A film documentary on the Britpop era debuts at the London Film Festival next week. ‘Live Forever’ tells the story of the British music scene in the nineties – starting with Stone Roses’ legendary Spike Island gig it follows the rise of Britpop, through the Blur / Oasis thing, to the Gallaghers seminal Knebworth gig, the arrival of New Labour and the eventual domination of teen pop. Damien Hirst, fashion designer Ozwald Boateng, Peter Mandelson, music journalist John Savage, founding editor of Loaded James Brown and 3D from Massive Attack all appear along the way, as do classic tracks from Blur, Radiohead, Pulp and the films title track from Oasis.
The film debuts at the London Film Festival next Tuesday. It gets a UK wide release on 31 Jan next year, and is then likely to go to the US. Producer John Dower told Xfm he is hopeful of success in the States: “The reaction from the US so far has been really good. They love the Britishness of it and in typical US-style love the chance to embrace a film that salutes British Culture.”