https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce80nm88kjpo

Personally I couldn't care less if Oasis re-unite. I won't be going to see them. Liam is now headlining Reading/Leeds doing what is basically an Oasis tribute act. How much different would it be to bring in Noel to the band. Noel is a very good guitarist, but there is nothing distinctive about his playing, it could be easily mimicked by a session player. I saw them in 2000 at the V Festival. Even then they were a spent force, let alone 24 years later. i preferred Blur at the time, at least some of their music was a bit more original. I'm sure that if they did re-unite it would be a massive financial success, but people will be dissapointed.

robbiex wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce80nm88kjpo

Personally I couldn't care less if Oasis re-unite. I won't be going to see them. Liam is now headlining Reading/Leeds doing what is basically an Oasis tribute act. How much different would it be to bring in Noel to the band. Noel is a very good guitarist, but there is nothing distinctive about his playing, it could be easily mimicked by a session player. I saw them in 2000 at the V Festival. Even then they were a spent force, let alone 24 years later. i preferred Blur at the time, at least some of their music was a bit more original. I'm sure that if they did re-unite it would be a massive financial success, but people will be dissapointed.

I thought they were crap. They were like the Indie KLF. Stole riffs and samples.

I do agree their riffs are easy Wonderwall is what buskers learn and people trying out guitar for the first time. I thought the song was a dirge then.

Their fans are knobs also they throw bottles, fight and I was told by an ex-fan she witnessed a face gouge.

It was not a one-off. Even kids get sworn at.

A guy at work today called Oasis a Rutles tribute act.

Oasis never did anything for me (or Blur) tI was a young lad when they were getting big but while people would sing "Wonderwall" with great reverence at parties, all I could do was yawn...

But my ears don't appreciate The Beatles or Elvis either - so I realise I am not exactly representative

I do though wish the BBC would stop giving so much airtime to Oasis reunification. We just don't need them to do this sort of thing...

For me one wonderful track (Don't Look Back In Anger) - nothing else - ditto Blur (Song 2). The start of music execs realising they didn't have to find/break/create real STARS as long as they had a big enough fan base (One Direction, BTS, Taylor Swift etc). And the audience has changed to fit the new model - specialist NOT mass appeal music. My last two real hits before Max Clifford and Surrey Police took over were both MASS APPEAL (Chumbas and Dogs).

Liam and Noel were frequent visitors to Charlestown, Co Mayo in Ireland - when their grandmother was alive, and where they enjoyed life as ordinary locals.


RTE news : 'Spiritual home' of Gallaghers welcomes Oasis reunion

www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2024/0827/1466988-oasis-mayo-reax/

Wyot wrote:
Oasis never did anything for me (or Blur) tI was a young lad when they were getting big but while people would sing "Wonderwall" with great reverence at parties, all I could do was yawn...

But my ears don't appreciate The Beatles or Elvis either - so I realise I am not exactly representative

I do though wish the BBC would stop giving so much airtime to Oasis reunification. We just don't need them to do this sort of thing...


What is your taste in music in Wyot in all seriousness? I never liked the Beatles and I only enjoy George Harrison solo albums.

I like some Elvis songs like Burning Love.

That's very interesting GM

I think Bach beat them all


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Sally Nice wrote:
That's very interesting GM

I think Bach beat them all


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Which Bach though?

You troll.

Green Man wrote:
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What is your taste in music in Wyot in all seriousness? I never liked the Beatles and I only enjoy George Harrison solo albums.

I like some Elvis songs like Burning Love.

To give a flavour some songwriters I love: Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Nick Cave (my current main listen is The Bad Seeds latest album released yesterday). Then - a range of classical: obvious very big names & Dvorak, Mahler, Schubert string quartets, Handel.

I know you love prog and I did also use to listen to early Genesis and others. I have gradually replaced listening to "complicated and epic" popular music as I discovered the wonders of classical. I also love Gregorian chanting!

With songwriters I am as much focused on lyrics as music; being a big reader.

Wyot wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:
Wyot wrote:



What is your taste in music in Wyot in all seriousness? I never liked the Beatles and I only enjoy George Harrison solo albums.

I like some Elvis songs like Burning Love.

To give a flavour some songwriters I love: Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Nick Cave (my current main listen is The Bad Seeds latest album released yesterday). Then - a range of classical: obvious very big names & Dvorak, Mahler, Schubert string quartets, Handel.

