Culture chat: the Oasis reunion explained
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After 15 years of feuding, the most famous rock band of 1990s Britain recently announced that it will be reuniting for a stadium tour. Fans went wild, and the first day of ticket sales nearly broke Ticketmaster. Why do we still care about Oasis? Do the Gallagher brothers deserve the fanfare? And what can we expect from the reunion? Lilah's joined by the FT's music critic Ludo Hunter-Tilney and London banking editor (and Oasis superfan) Ortenca Aliaj to discuss.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
– Supersonic, directed by Asif Kapadia, is available to rent on Amazon Prime now.
– Ludo’s scathing review of the last time Oasis performed, in 2008, is here: https://on.ft.com/47mEhtt
– We loved Jo Ellison’s column on the meaning of the reunion and why Oasis has a unique hold on “the people”: https://on.ft.com/3TpNueF
– More or Less: Ludo wants to see fewer e-bikes. For those who feel similarly, here’s a piece on the latest e-bikes controversy by our colleague Josh Gabert-Doyon. Lilah recommends Shrinking on Apple Plus
– Ludo Hunter-Tilney is on X @ludohunter. Ortenca Aliaj is @OrtencaAl
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I'm Lila Raptopoulos, and this is our Friday chat show. |
| 0:07.9 | Today we are discussing the Inescapable Rock Band Oasis. Last month, the band's brothers, Noel and Liam and Liam Gallagher, announced that they were reuniting after 15 years of feuding. |
| 0:18.7 | And fans were so desperate for tickets to the reunion tour that ticket |
| 0:21.8 | release day was a Taylor Swift-like train wreck of cues, glitches, and inflated pricing. |
| 0:28.4 | If you think you don't know Oasis, you do. They were the most famous rock band in 90s |
| 0:33.2 | Britain and their top three songs induce hugging and scream singing on karaoke and dance |
| 0:38.1 | floors across the world. |
| 0:39.8 | Those are Champagne Supernova, Don't Look Back in Anger, and Wonderwall. |
| 0:43.9 | I said, maybe you're going to be the one that saves me. |
| 0:56.0 | And after all |
| 1:07.2 | Today we're going to explore why exactly this reunion is making people lose their minds and whether they deserve the love. |
| 1:12.2 | I've invited two experts on, and to prepare, we have all watched the 2016 documentary Supersonic, which follows the Gallagher brothers through their biggest years. And let's get into it. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm Lila in New York, and I'm putting my life in the hands of a rock and roll band who will throw it |
| 1:23.0 | all away. Joining me from London, there's not a day that goes by where I don't wish I could rock a |
| 1:27.6 | parka like that man. It's our long-time music critic Ludovic Hunter, tell me. Hi, Ludo. |
| 1:32.5 | Hello, Lila. Also in London, she's slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball. |
| 1:39.6 | Where was she when we were getting high? It's the FD's London bankingon banking editor or tensa a liage or tensor welcome thank you |
| 1:47.2 | you know we had trouble with these because um so many of the galliger brothers quotes are very |
| 1:52.8 | inappropriate and uh i didn't want to call any of you the c word even lovingly wouldn't be the first |
| 1:59.4 | time so to start why don't we paint a picture of Oasis for people who |
| 2:05.5 | don't know that much about them, which was me about four days ago. Ludo, I see this as you are our |
| 2:11.2 | music expert, or Tensa, you are our Oasis super fan. Let's start with Ludo. What's their deal? Like, who are they? What's their music like? |
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