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What the Oasis reunion can teach us about not looking back in anger
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Rachel Allcock2024-09-04T08:00:00
After breaking up fifteen years ago, rock band Oasis announced that they would be reuniting for a UK and Ireland tour in 2025. Rachel Allcock discusses the news of the formerly feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher sharing the stage again and wonders, in the booking madness whether there is something wrong with these intense waves of nostalgia.
I was fifteen when Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe came out. They even organised a little competition with Blur to celebrate my GCSE results in 1995. I rode the wave of Britpop rock-and-roll hysteria while studying for my A-Levels, and their Woolworth’s-purchased singles had pride of place in the shoebox of CDs responsible for presenting my desired self-image in a pre-Instagram world.
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