Jane Savidge

As co-founder and head of public relations company Savage & Best, Jane is widely credited as being one of the main instigators of the Britpop musical movement that swept the UK in the mid 1990s. During this time Savage and Best represented many of the artists associated with the scene including Suede, Pulp, The Verve, Elastica, Longpigs, Menswear, Marion, Ultrasound, Echobelly, The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, 60 Ft. Dolls and Kula Shaker. Savage & Best also started a record label, Parkway Records, in 1995 which released records by Powder (fronted by Pearl Lowe) and the all-girl punk band Fluffy. Jane's first book Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History Of Britpop And Excess in 13 and a 1/2 Chapters was published by Jawbone in May 2019. Jane Savidge wrote sleeve notes to accompany all eight Eurythmics albums which were rereleased in 2005 and she has written sleeve notes for other artists including Suede, James, Ride, Curve and Feeder. Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History Of Britpop And Excess in 13 and a 1/2 Chapters was published to much critical acclaim. The Glasgow Herald hailed her book as a "20th century glitterball take on Machiavelli's The Prince". Q magazine also praised the book as "an eye-opening, read in one sitting autobiography", whilst Classic Pop magazine awarded it five stars and heralded it is "an exhilarating and hilarious expose of the scene, recounted in a gloriously gossipy style with a vibrancy that sees it begging to be adapted for the screen, an addictive read which lifts the lid on the stories that hit the headlines as well as a fair few that were deliberately concealed. By far the finest book on Britpop to date." Record Collector went further, calling her book "a rum old blast from a wonderfully ridiculous past whilst the fun lasts", whilst Stylist magazine saw it as "a tale of the messy, exciting and truly invigorating whirl that created an unparalleled moment in British music. It's also a fascinating and funny step back in time to a world where demo cassettes and weekly music papers ruled Britain." Jane is currently working on her second book.