In a recent interview, Damon Albarn reflected on the fact that Oasis are playing a mammoth seven nights at Wembley Stadium when Blur “only” managed two in 2023 and held his hands up. “It was obvious, wasn’t it?” he told The Sun. “I think we can officially say that Oasis won the battle, the war, the campaign, everything.”
It's apt timing to draw a line under the so-called Battle Of Britpop. It’s 30 years next month since Albarn’s Blur took on Oasis in a much-publicised scrap for Number One, the two groups releasing singles in the same week in a head-to-head that became the talking point of the nation, featured as the main story on the Six O’Clock News, a daft defining moment of Britpop. It had jumped the shark.
