The record-breaking return of Oasis
The Story
The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As the Oasis reunion supernova leaves the UK to conquer the rest of the world, the success is beyond anyone's dreams -- including Oasis. How did this happen? Will Hodgkinson tells us about his many chats with the Gallagher brothers over the years, and his theories on how they finally reunited -- and what happened with the dynamic pricing debacle.
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Guest: Will Hodgkinson, Chief Rock and Pop Critic, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Taryn Siegel.
Read more: Oasis in Cardiff review — still mad for it after all these years.
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| 0:45.8 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:58.0 | Last month, our chief rock and pop critic, Will Hodgkinson, was in Cardiff for a very, very long-awaited gig. The atmosphere in the streets was, I think, probably like a World Cup. |
| 1:08.5 | You know, everywhere you went, there was... |
| 1:11.6 | Firstly, it wasn't what I thought it was, which is going to be really ladish or middle-aged bloke's overdoing it. |
| 1:17.2 | It was much more family-based. |
| 1:18.5 | It kind of surprised me. |
| 1:21.4 | And people from all over the world, so you'd have, like, Japanese fans and Latin American fans. |
| 1:29.8 | People are over the place. |
| 1:31.4 | Anyway, so he went in. |
| 1:33.1 | We were waiting. |
| 1:34.1 | We watched cast. |
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