Primrose Hill set

The Primrose Hill set is a name applied to a group of celebrities in the 1990s, who were based in Primrose Hill, near Camden Town in North London, and had, in the words of Andrew Johnson writing in The Independent in 2010, a reputation for "having a whale of a time with drink, drugs and bed-hopping".[1]

History

The term grew in use in the British media to identify the group as socially homogeneous and also as a convenient label, similar to the Young British Artists and Britpop labels of the same period. Many of the group's members appeared with each other in film and television productions in the mid-nineties, and later cast each other in their own productions.

The core members of the group had lived close to each other in the Primrose Hill area of north London, as well as in neighbouring Belsize Park and Hampstead; however, the social focus for the group was really the Notting Hill area, several miles away in west London.

Core members

According to her obituary in The New York Times, Annabelle Neilson became a mainstay of the set, which included the Gallagher brothers Liam and Noel, Kate Moss, and Jude Law and Sadie Frost (before their divorce).[2][lower-alpha 1]

Other members included:

Films

Frost, Law, Pertwee and Miller set up their own production company, Natural Nylon, which made feature films starring many members of the original set. Although he had no locational ties to the group, Scottish actor Robert Carlyle has also consistently appeared alongside the Primrose Hill actors, and has come to be synonymous with this era of British cinema.

Films generally thought of as fitting into the Primrose Hill set include:

Notes
  1. Annabelle Neilson was in the 1990s a muse of Alexander McQueen and met Kate Moss through him (Paton 2018).
  2. "key set members included actors Rhys Ifans, and Jonny Lee Miller; Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey and Goffey’s less successful wife, Pearl Lowe of the band Powder; the sometime Hollyoaks actress and proto-WAG Davinia Taylor (daughter of loo roll tycoon Alan Murphy), as well as the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, and their partners at the time, Meg Mathews and Patsy Kensit. The ringleader? Kate Moss, of course" (Craik 2015)
  3. "At Tommy Hilfiger’s runway show during London Fashion Week [in September 2017] a section of the front row included Rafferty Law, Anais Gallagher, Molly Moorish and Daisy Lowe. Sired by, respectively, Jude Law and Sadie Frost, Noel Gallagher and Meg Mathews, Liam Gallagher and Lisa Moorish, Gavin Rossdale and Pearl Lowe. Each and every one of them central to the ... Primrose Hill Set of the 1990s".(Mills 2017)
  1. Johnson 2010.
  2. Paton 2018.
  3. Craik 2015.
  4. Mills 2017.

References
  • Craik, Laura (1 June 2015), "Primrose Hill: the NW1 set has lost its cool", Evening Standard
  • Johnson, Andrew (24 January 2010), "Whatever happened to the Primrose Hill set?", The Independent
  • Mills, Simon (20 September 2017), "Have you met the new Primrose Hill set?", The Daily Telegraph
  • Paton, Elizabeth (17 July 2018), "Annabelle Neilson, Muse of Alexander McQueen, Dies at 49", The New York Times


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