Oasis split.

Technically the title is a tad misleading. Noel Gallagher has left the band, and though he's walked once before in the late 90's the fact that this was done so publicly makes me think that he's done for real. I've no doubt the band will try and continue without him, at least for a little while.

I'm sure there's a chorus of "Good" and "Are they still around?" type comments and that's fair enough. For me they were a massive part of my youth. They were the first band I was ever really passionate about. I was there at the beginning of the whole ride, and I don't think I can say that about any of my other favourite bands. So though my tastes had changed and I moved onto other groups, I always held a little soft spot for them.

Their latest cut, "Dig out your Soul" was actually pretty strong I thought. It wasn't world changing, but it was a solid record with intermittent moments of greatness and suggested the band had grown up musically. I don't think they ever really recovered from the damage of the cocaine fuelled disaster that was 'Be Here Now'. A cut that would've been strong had it not been massively overproduced and incredibly long (A bloated 70 something minutes - This is what happens when you spend the record company advance on your drug dealer). Still, it features Johnny Depp playing lead guitar on one track so that's something.

Still, whatever happens, "Fucking In The Bushes" will always be an awesome track.

Indeed, and there was never really a 'War'. But both groups played that game because it was good for record sales. Noel and Alex James are still friends, and Noel's had nothing but praise for Graham Coxon. The issue was down to Liam, Damon and Lisa Moorish. Silly people.

And though Blur developed into a pretty interesting band, their early work is nigh on un listenable for me. Though I am interested in seeing what they do when they get back in the Studio.

Oh they're not really gone. Noel has walked but I've no doubt the band will carry on.

And though I've not really listened to them in a long time I thought the most recent album was very solid, and shown that they were getting out of their musical...sameness.

I don't think that any of the bands that were stifled with the 'Britpop' label were ever really Britpop. I think it was just some enterprising people trying to throw a name on everything. The main thing is that none of them sounded the same, though it's true that Blur's earlier stuff was overtly poppy, but then people were even lumping Radiohead in with that.

It just seemed that if you were British and in a Band at that time then that was it, you were Britpop.

Given that Costello thinks the same thing of Bruce Springsteen I can't really take him seriously anymore.

I know, it was weird actually. I read Costello mouthing off about Springsteen then literally 2 days later that performance happened.

I'm going to need to dig through my old copies of Q magazine now and find the interview.

Charlatans were always on the Fringe and through one thing or another they never quite took off. It's a shame because they put out some great songs. They were heavily influenced by The Stone Roses but developed into their own thing eventually, then it all sort of imploded.

Ah that bastard child of an album. I don't think the Band really recovered from that. I will ascertain that had all the songs just been radio edits it would've played a lot better. It's probably the most excessive album I've ever heard.

Actually, as Noel summed it up.