Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne: Foxbase Alpha

Sleevenotes by Jon Savage, Mantra Records, 1989

There are still plenty of real Londoners who sleep the night in London as well as work the day there - some in love, some ...

St Etienne: Debut That's Alpha Oscar Kilo.

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Observer, The, October 1991

On their delightful debut album, Foxbase Alpha, St Etienne mix contemporary house rhythms with the string-swept melodrama of Sixties pop. Amazingly, the creators of this ...

Saint Etienne

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, April 1992

THE PRODUCT ...

St Etienne: Clubber Soul

Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, May 1992

Stop farming your hair for an instant and smell those flowers! Perfect pop is back and ST ETIENNE will be drifting it blissfully up to ...

St Etienne: Let's Be Avenue!

Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, October 1992

I wanted to talk to St Etienne because I don't like their records as much as everyone else seems to. I don't believe that they're ...

St Etienne, Pulp: Mayfair, Glasgow

Live Review by Terry Staunton, NME, March 1993

A MIRRORBALL of confusion spins and sparkles over the hall. Blank faces stare at the stage where Pulp are playing. Is this pop? ...

Saint Etienne/Oasis: Birmingham Institute

Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, NME, December 1993

IF OASIS DIDN'T exist, no one would want to invent them. For a start, they look and sound like they're long overdue product from a ...

Saint Etienne: Good Humor (Heavenly)

Review and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, June 1998

FACED WITH Sarah, Bob and Pete's latest creamy confection, smothered in schmaltz and techno-lite topped off with Astrud Gilberto vocals, it's easy to dismiss them ...

Eyewitness December 1993: Oasis Support The Verve

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, July 1998

Freshly signed to Creation, Oasis venture out on UK tour earning £50 a night supporting The Verve – known at the time as just plain ...

Saint Etienne: Town Hall Crypt, Middlesbrough

Live Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, July 1998

What's a nice, fey band doing in a place like this? ...

St Etienne: Sound Of Water

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000

BACK IN the early Nineties, St Etienne were ubiquitous, perhaps a little too ubiquitous. Rarely out of the music press, constantly hovering on the edge ...

Synth’s Up

Review by Melody Nelson, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

Saint Etienne: The Sound of WaterBent: Programmed to Love ...

Saint Etienne: Lives Of The Saints (And Their Kids)

Interview by Pete Paphides, Times, The, June 2005

Saint Etienne have produced a concept album and a set of children's songs. But they aren't Yes ...