Sleeper
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Sleeper, Shed Seven: Smashed!, London
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 18 September 1993
HOW WE laughed. There is something delightfully absurd about York band Shed Seven's guitarist carrying on like a 15-year-old square trying to impersonate Bernard Butler, ...
Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 14 May 1994
PC is shite! The The NWONW bands just need a good shag! Meat-eating is cool! Meet LOUISE WENER of fizzy power-poppers SLEEPER, who tells DAVE ...
Sleeper: Kipping Against The Pricks
Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
Tired of being safe? Fed up with worrying about the ozone layer? Bored with modern life? Then you need SLEEPER. The last of the dirty, ...
The Auteurs, Sleeper, Gene: Zap Club, Brighton
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 September 1994
LUKE OF NATURE ...
Britpop: Modern Life Is... Brilliant!
Overview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 7 January 1995
It was the year grunge died, the year of jungle... arses. It was the year that BRITISH POP found its feet again, and what's more, ...
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 14 January 1995
1995 is set to be SLEEPER's year. The latest leading lights in the ongoing resurgence of Britpop brightened up last year with a string of ...
And so to Sleeper, perchance to dream
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 20 January 1995
When you have just seen your new single go in at No 16, and the world is your prairie oyster, it's nice to get together ...
Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 4 February 1995
The meteoric rise of SLEEPER is matched only by the meteoric speed of singer LOUISE WENER's gob. Anti-feminism, anti-PC, anti-voting but pro shagging, drinking and ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 20 February 1995
A GREAT song and a video are no guarantee of credible pop success. It helps to have a Talking Point as well. No-one understands this ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 25 February 1995
IF NOTHING ELSE, it's one of the better conjuring tricks of the age. Sleeper, as a musical entity, are resolutely standard issue, yet are hailed ...
Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, March 1995
Sexy, sassy and certainly not afraid of shocking, Sleeper's Louise Wener is a guitar goddess with no need to compromise on her way to the ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, October 1995
Please give up this feature for people carrying children or heavy shopping... ...
Sleeper: Anson Rooms, Bristol University,Bristol
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 21 October 1995
THE KIPS ARE ALRIGHT ...
Sleeper: Digbeth Institute, Birmingham
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 21 October 1995
INDIE IS IN Birmingham. Indie goes down a rapturous storm. Indie makes everyone happy tonight. Indie is lovely. Indie is the fleetfooted reduced to leadboot ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 11 May 1996
So what does it take to provoke SLEEPER'S LOUISE WENER into spouting those liberal-baiting, feminist-hating statements of old? What about old fave, political correctness? Oasis? ...
Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, June 1996
Sleeper's leading lady has more to offer than big boots and a big mouth. Susan Corrigan examines the true colours of a lass with sass ...
Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 17 July 1996
Susan Corrigan talks to the teenagers with stars in their eyes. ...
Sleeper: Town & Country, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 11 December 1996
LOUISE Wener is a curious phenomenon. Hers is the face that has launched a thousand front covers; her sharp tongue has spawned a million "quotable ...
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