Euronews Culture critic Jonny Walfisz looks back on the life-changing experience of seeing Oasis on their ill-fated 'Dig Out Your Soul' tour in 2009. In July 2009, I was one of the tens of thousands of people who saw Oasis play in London’s Wembley Stadium. At the time, I was 15 years old, completely unaware of the seismic moment I was witnessing in musical history.
Just six weeks later, Noel Gallagher quit the band in the middle of the tour and Oasis were no more. Almost exactly 15 years later, the band are back together and are set to play 14 shows across five venues in the UK and Ireland. Rock music’s biggest brotherly feud is seemingly over and for many older fans who fondly remember the 90s, this is the chance to see their favourite band once again.
But as the hundreds of thousands of tickets go on sale Saturday 31 August to a potential demand of millions of people, many will be hoping to see the band for the first time ever. Already, social media has been taken over by a raft of elderly fans gatekeeping the Manchester band from younger music lovers. For example, this Tweet went viral both via those agreeing and disagreeing with the sentiment: “Imagine waiting 15 years for Oasis to reform only to lose out on tickets to Chloe, 21 from Stockport who just wants to hear Wonderwall live.
” Oasis, and Britpop in general, have stayed impressively relevant to younger fans. In part due to the generation that witnessed it live in the 90s stressing its importance on musical h.
