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[11] All Saints, ‘Pure Shores’

They shone in bursts, didn’t they, our premier girl group of the turn of the century? Obviously William Orbit loomed large over this, adding pretty flesh to its protoype ‘Frozen’, as Beachmania gripped the nation – but Mel Blatt’s vocal is gorgeous and the harmonies are honey. The quartet worked well together before they all decided they hated one another.

Junior says: “Purray Sho-rez,” reading the cover in impressive Reception class fashion. She gets into its liquid groove and her mum, catching the tail end of it, asks for it to be put on again.

Best bit: As the middle eight slides back into the melting chorus.

[15] Curve, ‘Frozen’ EP

Curve

How we once swooned over dance-goth chick Toni Halliday, so beautiful in that searing white light that would wipe out the imperfections on Jimmy Nail’s face.

We played lead track ‘Coast Is Clear’, a poppy My Bloody Valentine-lite racket with the catchy ‘Now I’m sick, and always will be’ line. I felt like that on Saturday. The ‘Blindfold’ EP’s ‘Ten Little Girls’ was the better song, but this was the better EP. They loved their EPs. They did about nine of them, quality tailing off sharply after the third. The final hurrah must’ve been coruscating.

Junior gazed at her shoes.