You weren’t her devotee britpop, if in the mid-90s you had not taken a stand on the great dilemma “Blur vs. Oasis”. Even just for fun, even if you’ve listened to both or preferred Pulp’s sophisticated vagrancy or Suede’s sensuality.

On one side were the Londoners blur who with their leader Damon Albarn offered a cool, sometimes nervous, sometimes lazy (“Leisure” after all, that was the name of their first record, released in 1991), but they ended up becoming the sonic constant of a genre that originated three decades ago on the Island. On the other hand, there were oasis, A group of two Beatles-obsessed brothers were discovered one night by Alan McGee of Creation Records. Deliberately twisted, with a heavy Manchester accent and a “home” sound, ready to shake big stadiums.

Although they seemed to have little to share, 1994 an informal “war” began between the two groups. Well, mostly with the help of the press and the record companies who wanted to create a new Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones. In April, Blur released their third album. “Parklife” the work that gave them the much-desired “breakthrough”, with tracks such as the title track and “Girls & Boys” charting without issue. Four months later, Oasis debuted. “Definitely maybe” which immediately took first place in the British charts with such tricks up its sleeve as “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star”, “Live Forever”.

Cover with NME the week Oasis released “Roll With It” and Blur released “Country House” singles in the UK. #Oasis #Blur pic.twitter.com/jj9z7QpXon

— Latest oasis news (@scyhodotcom) August 14, 2018

But officially the first “battle” was announced August 14 the same year. When Blur pushed back the release of their single “Country house” and it coincided with “Roll With It” Oasis. A great opportunity for the press to “giantize” the fake dilemma, culminating in its now-classic cover. NME 12th of August 1995 who wrote “Blur vs Oasis” in large print.

It was a way to turn Britpop into a bigger “event” that has been around for as long as it has. Then for both bands the fullness of time has come. And each went his own way. Damon Albarn did 2D. gorillaz, supergroup Good bad evil released a solo work but also reunited with his old bandmate Blur for “Magic Whip” 2015. As for them brothers Gallagher, In recent years, Liam has released several solo works that sound like it hasn’t been a day since the heyday of Oasis, with which Noel sang. high flying birds, but basically two brothers started one against to the public eye, which did not take long to turn into a gaudy series, north of the alternative “yellowness”, which, in order to refer to its history in detail, would require three more articles.

Instead, we “pave the way” to arrive at 2022. pulp they start by announcing a tour for 2023, followed by blur who have confirmed that they are reuniting for a performance at Wembley. The concert soon became a regular. tour and one new disk, as we found out 24 hours ago.

So in July we’ll hear it “The Ballad of Darren” and the Londoners’ first album in eight years with a stunning photographer’s cover Martin Parr, who captured summer with his lens like no other. First track from the album “Narcissus”, portends at least an honest return.

All this time mister Liam Gallagher continues to play the game on Twitter, lighting the fuses for those eagerly awaiting the most talked about “never happened” reunion in decades. On the one hand, instead of calling his brother just “potato”, he is perplexed. “How can such a bad guy do such a good thing” (you call it progress). Meanwhile, former Oasis guitarist Mr. blockhead claims that a reunion of the Manchester band “would be worth it” for the younger generation of listeners.

i’m ready to go

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) May 10, 2023

Nothing, of course, gave more hope than the answer given a few days ago by a former Oasis frontman to a fan’s question: Will the Oasis return if Manchester City win the Champions League? To get Liam Gallagher’s answer, “I’m ready”.

Given the proportions and given that City are big favorites for this year’s football tournament, an Oasis reunion could be closer than ever. If this also happens in 2023, we can talk about the revival of Britpop. And this time we don’t have to deal with any dilemmas, as we are with the kids of “Cool Britain”, wherever they come from.