COOL BRITANNIA – STILL MAD FOR IT! Sydney, Melbs, Adelaide, Emerald & Brizvegas - you're next!
- May 15
- 2 min read
Well… St George’s weekend was a proper one wasn’t it?
Two absolutely belting shows, first at Miami Marketta, then straight into The Triffid! Check out the photos HERE - from our wonderful tour photographer Kim Grimley!
These shows were both packed to the rafters with beautiful people screaming every word to Britpop bangers like their council tax depended on it.
Honestly… there’s something oddly emotional about watching a room full of Brits & Australians lose their minds to songs written by miserable blokes from Manchester in parkas.
But that’s our generation innit?
The 90s crowd.
Generation X.
Raised on dial-up internet, alcopops and emotional suppression.
We came from a magical era where your parents just shouted “be home before dark,” and somehow that counted as childcare.
No mobile phones. No wellness podcasts. No one talking about “holding space.”
If you got dumped in 1997 you just listened to The Verve in your bedroom for three days and emerged looking spiritually developed.
And lo… upon the third day, Liam Gallagher did declare: “Thou shalt definitely maybe.”
It was our era.
A beautiful messy little period where every lad wanted to be in Oasis, every girl owned a shag haircut at some point, and nobody understood what Jarvis Cocker was talking about but we all danced anyway.
The crowds over these shows were unreal though. Arms in the air. Pints flying. Full choir singalongs. Grown adults suddenly becoming 19 again for four glorious minutes during Don’t Look Back In Anger.
And honestly? That’s why we love doing this.
Also joining us lately has been the Symphony Orchestra brass quartet , and they’ve been absolutely incredible. Proper world-class players.
You haven’t truly lived until you’ve heard a professionally trained brass musician blasting out Blur while some bloke near the bar screams “PLAY WONDERWALL!” for the 14th time that evening.
The sound has become massive though. Like Britpop got dragged through a Bond film soundtrack after six pints of lager.
Yes… Emerald. Can't wait! It'll be epic! Emerald, which sounds less like a town and more like a retired stripper from Essex.
We genuinely cannot wait though. The crowds everywhere lately have been unbelievable and it feels like people really need these nights right now — just singing tunes from a simpler time before every appliance in your house needed a software update.
So now we wanna know…
What are your favourite songs that we do?
And what songs do you reckon would absolutely fit the COOL BRITANNIA setlist?
More Blur? More Oasis? More Pulp? More Stone Roses? Something obscure and dangerous from 1996 that only six people remember but all six lose their minds when they hear it?
Chuck your suggestions our way.
Anyway…Thanks for coming out and making these gigs so special lately.
You lot aren’t just crowds anymore…you’re basically one giant emotionally unavailable Britpop support group.
See ya down the front. Love ya
Cool Britannia x
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