[Music] Oasis - 2025

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Radiohead. Pixies. The Sundays. Off the top of my head I’ve seen all those as the support act. (And on a two-band bill, too - I’m not talking festivals etc). Probably several others if I search my memory…

Lynyrd Skynyrd supporting golden f***ing earring. Dome

Comsat Angels supporting (a decent) U2 (I was there for the comsats). Jenkinsons

Thin Lizzy supporting an execrable Bachman-Turner Overbollocks. Hammersmith Odeon

 

[bluenitsuj]

Got to be the most over rated band in history.

Have you never heard of the Beatles?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Saw them in one time in Oz post-prime. Brisbane conference centre type place in the middle of a forest, served by a Falmer-esque train service.

Oh, and with renewed reunion interest I suppose my un-ironed 1996 North America tour teeshirt might yet find a buyer hurrah

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Too small.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Have you never heard of the Beatles?

Have you ever heard the Beatles?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Never gonna happen, but would be top of my list. Saw them so many times, and every set was different.

Saw XTC supporting Siouxie and the Banshees, New Regent, West Street. Excellent!

 

[bluenitsuj]

Have you ever heard the Beatles?

So average.

 

[Seagull58]

Hopefully with Guigsy and Bonehead

It'll be with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, surely?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I saw The Cure as a support band

I tend to see them as headliners. Each to his own.

(I know - autistic brane-wrong miss-reading. I realised, but thought I'd roll with it for low comedy porpoises

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Have you ever heard the Beatles?

Unfortunately yes God awful McCartney singing.

 

[Half Time Pies]

So average.

Anyone who thinks the Beatles were average knows nothing about music!

 

[AmexRuislip]

You reckon? I think they'll have separate changing rooms and only be on stage together. Doubt they'll see each other much before and after gigs...

So there's not going to be a harmony

 

[Seagull58]

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I watched David Bowie supporting the Groundhogs, at the Dome, in 1972

There must be a few on here who watched Lynyrd Skynyrd supporting Golden Earring at The Dome a couple of years later?

 

[Wozza]

 

[BN9 BHA]

Know as Wellends

 

[Wozza]

 

[Seagull58]

“Support bands” is possibly worth its own thread.
First one off the top of my head was The Magic Numbers I’d never heard of (supporting Athlete at Brixton) went on to become one of my favourites

Thin Lizzy
AC/DC
The Stranglers
Dire Straits
The Beat
Lynyrd Skynyrd
all seen as support bands.

 

[birthofanorange]

Did anyone see them (Oasis) at the Brighton Centre and go to the after-show party at The Escape? 1994...I think?

 

[indy3050]

I honestly don’t understand the haters chipping in? Oasis were for a generation, MY generation. They were f***ing AMAZING and my life after school was all about their music and antics. I will be the first in the queue if (and I think it will) happens!

Be kind everybody x

 

[Wozza]

To take this seriously.... I'm 66 and was So Excited by all the Beatles hype when I was 5 or 6 years old.

I remember that programme hosted by Muriel Young (with Olly Beak and Bert Wheedon), 5-0-clock club (?) flagging up 'tonight the Beatles! and after a long wait....it was f***ing string puppet beetles with helium vocals. I was distraught.

They were OK. But who did you like more in the early mid 60s?

I was transported (entirely via TOTP and the Light programme, which is all I had) very rarely (it was a culture desert) by:

Telstar by the Tornados.
Traffic: Hole in my shoe
Darlin' and Breakaway by the Beach Boys
Nat King Cole
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (Shakin all over)
The Animals (HOTRS/DLMBM)
Marrakesh express

The Beatles were some weird screamy girl hype. And The Stones were tedious.

I wanted MAGIC. Hole in my shoe has that. The Beach Boys had that.

Beatles....mmmmm........yyyyyy...no.

What did you like?

This is a thread about Oasis, Mike!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I saw them twice when they were supposedly at their best, and both times they were shite and upstaged by the support bands. For the most part they were great on record, but live - no thanks…..
IMHO, they should leave the legacy where it is

I saw them supported by The Bootleg Beatles. Oasis were never a band I fully got behind but they were on top form, and were excellent, when I saw them the once.

I also saw Noel Gallagher do an unannounced acoustic set supporting, I think, Primal Scream, at Shepherd Bush Empire. He was relatively unknown then. I also saw him solo at The Mean Fiddler, stepping in last minute for the Levellers who pulled out of a Liverpool Dockers benefit. That was really good.