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(Blur - put Britpop on the map - and we're glad they did)

Blur tonight. From the Popscene ep from 1992 - Mace. I always loved this band. I could never quite figure out the whole Blur vs. Oasis thing - I suspect it was more a publicity device than anything else. It was a bit like the Beatles vs. Rolling Stones supposed rivalry in the 60s. It was and is still possible to like both bands and their music and not play favorites. Especially on a Friday night.

Life is too short anyway.

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(The Charlatans (UK) - still very much alive and kicking)

Since I mentioned them last night during my Catherine Wheel entry, I thought I should include the headliners from that 1995 gig, The Charlatans (UK) - or just The Charlatans if you're overseas.

As much as everyone talked nonstop at the time about Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and the rest of the Madchester scene in the early 1990s, The Charlatans have to be mentioned in the same breath. It's something of a misnomer to consider them Britpop, because they have many more layers than just one you could identify. Testimony to that fact, they are still recording and gigging around, and are just as popular as ever. Even though the band have gone through a number of personnel changes over the years, they are still fronted by Tim Burgess whose distinctive vocals are fresh as ever.

I thought I would refresh your memory with a cut off their second album, actually two cuts since they fade into one another. Weirdo and Chewing Gum Weekend.

And if you've never heard of them before . . . . . where have you been?

A mixed race crowd of a gob-million people at a concert in London in 1992 wiping their cheeks and singing "I'm not gonna spend my life being a color." Simultaneously.

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(By Day 3 things were starting to calm down a bit)

By May 1st of 1992, Los Angeles had been witness to one of the more devasating riots in recent memory for three endless days. All sparked by the beating of black motorist Rodney King, the city went ballistic when the police officers responsible for the beating were acquitted during a trial held in the suburb of Simi Valley on April 29. The riot was widespread, heading as far west as Santa Monica and laying waste to entire blocks in Hollywood. With curfews enforced and National Guard troops called in, the city finally returned to calm by the weekend of May 2nd.

On May 1st, President Bush addressed the situation, authorizing the use of Marines and a detachment of Army Infantry to patrol the city streets in order to prevent further looting and fires which turned the L.A. sky red at night.

L.A. just wasnt quite the same after that.

(The incident that sparked the outrage)