Saint Etienne
What music stars were really listening to in 2024: ‘I appear on my own top 10 three times .. every stream helps!’
Spotify’s end-of-year summary (other streaming services are available) is our chance to show off how much cool stuff we listened to this year. So what do the stars’ top track lists look like?
As told to Michael Cragg and Jeffrey Ingold
28, Dec, 2024 @11:55 AM
Full of Days review – the wonderfully strange artist discovered in a charity shop haul
Hermione Burton was an amateur painter with immaculate outfits but a turbulent life. Now artist Andy Holden has excavated her rollercoaster story in a film starring Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell
Adrian Searle
27, Mar, 2023 @2:15 PM
‘The 90s seem like yesterday’: Saint Etienne on 30 years as pop auteurs
Sarah, Bob and Pete talk about recording their mesmeric new album via Zoom, the reality of the 90s and the oddness of pop parenthood
Jude Rogers
05, Sep, 2021 @7:30 AM
The 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked!
From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbers
Michael Hann
05, Dec, 2019 @12:00 PM
Readers recommend playlist: songs that made you fall in love with music
Saint Etienne, Buddy Holly, the Pogues and Motörhead are among artists sparking stories of a lifelong passion formed
Paul Hayes
15, Feb, 2018 @12:00 PM
From Barking to Bow: the songs that champion London's less glamorous corners
London rapper Ramz’s single Barking has risen to No 2 in the Top 40, joining a historic seam of songs hymning the capital’s squalid tower blocks and sleepy suburbs
Laura Snapes
22, Jan, 2018 @2:17 PM
Saint Etienne – 10 of the best
In the early 90s, a trio from south-east England set out to fulfil pop’s potential. Nearly 30 years later, they’re still making bold, inventive music
Jude Rogers
07, Jun, 2017 @12:00 PM
Saint Etienne: Home Counties review – a winningly witty paean
(Heavenly Recordings)
Damien Morris
04, Jun, 2017 @7:00 AM
Saint Etienne: Home Counties review – finding Arcadia in the Brexit heartlands
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
01, Jun, 2017 @9:15 PM
Britpop songs – 10 of the best
For some it meant the arrogant swagger of Oasis and cheek of Blur, to others it stood for the perceptive wit of Pulp, but mostly the Britpop moment produced catchy tracks about youth on the move
Caroline Sullivan
15, Feb, 2017 @12:10 PM
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs present English Weather review – the sound of the post-60s hangover
The Saint Etienne crate-diggers have unearthed some evocative obscurities from that moment in British rock between psych and prog
Alexis Petridis
26, Jan, 2017 @3:00 PM
Pop art, fanzines and Channel 4 – the making of Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha
With the band’s debut album having been given the 25th-anniversary treatment, founder member Bob Stanley explains how the record came about
Interview by Michael Hann
28, Nov, 2016 @8:00 AM
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