It produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the US-led grunge music and to the UK's own shoegaze music scene. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. These acts were followed by a number of bands who shared aspects of their music, including Snow Patrol from Northern Ireland and Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor, Doves, Electric Pyramid and Keane from England. Bands such as Radiohead and the Verve, and new acts such as Travis, Stereophonics, Feeder and particularly Coldplay, achieved wider international success than most of the Britpop groups that had preceded them, and were some of the most commercially successful acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

At the same time, Blur sought to distance themselves from Britpop with their self-titled fifth album, [55] assimilating American lo-fi influences such as Pavement. It was nothing short of a monster rock outfit disgorging classic Crass with power, energy and precision. Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker also expressed his dislike for the term in an interview with Stephen Merchant on BBC Radio 4's Chain Reaction in 2010, describing it as a "horrible, bitty, sharp sound. Anytime Dad would tell me ‘to get real’ or talk about ‘the real world’ I would always reject it, I would think about those pictures. He’s talking about Jeremy Ratter, his Crass co-founder, who would later change his name by deed poll to Penny Rimbaud, after Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet infamous for breaking 19th Century moral and social boundaries.

Both documentaries include mention of Tony Blair and New Labour's efforts to align themselves with the distinctly British cultural resurgence that was underway, as well Britpop artists such as Damien Hirst. For a brief period between 1988 and 1991, the charts were alive with the sound of Funky Drummer samples and blissed-out vocals. Mottram’s early photos of Crass were the beginning of his 40-year career as one of the most prolific rock photographers in the UK music press of the ’80s and ’90s, covering hundreds of artists from AC/DC to ZZ Top as staff photographer at Sounds, and freelancer for Melody Maker, NME, and Kerrang! Whatever happened to our Rock and Roll" Archived 11 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Stylus Magazine, 2002-12-23, retrieved 6 January 2010.

Journalist John Harris described these bands, and Gallagher, as sharing "a dewy-eyed love of the 1960s, a spurning of much beyond rock's most basic ingredients, and a belief in the supremacy of 'real music'". His father, John Ratter CBE, had served in the Royal Engineers during WW2, reaching the rank of colonel.It may miss off some of their finer early moments such as Joe and Find Out Why, but includes the memorable This Is How It Feels. For almost forty years the Royal Exchange Theatre has been a hub of superb storytelling for Manchester and the UK, and there are even more exciting times ahead!