Author: Nick Heath
Date published: 01/06/2006
Although Oasis, Blur and Pulp are the most famous bands to emerge from the explosion of great British music in the mid-nineties, Britpop wouldn’t have been Britpop without the sideshows: the internecine feuding, the band romances, the drugs, the haircuts, and the sartorial lunacy: Trust the English to turn a musical movement into a melodrama.
We had the classic Stone Roses, the Bowie-inspired foppery of Suede, and the razzle-dazzle of Pulp, who’d steadily been developing Oxfam epics on a shoestring budget. The mid-nineties saw Oasis and Blur writing songs that spoke to British youth more than the bloated plaid of grunge ever could.
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