Oasis sadly reform

[SuperBacon]

A reminder that their live audiences are often full of absolute twats of the highest order. 

[johnnyboy]

7 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

A reminder that their live audiences are often full of absolute twats of the highest order.

A stadium full of coked-up 50 year old blokes eager for some aggro is far higher on my list for avoiding this than whether or not I liked The Hindu Times.

[lanky316]

The whole thing has been covered in a similar way to Taylor Swift at Wembley, constant rolling news and being absolutely bombarded with it. It can be newsworthy, I can get behind that but is it the most important news of the century, a couple of weeks after the previous most important news of the century? Roaming around desperate to find "superfans" who might have seen an act a couple of times ("these two between them saw Oasis 50 times!") and then can't even name their first number one single and so on is just shit coverage regardless of interest in what the big pop culture story is..

For Oasis, I didn't go full on over the top mad fer it and so on but I liked them. While my classmates were really in to Eternal, Spice Girls and various other boy/girl groups, I liked the guitar bands like Oasis, Manics, Space, Blur and so on. I'm not particularly interested in seeing them now though as my interest is moved on but can see the nostalgia pop some might have for the idea of them being back together. Fucking hell the over the top news coverage has been enough to push me into moaning old git territory though.

[ReturnOfTheMack]

A mate of mine got 4 tickets for standing, cost near £1500. Fuck that right off.

[The Gaffer]

Though I suspect an earlier post was taking the piss, my favourite bit of snobbery is when Blur and Pulp - two other bands I love - are held up as cultural watermarks in comparison. People actually trapped in the Blouse sketch from Brass Eye. 

Edited September 1, 2024 by The Gaffer

[Tamura]

I'm going to suggest they introduce dynamic pricing at work. I can imagine the furore now...

"Five quid for a can of baked beans?"

"Sorry sir, it's a popular item"

Fucking ridiculous.
 

17 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Thought this was absolutely pathetic to be honest, especially the bit where he tries to upmanship them on his working class background.

Edited September 1, 2024 by Tamura

[Max Power]

I'm seemingly against the grain on this one, but it's huge news for me. I've seen Liam and Noel countless times since the split and never thought I'd see them together again. 

It's looking like the High Flying Birds band (which includes Gem and Chris Sharrock), with Bonehead guesting on some tunes.

I managed to get in the presale because obviously I'm such a mark, so it was a relatively pain free experience on the Friday evening - were off to Heaton Park which is where I saw them about 18 years ago when Liam offered refunds when the speaker blew or something.

But I'm genuinely excited, sorry lads.

[Arch Stanton]

My mate got a presale code so was fortunate enough to avoid the absolute clusterfuck of the general sale yesterday. I'm going along with him to Heaton Park.

[Chili]

My fiancé absolutely loves them and will probably find a way to get a ticket. They came at a period of my age where I was too young to get into Britpop but I was too old when they'd past their first commercial peak. They have some alright songs (I really like 'Don't Go Away' from the big coked up mess that is Be Here Now, and they have a good amount of nice b-sides once the hits do your head in), Liam Gallagher still seems like a bit of a dick who occasionally pops me with something he'll say on Twitter. Noel is a filthy little fucking Tory.

Bring back Guigsy you cowards.

Edited September 1, 2024 by Chili

[Surf Digby]

I'm almost scared to admit that I neither love them or hate them. There's a bunch of songs that I don't mind, but I've never gone out of my way to listen to them.

[Gus Mears]

Everyone else remember when Oasis stopped violence and racism like Mancunian Mandelas? 

“The Oasis tour isn’t just about their music. 

It’s about the height of Britain. 

It’s about the nostalgia of remembering how amazing Britain was. 

If you didn’t live it you’ll never understand it and it can’t be explained. 

A time when you could go down the pub, interact with people you knew and didn’t know and have the best night of your life on 15 quid. 

A time when there was always something happening, in every city, 7 nights a week. 

No fear of being stabbed. 
No fear of being robbed. 

A time when everyone watched the same TV shows and discussed them the next day. 

You weren’t desperate to go on holiday like the British are now, there was no need. 

You didn’t see Dubai or Maldives on Instagram all day, you literally didn’t even know those places existed. You would hang around on a council estate, completely content and want nothing else than to laugh with your friends. 

Random skin heads would say “you alrite mate?” And you’d either be best friends or in a scrap 2mins later. 

Nobody got stabbed. Nobody died. 

It’s just how it was. 

The pub on Christmas Day. 
The bus was 30p. 

You loved everyone you met, didn’t matter the race. 

The country was united. 

There was a feeling in the air. 

Constant electricity. 

And it’s all gone now. It’s died. 

All we have are the songs from those times”

[Statto]

JFC. 

The thing that always gets me about any of those kind of things is the absolute conviction that everyone's experience must have been just like theirs was. 

"I wasn't racist in the 90s, so I assume it wasn't a thing. Cheers britpop."

[cobra_gordo]

I managed to get tickets in the pre-sale on Friday. Got on half an hour early and was 13,000 something in the queue so figured I'd have a decent shout at tickets. Would love to know what the allocation was for the pre-sale because all the Wembley standing tickets had gone by the time I got to the front of the queue at about 7:45. Ended up going for Manchester.

My son and his mates all love Oasis and have done for a couple of years. They're all heavily in to them, Stone Roses, the Smiths, Joy Division, that sort of thing. My lad has old tour posters and pictures of the Gallaghers at Nebworth 1996 on his wall and I got to see Liam Gallagher with him on the recent Definitely Maybe tour which we assumed would be as close as he'd get to ever seeing his favourite band live. It's fair to say he was over the moon when they not only announced the reunion but they announced it on his birthday.

When I got the confirmation that the tickets were secured and bought I took a deep breath, stuck Fuckin' In The Bushes on my laptop as loud as possible, walked upstairs with it and stood outside his bedroom door. He practically ran through it when he heard the music, pretty much screaming "DAD, HAVE WE GOT TICKETS". He's a tall, unit of a lad and I thought he was going to push me down the fucking stairs he was so excited. I genuinely can't wait to experience this with him, it's cost a fortune (even at non-dynamic pricing) but it'll be worth every penny to see his face when they come on stage.

The really awful thing is seeing all the "these youngsters don't deserve to go because they weren't even born" bullshit. A woman my wife works with has seen Oasis twice back in their peak so you'd assume a 50-somehting year old woman would be old enough to know better but she threw a tantrum at work on Friday afternoon when she found out my wife had a code, said it wasn't fair, how everybody knows how much it means to her to see them again and was apparently making everybody uncomfortable by taking it too far. She also dropped in that  at least me and my wife would "get to experience a bit of the 90's like she did" by seeing them. My wife is 40, I'm 39. I commented on her Facebook that I'm just really excited to hear that Wonderwell song I've seen on Tiktok. She called me a nobhead. May be true, but at least I'm a nobhead with tickets.

[SuperBacon]

25 minutes ago, Gus Mears said:

The country was united. 

Erm, they were City fans you fucking idiot!

[Jazzy G]

Their first few albums were good. I listened to Morning Glory quite a lot. Noel's demos of Be Here Now are alright. Presumably one of them got a nasty letter from either HMRC or an ex spouse's lawyer and they have a big bill to pay off. I wouldn't like to be stuck in a field/stadium with a load of 50-somethings pretending it was still the 90s and they were in their 20s. The fact that the S*n had Bonehead on the front page when it was announced he'd be turning up was pretty funny. I also find it amusing that history has been rewritten so that they've "never performed under a Tory government" in spite of their having been gigging for years before Tony Blair sank his "Cool Britannia" claws into them.