Musically complex, its 12 songs were foreboding, textured, crammed with snatches of white noise and electronic flourishes, and at times sublimely beautiful.
Released on 16 June 1997, the month before Blair’s shindig, Radiohead’s album OK Computer provided a stark antidote to this euphoria. The party’s attendees, Westwood later recalled, where “euphoric” to be there.īut five musicians from Oxford saw the world differently. Noel Gallagher, Vivienne Westwood and Alan McGee were among the guests invited to celebrate the new Prime Minister’s landslide general election win three months earlier.īritpop – the chirpy, undemanding, retro musical movement that had dominated the cultural landscape for four years – still ruled, and hope abounded that the youngest Prime Minister since 1812 would take the country in an exciting new direction after 18 years of Tory rule. On the evening of Wednesday July 30, 1997, a troupe of eager celebrities snaked into 10 Downing Street for Tony Blair’s now-infamous "Cool Britannia" party.
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