Are both bands The All-American Rejects and Blur from the United Kingdom?
no
Blur (band)
Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.
 The group consists of singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree.
 Their debut album "Leisure" (1991) incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing.
 Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop groups such as the Kinks, the Beatles and XTC, Blur released "Modern Life Is Rubbish" (1993), "Parklife" (1994) and "The Great Escape" (1995).
 In the process, the band became central to the Britpop music and culture movement, and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a chart battle with rivals Oasis in 1995 dubbed the "Battle of Britpop".
The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects is an American rock band formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1999.
 The band consists of lead guitarist and backing vocalist Nick Wheeler, lead vocalist and bassist Tyson Ritter, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Mike Kennerty, and drummer Chris Gaylor.
 Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter are the band's songwriters; Wheeler is the primary composer and Ritter is the main lyricist.
Cool Britannia
Cool Britannia was a period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom throughout most of the 1990s, inspired by 1960s pop culture.
 The success of Britpop and musical acts such as the Spice Girls, Blur, and Oasis led to a renewed feeling of optimism in the United Kingdom following the tumultuous years of the 1970s and 1980s.
 The name is a pun on the title of the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!
". Heineken Music Festival
In the early to mid-1990s the Heineken Brewery sponsored a number of free live music festivals each year in the United Kingdom.
 Taking place in venues such as Avenham Park in Preston and Roundhay Park in Leeds, the Heineken Music Festival featured Britpop acts such as Oasis, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, Inspiral Carpets, The Boo Radleys and Catatonia.
 Also long-established bands including The Stranglers, Jools Holland, The Pogues, Saw Doctors, Tom Robinson Band and Mike + The Mechanics.
 In total there were thirty events over six years, all of four days duration.
 The last event was in Leeds in July 1995, which attracted 110,000 fans on the Saturday, and 300,000 over four days after which Heineken withdrew their sponsorship.
 Various events still continue under different names. Rollercoaster Tour
The Rollercoaster Tour was a 1992 co-headlining concert tour by the English Britpop band Blur, the American indie rock band Dinosaur Jr., the Irish alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine and the Scottish noise pop band the Jesus and Mary Chain.
 A one-leg 11-date tour of the United Kingdom, the tour was in support of all four bands' current releases: Blur's debut album "Leisure" (1991), Dinosaur Jr.' s fourth album "Green Mind" (1991), My Bloody Valentine's second album "Loveless" (1991) and The Jesus and Mary Chain's fourth album "Honey's Dead" (1992). Music of the United Kingdom (1990s)
Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify.
 While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music.
 Electronic rock bands like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers began to achieve a high profile.
 Alternative rock reached the mainstream, emerging from the Madchester scene to produce dream pop, shoegazing, post rock and indie pop, which led to the commercial success of Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis; followed by a stream of post-Britpop bands like Travis and Feeder. Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose is the debut studio album by Beth Jeans Houghton recorded with the Hooves of Destiny and released in the United Kingdom on 6 February 2012 (on 28 February 2012 in the United States), by Mute Records.
 The album was produced by Ben Hillier, noted for his works with Blur, Elbow and Depeche Mode, among many others. Samir Sumaidaie
Samir Shakir Mahmoud Sumayda'ie (Samir Sumaidaie) is an Iraqi politician and was the Iraqi ambassador to the United States.
 He was born in Baghdad in 1944 and left Iraq in 1960 to study in the United Kingdom where he obtained a degree in electrical engineering from Durham University in 1965 and a postgraduate diploma in 1966.
 He returned to Iraq in 1966 but left again for the UK in 1973 after Saddam Hussein seized power.
 He returned to Baghdad and was appointed member of the Iraq Governing Council in July 2003.
 He was appointed as Iraq's ambassador to the United States in April 2006, after previously serving as the Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (from August 2004), and prior to that, as Baghdad's Interior Minister.
 He is secular and rejects any sectarian label. Journey to the West (album)
Journey to the West is the soundtrack to the stage musical "" and is composed by English musician Damon Albarn (of Blur and Gorillaz fame) with the UK Chinese Ensemble, the soundtrack itself is only based upon, but not a direct recording of the musical.
 The album was released as a download, CD, and double vinyl LP in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2008 by XL Recordings.
 In the United States, the album was released a day later as a download, while a CD was released on 23 September 2008. Episode 5276
Episode 5276 of the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 3 May 2016, between 7:30pm and 8:00pm.
 It was written by Daran Little, directed by Sophie Lifschutz, and executively produced by Dominic Treadwell-Collins.
 The episode features the only appearance of the character Alison Slater, played by Denise Welch.
 The episode focuses on Alison meeting her transgender son Kyle Slater (Riley Carter Millington) for the first time since he transitioned from female to male, though Alison ultimately rejects her son.
 It also includes a "heartbreaking" scene between Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) and Dot Branning (June Brown) about the possibility of Sonia having breast cancer, which was praised as "fantastic" by "Inside Soap".
 The episode received a total viewership of 7,250,000 in the United Kingdom.