly live at one of our many self hosted 90s Party Nights

Fifth, Sit Down live to 6000+ festival goers at RAF Brize Norton Brizefest

Lyrics to Sit Down by James

Verse 1

I sing myself to sleep, a song from the darkest hour
Secrets I can’t keep, inside of the day
Swing from high to deep, extremes of sweet and sour
Hope that God exists, I hope I pray

Bridge 1

Drawn by the undertow, my life is out of control
I believe this wave will bear my weight, so let it flow

Chorus

Oh sit down x3
Sit down next to me
Sit down, down, down, down, down
In sympathy

Verse 2

Now I’m relieved to hear, that you’ve been to some far out places
It’s hard to carry on, when you feel all alone

Bridge 2

Now I’ve swung back down again, it’s worse than it was before
If I hadn’t seen such riches, I could live with being poor

Chorus
Oh sit down x 3
Sit down next to me
Sit down, down, down, down, down
In sympathy

Middle 8
Those who feel the breath of sadness, sit down next to me.
Who find they’re touched by madness, sit down next to me.
Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.
In love, in fear, in hate, in tears x 4….Down

Chorus
Oh sit down x 3
Sit down next to me
Sit down, down, down, down, down
In sympathy, down

Here you can view Place Your hands by Reef cover version performed by Britpop Reunion. We’ve performed this track at every single performance we’ve ever done since we formed all the way back in 2014. Everyone loves singing along to this mid 90’s song by Glastonbury, England band Reef even if they always get the lyrics wrong. Folks love to throw their hand in the air as they think the lyrics are “Put your hands up, put your hands up”. But we don’t mind what anyone sings as long as they’re having the time of their life. Britpop musician Andy Starkey even encourages guests to put their hand up in the air. Why not eh?!?  Contact band leader Andy Starkey to hire a 90’s cover band for a wedding, birthday, festival, corporate event or any event live music is required for. We’ll make your event the biggest and best one you’ve ever been to. 

Place Your Hands by Reef Cover Version performed many times over the years.

Firstly here is the track performed live at a 40th birthday party at Nambucca, London. Client Oliver booked Britpop Reunion for his big 40th birthday party and everyone was up dancing from the very first note all the way through to the very last.

Next up we have Place Your Hands cover live at a swanky private party. This was a double header for us with us performing both on the Friday night and Saturday night. 

Put Your Hands up by Reef performed at a Festival to a crowd of 10,000 

Be they large or small we love a good live festival performance. What could be better than having 10,000 festival goers all sing “Put Your Hands Up” back to you live on stage? 

Finally a cover of the Reef song ‘Place Your Hands’ at a sold out ticketed 90’s event. We were treated like royalty while our Cool Britannia band performed nineties and Britpop songs for ticket paying punters.

Facts about the 90’s band Reef.

The Reef song ‘Naked’ was used in an early Nineties commercial for Sony Mini Disc. “I’ll blow you away”.

‘Place Your Hands’ is the lead track from their second album ‘Glow’ released in 1997 yet is their most know song.

Contact to hire a Britpop and 90’s tribute band for a wedding, birthday, party, corporate event or festival. 

Watch our multiple videos of Common People by Pulp cover version at many different events over the years. Everybody loves this tune when we perform it live at weddings, festivals, birthdays and corporate events. “She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge………Singalong with the Common People”. Pulp became household names when they replaced The Stone Roses at Glastonbury in 1995 as guitarist John Squire had broken his collar bone from a biking accident.  Hire the UK’s best professional Britpop Tribute Band ‘Britpop Reunion‘ for your party and live it up 90’s style. Contact band leader Andy Starkey to hire a 90’s cover band to check on price and availability for a live event. 

Common People by Pulp Cover – First live at a private festival

Next at another festival or two to about 5000/6000 festival goers each time

Then at an Army Base

Then live acoustically at The Cavern Club, Liverpool.

Random lyrics from Common People by Pulp.

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge. She studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s College that’s where I caught her eye…..I said in that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola she said fine. And then in thirty seconds time she said. I wanna live like common people, I want to do whatever common people do. And then dance and drink and screw, because there’s nothing else to do.

