Finn McRedmond: Being Irish isn’t what made Oasis great, but being the sons of emigrants helped

Maybe the Oasis reunion was inevitable. Even the worst fraternal dispute couldn’t prevent the coolest band in the world from getting back together, probably selling out all 14 shows (culminating in two nights at Croke Park, Dublin), and reminding the world that they didn’t need to produce a perfect record to be the perfect standard bearers for 90s rock’n’roll. The 1975 frontman Matty Healy got it right last year when he said that “not one person” at a Liam Gallagher or Noel Gallagher solo performance “would not rather be at an Oasis show.”

Now that it has happened – sorry to Blur whose vaunted 2023 reunion will now be consigned to a footnote in musical history – months will be dedicated to dissecting the songs, the nature of the brothers’ success, and their providence. Noel’s commitmen...
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