seen them, have hazy memories of 100’s of us emptying a Tesco near main road of all its booze before that gig sat in the sun and trying to find friends at Knebworth/walking miles back to the car. Went to see the Roses as I was never able to watch them pre split, but why this time?
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Oasis were ****ing awful the first time around. I will be wilfully avoiding any media hype about them again this time
Slightly before my time but there are some great songs. Sounds like it was a bit of a cult at the time. The Swifties of their day.
Only knew a few of their songs at the time but they were really good. As you'd expect, only about 300 of us in a small marquee but that made it better. Seen Gruff Rhys a few times since, the album he had out 3/4 years ago was very good, even the ones he sung in Welsh that I hadn't a clue what he was on about
A couple of decent pop/indie tunes, but soon became boring as **** due to excessive fawning about it. Plus but I could not stand the sight of those two ****s, with their fake swagger and play up to the media attitude. Tons of better indie bands out there This lot just rode the PR hype.
^^^^^ Very much - couldn't hold a candle musically to bands like The Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, House of Love and James ... IMHO
Impressed with your shout for The House of Love. One of my fave bands from that era and saw them play live at some really intimate gigs. Guy Chadwick wrote some brilliant songs
Oasis rode on the shoulders of all of those Indie bands that came before them and set the scene. A band that had preceded them and was pitched alongside them during that Britpop era was Blur, who were by far the more innovative and creative of the two, especially when you consider the stuff that Damon Albarn did with Malian musicians and Gorillaz etc. I am still a little bit upset to this day that the brilliant Creation records signed Oasis
What people miss here about the hype is that at the time we had a Tory government, mass unemployment and the young had nothing. then in 93/95 after grunge suddenly there was an explosion of brilliant British bands, then on the back of the more popular ones we had those who got deals and released brilliant music.
Suede were a better band in my personal opinion compared to Blur, but neither as great as Pulp. Manchester produced some outstanding bands. Joy Division, The Smiths, Bizzcocks, The Fall, Roses, Courteeners, James, Doves, New Order, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets…. Any bloke who wrote live forever has some talent
Anyway. Short day today. Off to the football at 3. Drop the car with the folks and get them to drop me and the boy near the ground later. He is already buzzing.
The British music scene was brilliant before that though too. And the economic deprivation and disaffected youth under Tory rule goes right back to the days when Joy Division / New Order, The Smiths and The Fall were creating that Indie scene I would argue that in the following years, when bands like the Stone Roses, Wedding Present, House of Love, Happy Mondays (Squirrel and G man days) really set the scene for British indie music to thrive. Alongside that in the States you had bands like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr who set the scene for Grunge which exploded out of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. It was Labour who won that landslide 92 election that coincided with the Britpop scene that gave the UK a new found sense of optimism. But for me Oasis were always over hyped pop / indie-lite band that rode on the shoulders of everything that came before them.
