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Andy Price

“It’s a circle of freaks and I don’t want to be involved”: How the Oasis vs Blur chart battle marked Britpop's cultural peak, and the beginning of its end

Battle of Britpop.

This week, after 16 years of bitter feuding, the Gallagher brothers finally bury that sodden hatchet and embark on what was once widely held as a fanciful idea - the Oasis comeback tour. The band, fronted by eternally volatile brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are set to stride on-stage together at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4th. A united front once again. But will this tense reconciliation last beyond the upcoming dates?

You’ll have to watch this space to see just how long-term this reunification ends up being, but 30 years ago, the Gallaghers’ arch-antagonists were Blur. The Essex-originating four-piece who’d catapulted themselves into the public consciousness by dent of their zeitgeist-capturing 1994 record Parklife.

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