Ten nights at Wembley apparently. We fancy it?
Ten nights at Wembley apparently. We fancy it?
I bet the tickets are laughably expensive.
I've made repeated, Billy Big Bollocks claims in my life that I would pay effectively whatever Oasis asked me for a reunion. So I imagine that is about to be put to the test.
Always said this would be one I couldn't miss but I just cannot be arsed with the hassle of concerts any more.
Should be in Manchester. Dickheads.
I'll go, whatever it takes.
Rumour is a Heaton Park residency too.
Only if they rebuild Maine Road.Originally Posted by Spikey M
Which one of them has run out of money?
Probably all of them. Definitely maybe going to this.
My mate who was a serial gig attender at the time said the crowd for Oasis was comfortably the worst he'd ever experienced. I can only imagine the coked up Deano culture of today would amplify that.
I get the feeling that someone has looked at the Taylor Swift Wembley run, thought of the only conceivable British act that could create a similar buzz and Whatsapped the brothers with a very large number.
I can't stand the whole sound and aesthetic of Oasis personally, even though the songs were good.
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Towards the end of their touring days they weren't even singing half the songs. Just the first verse, then letting the crowd sing the rest while they stand playing and muttering the odd "wow".
I'll still go, mind. Well, hopefully.
It'll be like watching Courteeners x10.
That's not enough dates. Going to be looking at 4 figure prices for resale jobs.
They could start them at £500 probably so that the only people who can go are delusional marketing directors in their early fifties who maybe tried ecstasy once in 1994 and as a result believe themselves to be redolent of a lost golden age.
Yeah, I'll watch it on YouTube. Those pri es are going to be insane.
Odds they dont make it to the 5th gig before one of them cries off?
I can’t claim to have followed either of the brothers much ever and let alone since the 90s, but as far as I understand it they don’t like each other and haven’t for some time so the money on offer must be astronomical.
The contract will be watertight to the point where even the death of one of them wouldn’t constitute a reasonable excuse for a no show.
Still, this is obviously all MASSIVE.
Now here's a question, what do I hate more: Wonderwall, or Mr Brightside? I'd happily pay a £20/yr subscription never to hear either again.
Summer Fruits is my favourite but I can have my arm twisted on a Citrus Punch.
Shamima Begum was stripped of her citizenship for holding less egregious beliefs than this.
I presume Liam will be doing a sponsored silence between now and the first gig. His voice is completely gone, isn’t it?
By the end, Noel will have to do most of the singing, and nobody wants to hear that.
I'm a twit
Think it’s more Noel not liking Liam if anything
Aren't most folk on here a bit young for Oasis?
I’d say their music has carried over well to this point
But yes
Definitely Maybe came out in 94, I was 11 and made it my first album.
I'd love to go to one of these, but they'll be far too expensive. Ah well.
You wouldn't see the time going by, I'd say most here are tearing the arse out of 40 at this stage.
Going to try and get tickets for this, went to there last concert before they split at Wembley. Was amazing.
I'll think about it. In the meantime, I gave their two good albums a listen. It's amazing how big they can sound whilst also having fairly useless lyrics. Anthemic stuff about nonsense. Does anybody get away with that these days?
Majority are in their mid to late thirties.
I'm one of the younger ones at 35.
Also lol at wanting to go and see this shite.
That's exactly what that meant.
Oh really? Reads more like mid 40s but as you were.
I read it as 49+ lol.
Thing is, if you're in your mid to late 30s, then Oasis wasn't your thing, you'd have been what, six-ish when Definitely Maybe was released? I'm going to be 43 next week and reckon I'm on the cusp of their time, being 13 in 1994. Maybe the margins are too fine though
I for example was too young for the stone roses and only really caught Nirvana in the back draft of them being a global sensation.
Obviously you can be a fan of other eras, but going completely mad for it as a modern youth sounds a bit odd.
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Missed it, thankfully. It came back around mid-2000s when Indie became popular.
Doesn’t seem to matter. I was in a pub in Liverpool on Sunday and everyone was belting out Don’t Look Back In Anger, ages 15 to 80, including a Canadian and an Australian.
I'm a twit
#iconic
Maybe they're false memories but the seem completely intertwined with my childhood. I was 7 in 94 so doubt I was listening to them but they were huge during high school and then all the indie club nights.
I'm a twit
I was 10 for DM and bought it on cassette with some birthday money. Every fuckers house you went to, the parents were blasting it out. Fucking everywhere back then.
Still, not paying £200 to see a couple of old farts belting it out for cash.
I remember a full ride of kids singing Wonderwall at Lightwater Valley one year. I've got it in my head that was early secondary school so it was probably Be Here Now-ish. I definitely remember seeing the Blur vs Oasis chart battle.
I think I'll only pay up for this if I can cram as a side attraction to an actual holiday. The yank dates will probably too late in the year for me to get time off for it.
I think acting like music now is like music then just doesn't work. There was a cultural monoculture due to no internet, 4 tv channels, 4 radio channels + whatever your local FM was.
Champagne Supernova might have come out when I was 7 but it was also the backing track to a million adverts, tv montages etc.
If a song was a hit it was a hit for years. I was 9 when Bitter Sweet Symphony came out, doesn't mean I don't look back and think of both the song and the video as a defining part of that time and look back on it fondly.
Not sure I agree there was a monoculture. There were distinctive "scenes" long before our generation. Punks, mods, rockers, grungers, chavs, whatever. They were just created by people actually leaving their houses and mixing with others. Disgusting.
I think the main issue now, is everything is click-bait. Everyone wants clicks. Views. React's. So there's a constant need for something new and fresh. As a consequence, superstars aren't born so easily. What's fresh and new today, is old and overdone in 6 months time. So playing a "classic" isn't met with nostalgia, it's met with eye rolls, because Supermaning on your ho's is so 2007.
The sense I get from a lot of older people was that music, and their favourite bands, were really fucking important to them, like, a part of who they were. I'm not sure that's the case today. Maybe Swifties will say otherwise.
No new bands or groups around, of course. Every single act in the charts is an individual. Says a lot.
A quick skim of my library says 2013 was the last time I found a new band. Awww.
I was into heavy metal so of course I found stuff like Oasis to be very, very lame. It kinda was, tbh.
I agree. All of the popular songs I remember fondly seem to be from when I was too young to be into music.
You got into those in late teenagehood. Stuff like Oasis is early teenagehood nostalgia.
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