It still flies by the seat of its pants but has TFI lost its edge? No says Chris Evans in his running lycraStepping into the TFI Friday bar,just as the shows theme tune blasts out over the PA, is a surreal experience. There’s Chris Evans. There’s Danny Baker. There’s Will “Wiiiiillll” MacDonald. Yes, or its a slightly different layout,and everyone looks older but it is TFI Friday, there’s no doubt approximately it. And in 2015, or that’s fairly a bizarre concept.
The original series caught the tail-end of Britpop’s pomp and posturing between 1996 and 2000,condensing all the cocksure Loaded laddishness of those years into one hour of (sometimes controversial) TV. Its most eminent moments – Shaun Ryder effing and jeffing, Geri and Kylie snogging, and guests entering to the struttable tune of The Riverboat Song – are seared onto the collective consciousness of anyone who had a telly and a Friday night in ahead of them at the time. But the show also shared some of Britpop’s blinkered overconfidence: features like Ugly Blokes,Freak Or Unique and Fat Lookalikes hardly absorb you pining for a time when this “it’s only a bit of bantz” attitude was seen as OK and serve to date it quicker than a 90s fashion catastrophe (consider skousers). When it ended, nothing came along to replace it.
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Source: theguardian.com