In the wake of the Britpop era, the UK’s homegrown rock tastes had settled into a relatively comfortable niche. A certain dullness had crept into the gulf. Some have even gone as far as to characterise British rock in the early 2000s as the heyday of ‘big empty ballads about nothing’.
The dawn of the new millennium had found many of Britain’s biggest rock offerings delivering broadly serviceable - yet toothless - indie ballads. Inoffensive enough to garner radio play and land well on the festival circuit.
