IT was the long, hot summer of 1995, John Major was in No10 and Blackburn Rovers were Premier League champions. The music ...

All pop culture movements have a defining moment when the magic disappears and the zeitgeist evaporates. The hippy dream of the Sixties ended when concertgoer Meredith Hunter was killed by a Hell’s ...

There are some hurdles to overcome when putting together a Britpop playlist, the main one being that Britpop bands hate being called Britpop bands and will probably get the right hump that they’ve ...

S BRITPOP icons are set for their first headline festival in 15 years at All Together Now. Tens of thousands of music fans ...

The bands that came to symbolise a divided nation compete to top the charts in John Niven’s jokey play but it is woefully short on drama ...

For most of its career, Suede assumed Britpop — the movement the band helped originate in the early ’90s — wouldn’t make a comeback. That assumption will be tested on Sept. 6, when Oasis plays the ...

As Britpop nostalgia surges with Oasis well and truly back, Echobelly frontwoman Sonya Madan looks back on the band’s riotous rise — from out-wilding the Gallaghers in the '90s to marking 30 years of ...

Even those who didn’t spend the 1990s wearing fringe haircuts and desert boots know Oasis and Blur. Like any dominant music scene, Britpop had bands that were bigger than the movement and others who ...

Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and Suede were the Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains of Britpop. They dominated British pop culture in a movement known as Cool Britannia. Just as grunge had many ...

Kevin Shields is onto something. In an interview with the Guardian, the My Bloody Valentine frontman claims, “Britpop was massively pushed by the government. Someday it would be interesting to read ...