Critiquing Oasis
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isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
If that were the case, I suspect the "queue" for tickets might diminish significantly.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
My Ticketmaster tab that I opened and forgot about this morning finally refreshed; now I'm 239,233rd in the queue. Yay.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I wonder which of today's bands will be the future's Rolling Stones, still touring into their 80s.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
He's from my home town. Used to write record reviews for local paper, his old man was a DJ on CBC, Cardiff's own commercial radio station. He's so far up his own arse surprised you can see his dace!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
One born every minute.
Fucking ultimate grift.
Fucking ultimate grift.
Derek S-H
Klaatu. Barada. Nikto.
Great hyperbole, though:
"By reforming Oasis have cemented their place in the pantheon of super league with the Beatles and the Stones and the top five biggest UK bands of all time."
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Derek S-H
Klaatu. Barada. Nikto.
Commiserations to everyone who didn't get a ticket, genuinely.
But if you're a fan and are only interested in the music (rather than lining greedy people's pockets), then there's always this alternative:
OASIS Tribute Band NOASIS - Tour
This is more than a tribute band, this is Oasis from a parallel universe. Find Noasis tour dates here.
www.noasis.co.uk
Electric Ballroom in London, for example, (good venue) - £22 and you'll actually see the band no matter where you're stood.
I'm going to see a Smiths tribute band next week and the atmosphere can be cracking at these gigs, so I'd recommend it.
Derek S-H
Klaatu. Barada. Nikto.
She's always been contrary:
www.theguardian.com
But her opinion piece is still an interesting read, if only for the fact that she brings up all the areas of criticism, but then doesn't address any of them (apart from the homophobia).
But yes, there's definitely two separate things going on: the band and their fans. I have zero interest in the band and their music, but their fanbase is more than just 40-something blokes reliving their long-lost youth; there genuinely appears to be youngsters who like unchallenging, uninteresting, meat-and-potatoes Rock from blokes older than their dads.
So, for them, it's not a nostalgia trip, they genuinely feel this fairly crude and lumpen stuff speaks to them in the 21st century. Which I find, frankly, incredible. But then, I'm not a parent, so what do I know about today's youngsters?
Oasis are back. So why all the hatred?
The Britpop band’s long-awaited reunion is a sellout but has provoked a backlash. Maybe they (and their fans) are the wrong kind of working class
But her opinion piece is still an interesting read, if only for the fact that she brings up all the areas of criticism, but then doesn't address any of them (apart from the homophobia).
But yes, there's definitely two separate things going on: the band and their fans. I have zero interest in the band and their music, but their fanbase is more than just 40-something blokes reliving their long-lost youth; there genuinely appears to be youngsters who like unchallenging, uninteresting, meat-and-potatoes Rock from blokes older than their dads.
So, for them, it's not a nostalgia trip, they genuinely feel this fairly crude and lumpen stuff speaks to them in the 21st century. Which I find, frankly, incredible. But then, I'm not a parent, so what do I know about today's youngsters?
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
Irelands ticket master has been upping ticket prices massively as available ticket numbers fall.. daylight robbery.
Disgraceful
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I'd expect nothing less from Mayo men.
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
They've recently sold their house in Mayo.. not the ancestral pile..but a house the brothers built for their mum about 19 years ago....
A house in the country..
Not a very big house ...in the country.
Irish home of Oasis superstars Liam and Noel Gallagher and family is sold
THIS is the luxury house where Oasis superstars Liam and Noel Gallagher, their kids, older brother Paul and their mum Peggy Gallagher used as their main residence in Ireland for almost two decades.
www.sundayworld.com
ska invita
back on the other side
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
BluuurghThey've recently sold their house in Mayo.. not the ancestral pile..but a house the brothers built for their mum about 19 years ago....
A house in the country..
Not a very big house ...in the country.
Irish home of Oasis superstars Liam and Noel Gallagher and family is sold
THIS is the luxury house where Oasis superstars Liam and Noel Gallagher, their kids, older brother Paul and their mum Peggy Gallagher used as their main residence in Ireland for almost two decades.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
People are a strange breed
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Hold out for £2500, or 5 grand if the seats are close to each other.
Hold out for £2500, or 5 grand if the seats are close to each other.
Yeh, they're next to each other... I feel filthy even discussing this but hey. it's a shitload of money.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
In the same piece, she also says, "One thing Oasis never did is sneer at their fans, or (wealth aside), pretend to be any different from them."She's always been contrary:
Oasis are back. So why all the hatred?
The Britpop band’s long-awaited reunion is a sellout but has provoked a backlash. Maybe they (and their fans) are the wrong kind of working class
But her opinion piece is still an interesting read, if only for the fact that she brings up all the areas of criticism, but then doesn't address any of them (apart from the homophobia).
Not sure if that´s true, since Noel is on record as saying that he sends his kids to a posh school, because he´d rather have them spending all day with the offspring of Russian oligarchs than coming home talking like Ali G. Is that what they call "keeping it real"?
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BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
This is the real scandle and has apparently been going on for years. The nights I go to sometimes have tiered tickets, but I know what the price is up front. Making people wait and then add huge inflations to the price at the last minute is sickening.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Actually the real scandal is my spelling of scandal.
Edit: Edited for another typo. I'm not drunk.
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tommers
Fuck it, it's fine.
They issued some statement about touts and how tickets sold for loads more than face value would be cancelled and then did exactly the same thing themselves. It's just touting but done by Ticketmaster / Oasis (I don't care which one it is, they are both on my shit list).
It's not really the band's fault. I mean they were too expensive to start with I guess but the reselling market is absurd. Go take a look at viagogo. £350 is a bargain. Cheapest I can see right now is around the £800 mark. The area we seem to have our seats in is already at £1,500. Excruciating. Who the fuck pays that??
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