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“Forget grunge music. Get a pint of Guinness down your neck and pick that guitar up”: The rise and fall of Britpop, the Nineties’ other massive guitar movement

The UK got its guitar mojo back in the ’90s with a new generation of rock and indie bands. This is the story of how it all got consumed by the rivalry between Blur and Oasis, and the catch-all category of Britpop

Guitar World

Gavin Rossdale talks us through Bush's platinum hits: "These songs were not written with a view to any degree of success… I had toiled for many years and nothing had worked"

From unemployment in London to 20-million album sales and US stardom, the songwriter recalls a remarkable rise – "I was pretty rubbish at first, but I had a knack"

MusicRadar

“I got the call saying there was a band looking for a player. I said yes before even asking which band it was. Then I got told it was Ghost”: Former Nameless Ghoul Chris Catalyst breaks cover about his time in Tobias Forge’s epic metal project

The UK session guitarist went from marathon tours with Sisters of Mercy and Ugly Kid Joe to massive arena shows with Ghost. He reveals what it takes to cut it in one of metal’s biggest bands, why Noel Gallagher has one of his all-time favorite guitar tones, and how a…

Guitar World

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"Pearl Jam used to hire out bars to drink with us": Idlewild's Roddy Woomble on how four punk rock kids from Scotland emerged from the wreckage of Britpop, gatecrashed the UK charts and got adopted as Pearl Jam's new favourite band

With their 30th anniversary approaching, Idlewild look back on a career spent "existing in their own little place"

Louder

Best red shirts for women, from Valentino to Mango

Tap into the celeb-approved Britpop trend

Evening Standard

"It speaks to regular people, and that's why it's so great": Watch the worlds of emo and Britpop collide as My Chemical Romance cover Pulp's Common People

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way: “I remember pushing carts at a supermarket listening to this song on headphones on a cassette player..."

Metal Hammer

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: South Facing at Crystal Palace Bowl review - Britpop is fully back

The gig was peppered with the acerbic, deadpan good humour we’ve come to love from Oasis’s elder Gallagher brother

Evening Standard

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‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

The Guardian - UK

10 terrible Britpop albums with one classic song

There were some era-defining records made during the Britpop boom, but some stinkers too. Here's ten terrible efforts that were saved by one song.

Louder

A beginner’s guide to Britpop in five essential albums

It was an indie phenomenon that changed everything: here’s five classic records that defined Britpop

Louder

"You will remember this show for the rest of your life": Pulp's triumphant homecoming sees Jarvis Cocker's BritPop heroes shoot for the moon

Pulp's spectacular Sheffield set may conjure up BritPop nostalgia, but their epic, dramatic homecoming also delivers so much more

Louder

Blur frontman wants Britpop label ditched for Europop because he hates Brexit

This weekend Blur, famous for hits such as Girls and Boys, Song 2 and Parklife, will be playing to thousands at Wembley stadium but frontman Damon Albarn said he found the resurgence of Britpop 'irritating'

Daily Mirror

A beginner's guide to 90s UK indie in five essential albums

There was more to 90s indie than just Britpop, but it's a pretty good place to start... Here, the story of how one decade saw a genre morph beyond all recognition, told by the albums that made it happen

Louder

Blur, boozers and 90s hedonism — why Britpop was the last carefree party

The often maligned Nineties music scene was in fact an explosion of maverick talents crashing the mainstream. Sylvia Patterson recalls a time when ‘it felt like the freaks and geeks were winning’

Evening Standard

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Cool Britannia! The enduring appeal of Britpop’s gritty and glamorous style

As Britpop legends Blur and Pulp take over this summer with comeback tours, Victoria Moss revisits the era’s enduring style legacy

Daily Mirror

Noel Gallagher says Oasis split was 'crash and burn' and bandmates were 'far from adult'

Noel and Liam Gallagher have been locked in a bitter feud for over a decade but rumours of an Oasis reunion has been circulating following the comebacks of Britpop rivals Blur and Pulp

Louder

Every Pulp album ranked from worst to best

Jarvis Cocker and co. are national treasures, but which album is their crowning glory?

Louder

A beginner's guide to shoegaze in five essential albums

Music industry in-joke or one of the most influential sub-genres in alternative history? Here's the story of shoegaze in five must-hear albums

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The world’s loudest bands took over the home of BritPop last weekend and it was beautiful

80 bands, 5001 riffs and a bellydancer: DesertFest 2023 was a blast

Louder

"Are we a f**king punk band now?" The ugly truth behind Mezzanine, the bleak, beautiful masterpiece which ripped Massive Attack apart

Released on April 20, 1998, Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine sounded like nothing that had come before. 25 years on, it still does

Louder

Noel Gallagher tormented brother Liam for years by moving furniture around and pretending to be a ghost

Oasis' Noel Gallagher apparently used to tease his brother Liam over his fear of ghosts by secretly moving his furniture around to make him believe he was being haunted

Louder

This is Hardcore: these dark depictions of the damaging, corrosive effects of fame illustrate why Pulp bailed on Britpop

A re-examination of Pulp's superb This Is Hardcore album as it turns 25

The Guardian - UK

Reach for the Stars by Michael Cragg review – hot gossip from pop’s golden age

In this hoot of an oral history the stars of 90s chart acts recall how their innocence collided with a cynical music industry

Daily Mirror

Britpop icons Blur reveal they were nearly AXED by record company before success

New documentary Britpop: The Decade That Changed Music starts on Channel 5 hears Blur drummer Dave Rowntree admit the band were given their 'last chance' with record company bosses

The Guardian - UK

‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion

As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder

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