Critiquing Oasis

[Voley]

The dates:

4, 5 July - Cardiff, Principality Stadium

11, 12, 16, 19, 20 July - Manchester, Heaton Park

25, 26, 30 July and 2, 3 August - London, Wembley Stadium

8, 9, 12 August - Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium

16, 17 August - Dublin, Croke Park

5 nights each for Wembley and Heaton Park - that's some payday! The band are hardly known for pyrotechnics and stage dressing, so they won't be splashing out on that beforehand.

That must be a million+ people across all the UK dates.

Still no ticket price released.

Still no band line up confirmed.

They should get Bonehead at least.

Extra nights added before they've sold a single ticket. Demand from the pre-sale ballot must've been high enough.

I applied for the ballot and have had the confirmation email but I don't know if I'm in it or not. A lot of people didn't even get the confirmation email, demand was so high.

 

[Elpenor]

Saw that Dublin prices would be about €80 or so…

 

[Sue]

Saw that Dublin prices would be about €80 or so…

Surely going to be much higher than that..?!

 

[Elpenor]

Surely going to be much higher than that..?!

Just looked it up, will start from €86.50, not including booking fees. No idea what the exchange rate is, it’s about the same in GBP perhaps?

Oasis tickets and pre-sale ballot - everything you need to know about reunion

When are the dates for Oasis' reunion tour? And how much will tickets be? Here's everything we know so far.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Boo Radley75]

Got my ticket for Wembley Stadium! I'm going green and recycling.

 

[Yossarian]

 

[belboid]

Saw that Dublin prices would be about €80 or so…

€86.50. V £148.50 (minimum) for Manchester.

 

[Wookey]

"Lyrically, too, they’re dismal: the promisingly mischievous Elsa/Alka-Seltzer rhyme of debut single Supersonic soon gave way to dull platitudes that might as well have been written by AI. But the problem is the music. Oasis don’t do fast songs. Noel plays his guitar as if he’s scared it will break, and Oasis’s funkless, sexless plod is always carefully pitched below the velocity at which fluid dynamics dictate that you might spill your lager. Is there anything more useless than a rock band that doesn’t rock?"

Stop the celebrations – Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history | Simon Price

Dismal lyrics, plodding tunes and prehistoric political views: why is everyone so happy that the Gallagher brothers are back, asks Simon Price

www.theguardian.com

I must concur.

 

[Wookey]

Imagine writing about Oasis in 2021

It's gets worse.

 

[imposs1904]

I haven't been interested in any of Marr's solo stuff. It bores the pants off me. He needed a Morrissey (or similar - i quite liked him when he played with Kirsty MacColl, The The, Bragg, Pretenders, even Bryan Ferry) imo.

The first Smiths album is famously rubbish though. It should be disregarded as no Smiths fan rates it.

bollocks.

 

[isvicthere?]

"Lyrically, too, they’re dismal: the promisingly mischievous Elsa/Alka-Seltzer rhyme of debut single Supersonic soon gave way to dull platitudes that might as well have been written by AI. But the problem is the music. Oasis don’t do fast songs. Noel plays his guitar as if he’s scared it will break, and Oasis’s funkless, sexless plod is always carefully pitched below the velocity at which fluid dynamics dictate that you might spill your lager. Is there anything more useless than a rock band that doesn’t rock?"

Stop the celebrations – Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history | Simon Price

Dismal lyrics, plodding tunes and prehistoric political views: why is everyone so happy that the Gallagher brothers are back, asks Simon Price

www.theguardian.com

I must concur.

You beat me to it!

But there´s also this, mentioned in the Guardian article.

 

[Wookey]

You beat me to it!

I've just broken my self imposed twitban to comment to them on their article, it's spot on, and I say that as a Manc of a certain age and sexuality, for whom those two twats were abysmal representations of the working class.

 

[Serge Forward]

 

[maomao]

You beat me to it!

But there´s also this, mentioned in the Guardian article.

I enjoyed and agreed with every single sentence of that but my favourite line was 'enemies of beauty'.

 

[ska invita]

I enjoyed and agreed with every single sentence of that but my favourite line was 'enemies of beauty'.

havent listened to it but thats just snobby shite

 

[maomao]

havent listened to it but thats just snobby shite

My reply to your reply to the quote from the clip you haven't listened to is in the clip you haven't listened to.

 

[ska invita]

My reply to your reply to the quote from the clip you haven't listened to is in the clip you haven't listened to.

You're an enemy of beauty

 

[seeformiles]

I think Weller is more to blame for that haircut...

Weller stands acquitted of all charges (possibly)

 

[skyscraper101]

Got my ticket for Wembley Stadium! I'm going green and recycling.

