Calling all fans! Brand new #documentary charting the birth, the rise and the fall of the music culture movement that put the focus on Britishness, looking at the intertwining fortunes and rivalries of #Blur, #Oasis, [...]

◀︎ TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT ► 5 Nights with Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) Birmingham • Liverpool • Edinburgh • London In conversation with award-winning author Daniel Rachel, Simon will discuss his life as the lead singer [...]

Singer/Songwriter and Ocean Colour Scene frontman Simon Fowler goes head to head with author longtime friend and collaborator Daniel Rachel, in a war of the words! They talk about collaborating on their new book, their [...]

Listen again as Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) talks to Chris Evans about his new memoir and plays three exclusive live acousitc songs. Listen here. Simon plays at 2hrs. Watch Ocean Colour Scene’s Simon Fowler [...]

Episode 124 features a great interview with  Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) sharing stories about #paulweller, #oceancolourscene and how copying other singers compares to Sebastian Coe running the mile....! Listen and then read all about [...]

Strictly limited edition coffee table book with rare & exclusive 7” single Pre-order ONE FOR THE ROAD today at: www.ourfavourite.shop ‘When you find that things are getting wild don’t you want books like these…’ ONE [...]

ONE FOR THE ROAD The Lives & Lyrics of Simon Fowler & Ocean Colour Scene The new limited edition, fully illustrated hardback coffee table book by Simon Fowler. Collaborating with his lifelong friend, award-winning author, Daniel [...]

Daniel joins Matt Williamson to discuss the Beatles in 1969 and 1970 in this hugely popular Youtube show. Watch, listen and comment...  

Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene” Daniel Rachel, old pal of the pod, has just published ‘Like Some Forgotten Dream: What If The Beatles [...]

Oasis: Knebworth Two Nights that Will Live Forever is a Sunday Times Bestseller The inside story of the band's record breaking weekend in August 1996 Photographs by Jill Furmanovsky. Words by Daniel Rachel

Two Nights That Will Live Forever Join photographer Jill Furmanovsky and author Daniel Rachel for a celebration of Oasis: Knebworth. The event will feature a 30 minute live Q&A with the photographer and author followed by a [...]

I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in The Beat (B Format) ‘The heart and energy [Roger] displayed as The Beat’s perpetually in-motion, ageless MC and voice over decades is fully present in this conversational, [...]

Daniel has curated and written the booklet for the re-issue of The Selelcter's debut album Too Much Pressure 40th Anniversary Edition The Deluxe Edition entered the Official UK Charts on 30 April 2021 at #1 [...]

Daniel Rachel - Author of Don't Look Back in Ange‪r‬ Back to BritPop Listen on Apple Podcasts This week award winning author Daniel Rachel joins me too talk about his book Don't Look Back in Anger: The [...]

  An A grade, A list oral history… through this shifting, twisted narrative, Rachel creates a potent record’ The Sunday Times DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER  The Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia Told by [...]

Jarvis v Jacko: Why the Pulp singer’s stage invasion at The Brits remains a defining Britpop moment Leaping on stage to mock Michael Jackson’s ‘messianic’ performance of ‘Earth Song’ saw Cocker taken to a police [...]

The Definitive Photographic Collection, Due September 28th! A stunning new, 356 page book, edited by Iconic Images, introduction by George Underwood. Picture editor and text editor: Daniel Rachel David Bowie: Icon gathers the greatest photographs [...]

Don’t Look Back in Anger has been named A Book of the Year by the Evening Standard and Metro. Reviewing the book in the Evening Standard.,  Nick Curtis wrote, ‘Daniel Rachel’s oral history of Cool Britannia [...]

Don't Look Back in Anger has been named as a Book of the Year by the Evening Standard. Reviewing the book,  Nick Curtis wrote, 'Daniel Rachel’s oral history of Cool Britannia made me miss the [...]

'A positive peroid of patriotism, and it's very different from nationalism.' Watch Daniel on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Chris Warburton about Don't Look Back in Anger: the rise & fall of Cool Britannia [...]