About this episode

Stephen Street discusses his influential role in shaping the Britpop sound and his experiences working with iconic bands of the 90s.

Diving deep into all things ’90s… If you wanted the Britpop sound* you called Stephen Street – the legendary record producer, musician and band-wrangler who brought out the magic in Blur’s Parklife and The Great Escape, two colossal Cranberries albums, and Britpop classics from Sleeper, Catatonia and Shed Seven. Oh and before that he engineered a little-known record called Meat is Murder by The Smiths (heard of it?). He talks to Miranda about creating the guitar sound that defined a decade… juggling Blur and The Cranberries while the latter were making two of the biggest-selling Irish albums of all time (‘Zombie’ alone has nearly 4 billion plays on Spotify and YouTube)… how working with Morrissey and Pete Doherty was “quite the ride”… and why Graham from Blur refused to make an album in Iceland because he needed somewhere he could get to on his skateboard. Parklife!!  (* also the IrishPop sound) ⁠Support us on Patreon Follow us on:  BlueSky  Instagram  TikTok  Subscribe to our Spotify playlist • Buy Miranda’s book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning…

People in this episode

Host: Miranda

Guest: Stephen Street

Topics covered

• Britpop
• music production
• 90s music
• recording history
• Irish music
• artist collaborations

Keywords

• Britpop
• Stephen Street
• Blur
• The Cranberries
• Morrissey
• 90s music
• record producer
• Meat is Murder
• Parklife
• Zombie

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blur, The Cranberries, Morrissey, Sleeper, Catatonia, Shed Seven

Books & works: Meat is Murder, Parklife, The Great Escape, Zombie

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