Damon Albarn has accepted that his band Blur were beaten by Oasis in the battle of Britpop and is now hailing his former rivals as "the winners" as the band gear up for their reunion tour this summer

Though Blur won the official Battle of Britpop when the single "Country House" sold more copies than "Roll With It," Oasis's place in the zeitgeist across the pond is more firm. Speaking with The Sun, Albarn admitted defeat against the Mancunians.

Britpop vets Cast have announced a new album, ’Yeah Yeah Yeah,’ that will be out January 30. You can listen to new single ”Poison Vine” now.

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Oasis ended a 16-year hiatus on Friday with a punchy, powerful trip through one of Britpop’s greatest songbooks, kicking off a reunion tour in Cardiff, Wales to a crowd ecstatic for the band’s 1990s hits.

Tim Collis and his husband Ryan Phelps bought the master house and waiting room of an abandoned Victorian train station, not realising its link to an Oasis album