At the point it seemed Creation would collapse into receivership, the recently signed Manchester band Oasis began selling albums in huge quantities, as they epitomised the cultural Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.
Originally turning the band down because he thought they played "Britpop shite", he later had a change of heart after the band played him a demo of their new song called "Wide Open Space" He joined the band shortly before their debut album Attack of the Grey Lantern was released.
By 1995 the Britpop explosion had proved the success of Bannister's strategy: the bands he had championed a year or two earlier, when they were comparatively obscure and marginal, were now part of the mainstream, and Radio 1 was booming again.
It is famous for hosting a gig by Britpop band Blur in June 1995, where 27,000 fans saw the band supported by The Boo Radleys, Sparks, John Shuttleworth, Dodgy and The Cardiacs.
The movement was short lived and several of the bands involved were later linked with the more commercially successful Britpop, which it immediately preceded, and the NWONW was described by John Harris of The Guardian as "Britpop without the good bits".
Previously covering grunge, shoegaze, Madchester and Britpop - extensively touring with bands, across the UK and internationally.
The lead singer of the Britpop band Pulp, Jarvis Cocker chose "Sailing By" as one of his Desert Island Discs, saying for many years he had used it "as an aid to restful sleep".
The band marked the occasion by performing at Tiswas in New York City, a Britpop/mod-themed night at local club Don Hill's.
Britpop band Oasis, who were influenced by The Beatles, had a hit which was arguably their biggest and most well-known song called "Wonderwall" in the 1990s.
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Big Sonic Heaven aired every Sunday evening for four hours and featured shoegaze, dream pop, trip-hop, Britpop, and electronic by bands such as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Dead Can Dance, Portishead (band), Depeche Mode, Ride, Slowdive, The Cure, Hooverphonic, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Smiths to name a few.
Robert Carlyle plays Lachlan MacAldonich, a former Britpop rocker-turned-agricultural worker, who gets caught driving drunk and faces deportation after living in Los Angeles for many years.
Songs like "W" (about the 2000 election and George W. Bush) have a sound very reminiscent of Britpop (such as the sound they exhibited on Strawberries).
Jed Gottlieb of the Boston Herald remarked that the piano sound in "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love" hints at the 1968 song "Lady Madonna" by The Beatles, "before taking a neo-classical, Chopin-does-Britpop route".
Renewed interest in his work in the Britpop era resulted in 1995's Stanley Road providing his first two solo top ten singles.
In the documentary The Britpop Story hosted by John Harris, this song along with Suede's "The Drowners" was championed as being the first ever Britpop song, and a starting point for the movement.
The song has been described as "an amped-up Motown bounce recalling Britpop progenitors The Jam's classic "A Town Called Malice", but with speaker-bursting modern-rock dynamics".
The recording of the album took place in London, England, at Strongroom Recording Studio, and the songs, mostly written by Sodagreen's lead singer Wu Tsing-Fong, contain Britpop elements and lyrical references to the supernatural, Faust, Madame Butterfly, Don Quixote and the Greek god Dionysus, the subject of three brief prose passages between tracks, written in English by band manager Will Lin and recited by studio engineer Dan McKinna.
The song has been considered by many to be the beginning of the Britpop movement along with Blur's "Popscene".
The Longshadows were a musical collaboration between Gin Blossoms vocalist Robin Wilson and composer/producer Steve French (formerly of Britpop band Starclub).
The Urban Hymns Tour was a concert tour by British Britpop band The Verve from August 1997 until August 1998, in support of their album Urban Hymns.
"Why Did She Go?" is the first single from the album Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing by German britpop band Fool's Garden.