Look back in nostalgia: Oasis live forever even if 1990s music culture has not

Laura Slattery - The Irish Times - 27/08
Printed tickets, CD singles, full-time music journalists, MTV – all have gone missing in action since the band’s peak

So they’re back then. The nucleus of Oasis, brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, have patched up their differences enough to stand on the same stage at the same time, several times over, and snarl and clatter through Cigarettes & Alcohol, Supersonic and the rest of the once inescapable set for the delectation of the 90s crowd.

Do look back in nostalgia. In an oddly assuring throwback, The Sun dedicated its front page on Monday to the expected £400 million (€470 million) tour. Whatever the instigator, a reunion shouldn’t be a surprise. To not do it would leave wild sums of money on the table. If bad feeling or stubbornness delayed the inevitable, it is likely only to have swelled the latent demand. Mad for it? Maybe not. Ready for it? Sure.

As this is 2024, the explosion in print inches came only after a social media teaser: today’s date and the time of 8am flickering on the brothers’ respectiv...
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