With Blur and Pulp battering stadiums and festivals with Nineties classics and speculation growing more fervid around an Oasis reunion than a Boris Johnson honours list, what’s been dubbed the second summer of Britpop also appears to have reignited the old north/south rock divide.
“Do you feel inferior?” Noel Gallagher asked the “eel-eating c***s” of south London booing his call out for any Mancunians in the Crystal Palace crowd. And all of this, so soon after declaring every London football club “shit” and asking someone in the front row if they’d had their hair cut by two different people.
