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Rock band The Libertines will play an Up The Bracket 20th anniversary concert at Hatfield House next summer on July 22 with support from Supergrass.

Rock band The Libertines will play an Up The Bracket 20th anniversary concert at Hatfield House next summer on July 22 with support from Supergrass.

Originally released in 1997, the Britpop band’s second album feels like a crash course in the history of UK rock, zipping through glam, psychedelia, punk, and pop in fresh, surprising ways.

Mick Jones for a proposed Alternative Press piece on punk’s original guitar heroes. Though it remains unpublished, I asked in the course of it what he thought of Rancid. Jones waxed effusive, noting he’d met the Berkeley punk traditionalists in the course of a U.S. Big Audio Dynamite tour, impressed with how hands-on and DIY they were in the running of the band, down to storyboarding their own videos. I smirked. “You’re being considerably generous, considering many cynics think Rancid ...

Britpop Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:25:03 British pop music. Short, jumpy, dry, fresh pop songs, in a standard format, usually with a standard lineup of vocals, guitar, bass, drums, possibly organ. The plainvanilla, no additives in pop music. Fri Aug 17 2001 at 0:54:09 In the mid Nineties, the phrase Britpop in the UK became synonymous with indie, Manchester, Madchester, Blur and Oasis. We were suddenly presented with a surge of fresh faced youngsters all ready to recycle the best that guitar pop ...