Common People was written by:

• Jarvis Cocker (Vocals)
• Russell Senior (Guitar)
• Steve Mackey (Bass Guitar)
• Nick Banks (Drums)
• Candida Doyle (Keyboard)

B-Sides over various formats were:

• Common People (full-length version) – 5m51s
• Underwear
• Common People (7-inch edit) – 4m07s
• Razzmatazz (acoustic version)
• Dogs Are Everywhere (acoustic version)
• Joyriders (acoustic version)
• Various dance mixes of Common People

Trivia about Common People.

Did you know that there are two different edits of this song. The single release clocks in at 4 minutes and 7 seconds. The album version is a massive 5 minutes and 51 seconds with another verse at the end. Plus another chorus and a longer end section. 

The entire song only has three chords in it throughout which are C G and F. This make it a pretty easy song for anyone to perform themselves.

Common People speeds up as it progresses along. It starts at 138 bpm and is 157 bpm by the end. 

Britpop Reunion singer Andy Starkey did an interview with Pulp drummer Nick Banks on Radio 4.

Hire a Pulp tribute band or a Britpop tribute band for an event or party.

Andy Starkey shows you how to play the chords to Common People by Pulp on acoustic guitar in the below tutorial.

Watch a live cover of Rocks by Primal Scream video below and see how brides, grooms, guests and even bar patrons go wild for this 90’s tune. You too can book a Britpop tribute band for your event, party, wedding or festival. ‘Britpop Reunion‘ perform songs by Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and other 90’s bands too. Contact bass player Andy Starkey from Britpop Reunion to check on price and availability now to hire a 90’s cover band for an event. 

Taken from the 1994 album ‘Give Out But Don’t Give Up‘ ‘Rocks’ was a significant change in direct to more of a classic rock sound than previous Primal Scream albums such as ‘Screamadelica’ which had a more dance feel.
As you’ll hear Rocks has very classic Rolling Stones & T-Rex sound and feel to it.

Watch a live cover of Rocks by Primal Scream further info

Rocks was released on the 28th February 1994 and reached number 7 in the UK charts. It is in fact a double A-Side with the lesser known “Funky Jam”. The song ‘Rocks’ by Primal Scream was written by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Robert Young.

All singles from the album ‘Give Out But Don’t Give Up’:

• Rocks
• Jailbird
• (I’m Gonna) Cry Myself Blind

Rocks Lyrics:

Verse 1
Dealers keep a dealin’, thieves a keep a thievin’.
Whores a keep a whorin’, junkies keep scorin’.
Trade is on the meat rack, strip joints full of hunchbacks.
Bitches keep a bitchin’, clap just keeps a-itchin’.

Bridge
Ain’t no use in prayin’, that’s the way it’s stayin’, baby.
Johnny ain’t so crazy, ye’s always got a line for the ladies
(Yeah, yeah, yeah).

Chorus
Get your rocks off, get your rocks off, honey
Shake it now now, get’em off downtown
Get your rocks off, get you rocks off, honey
Shake it now now, get’em off downtown

Verse 2
Creeps a keep a crawlin’
Drunks a keep a fallin’
Teasers keep a teasin’
Holy joes are preachin’
Cops a keep a bustin’
Hustlers keep a hustlin’
Death a keeps a knockin’
Souls are up for auction

Bridge
Ain’t no use in prayin’, that’s the way it’s stayin’, baby.
Johnny ain’t so crazy, ye’s always got a line for the ladies
(Yeah, yeah, yeah).

Chorus
Get your rocks off, get your rocks off, honey
Shake it now now, get’em off downtown
Get your rocks off, get you rocks off, honey
Shake it now now, get’em off downtown

B-Sides of Rocks across various formats were:

• Rocks
• Funky Jam
• Everybody Needs Somebody

Have Britpop Reunion perform for you and all your guests at your birthday party, festival, wedding or corporate event. We’ll give you a night of 90’s songs that meant and still mean everything to you.