Yet Another Rainy Day

I like Oasis as much as the next person, I still listen to some of their songs.  Wonderwall is timeless and Don’t Look Back In Anger is a staple of any night out.  It has made a lot of people everywhere (especially in Manchester) very happy that they are reuniting.

The commercial opportunities of reforming Oasis and going on tour are undoubtedly huge.  Selling out stadiums around the UK and Ireland is a huge achievement for any artist, and they have managed that with ease in just a few hours this morning.

But what is more important is the relational aspect of getting the band back together.  I hope the Gallagher brothers have been able to repair their relationship for the long term and not simply to go on tour.

Next year’s tour had been pretty successfully kept under wraps until rumours started to seep out a couple of days before the actual announcement.  Surely there is scope for a documentary on how it came about.  Lots of people would watch that, guaranteed.

But although I enjoy listening to Oasis, I did not fancy getting up early on a Saturday morning and having to wait for half the day in an online queue to try and obtain hugely expensive tickets to see them.  Not least as it sounds as though that ticketing system was not a resounding success.

There is only one band I would do that for and that is The Killers.  I saw them this summer for the second time and it was genuinely one of my happiest moments.  However I was not there on the night they paused the gig to watch England go through to the final of Euro 2024 and then launched straight from that victorious moment into Mr Brightside.  I think if I had been I probably would have lost my mind.