Beer is £8 a pint in most towns and cities now
I mean you can pay that in most cities, but its still far from the norm thankfully.
A nice pint of beer is £3.60 at the social club in my village! 🙂
So you think that the BBC (or any news agency) knows this definitively?
maybe.
Re the teenage interest thing - yeah, same here - I heard about the reunion from my 16 yr old son. I do always tell him that he should try The Stone Roses but no interest in them.
Lot of snobbery going on here…
Nah – just people who aren’t keen on has been cash grabs – beer will be £8/pint
I was at a small gig on Saturday. 3 pints of Guinness at about £5 each, so if I repeated that at an Oasis show I'd be all of £9 worse off. £9! Not even the cost of an Oasis CD in the 90s!
I'll always have a soft spot for Oasis as they were the first band I was properly into and be part of a scene etc. Fair to say anything they did after 1996 was pretty average though.
It feels like they never really went away to me as I've seen both Liam and Noel do Oasis tracks at various festivals, charity gigs etc over the years.
I don't think I can be bothered going but I do hope they smash it and do a proper job of it for everyone who gets a ticket.
I live down the road from where their mum, Peggy, still lives in Burnage (I recall Noel once saying he offered to buy her a huge house somewhere but she didn't want to move) and still occasionally see people doing the Oasis tour where they get bussed past her house and Sifters Records (also still there) and all the rest of it. I would say its probably a different place now compared to when they grew up but I'm not sure if that part of Burnage is all that different to be honest.
I was 10 when What's The Story came out and just starting to learn guitar. I could basically play that album note for note by the age of 12 and it was what made me want to become a musician. I was too young to see them in that era and more into metal by the time they called it quits so never saw them live Loads of folks messaging me today asking me if I'm going.....I worry that it'll be one of the least pleasant crowds ever to be apart of. Literally going to be a very ragey cokefest. Also, were they ever THAT good live? I always feel like I'm watching an Oasis tribute band when I see videos of them. You can't really deny the cultural significance of them though. Most function bands that I play with end the night with DLBIA and practically every single person sings every single word of it, very few people ever write songs which achieve that level.
Where can you pay 8 quid for a pint outside of London (I’m guessing)?
£8 is pushing it. Most wedding venues I play at across the country are about £7 a pint now. Think that I paid about £7 for a pint in Manchester yesterday.
Paid £6.40 for a San Miguel in Reeth a few weeks ago, if that's some people's normal then £8 a pint at somewhere like Heaton park won't be much of a shock.
Usual STW 'bah-humbug everythings shit' replies! Be here now is the album that resonates with me the most weirdly but that'll be down to my age at the time. £7.50 a pint at my local venue (Piece Hall) And I'm pretty sure it was over £8 a pint at Manchester arena
I'll try for Manchester tickets but not hopeful as I CBA spending all day faffing about on ticketmaster.
Absolutely, a bit like the old joke about vegans... How do you know if someone doesn't like Oasis? They'll go to great lengths to tell you how shit they are.
£7.50 is the average price for a pint of Peroni in the Southampton/Portsmouth/Chichester stretch of the south coast area
As for Oasis, i was more a Blur fan, although i liked Noel's collabs with The Chemical bros on setting sun and let forever be
Liam is just a ****
Ive quite few friends who are posting and chatting about this all excited, for me it was always inevitable they would reunite, it just needed enough money and/or them needing money due to another reason (in this case Noel's divorce)
Hopefully they will pull it off and everyone will enjoy it rather than it be a let down, somethings are better left in the past
There’s a reason why they play in tiny venues.
Take aside the other Britpop bands on their own reunion tours, it's these venues that give new bands the chance to play live and build a following. I've just seen a twitter post of Oasis's first headline tour and out of the 30-odd small venues the played at, only 11 are still in business. So whether you're going to see them while standing half a world away or not, don't neglect going to the little venues too. And if their survival relies on the safe bet of an Echobelly or Sleeper gig then don't knock it.
I get why they're playing stadiums, be nice if some of the money went back into the places that took a punt on them when they were unknowns.
@theotherjonv: I agree entirely.
A lot of column inches were devoted to Taylor Swift donating money to food banks when she did her tour here. That's all very commendable, but I would have been impressed if she had also donated money to small grassroots venues as well.
