Editing The Boo Radleys (section)

===''Wake Up!'' and beyond===
Despite critical acclaim and a cult fanbase, the Boo Radleys were still largely unknown to the general public by the time the [[Britpop]] phenomenon broke into the mainstream in 1995. This changed when the band released the upbeat single "Wake Up Boo!" in the spring of that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyhit.com/retrocharts/1995-March.html |title=Retrochart for March 1995 |website=Everyhit.com |access-date=4 May 2012}}</ref> It made the [[Top 40|Top 10]] in the [[UK Singles Chart]], peaking at number 9. The single remained on the chart for two months, by far the band's longest run for any of its singles; later, on 26 October 2009, [[British Forces Broadcasting Service|BFBS]] Forces Radio launched its live Afghanistan studio output with the track after it topped a listeners poll seeking a suitable first track.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfbs-radio.com/pages/extranet/live-from-afghanistan-i-1401.php |title=Live From Afghanistan |website=Bfbs-radio.com |access-date=14 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119203447/http://www.bfbs-radio.com/pages/extranet/live-from-afghanistan-i-1401.php |archive-date=19 November 2009 }}</ref> Carr describes writing the song watching ''[[The Big Breakfast]]'' after a night on [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|acid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.booradleys.co.uk/lyrics.php?id=138 |title=Wake Up Boo! |publisher=Boo Radleys |access-date=4 May 2012}}</ref> The follow-up release, "Find the Answer Within," was the band's only other single to chart for more than two weeks. Their fourth album ''[[Wake Up! (The Boo Radleys album)|Wake Up!]]'' (1995), was their commercial peak. Interviewed in 2005 by the [[BBC]], Carr said: "I tried to have nothing to do with what was being called Britpop. Our whole career was spent trying not to 'fit in'. We just carried on doing what we had been doing. I didn't like most of the new bands or the flag-waving. I didn't like New Labour or idolise Paul Weller and I hated media-generated movements within music".<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|title=I survived Britpop |first=Stephen |last=Dowling |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4134418.stm |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 May 2012 |date=18 August 2005}}</ref> The same year the band featured on ''[[The Help Album|Help]]'' with "Oh Brother", exclusive to that release. Help was a charity album aimed at raising funds for [[War Child (charity)|War Child]], also featuring various other artists such as [[Radiohead]] and the [[Manic Street Preachers]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}

In 1996, the Boo Radleys released their fifth album ''[[C'mon Kids]]''. As explained by Rowbottom in an interview in 2005: "We didn't want to scare away the hit-kids, we wanted to take them with us to somewhere that we'd not been before. All we wanted to do was make a different type of album than Wake Up... All we wanted to do was try something new – to keep ourselves fresh and interested. We were very surprised to find that it was seen as a deliberate attempt to scare away newly created fans. That would have been an extremely foolish thing to do."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eardrumsmusic.com/2006/05/08/interview-with-sice-ex-boo-radleys-now/ |title=interview with Sice (ex. Boo Radleys, now PAPERLUNG) |publisher=Eardrums Music |date=8 May 2006 |access-date=12 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211132439/http://eardrumsmusic.com/2006/05/08/interview-with-sice-ex-boo-radleys-now/ |archive-date=11 February 2012 }}</ref>

The Boo Radleys' final album was 1998's ''[[Kingsize (The Boo Radleys album)|Kingsize]]''. One single was released from the album, "Free Huey!". The title track was due to have been released as a second single, but the band decided to split up. Sice later told ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine: "It was such a relief when Martin phoned me and said he didn't want to make any more records. We'd been wanting it to stop for quite a long time, but I couldn't do it – I didn't want to leave. I wanted the band to end and only Martin could have done that. There was always the fear if I left, that they would just get another singer in and I didn't want that. Never mind not having the heart to tour – I barely had the heart to go down to the studio while we were making Kingsize."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mattpomroy.com/2016/04/02/paperlung/|title=Paperlung|date=2 April 2016|website=Mattpomroy.com|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref>

A [[compilation album]], ''Find the Way Out'', was released in 2005, and a further compilation ''The Best of the Boo Radleys'' appeared in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}