Are Oasis in fact the greatest Irish band ever?
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
With the biggest reunion tour in years kicking off in Cardiff last weekend, the culture show asks if Oasis were just too Irish to be the best Britpop band in the first place?
The New Statesman's commissioning editor Finn McRedmond sits down with colleagues George Eaton, Nick Harris and Faye Curran to discuss the Gallagher brothers real allegiances.
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Oasis are the greatest Irish band of all time - George Eaton
So you want to be Irish? - Fay Curran
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.4 | The Oasis show is officially back on the road. |
| 0:09.1 | Will they reclaim their Britpop crown? |
| 0:11.5 | Or were they not even British in the first place? |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Finn Matt Redmond, and this is the New Statesman Culture Podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | To discuss the return of the Galaher Brothers to the same stage, |
| 0:22.3 | I'm joined by my colleagues George Eaton, Nick Harris and Fay Curran. |
| 0:27.3 | George, you were there at Cardiff on the weekend and your piece of quite the headline on it. |
| 0:32.6 | So tell us how was the gig and what was the thinking behind that quite provocative statement? |
| 0:37.6 | The gig was wonderful. |
| 0:39.1 | I think all I raised his shows and I first saw them at Wembley Stadium in 2000. |
| 0:44.1 | The famously... |
| 0:44.8 | The first night or the second night. |
| 0:46.4 | The infamously shambolic. |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:48.5 | In the fandom, this is like, you know, beyond notorious, infamous. |
| 0:52.4 | You know, like a day that will live in infamous. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, what happened? |
| 0:55.0 | Liam was three sheets to the wind, I think you could say, and proceeded to deliver various |
| 1:01.0 | monologues on his divorce, taking pot shots as his brother. |
| 1:05.0 | No one looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up. |
| 1:08.0 | So I take it, this didn't, that didn't happen this time. |
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