I put my money where my mouth is: I attend at least 2 local gigs a month in small venues in Oxford, as well as going to gigs at the "bigger" venue (O2 Academy) and travelling to London for actual big gigs.
Where can you pay 8 quid for a pint outside of London (I’m guessing)?
Paid £7.40 for a Guinness in an old fashioned Glasgow pub just before Xmas last year
A pint of anything from Beavertown is £7+ in Glasgow
Take aside the other Britpop bands on their own reunion tours, it’s these venues that give new bands the chance to play live and build a following. I’ve just seen a twitter post of Oasis’s first headline tour and out of the 30-odd small venues the played at, only 11 are still in business. So whether you’re going to see them while standing half a world away or not, don’t neglect going to the little venues too. And if their survival relies on the safe bet of an Echobelly or Sleeper gig then don’t knock it.
Good grief. It was a mild dig at some very average Britpop bands, that's all.
Just stopping by to register my dislike of Oasis. CIao for now.
To follow up on my first beer cost post - I went out last Thursday in Leeds and home to Harrogate. We just went to bars, all beers were more than £7 a pint, I paid £8.50 for the most expensive beer. These were early evening, standard beer prices (ie, not nightclub prices - do they even exist?).
I remember when they first appeared and everyone was raving about them. I was listening to The Doors, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Tool and Black Sabbath at the time. So not dissimilar to teenagers now listening to some older music. Didn't get them the first time around and thought they were an okay pop band fronted by a massive WGBE. My opinion hasn't changed at all in the intervening years. I'd still love to have a fist fight with Liam though. Always hoped someone would deck the gangly gobshite.
I’m overwhelmed with indifference at the news. They were an average pub band at the beginning, and time hasn’t improved either their voices or their songwriting.
I have seen Blur live, a vastly superior band in every way possible.
don’t neglect going to the little venues too. And if their survival relies on the safe bet of an Echobelly or Sleeper gig then don’t knock it.
I don’t, there’s still a bunch of great little venues around Bath and Bristol, I saw Sleeper do a matinee gig at The Komedia in Bath a while back, and everyone had a great time, the band thoroughly enjoyed playing a gig in the afternoon where everyone got to leave the venue before tea-time!
So far this year I’ve got coming up Gemma Hayes at Bristol Strange Brew, Fairground Attraction (yes, the original band with Eddie Reader, promoting a new album) at Bristol Beacon, which, to be fair isn’t a small venue, but it ain’t an arena, Seth Lakeman at Frome Cheese and Grain, Judie Tzuke at Bath Chapel Arts, and Laura Marling at Hackney Church.
Doing my best to keep small music venues alive.
Good grief. It was a mild dig at some very average Britpop bands, that’s all.
Mild and unnecessary, IMHO. Apologies if it was meant in jest but as a supporter and paid up subbing friend of my local venue, I know how hard it is for them to make ends meet. Given all that they do as a community arts space as well as being a gig spot, anything that compromises their existence annoys me.
So yeah, I do go and see some 'lesser' bands and they're way better than average even if they don't have two nobhead front men that have kept them f&c in the minds of people that don't really seem to care about live music. I've been to see some rubbish ones too, but they're ****ing trying at least, and they might get better or they might not....but without venues to learn their skills in then they definitely won't.
A tiny levy on each ticket sold for these 14 gigs would secure some of these venues. So again, apologies if it was only a joke but this is really ****ing important to me.
Frank Turner has it right.
Yeah, is anybody else sick of the music that's churned out by lackluster scenesters from Shoreditch?
Yeah, it's all sex, drugs and sins, like they're extras from Skins!
But it's OK, cause they don't really mean it!
I want bands who had to work for their keep
Drove a thousand miles and played a show on no sleep
Sleeping on the floor at a stranger's place
Hungry just to do it all again the next day!
Mild and unnecessary, IMHO
Sigh. It wasn't about the venue at all.
I have seen Blur live, a vastly superior band in every way possible.
Me too. I didn't think they were great live, personally.
No, it was a jibe about the kinds of bands 'there's a reason they only play tiny venues', but as I said if these has-been and no-marks guarantee a full house in the tiny venue and so enable another night for new bands on a tenner a ticket then brilliant.
