Aug 12, 2025 By Mark Redfern

The UK. The summer of 1995. The height of Britpop and the era of Cool Britannia. The Glastonbury that helped make Pulp stars when they filled in for The Stone Roses at the last minute not long after Pulp’s biggest single “Common People” was released. And the time of Blur vs. Oasis, a chart battle fueled by the media. I was in London that summer, 19 years old and home from university in Los Angeles. I was at Glastonbury ’95 and I fully bought into Britpop. More

Aug 12, 2025 By Mark Redfern

The UK. The summer of 1995. The height of Britpop and the era of Cool Britannia. The Glastonbury that helped make Pulp stars when they filled in for The Stone Roses at the last minute not long after Pulp’s biggest single “Common People” was released. And the time of Blur vs. Oasis, a chart battle fueled by the media. I was in London that summer, 19 years old and home from university in Los Angeles. I was at Glastonbury ’95 and I fully bought into Britpop. More