Just for the record, Marc Burrows is not getting to see Oasis tonight in Edinburgh. Partly that’s because his one-man Fringe show - which just happens to be about Britpop - at the Underbelly in Bristo Square starts an hour after the gates open at Murrayfield. But it's also because the economics of a one-man show about Britpop at the Edinburgh Fringe don’t necessarily translate to having the disposable income to buy a ticket to see Oasis in Edinburgh.

In short, he says, “I can’t afford Oasis tickets.”

If you’re in the same boat, or were just too slow off the mark to bag one, then Burrows’s show might offer some kind of consolation. It’s an affectionate looking back (though not necessarily in anger) at a particular moment in British cultural history.

Burrows is both a music journalist and a comedian. So with the Britpop Hour he’s combining both.

“All my stand-up shows are about things I’m really interested in. That’s partly marketing. But it’s partly that it keeps me interested. I get to be funnier on the stage than I can be on the page.”

We are now 30 years since the highpoint of Britpop when Blur and Oasis fought it out for the number one slot [almost to the day; Blur released Country House and Oasis released Roll With It on August 14, 1995]. Burrows’s show both celebrates and makes fun of that moment, complete with Jarvis Cocker dancing and a mass........

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