I foresee Bono re-enacting that famous photo with David Trimble and John Hume, except with Liam and Noel

Emer McLysaght - The Irish Times - 27/08
Emer McLysaght: The cynic in me believes that the revenue generated from the Oasis reunion shows will be more important than any familial rift

Let’s be perfectly clear. There is nobody who attended a Liam Gallagher solo gig or a Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds gig in the last decade who wasn’t imagining and wishing they were at an Oasis gig. In the 15 years since the brothers and thus the band split acrimoniously, we’ve continued to humour them, accepted their solo work, rolled our eyes at the juvenile public jabs, but ultimately waited it out to hear them play Live Forever or Champagne Supernova. I thought seeing Liam return to Knebworth two summers ago would be the closest thing I’d get to a reunion. I thought seeing him in Dublin earlier this summer on his extremely cheeky jaunt to mark 30 years since the release of the debut Oasis album Definitely Maybe meant that a reunion was never going to happen. Until...
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