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It’s coming home… to Belfast: Lightning Seeds roll back years to Britpop heyday

Belfast Telegraph 01 Nov 2021
IAN Broudie wrote the music for the biggest-selling football anthem of all time with his band The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions. But even though it was composed for the England team, Belfast-bound Ian claimed it still summed up the atmosphere after Northern Ireland’s famous victory at Windsor Park in 2005 ... Getty Images. / ... He said ... / ... / ... He said ... He said ... .
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Lads, Gak and Union Jacks: The Oral History of 'Cool Britannia'

Vice 01 Nov 2021
Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall) ... I made some anti-American comments on the Live Forever Britpop documentary, but it was me sort of reverting into my former NME self of being provocative ... Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock) ... Britpop, if it was anything, was a bunch of bands celebrating Britain’s cultural past up to that point.
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Blur’s Damon Albarn: ‘Britpop was nothing to do with me’

The Times/The Sunday Times 30 Oct 2021
He first visited in 1997 — an escape from The Great Escape, the Blur album that gave us Country House and Britpop’s bloated nadir of the Blur v ...
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The Boo Radleys review – boisterous comeback gives a glimpse of greatness

The Guardian 25 Oct 2021
The Lanes, Bristol The band who straddled shoegaze and Britpop have to rely on backing tracks at times, but this warm, jangling gig feels like the right kind of return ...
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Shed Seven in Dundee: 90s stars announce ‘intimate’ city gig

The Courier 04 Oct 2021
Britpop legends Shed Seven have announced they are coming to Dundee for an "intimate" show ahead of their UK tour ... .
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Skunk Anansie: how we made Weak

The Guardian 06 Sep 2021
‘It was a vulnerable moment that turned into a moment of strength. It was basically me saying ... My friends would say.
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‘The 90s seem like yesterday’: Saint Etienne on 30 years as pop auteurs

The Guardian 05 Sep 2021
Renowned music journalist Jon Savage wrote the sleevenotes, laying out how their approach to music-making could be a blueprint for a new kind of British pop culture ... ....
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How Jade Bird Moved to Austin and Rekindled Her Love of Britpop

Rollingstone 16 Aug 2021
Jade Bird was having a tough time out on tour in 2019, working herself to the point of exhaustion ... “It became quite a premonition out of quite a dark time,” Bird says on a Zoom call from her new home in Austin, Texas ... ....
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Man City fan Noel Gallagher’s Britpop reunion after Champions League final loss against Chelsea

Caughtoffside 16 Aug 2021
According to talkSPORT, he skulked out of the stadium at full-time and immediately bumped into a former Britpop rival ... Man City fan Noel Gallagher’s Britpop reunion after Champions League final loss against Chelsea ... The post Man City fan Noel Gallagher’s Britpop reunion ...
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Klopp instrumental in getting Jordan Henderson to agree new Liverpool contract ‘in principle’

Caughtoffside 16 Aug 2021
It’s the news that all Liverpool fans will have surely wanted to hear all summer long, and with two weeks left of the transfer window, it appears that club captain, Jordan Henderson, will be committing his future to the Reds after all ... MORE ... Man City fan Noel Gallagher’s Britpop reunion after Champions League final loss against Chelsea ... .
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Brexit: Britpop legend warns touring costs will destroy a generation of talent

TheNewsHOOK 31 Jul 2021
Brexit. Britpop legend warns touring costs will destroy a generation of talent ....
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ST12 to have female vocalist, move toward 'Britpop' sound

The Jakarta Post 13 Jul 2021
Indonesian pop band ST12 announced it would be releasing a new single soon with a female vocalist ... The band shared teasers of the new song and uploaded art covers titled “Unbelievable”, which is the presumed title of the new song ... The song has a distinctly Britpop feel ... The band has also shared that it will lean toward the Britpop genre ... .
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A Britpop and Football Summer

National Review 10 Jul 2021
Twenty-five years ago this spring, I boarded a British Airways 747 for Heathrow Airport, where I was seated in the fifth-to-last row. I thought it inauspicious when, immediately after the fasten-seatbelts sign went off, the plane began to fill with smoke ... ... 1996 was peak Britpop ... Britpop was smashing, bouncing, joy-giving, singalong pub music ... .
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Bucket hats and brollies: The 1990s glory days of T in the Park festival

The Courier 10 Jul 2021
Every July, tens of thousands of people from across the country joined the crusade to Kinross to enjoy a weekend of unbridled revelry at T in the Park ... .
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Band including renowned Britpop drug dealer to play York gig

York Press 27 Jun 2021
A BAND, which is the brainchild of a notorious Britpop drug dealer, have announced they will play a gig in York later this year ... .
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