Daniel Labno

Don't get the spite around Oasis. Youngsters will want to see them because their Mum and Dad told them they were their generation's Beatles and those my age will want to see them again because of that impact. For some context, it wasn't just really good rock music, for many ( I'll play them now and again, saw them but wouldn't say I was a super fan by any means) they defined a time and a place. The time was the 90's, the place was Britain. The Premier League, Oasis, Blur, Loaded magazine, irreverent music shows like the Word, Euro 96 and reclamation of the St George's Cross , a Labour government carried in with "things can only get better", designers like McCartney and McQueen made Britain's clobber cool for the first time since Carnaby Street 60's days. It all exploded and Oasis were in the middle of it. That's why so many people have wanged on about reunions as if it's a second coming and why their kids now think it is. Because it was a very cool few years when Britain was centre stage, seemed genuinely open ( lots of Europeans started working around the country which for me was very cool and made the country look and feel welcoming), and Britain was at the centre of global sport, music and fashion at the SAME time. Music is about taste so you like them, not or indifferent, but anyone would be a fool to not acknowledge ( especially those who lived through it) their cultural significance. They were a part of what reinvented British cool after years of industry decline, unemployment, sporting decline and a nation ill at ease with itself. It was really fucking cool to watch football, watch live music, dress in trendy British designers and feel a part of the centre of the universe. That's what people are tapping into, a time when to be British was to be cool again. Not sure why anyone, whether you like Oasis or not are pissing on that.