Oasis are reforming. Yack.

[Messen]

So, one of the brothers has a divorce bill to pay. Apparently they have magically ‘got over’ their acrimony and will stage a come back - what an amazing coincidence! I still maintain:

a) they were a derivative, naive, band with absolutely rubbish lyrics.

b) they mercilessly exploited the hard man, brotherly feud shit in pursuit of loadsamoney

c) they should just go away and not inflict any more of their talent on us

d) I am cross with myself for even posting about this because it gives talentless white macho males the oxygen of publicity.

Discuss.

I'll be going but to a European show rather than UK as I find them much more relaxed.

Yes they did have their gobshitey moments but they've mellowed a bit.

Liam's last album was really good, yea mainly co-written.

Noel is not "talentless".

Will Bonehead be there?

I'd like to know what the insurance premiums on the tour being completed without any bust ups.

Going to a show outside the UK is a really good call as it will avoid a lot of the dickheadery that's very much British.

It is music and Iiked them ,it's a question of taste really isn't it ,I saw them in concert about 25 years ago I thought they were brilliant ,
Also I had a bit of thing for Liam ,and his mean and moody persona.

Nah, that would be Queen...utter shite.

Queen 300 million record sales, Oasis 75 million. Oasis obviously been going for less time but it’s a bit monotonous to listen to. U2 cracked the USA. Makes a huge difference. 175 million sales.

This is true I saw Guns and Roses when I was pregnant with my oldest and he's 18 at Xmas even at this point Axl wasn't looking his best
And he was such a fine figure of a man back in the day.

I’ll be trying for tickets! Don’t care what other people think of them, loved them in my teens and over the last few years it’s been great seeing other Britpop era bands and reliving the glory days!

I do indeed feel the same way about any band who cynically reunite having sworn off ever doing such a thing. It's a massive U-turn and smacks of desperation.

This is good, the less people who want to buy tickets means I have more of a chance of getting my hands on one!

I love Oasis.
I would love to go.
Yes I am an old codger but that is why they are so much the soundtrack to my youth.

Really surprised that so many are being so scathing about them. People who get to the top in their profession generally are quite talented (assuming they aren't being manufactured a la Simon Cowell). Whether that's Taylor Swift or Michael Jackson (neither of whose music I particularly like) or Blur or Oasis.

You've the same chance as me! I'll fight you for them what with us Oasis fans being so macho and rough! I'm already warming up my 'refresh button' finger in anticipation!

Couple of attention seekers

Ha! Is that not the very definition of anyone performing in the public eye? Performers need attention or they'll be performing to nobody.

I like their music. I wonder if the OP would like to discuss talentless black macho males. I'm fed up with "white " being used as an insult.

I'm in my early 30's so not exactly my era but I do love oasis. Yes Noel is up his own arse but what successful musician isn't really ?
Would be great if the rumours are true and if they play glasto. I wouldn't even attempt to get tickets though, you'd see more on the tv at home !!

Same.

I liked both Oasis and Blur back in the day before I moved onto heavier music. Both had good anthemic catchy songs. I liked that Oasis were working class lads from Manchester - a lot of snobbery on this thread.

Don't Look Back in Anger is one of the best songs ever written and Oasis are part of the soundtrack to my life. I think there's a huge amount of snobbery because they are from an ordinary working background and aren't slick and smooth in interviews. I'm beginning to wonder if Noel's privately educated recent ex is posting on this thread and wants to add her thoughts on them. Before anyone jumps on me, there's nothing wrong with private education.

Oh my god.

What attracts you to him?!

I don't think it's snobbery at all.

I think the disdain is (partly) because they often came across as dickheads. I do think it's an act though, mostly, as I have see Liam a few times 'being himself' on Gogglebox etc, and he seems like a good laugh/like a decent bloke. Noel is probably OK too deep down.

Also, it seems rather trite and annoying that they have had this huge rift for 15+ years, and hated each other (Liam even said on Jonathan Ross last year they were NEVER going to speak again,) and now conveniently they are friends again when it suits.

I also really liked them back in the day, and think they made some of the best songs of the 1990s. I aIso had 4 or 5 albums and liked quite a number of their songs. However, I am indifferent to their reunion and won't be going to see them. (I guess I wasn't a superfan.) 🤔

Same with Take That. Loved them in the 1990s, but couldn't be arsed with them when they got back together. A few decent songs emerged then but I wasn't fussed. I think Take That should have been left in the past. Same with Oasis IMO.

Agree about Don't Look Back In Anger though. Amazing song. Never get sick of hearing it.

What is your problem OP. You also keep referencing them as 'white males' why are you mentioning the colour of their skin?

Rumour is that Noel's ex was part of the rift.

As soon as they split there was talk of a reunion being much more likely - not because of the cost of a divorce, but because she had particular problems with Liam.

Whether that's true or not (and let's face it, she's an easy target to blame) I don't know but certainly talk of a reunion have ramped up since the split and Liam has made it known for some time that he was open to the idea.

There's also been talk that Peggy was keen for the boys to make up as she's not been in the best of health.

So I suspect there are a combination of factors behind the scenes beyond the money.

DH has always joked that the rift always ramped up whenever either one of them had a new album out and they used it for publicity. I suspect it's completely true tbh which also brings into question how serious the argument has been in the last few years anyway.

@HungryLittleCrocodile and @RedToothBrush Good posts. I'd like to see them as for me it was always about the music and not their personalities. The nineties were, for many people, a very musically iconic time and there's a lot of nostalgia about Oasis potentially reforming. I saw the Eagles a few years ago and although they are nothing like the young lads who formed a band over fifty years ago the music was still great. There seems to be a dearth of recently formed rock bands - if anyone can suggest any new rock music to listen to, I'd love to hear it.
My grown up children alll like Oasis they are not just for middle aged white men......

Last time I checked I was not male.

I was what people would call a 'superfan'. I was reading Oasis fanzines back in the day. There were plenty of women who saw Oasis - I met a few including one who became a good friend for a long time. I was in it for the music but there were plenty who were there because they fancied the pants off either Noel or Liam particularly earlier on in their career. There were loads of Oasis magazines with posters just like your teen heartthrob boybands of the time. I took the coach to London for Earls Court in 1995 from Manchester and about a third of the bus were probably female.

It was male dominated but it's funny how female fans have been completely erased from the history of the band.

At least it would make a change from bloody Coldplay