Are you looking for a 90 minute deep dive with an indie band spluttering about at the fag end of Britpop? A good band, one with a modicum of success, but one with a story that encapsulates the strangeness of the late 90’s British indie rock scene. A time where big money and corporate chaos butted heads with DIY and independent thinking. Taking in drug addled A&R, clueless major label marketing departments, paranoia, insecurity, John Peel, the sharpened quill of the music press, inter-band friction, strange, equestrian themed 70’s kids TV, unplanned novelty hit singles… and Shane Richie. Well, you’ve come to the right place!Welcome to Indie Heaven, the part of the James McMahon Music Podcast where I – that’ll be James McMahon – connect with the bands I adored as a sapling and ask… what happened next? It’s a spin-off of sorts of my Indie Heaven website - you can find that at www.indieheaven.co.uk - and here I present you with a big old conversation with Jason Applin, singer, guitarist and mainman in Reading’s Bennet.A lot of what I’m trying to do with Indie Heaven is tell the stories of the bands I loved as a kid, after the music press stopped writing about them, and to my knowledge, I haven’t heard Jason talk about his time in Bennet with the honesty and insight that he does here. A bit like the band’s brief reunion in 2016, I’d like to think of this interview as a full-stop on Jason’s time in the band - a time that messed with his head, while also – via two albums I continue to enjoy to this day, 1997’s Super Natural, and two years later Street Vs. Science - giving me a whole load of my favourite tunes. Even if you never liked Bennet – even if you weren’t aware of them - I think as far as insights into just what a strange episode the British music scene was having during the approach of the millennium, I’ve done few interviews that have told more.The intro music on this episode is by the band Mavis. Any other music is by the band Imp. Indie Heaven and The James McMahon Music Podcast is a Spoook Media production. Spoook is also a record label, a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find our podcasts!
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