Britpop actually started with them Beatles at? But more with their admirers Oasisat Blur, Suede or pulp, because according to the definition, Britpop emerged in the early 1990s through a return to the traditions of British, guitar-heavy rock and pop music. So a retro wave. Since then, people in this country have been taking a closer look at what’s going on on the island and are happy about every “British Invasion” at local concert venues. Before Britpop mainstreamed them into global stars Coldplay will perform three times in Munich’s Olympic Stadium this August, some exciting British bands will be visiting Munich at the end of March.
The 1975 from Manchester have everything they need to carry the Britpop torch forward: the start as a post-punk cover school band, early support from BBC radio, a hit (“The City”) that even made it into the US charts and up created a football video game, a misjudgment by the music magazine NME as the “worst band of the year”, but has since been rehabilitated as the “band of the decade”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/.”Being Funny In A Foreign Language” is now their fifth number one. Album in a row in the Brit charts. Her ban on performing in Malaysia after singer Matty Healy kissed a fellow musician on stage as an open criticism of the country’s anti-LGBT laws (March 18, Zenith) was also commendable.
Very British: The band “1975” around Matty Healy.
(Photo: Samuel Bradley)
Even more socially critical (and therefore fully Britrock-compliant in the sense of Sleaford Mods) are the Idles from Bristol. Their sound is bulkier, but they still resonate with the masses; their albums “Ultra Mono” and “Tangk” landed at number one in the UK, the latter at number two in Germany. The Idles were nominated for various awards, twice for the Grammy, but the 2019 Brit Award was snatched away from them by Tom Walker (who is playing in Munich in November). Their video for the song “Grace” is exciting, an appropriation of Chris Martin’s early work and face created with artificial intelligence, for which the Coldplay singer personally gave his approval (March 22, Zenith).
A band that many new Britrockers relate to are The Pretenders, although they have a singer from America, Chrissie Hynde. Their concert at the Muffatwerk has been postponed from March 23rd to September 30th. If you want to take a look into the future of Britpop, go to Hotel Lux in Milla (March 25). According to the announcement, the Londoners have lost their status as “contenders for the most self-confident band in Great Britain”, for whatever reason. But you can’t tell from their songs like “Ballad of You & I” anyway.
Frontwoman of the “Pretenders” since 1978: Chrissie Hynde.
(Photo: Ki Price)
While the loyal Munich Britpop scene puts on their Paul Weller memorial hairstyles every two weeks at the Club Live Evil at nostalgic Atomic Cafe nostalgia parties (on April 20th, for example, with Sweden’s Brit poppers Shout out loud), another scene is already somewhere else. Namely Italian pop. The upcoming San Remo winners Princess with Julia Viechtl, Maria Moling and Theresa Staffler have almost finished their debut album full of “Carbonara Kraut Twist” – but currently no concert dates. The Munich singer D. Santoni presents his new band Buco in the subculture shop X-Bar in Lehel: a wild bunch that wants to redefine the term “Italo” with dirty beats and gentle melodies “in the Sicilian way”. And what are the Augsburg triggers of the Italo hype doing before their big concert in the Olympiahalle (November 15th)? Roy Bianco and his Abbrunzati Boys are said to have recorded their new album “Kult”, not on Lake Garda, but in the Abbey Road Studios Beatles.