Popscene deliberately avoided a separate VIP area and made a selling point of the fact that everyone was equal once inside the doors. “Sophie Ellis-Bextor came up to me and went, ‘I’m going to be a singer, I just sung Noel Gallagher ‘Wonderwall’ and he thought it was fantastic’” McCarthy recalled in an interview with DJ Mag.
Popscene intentionally avoided a separate VIP area and emphasized that everyone was equal once inside the venue. "Sophie Ellis-Bextor approached me and said, 'I'm going to be a singer, I just sang Noel Gallagher 'Wonderwall,' and he thought it was fantastic,'" McCarthy recalled in an interview with DJ Mag.