Britpop to return to Knebworth with Cool Britannia

The new festival, headlined by Happy Mondays and Ocean Colour Scene, will be the first in the UK's famous Knebworth Park since Sonisphere 2014

Robbie Williams' record-breaking 2003 Knebworth shows were seen by 375,000 people © Knebworth House

Knebworth House will this summer host a large-scale rock festival for first time since 2014 with Cool Britannia, a new three-day Britpop-centred event promoted by David Heartfield’s Heartfield Entertainment.

Twenty-two years after 250,000 people descended on Knebworth for Britpop’s high watermark – Oasis, with support from the Charlatans, Cast, the Prodigy, Kula Shaker, Manic Street Preachers and the Chemical Brothers – a who’s who of Britpop greats, including Happy Mondays, Ocean Colour Scene, the Lightning Seeds, New Order’s Peter Hook, Dodgy…

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