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Cool Britannia was a name for the period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom in the mid- and late 1990s, inspired by Swinging London from 1960s pop culture. This loosely coincided with the latter years of John Major 's conservative government and the 1997 United Kingdom general election , which Tony Blair 's New Labour won ...
Britannia is a series of television documentaries by BBC Four that began in 2005. The documentaries mostly deal with the evolution of a music genre or other aspect of musical culture over a period of several decades within the United Kingdom, although some episodes have covered music in other countries (Ireland, the United States, Italy) or such diverse subjects as comic books, games ...
The term Cool Cymru (Cymru is the Welsh name for Wales) derived as a Welsh alternative to Cool Britannia (itself a pun on the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!Cool Britannia described the revival of British art and culture in the 1990s centred on London (as celebrated in a 1996 Newsweek cover headlined "London Rules"), emphasised British culture and used British symbols such as The ...
Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness.Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the American-led grunge music and Britain's own shoegaze music scene.
In 2010, Fatboy Slim headlined the east dance at Glastonbury Festival. [48] On 18 June 2010, he performed in Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Cool Britannia FIFA World Cup music festival at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. [49] He also performed in Naples on 15 July at the Neapolis Festival.
The image of Britannia (/ b r ɪ ˈ t æ n i ə /) is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. [1] An image first used by the Romans in classical antiquity, the Latin Britannia was the name variously applied to the British Isles, Great Britain, and the Roman province of Britain during ...
Atmospheric music combined with sound effects was played along to films in the "chill-out rooms" set apart from the dance floors. New-age stalls occupied the central hallway selling non-alcoholic energy (or " smart ") drinks, body jewellery, alternative "small press" comics and magazines (such as the short-lived, but influential Head Magazine ...
Parklife is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 25 April 1994, by Food Records.After moderate sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: "Girls & Boys", "To the End", the title track and "End of a Century".