I know you love prog and I did also use to listen to early Genesis and others. I have gradually replaced listening to "complicated and epic" popular music as I discovered the wonders of classical. I also love Gregorian chanting!

With songwriters I am as much focused on lyrics as music; being a big reader.

Have you listened to The Enid or Camel?

Tom Waits is interesting my father loved his voice, where no one else did in the family.

Green Man wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:



Have you listened to The Enid or Camel?

Tom Waits is interesting my father loved his voice, where no one else did in the family.

Haven't listened to Camel for some years but used to a bit. Tom Waits voice is something else!

What I loved about The Enid is that put their out their catalogue for free on their website.

Neil Young is/was great live, so do keep an eye out if he is well enough to tour again.

My partner did try buy Oasis tickets for her and her sister, she kicked out of Ticketmaster twice today after waiting for hours, then her account was suspended. As they said it was a Bot Account, she has ordered from Ticketmaster for years. I never thought Oasis would break the Internet.

No one forced anybody to spend more on tickets. If you want to see them you pay the price, cheap tickets always sell out quickly which are normally the nose-bleed seats. I paid £500 to see Phil Collins, of course, it was more than face value(no pun intended) but I wanted to go.

Bands have no say about pricing it's almost through management, venue managers and promotors. Bands don't get a say in where they want to play.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380147...g-price-gouging.html


www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/s...and-standing-tickets

Green Man wrote:
What I loved about The Enid is that put their out their catalogue for free on their website.

Neil Young is/was great live, so do keep an eye out if he is well enough to tour again.

My partner did try buy Oasis tickets for her and her sister, she kicked out of Ticketmaster twice today after waiting for hours, then her account was suspended. As they said it was a Bot Account, she has ordered from Ticketmaster for years. I never thought Oasis would break the Internet.

Its more of the media hype that is breaking the internet, rather than Oasis. People just want to be part of, what they perceive as a major event, due to the amount of media attention it is getting.

robbiex wrote:
Green Man wrote:
What I loved about The Enid is that put their out their catalogue for free on their website.

Neil Young is/was great live, so do keep an eye out if he is well enough to tour again.

My partner did try buy Oasis tickets for her and her sister, she kicked out of Ticketmaster twice today after waiting for hours, then her account was suspended. As they said it was a Bot Account, she has ordered from Ticketmaster for years. I never thought Oasis would break the Internet.

Its more of the media hype that is breaking the internet, rather than Oasis. People just want to be part of, what they perceive as a major event, due to the amount of media attention it is getting.

I think you are right Robbie, but it has ruined for proper fans, not sheeple.

You said you liked Tom Waits, Wyot.

These bumper grey market releases are not bad for the price, worth looking into. Sometimes they are in the bigger HMV stores. I did buy a dodgy Damn Yankees broadcast CD from there, it was not worth the £16 price, more like £6 (Just avoid some of the ICONOGRAPHY releases)


www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Box-10-CD/dp/B07ZTW2HQH

Give it time the Oasis broadcast CDs will go up in price.

Green Man wrote:
You said you liked Tom Waits, Wyot.

These bumper grey market releases are not bad for the price, worth looking into. Sometimes they are in the bigger HMV stores. I did buy a dodgy Damn Yankees broadcast CD from there, it was not worth the £16 price, more like £6 (Just avoid some of the ICONOGRAPHY releases)


www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Box-10-CD/dp/B07ZTW2HQH

Give it time the Oasis broadcast CDs will go up in price.

Thanks GM

robbiex wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:


Its more of the media hype that is breaking the internet, rather than Oasis. People just want to be part of, what they perceive as a major event, due to the amount of media attention it is getting.

I think you are right too Robbie. And the irony is they will pay silly money to be part of "something" and be behind their phones throughout; the filming of the proof they were there rather than living it being the important thing.

Wyot wrote:
[quote]robbiex wrote:
Green Man wrote:


Its more of the media hype that is breaking the internet, rather than Oasis. People just want to be part of, what they perceive as a major event, due to the amount of media attention it is getting.

I think you are right too Robbie. And the irony is they will pay silly money to be part of "something" and be behind their phones throughout; the filming of the proof they were there rather than living it being the important thing.

The last few Glastas and Download's are prove of that. When I saw photos in the press of Swiftie gigs nearly everyone is behind a phone. It makes you wonder if they are fans or they want something to boast about to their virtual friends?