Breaking Baz: Oasis’ Bitter ’90s Britpop Clash With Blur Retold In West End-Bound Show ‘The Battle’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Back in the summer of 1995, you were either team Oasis or team Blur. There was no sitting on the fence as the rival Brit bands clashed over which group’s single would top the charts – Blur’s Country House or the Oasis number Roll With It.
A new play heading to London’s West End in 2025 will chart the harshness of the animosity between the two enormously popular so-called Britpop bands, a rivalry so bitter that it burst into the headlines, even the TV news covered it.
News of the show, appropriately titled The Battle by humorist and writer John Niven, a former indie rocker and one-time A&R man, comes as Gallagher brothers Liam and Noel have buried their own feud to launch a huge Oasis tour in 2025 after 15 years apart.
Producer Simon Friend, of Simon Friend Entertainment, tells us that he commissioned Niven nine months ago to write a comedy about the cultural conflict that erupted when Blur’s Damon Albarn threw down the gauntlet by shifting the release of single Country House to the same day as Roll With It.
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