Plus Echobelly and Sleeper are miles better than Oasis anyway.
No, it was a jibe about the kinds of bands ‘there’s a reason they only play tiny venues’
They play tiny venues because not many people want to see them. Stop over thinking it.
Plus Echobelly and Sleeper are miles better than Oasis anyway.
TBF it's nearly thirty years since I saw Echobelly in a tiny venue, and they played their one good song very well. Twice.
Fair comment. I'd almost believe you if you hadn't followed it up with another jibe. Or am I overthinking the 'one good song' comment too?
Fair comment. I’d almost believe you if you hadn’t followed it up with another jibe. Or am I overthinking the ‘one good song’ comment too?
Most likely. It's my recollection of the gig. Would you prefer it if I pretended to recollect something else?
It's not pointless, it's a very important point about small venues.
And he started it 😉
I'm one of those Knebworth knobbers.....
The Prodigy were bloody brilliant !!
Never bothered with Oasis again.... great songs but underwhelming live.
Oh and my cabbie mate says Liam really nice and Noel's stroppy.
I see that the Maldron Hotel in Manchester has had an IT glitch that affected, and cancelled, only rooms already booked over the dates Oasis are playing. Odd coincidence that...
I think that particular IT Glitch has affected a number of Hotel chains across the UK across the past 24 hours according to twitter.
I was 11ish, just going into high school when Oasis mania kicked off, I remember it well and still have a listen to WTSMG every so often. I would have loved to have seen them in period and a few mates had older brothers and sisters that were old enough for it, but I never did.
I'm not bothered enough/cant afford the time or cash these days to join the mayhem for tickets and I do have my doubts about how good it actually might be.
However If your fancying a bit of reminiscing, without the cost, I do reccomend you have a look for yuor local 'FakeFest', who tour the country each year and book one that includes 'Oasish'.
They are excellent - not because they are just like Oasis, but because they are just like how Oasis are in your imagination/dreams/memories.
They play well, sound the part, do a great parody of a Liam/Noel falling out, play the good stuff we know the words to and not the dross, its dirt cheap, its in a proper dingy circus tent thats not very big and you can get right to the front. Dont diss it till you try it.
Oasish
So many fantastic Oasis tribute band names – Noasis and Oasisn't are two more that I know of 🙂
Our 7 year old loves them (disappointingly he seems to have grown out of Kyuss extremely quickly).
He was the most excited in our house when he heard they were playing a concert, I suspect because he imagines something on the scale of Taylor Swift's Eras tour which him and his mum watched on Netflix.
Not sure how to break the news to him that he's not going!
However If your fancying a bit of reminiscing, without the cost, I do reccomend you have a look for yuor local ‘FakeFest’, who tour the country each year and book one that includes ‘Oasish’.
They are excellent – not because they are just like Oasis, but because they are just like how Oasis are in your imagination/dreams/memories.
Yeah I have seen Oasish a few times, there is a local annual tribute fest they normally play at. One year was particularly memorable - there was a guy right at the front, wearing whatever football shirt (can't remember the team) the real Oasis would hate, and they spent most of their time between songs in-character ripping the piss out of him (in a good natured way!!) The rest of the crowd was loving it 🙂
I suspect because he imagines something on the scale of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour which him and his mum watched on Netflix.
Not sure how to break the news to him that he’s not going!
At least he won't be disappointed by the fact that there won't be lightshows, bubbles, dancers, things flying across the stadium, and massive amounts of choreography, just a few scowling old men grunting across a stage at each other.
Suggestions for support acts?
Kasabian? Blur? ?
Given the audience it could be Chase and Status or the Prodigy.
I agree that I reckon the crowd will be filled with coked up young men in drink. I saw them 3 times in the 90s/00s so that'll do for me.
Blur
Absolutely not a chance in hell that Blur would support Oasis.
Absolutely not a chance in hell that Blur would support Oasis.
I think the Blur suggestion must have been sarcastic... at least I hope so, lol!
I cant' see the prodigy doing either... much different crowd & I think they called it a day after keiths death?
I think they called it a day after keiths death?
They've just played Reading and Leeds!
Absolutely not a chance in hell that Blur would support Oasis
There's a chance, as they're on really good terms, but I'd wager that the older part of an Oasis crowd wouldn't be happy.
