Louise Wener: 'Sleeper will never reform'

Author and former singer Louise Wener has said that she will never reform Sleeper.

Britpop acts including Blur, Shed Seven and Cast have reunited in recent years, but Wener told Metro that she is happy to only relive the time through her upcoming memoir Different For Girls.

Wener: "I write full time and I have two children. I was happy with this level of revisiting that period, a reunion would be taking it too far.

"There are a lot of people at it. I used to think it was really naff, but good on them. I'd go to see Spandau Ballet, not the Britpoppers."

Asked if the likes of Blur would be upset by her book, she added: "I was trying to be funny. I've never really cared too much about what I say and I hope I've carried that on.

"I've written about what I saw and I'm taking the p*ss out of that whole time. There was a huge amount of drinking and drugs. Everyone was pretty unpalatable, hugely egotistical and dastardly."

Asked if her own band's songs had dated, she quipped: "We're the undiscovered geniuses of Britpop and one day it will all become obvious to the world."

Wener's contemporary Luke Haines recently announced the second volume of his own memoir from the period.