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I’ve kept this up btw even though since July 16 my store decided to make us wear uniforms again so I’ve just been wearing them under my hoodie in the California summer. Dedication

Might start a bit where I wear an oasis shirt every day they’re playing a show. Why the hell not

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Came back from a week and a half vacation today and got a raise and a title bump. Ok

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*absolutely no one is saying to reread homestuck voice* so….ive been hearing that everyone’s rereading homestuck…

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After careful consideration I’ve decided that if I grew up in the countryside I’d probably be a furry.

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Slide away. And give it all you got. Mine today. Fell in from the top. See that doesn’t even fucking mean anything and it means….everything

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Oasis remastered versions too fucking good I’m sorry Mary. That’s good food. Also I already imprinted on them so it’s too late to be vibes accurate and prefer the originals sorry

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Homestuck cartoon I’m literally terrified

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Just started wolf hall….my socks are being rocked….

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LGDM30 will go down as the craziest setlist of all time. Liam was singing lock all the doors and cloudburst up there. Now we’re lucky if any members of oasis will ever perform any song from sotsog in public ever again before they die

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Sometimes Tyrion Lannister is señor awesome and it’s exactly what you want

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When the chorus arrives, Noel hits it with 16 years of pent-up energy. His voice also is in outstanding shape. More important, he sounds sincere. “Because we need each other / We believe in one another,” he says emphatically. “And I know we’re going to uncover / What’s sleepin’ in our soul.” Noel sings those lines like he is levitating two feet over the stage. And for a split second, the entire audience seems to be levitating, too.

What I detected — what we all detected — was entirely unexpected: Are these guys feeling … sentimental about all this? After spending the better part of this century giving each other the insult-comic treatment in the press, do they … like each other now?

What was sleepin’ in our souls had truly been reawakened. Oasis, holy crap, was really back. And it was, against all odds, better than you could have hoped for.

Steven Hyden on first hearing Acquiesce at Wembley

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The one other time I saw Oasis was on January 18, 1998. The Be Here Now tour at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis. Guigsy was still, technically, in the band. (I say “technically” because he appeared to have consumed enough marijuana to render him medically brain dead.) They played 16 songs, four of which were solo Noel songs. And one of those tunes, “Talk Tonight,” was interrupted by a fire alarm. The encore was “Acquiesce,” which climaxed with Liam leaving the stage for the front row, where he heckled Noel as he sang the song’s outro. After the show, we stood outside in subzero wind chill and called up to the window in the band’s green room, where Liam occasionally appeared and flashed two-finger salutes to the crowd.

These were my heroes. On this night, the antics were excellent and the music was just okay. The deafening, mile-high “wall of guitars” sound of the album carried over to the tour, but it was rendered with a decided lack of enthusiasm. Souls were in deep slumber at this time. In the moment, I attributed this to a combination of misery-inducing factors: the disappointing reaction to Be Here Now, the awfulness of traveling to Minnesota in January, general burnout from the nonstop grind of the past several years. But after seeing Oasis at Wembley, I now know the real reason why that gig was underwhelming.

They were playing for Americans and not British people.

In August and September, Oasis will perform in a handful of select cities in America. And based on what I saw last week, I expect those shows to be good. But they won’t be as good as the shows in the U.K. They just won’t. In the U.S., Oasis is a good live act. (And, sometimes, they are a mediocre one.) But in England, they are amazing in concert. Even when they suck in Great Britain, they are still better than they’ll ever be in America.

Oasis has the most decisive home-field advantage I have ever witnessed in music. I didn’t fully appreciate it until I experienced it firsthand — not just at Wembley but all over London, where Oasis band shirts were ubiquitous in every neighborhood and tourist attraction I visited. Surely, excitement over the reunion shows played a part in that. But the central place that Oasis has in British culture — which feels more akin to monarchy than “normal popular rock band” status — really does seem unique. The Tragically Hip, I think, has similar significance in Canada. But I struggle to come up with an American equivalent. Taylor Swift? I don’t know that she’s more popular here than everywhere else in the world. Springsteen? Too much partisan political baggage. Michael Jackson? Too much “baggage” baggage.

I now understand, sort of, the reply guys crowding my mentions every time I talk about Oasis on social media. (Particularly on the less fun and more scold-y one named after the sixth Wilco album.) Many of them are from England, and they all buy into the conspiracy theory (originally forwarded by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine) about how Britpop was a government plot to increase national pride in the 1990s. Maybe that’s true. (If it is, it’s the greatest triumph for the British government since the liberation of France.) But in the end, it’s irrelevant. The Brits love Oasis, and hating them seems like the way less fun alternative. Just imagine the indignity of being a British Oasis hater. It must be like hating the NFL in America. Their cultural loneliness has radicalized them. Oasis is everywhere there, creating joy and camaraderie, and they can’t participate in it.

If I lived in England, and had this band rammed down my throat for more than 30 years, I might hate Oasis, too. But I don’t live in England. So, while I empathize with the haters, I can’t relate, thank god. For me, being among the ecstatic Oasis lovers was like, finally, arriving at my rock ‘n’ roll home.

I Saw Oasis At Wembley And It Was The Greatest Stadium Show Of My Life

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Ezra pound a goated poet. The fascism is unfortunate but not incidental

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*cornplate voice* I never noticed that Liam was wearing a button up under his umbro top at Maine road. That actually elevates the whole look for me I thought he was just wearing it as a sack

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Just touched down in heaven 📍Grand Rapids MI

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I am a weeaboo for England and also for the Midwest. I’m kind of a weeaboo for California but I am from and live in California so it’s not quite the same thing.