Liam Gallagher at 3Arena review: A near-religious 1990s experience delivered by that wondrous voice

Liam Gallagher

3Arena, Dublin

★★★★☆

After years of Nirvana-led misery, Definitely Maybe from Oasis put some swagger back into rock’n’roll in 1994. Its songs owed everybody from The Sex Pistols to Slade and even The New Seekers a few bob (magpie-in-a-jewellers songwriter Noel Gallagher always owned up to his light-fingered ways), but they were undeniably great, especially when sung at 3am with your arms around your best pal. Nobody could ever sing them like Liam Gallagher though. His voice was the sound of Oasis, which is why he can carry off a Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary tour in a way that Noel, despite his songwriting brilliance, never could. The absence of those distinctive pipes, the love child of Lennon and...
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