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Oasis ride Britpop revival as 90s make nostalgic comeback in UK

Oasis ride Britpop revival as 90s make nostalgic comeback in UK
30 June 2025 13:03

LONDON (AFP)

With "Britpop" bands Oasis and Pulp topping the charts and filling concert halls, a 90s vibe is floating over the music scene this summer amid nostalgia for a "cooler" time when people seemed "happier".

On Instagram and TikTok, young people are filming themselves styled like the band's brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher.

The band's reunion, 16 years after the brothers' messy split, has generated huge enthusiasm across the generation gap.

Tickets for the UK and Ireland tour, which kicks off on July 4 in Cardiff, were snapped up at the end of last August.

And Liam and Noel aren't the only ones making a comeback.

Pulp recently returned to the top of the charts for the first time in 27 years with their new album "More".

At the band's concerts, the first notes of most famous hit "Common People" are greeted with the kind of delirium last seen when it was released in 1995.

Suede will release an album in September and Supergrass are touring this summer to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's debut album.

Reason for Resurgence

"Everyone likes an anniversary, don't they?" said Glenn Fosbraey, a popular music academic at Winchester University.

In particular, 1995 was "a great year for music" with the release of Oasis album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" said the 42-year-old lecturer, who grew up with Britpop.

"It's a nice opportunity to relive our own youth and secondly to introduce this to the next generation," as he is doing with his teenage daughter.

The nostalgia for the 1990s doesn't just affect those in their forties, but also Gen Z, young people born between 1997 and 2012, added James Hannam of Solent University in Southampton.

They perceive those times as "less stressful" than the ones they face, weighed down by concerns about climate change, war, and artificial intelligence, he added.

The music industry economics professor has noticed a return of 90s fashion among his students for several years now, with a return of baggy jeans and bucket hats, a staple of Liam Gallagher's wardrobe at the height of his fame.

Source: AFP
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