OASIS LIVE '25

Really nice bit in the Financial Times about Oasis.

Critics of the middlebrow are asked to define it with rigour and exactitude. Granted, that can’t be done. Asking around for suggestions, I got specific examples instead, such as “Bowie” and “Ordering padron peppers for the table”. Still, there is something in the Virginia Woolf line that, while the high and low brow audiences have confidence in their tastes, the middle takes its cues from others. It is a watch-the-Oscar-winner-for-Best-International-Feature-Film-each-year kind of approach. A week on from its announcement, the Oasis détente is starting to provoke the middlebrow backlash that was always coming. The “low” elements of the band — the melodic crudity, the doggerel rhymes — are undeniable. But it is clear now that a dozen or so of their songs have lasted. So, on a rather different plane, has Schubert. You know what hasn’t? REM. Suede. The notion that Morrissey is a thinker. Most instances of 1990s Smart Rock, most efforts to bridge raucous entertainment and high culture, are, if not bad as such, then of their time. Oasis should remind us of one thing: the so-called low is much closer to the middle than the middle is to the high. I sense that what needles art school bands, or rather their fans, about the Gallaghers is precisely their unforced intelligence, and the ease in their own skin that comes with it. Noel is third to Christopher Hitchens and Orson Welles as the best interviewee I have read or seen. In 30 years of being invited to “do” politics, neither brother strayed into either the undergraduate leftism or the blood-and-soil weirdness that often captures British rock stars who have their moderately smart music flattered. If I am vigilant to these and other hazards of the middlebrow, it is because that is my natural level, and I have to fight it. No longer having endless time helps. Now that I am the age that Elvis made it to — a memento mori of sorts — I am impatient with any claims on my spare hours that are anywhere between Buddenbrooks and Dr No, between the canonical and the fun. Their creators have distinct but precious talents: actual genius, and the genius of knowing what one doesn’t know.

Columbia
Slide Away
Stay Young

HAHAHA

LOL

On yer bike

Stay Young is on The Masterplan so he cocked up his own gag. What a mong.

No way?!?

Never noticed that at the time haha.

I did ask for non-Masterplan tunes Karl, but obviously I meant b-sides wise...then you go and pick Stay Young! I knew you were joking but didn't see your error. All in all, send this last page to the recycle bin ffs.

Get the misinformation stamped on

Still tickets to be sold for this run of gigs before they announce anything else

I'm curating 3 "Oasis" albums using Beady Eye/NGHFB/LG solo output.

Album #1
Using tracks from DGSS and NGHFB debut.

Album #2
Using tracks from BE and Chasing Yesterday (plus The Death of You & Me)

Album #3
Using tracks from Who Built The Moon, Council Skies, Why Me? Why Not and C'MON YOU KNOW

First album is going for a more rock and roll/Oasis feel

Second is bringing in some more experimental/modern rock but still with that Oasis feel

Third is a modern rock record moments of experimentation with a few nods back to that Oasis sound.

This is actually quite fun to do tbh.

Oh feck off! I'd just signed out!

I will be trying for Boston.

COME ON WITH IT.

MORE THAN A FEELING

Paris is still owed a show.

Oasismania is running wild, brother. Even CM Punk had Columbia on his instagram story a few days ago.

Cage The Elephant are special guest on all dates

I never heard one song from em