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Decades tend to crest halfway through and 1995 was the year of the Nineties peak Britpop Oasis v Blur peak YBA Tracey Emins tent peak New Lad when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity when James Browns Loaded detonated the publishing industry and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday It was the year of The Bends the year Danny Boyle started filming Trainspotting the year Richey Edwards went missing the year Alex Garland wrote The Beach the year Blair changed Clause IV after a controversial vote at the Labour Conference It was a period of huge cultural upheaval in art literature publishing and drugs and a period of almost unparalleled hedonism

Faster Than a Cannonball is a cultural swipe of the decade from loungecore to the rise of New Labour teasing all the relevant artistic strands through interviews with all the major protagonists and exhaustive reevaluations of the important records of the year by artists including Radiohead Teenage Fanclub Tricky Pulp Blur the Chemical Brothers Supergrass Elastica Spiritualized Aphex Twin and of course Oasis