Britpop Quotes

On working at La Passione (1996): Day one, the damage was done. All it was meant to be was one hour of a little boy's dreams. And I had things I wanted to do with the guitar that hadn't been done before. Like, there's one number called "Olive Oil", where I was actually playing slide guitar in the same scale as a saxophone. [...] But then in came millions of executives from America. So in the end, it fell flat on its arse. And it came out the same week that Britpop took off. Blair had just won the election. Oasis. Spice Girls. So something a bit Fellini-ish – about a little boy who loved red cars – went straight over the top. It was like, ‘Well, don't you have a 335 guitar with a Union Jack on it?' (Chris Rea)
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too. View quote
Jeff VanderMeer