Skip to content
Duncan Stephen

Human-centred decisions

Photo of Duncan Stephen

Tag: Pulp

Article — 8 January 2024 — 754 words

Meeting up with Pulp in the years 2023 and 2024

Music

Pulp on stage, with a large multi-coloured Pulp logo on the screen behind them

I went to just two concerts in 2023, and they were both of Pulp’s performances in Scotland.

Leave a comment

Article — 19 August 2023 — 1,733 words

Britpop, braindance and broken politics — How 1990s optimism became passé

Culture — Music — Politics

A panel of icons split in two - a light side and a darker side. On the light side, a brain with two feet representing braindance, stylised Royal Air Force symbol representing britpop. On the darker side, the britpop symbol turns into a bubble bursting. Next to it is a warning triangle.

Britpop has been having a moment again this summer, prompting investigations into why the scene fizzled out. The conventional explanations are unconvincing. Electronic music tells us why.

Leave a comment

Article — 14 July 2019 — 2,535 words

33 adventures in The Designers Republic

Culture — Music

Angrymahn t-shirt

“On July 14th 1986 The Designers Republic was declared.” Celebrating 33 years of Brain Aided Design.

3 comments

RSS feed — Follow

© 2002—2026 Duncan Stephen.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International