£27.50 then

and now...




Let's put that into context.



I actually cited that very Oasis ticket in my thread a couple of years ago as an example of how ridiculously above inflation gigs tickets have gone up by. So in real terms, it now costs three times more. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

 

[seeformiles]

£27.50 then

and now...


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Let's put that into context.

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I actually cited that very Oasis ticket in my thread a couple of years ago as an example of how ridiculously above inflation gigs tickets have gone up by. So in real terms, it now costs three times more. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

It’s mad but, as no one makes any money from LPs, CDs and downloads, it’s only to be expected. (Lovingly recalls seeing Pink Floyd at Wembley for £13…)

ETA they’re also calculating that their core fan base are in their 50s now and potentially have some dosh to throw around

 

[Nanker Phelge]

It’s mad but, as no one makes any money from LPs, CDs and downloads, it’s only to be expected. (Lovingly recalls seeing Pink Floyd at Wembley for £13…)

ETA they’re also calculating that their core fan base are in their 50s now and potentially have some dosh to throw around

AC/DC standing was slightly cheaper at Wembley this year, but only by £10.

I don't think age has anything to do with it. Taylor Swift at Wembley prices were also similar.

That's the price these days.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

bollocks.

Back at you.

 

[seeformiles]

AC/DC standing was slightly cheaper at Wembley this year, but only by £10.

I don't think age has anything to do with it. Taylor Swift at Wembley prices were also similar.

That's the price these days.

Possibly an element of child “pester power”?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Possibly an element of child “pester power”?

I was talking to someone at work about the price of vinyl and gigs for young people, and he basically said those things are Christmas and Birthday present items, not pocket money items, for his daughters.

When I was young it was affordable to buy music on my pocket money, and at 16 when I started working and going to bigger concerts it didn't break the bank to see bands live.

I love that Jerry Dammers made sure The Specials tours were affordable to kids. £3 was two weeks pocket money for me. How many weeks pocket money is a Taylor Swift gig for a kid these days?

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

It’s mad but, as no one makes any money from LPs, CDs and downloads, it’s only to be expected. (Lovingly recalls seeing Pink Floyd at Wembley for £13…)

ETA they’re also calculating that their core fan base are in their 50s now and potentially have some dosh to throw around

Also, I reckon a lot of bands have got into their senior years and realised how much money they squandered - or had stolen from them - and are now desperately trying to recoup their fortunes either for retirement or for their descendents. In some cases so they don't have to sell what they already have.

I'm just really glad I did all my major gig going 20 to 30 years ago.

 

[seeformiles]

Also, I reckon a lot of bands have got into their senior years and realised how much money they squandered - or had stolen from them - and are now desperately trying to recoup their fortunes either for retirement or for their descendents. In some cases so they don't have to sell what they already have.

I'm just really glad I did all my major gig going 20 to 30 years ago.

Me too matey

 

[seeformiles]

I was talking to someone at work about the price of vinyl and gigs for young people, and he basically said those things are Christmas and Birthday present items, not pocket money items, for his daughters.

When I was young it was affordable to buy music on my pocket money, and at 16 when I started working and going to bigger concerts it didn't break the bank to see bands live.

I love that Jerry Dammers made sure The Specials tours were affordable to kids. £3 was two weeks pocket money for me. How many weeks pocket money is a Taylor Swift gig for a kid these days?

Price of vinyl is roughly proportional to early 80s prices but most gigs in the early or mid-80s (when I first started going) was about £3-£4 on average

 

[Hollis]

Price of vinyl is roughly proportional to early 80s prices but most gigs in the early or mid-80s (when I first started going) was about £3-£4 on average

I don't think so for records/vinyl... let's say a record cost £6 in 1984 it should cost £18 now (per BoE inflation calculator): Taylor Swift's latest is going for £33 and when I was looking at vinyl reissues the other week - £40 was pretty typical.

 

[belboid]

I don't think so for records/vinyl... let's say a record cost £6 in 1984 it should cost £18 now (per BoE inflation calculator): Taylor Swift's latest is going for £33 and when I was looking at vinyl reissues the other week - £40 was pretty typical.

£20-25 usually, tho doubles will be £30-35. Arguably better quality pressings these days. And, yeah, some of the classic rereleases go for stupid amounts.

 

[seeformiles]

I don't think so for records/vinyl... let's say a record cost £6 in 1984 it should cost £18 now (per BoE inflation calculator): Taylor Swift's latest is going for £33 and when I was looking at vinyl reissues the other week - £40 was pretty typical.

Bloody hell! Saying that, I’ve been replacing my scratched vinyl with reissues at about £25 average