Cheerio. It is me, your parisocial podcast mate, Yossi Salik, and I am here to once again announce a brand new season of my show, Bansplane.

This time, we're going across the pond. That's right, I'm absolutely chuffed to be talking about the UK, babe.

More specifically, about the music scenes of the 80s and 90s in Britain.

Dark industrial landscape of Manchester,

where the Hacienda Nightclub helped give birth to UK rave culture.

Buildings change the way people think.

That's how it happened in Renaissance Florence.

Yeah, but this isn't Renaissance Florence.

This is Dark Ages Manchester.

It's where Manchester was born, and where it burned fast, bright, and full of X.

How big do you think the Stan Roses will get?

I think it could be the biggest band ever.

Extreme inspiration for the next generation of bands

that would soon dominate the charts in good old blighty.

When I had Salby Cinnamon for the first time,

I knew what my destiny was.

That's right.

We're getting into Britpop, babe.

And of course, into the massive war between its two biggest stars.

And Blur nicknamed Oasis Oasis Quo because they say their songs all sound the same.

Oasis say Blur are a bunch of middle-class art students.

Aside from the feuds between the bands, we will of course be getting into all the goss and tea within

...