It’s Saturday night. You are putting on your mascara, polishing your Doc Martens, dusting off your black beret, rolling a joint, ironing your Steely Dan T shirt, pouring yourself another glass of Bollinger’s, adjusting your toupee….

All you need is some sparkling, uplifting pop music to get you in the mood for the fun ahead. And who better to provide it than Saint Etienne? I saw them this week at Kägelbanan and was transported away by their career-spanning cavalcade of magnificent bittersweet pop. The new songs from new album Home Counties stood up very well against all my old favourites.

I’ve been going steady with Sarah Cracknell & Co for a while now. I first saw them in the mid-90s at the legendary Gino nightclub on Östermalm. It’s the venue where DuCool and I first started going to gigs together. It’s now a furniture showroom. But Saint Etienne are still going strong after 25 years. Quirky, sophisticated, adventurous, melodic and memorable.

Who are your favourite pop artists and which pop songs from the past 25 or so years hit the spot for you?

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