Well the worst-kept secret in music is now officially out. Oasis – without question one of the biggest bands this country has ever produced – are back for a string of reunion shows next year.
It’s been a long-time coming. When Noel and Liam Gallagher walk on stage in Cardiff next July, it’ll be the first show the brothers have played together since the V Festival in 2009 – provided they don’t crowbar a Glastonbury appearance in the preceding weekend.
Howard Irwin from Cardiff has just got in touch to say he’s hoping to get tickets to see the reformed Oasis in the Welsh capital in July.
“Oasis were unapologetically working class, arrogant and displayed everything good and bad about rock ‘n’ roll,” he says.
“Their early music was anthemic and hopeful, and brutal honesty was probably their greatest charm.”
The band’s reunion is important for him on a personal level, he admits, but he also thinks it’s part of something bigger.
“Oasis is important culturally in terms of rock and roll as pop dominates at the moment.”
Cast your mind back to 2009, when a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival resulted in Noel Gallagher leaving the band.
Several of my colleagues were working on the story then. They summed up the mood as “weary resignation”.
Liam and Noel had been publicly at each other’s throats for years. No one was surprised to see the feud come to a head.
Of course, die hard fans would’ve been devastated.
But this wasn’t like Take That or the Spice Girls breaking up. Those events came as much more of a shock.
If anything, it seems some were surprised Oasis were still together.
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