
The Town Mile is out in middle America so our Wifi is a little spotty so news doesn’t travel as fast to us as it does to everyone else. Sorry if this is old news to some of you.
Admittedly I don’t know much about the band.
I was only 3 or 4 when Oasis’ Definitely Maybe was released and in kindergarten in 95 when Morning Glory? shot the band into superstardom. They weren’t playing Acquiesce at the end of episodes of Barney. So the recent news of their reunion tour didn’t hit me quite like it did with some of my elder millennial friends. Even their tour name sounds good LIve ‘25.
Yes, Of course I know who Oasis is. Obviously I’ve listened to Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova. If you ask some people my age they might refer to those classics as “good karaoke” songs. And yes I know about the power and beauty of Knebworth ‘96. Brit pop has made its way back to us and the power of nostalgia has once again taken over our consciousness with this news and I felt like I wanted to be a part of the conversation.
Reunion tours have always been a thing. I don’t know what anyone else thinks but has the reunion tour has become more of a thing recently? Maybe not. It could be when I was younger I just didn’t notice it. I don’t know, you tell me. There are usually a few reasons for these last hurrahs. Maybe the band just wants one last tour before truly calling it quits or maybe the front man just knocked up someone 20 years his junior and needs to make some extra cash for another trust fund and maybe his grandkids need to go to private school, or maybe they do it just because they need to and they love it so much. I think that’s why Bruce and the Stones are still doing it. They just love it.
This time it’s a little different.
I know about the years of feuding and bad blood between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher. That bitterness ultimately led to the band’s inevitable break up in 2009. There are always many factors especially with celebrity being at the forefront that can lead to fighting within a band. One reason could have been how their mother describes it. In the A24 doc Supersonic there might have been a little brother chasing older brother type mentality going that finally escalated to the point where Liam was chasing Noel around with Noel’s guitar backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris. They are also part Irish. I think that reason speaks for itself. But that’s why this tour is so huge. The brothers are getting back together.
Oasis was as big as you can get in the world of music and pop culture back in the mid to late nineties. Pioneers of the now Lad Core fashion trend and at the forefront of the BritPop movement. Also I’m into Lad Core. I dig it. Windbreakers cinched at the waist, Soccer kit tops, shoulder bags, mullets and maybe some ciggys for later. But the nostalgia this music brings to people is something that can’t be beat.


After reading the handful of articles that I did about Oasis getting back together, the one thing I love and that always sticks out to me are the stories people tell and how they can think back to the memories of the time when they bought their favorite record or saw their first show. It’s that special thing music does. It stands the test of time for people. The drama only adds to the appeal and mystique.
Now I’m not an idiot, we all know that this tour is going to rake in the cash for Oasis. And we know that the Gallagher brothers are pretty blunt and crass.. almost to a comedic level with how they talk and act, so for me to say that the power of music has brought them back together after all these years would be stupid.
Oasis is a band that is the elder millennial generation’s Beatles. A second coming of the British Invasion. They are responsible for introducing a new genre of music and inspiring artists and bands after them. According to Dua Lipa her latest album was heavily inspired by Brit pop.
Oasis isn’t the first band and they won’t be the last to have a bad breakup, or have a reunion tour, or inspire a generation but for me not knowing much about them has gotten me excited to be apart of their second act and to see what will happen next with the band and the brothers Gallagher.
Music rules.
Also….
Check out this Vice video of Liam Gallagher from 2016 reviewing new music its hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZqZa3-24Gro?si=jlS8vUCQ3z9SWLDo



