Pulp’s Nick Banks: ‘Did Britpop make me rich? Well, I just bought a new mower’

• It was the first weekend of the Second Summer of Britpop, and the reviews were in. On the stage of Finsbury Park, “a 59-year-old man from Sheffield in glasses and a dark green velvet suit with all the energy and elasticity of an eel” (Mojo) beguiled 45,000 giddy Saturday night believers. He “threw shapes like Robert Peston at a karaoke party during a Blair-era Labour Party conference” (The Telegraph). The 17-song set was stuffed with generational anthems, so much so that “by the time they played