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‘We’re a pub friendship – with songs attached’: deadpan dazzlers Black Box Recorder return, thanks to Billie Eilish

Their unnerving songs about car crashes and suburban ennui, sung in a sparkling yet unemotional RP, stood out from the Britpop bloat. Now, thanks to a certain singer taking their streams stratospheric, the trio are back

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25

“This is not about nostalgia, this is about vindication, redemption and celebration”: Billie Eilish introduced them to a whole new audience, and now '90s indie band Black Box Recorder are going back on stage

After 17 years away, the British band will play a show in London next year

MusicRadar · Nov 27, 2025

Where Oasis, the Killers and Noddy Holder raised hell: Britpop’s debauched HQ, the Columbia hotel

Noel Gallagher named a song after it, Marc Almond practically moved in and the Killers had a bathtub reserved for puking in – but was it rock’n’roll, or just a bit tragic?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025

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“For all its flights of fancy it’s not ironic; it finds him rooting for hard-grafting, often veteran grapplers”: The prog credentials of Luke Haines’ 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling

The former Auteurs mastermind went further off-piste than ever with his 2011 album, which only runs to 30 minutes but delivers a real experience

Louder · Sep 8, 2024

10 great Britpop-era indie bands who could reform to ease the pain of fans who missed out on Oasis tickets

Bummed at missing out on Oasis tickets? Us too. The Verve, Supergrass, Elastica, Super Furries... we need you back now, please

Louder · Sep 4, 2024

“He didn’t want to be a rock star, but made a great rock star… the only way is to run straight at the wall head first, minus the crash helmet”: What Hawkwind’s Robert Calvert means to Luke Haines

The space rock poet, who died in 1988, inspired Auteurs leader and Britpop pioneer Haines to explore a wider world of art

Louder · Aug 14, 2024

‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2023

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Cathal Coughlan, frontman with Irish indie bands Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, dies aged 61

Singer celebrated for versatile, sometimes confrontational songcraft had suffered a long illness

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022

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