BLUR

MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH

JULIAN MARSZALEK

(Food Records, 1993) With "the battling Gallagher brothers” (according to every tabloid newspaper in the land) set to dominate the news headlines this summer when the Oasis reunion rolls on with the inexorable precision of a military exercise to take up residence in the stadiums and enormodomes across the world, a pause is called for to consider a time before their entrance and the codification of Britpop to when their future chart rivals, Blur were grappling with the concept of Englishness in the face of grunge’s domination and their own potential demise. Chastened by indifference to their gruelling and disastrous 44-date tour of the USA in the spring of 1992, the domestic failure of standalone single Popscene to set the charts alight and the very real prospect of being dropped…

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