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Visit the changing rooms, walk down the players’ tunnel out onto pitchside and sit next to Pep Guardiola in the press conference room. We sit at the centre of a fast-paced, expanding global city with audiences and communities placed firmly at the heart of everything we do. The first major band to break through from the post-Britpop Welsh rock scene, dubbed " Cool Cymru", [75] were Catatonia, whose single " Mulder and Scully" (1998) reached the top ten in the UK, and whose album International Velvet (1998) reached number one, but they were unable to make much impact in the US and, after personal problems, broke up at the end of the century. This year it will be forty years since Crass played their final gig in Aberdare, South Wales, a benefit for striking miners. They greatly influenced how I think to this day, and I believe their polemics on pacifism, environmentalism, animal rights and much more, influenced a whole generation.

Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers spoke with lived experience of The Troubles, of the ‘inflammable material planted in my head’ while The Sex Pistols had a nuanced approach; ‘Is this the IRA or is this the UDA, I thought it was the UK? Spurred on by the media, they became engaged in what the NME dubbed on the cover of its 12 August issue the "British Heavyweight Championship" with the pending release of Blur's single " Country House" and Oasis' " Roll with It" on the same day.By 1996, Oasis's prominence was such that NME termed a number of Britpop bands (including The Boo Radleys, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast) "Noelrock", citing Gallagher's influence on their music. Their final song Banned From The Roxy is still ringing in our ears, as we head off to Rebellion’s large but basic backstage bar.

Get in the game with a host of fun interactive challenges, from penalty-taking and shot-stopping to match commentary, and check out the latest changing exhibitions on the ground floor and in our Score Gallery.They met “a long time ago at Dial House” and have been together since he asked her out at a tai chi class over 25 years ago. Not because the police forces of the United Kingdom were opposed on principle to organ-driven, 60s-styled garage pop from Greater Manchester, but because in those days – and all this is making it sound like the Victorian era – having a swear-word on a T-shirt was considered offensive, and the Inspiral Carpets T-short in question bore the legend “Cool as fuck”.

As the last remnants of morning mist linger along the north Norfolk coastline, grey drizzle sprays the windscreen of photographer Tony Mottram’s Vauxhall Astra. I was looking at these pictures of dead bodies lying in pits”, he continues, “and I actually thought this is what Dad did in the war”.Parklife continued the fiercely British nature of its predecessor, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year British alternative rock became the dominant rock genre in the country. In 1997, Radiohead and the Verve released their respective albums OK Computer and Urban Hymns, both widely acclaimed. Seriously”, he replies “I got into Christianity, because I liked a woman teacher at my school in Dagenham, she made bible discussion really accessible, so I went to her Christian Union meetings”. We’re drinking tea from mismatching mugs in his den, an endearingly rustic cabin at the back of the Dial House garden, filled with plants, carvings, books and art. We constantly renew and update our collections displays so you should discover something new every time you visit.