Thursday, 17th August 1995. Blur and Oasis go head to head on Top of the Pops. It wasn’t the songs themselves, neither of which showed them at their peak, or the performances, which were standard lip-sync affairs. Nor was it the rivalry eagerly stoked by the tabloid press or the cultural divide the bands supposedly represented. Instead, then and now, all these years later, it captured an incredibly bright moment in time: change was in the air and Britannia was cool. Sometimes the memory is more meaningful than the music.
