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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

Louder

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Signs of green shoots for our economy? Sadly, I don’t think they exist

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Evening Standard

Why this is the perfect moment for an Oasis reunion

Rumours of a Liam-Noel reunion have dragged on for as long as a soppy soap storyline but with a renewed love for Britpop and the 30th anniversary of ‘Definitely Maybe’, Mark Beaumont makes the case for why 2024 is the ideal moment for Oasis to reform

The Independent UK

Blur fans rejoice as band reunites for 2023 Wembley show with tickets on sale this week

Fans hailed the announcement as the 'best news ever' as the Britpop band revealed that the one-off show will take place in July

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Britpop favourites Pulp confirm festival appearance and 2023 tour dates

The iconic nineties band is inviting fans to “come along and make some noise."

Manchester Evening News

Britpop legends Pulp to headline next year's TRNSMT - see the full line-up so far

BRITPOP legends Pulp will be one of the headline acts at next year’s TRNSMT, organisers have said.

The National (Scotland)

Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon review – Britpop’s unlikely lad

In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the madness of fame and addiction, his unease with Britpop, and how folk led him to greener pastures

The Guardian - UK

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi review – a shoegaze star’s painful past

The Lush frontwoman’s memoir is a nuanced, honest portrait of a troubled childhood – and a corrective to a much-mythologised era

The Guardian - UK

Blur ‘planning comeback with huge Wembley concert seven years after break’

Blur are said to be preparing for a comeback seven years after taking a break

Evening Standard

Paper Cuts by Ted Kessler review – ode to the glory days, and slow demise, of the music press

This colourful, self-deprecating memoir charts the author’s journey from light-fingered record shop employee to editor of Q magazine until it folded in 2020, with guest appearances from Paul Weller, Mark E Smith et al

The Guardian - UK

Noel Gallagher banned from China for life as he is 'enemy of the people'

Noel Gallagher and his Oasis band-mates were asked to perform at a Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York during the time that the Britpop band were in their pomp but he was the only one to take to the stage

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Liam Gallagher review – Knebworth return shows Britpop isn’t timeless

Back at the stately home where Oasis basked in glory in 1996, Liam’s solid solo material can’t quite conjure the same magic

Nottingham Post

What the original Hollyoaks cast from 1995 did next

It was a world of Britpop, lads' mags and alcopops ... but what became of era's Chester soap stars?

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