PREVIEW: This Feeling @ Queen of Hoxton, London. Saturday August 9

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This Feeling have got your Saturday night (August 9) sorted for you once again. So to tempt you away from a crap night in with some peanuts, why not check out this cracking line-up of three of Britpop’s biggest bands to roll back the years and celebrate 20 years since guitar music was brought back to our airwaves…

Queen of Hoxton will play host to Menswe@r, Jaime Harding of Marion, Northern Uproar and a DJ set from the official Oasis tour DJ (and Noel’s best mate) Phil Smith.

MeansWe@r were on covers of Melody Maker and NME, all over the telly and radio and signing huge deals one week, imploding the next. Other members went on to star in other bands (Stuart Black – Messiah, Chris Gentry – Vatican DC, Simon White – Finley Quaye, Tod Parmenter – Evan Dando) while original drummer Matt Everitt now works at 6Music (but first left Menswe@r to join The Montrose Avenue), but frontman Johnny Dean went quiet. Until now. Check out his recent Gigslutz interview here

Marion  frontman Jaime is still going strong despite battling years of illness and addiction. Loved by the likes of Radiohead, U2, Morrissey and Johnny Marr back in the day. In a recent interview Johnny Marr said “Jaime was actually living the life that Brett Anderson was singing about and that Pete Doherty could only dream about, which was unfortunate for Jaime. He is such an incredible singer and an interesting writer”.

Check out an early Gigslutz session with Jaimie below which was recorded in Editor Steve’s back garden!

Northern Uproar formed in 1995 and initially disbanded in 1997 before reforming in 2006. They have released four studio albums and a number of singles, several of which charted in the UK Singles Chart. Their biggest selling single was the double A-sided “From A Window” / “This Morning”, which peaked in the UK’s Top 20 in February 1996. After the success of last year’s Pledge Music-funded album ‘All That Was Has Gone’ and have their 3rd Pledge Campaign underway now – http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/newalbum-2014

Doors open at 8pm until the early hours, so for a mere £5 get your arse down to Queen of Hoxton on Saturday night (August 8). For more information or tickets click here. www.thisfeeling.co.uk