Live 8 coincided with the second date of Oasis’ three-night run in Manchester, but it wasn’t just the Gallaghers and co that made waves with the crowd. At 4pm, the stage came to life with the lively, fun-loving The Redwalls. This fresh-faced charismatic quartet wouldn’t have looked out of place in 1965 London with the coolest Mod image and most incredible haircuts. With hints of early Beatles, The Who and the Small Faces worked into their catchy pop rock and gorgeous harmonies, this young Chicago band were the perfect openers and went down well with the Oasis fans, who had already half-filled the stadium. An hour later, following some pre-recorded footage from Live 8 that had been projected on the big screens to satiate the music hungry crowd, the 22-20s took to the stage. In contrast to the light harmonies of The Redwalls, the 22-20s are darker and heavier, reminiscent of the Stooges and Stones, with a bit of The Animals-style white blues chucked in for good measure. Though suffering from a few sound problems, especially with the vocals, the band put on a great performance and left the crowd eager for more. The Bees added a gentler, sunny vibe to proceedings. Their 60s influenced pop tunes taken from their debut album Free The Bees got the crowd dancing, especially tracks such as Wash In The Rain, the chilled out instrumental The Russian and Chicken Payback, which seems to have become their signature tune. If the crowd wasn’t well warmed up by now, they had no excuse not to be after the performance of the final support. The Coral slouched onto the stage before blowing it away in a torrent of psychedelic guitar swirls and beats. They have matured well and sound better every time you see them. Playing classics such as Simon Diamond, Pass It On, Don’t Think You’re The First, Dreaming Of You and Skeleton Key, finishing with In The Morning, The Coral had made sure that Oasis had a lot to play up to. Three quarters of an hour later, Oasis made their entrance, greeted in a hail of cheers from the packed stadium. However, after striking the first bars of Lyla, they had to stop as the barrier cracked and it was 30 minutes later, after being left impotently standing at the side of the stage, that they could finally start. Liam, looking like a pimp in a red leather jacket and white beanie hat, was obviously up for it, especially after the unexpected delay, as was the expectant audience. Bursting into Lyla, Oasis had the crowd hooked, and though at times their performance was mediocre, flat and out of tune, this didn’t seem to bother their fans, who sang along at the top of their voices to a set of mainly classic hits from Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory spattered with a couple from their new album. An hour and a half later, after the final strains of My Generation finally died away, Oasis had proved that the old tunes are the best, and while ever they play these anthemic singalongs, they’ll never be short if a fan or two. |
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tony
Sadly after only 3 songs on the 30th, i left due to the idiots throwing beer,urine and empty whisky bottles,fighting next to me and then the crushing.and not one steward anywhere to be seen
Sean And gaz
Best day of our lifes period nothing compares to OASIS LIVE
HOWARD METCALFE
CLASSIC OASIS, BRING IT ON DOWN SUPERB...BEST BAND AROUND. CHRIS MARTIN WATCH AND LEARN
Doyle
It was not Lyla Oasis started with it was Turn up the sun.....
charlotte
best so far!!
Mark Weatherhead
Only one comment to make about this gig:
#WHAT WAS THAT SOUND RINGING AROUND YOUR BRAINNA!!#
Paul Roe
First song played was 'turn up the sun' not 'lyla'. Author spends little time talking about the atmosphere. Does not fully understand oasis gigs are not just about the music. For examlpe If you went to a football match and won 3-0, the last thing to be discussed would be whether a 442 or 433 would of yielded a higher scoreline. How did the author feel during the gig. Writes from the perspective of an television observer not a fan who was there.
Marc
class gig, atmoshphere was amazing, only bad thing the sound system was a bit dodgy at times. The new songs seemed to go down well aswell!
Wadeylad
Who is this guy? Was he even at the gig? They played most of the songs of the new album, not just a few, also the opened with turn up the sun, and as for their performance, I would say it was top notch, best i have seen them at!
Graham Lamb, Whitefield
Stay at home,go, stay at home,go....wasn't sure. Last minute for the sake of sentiment I decided to make the effort. The Hac in '94, Earls Court and Maine Rd '96 and more all swayed me to think that the magic could still be there. At the end of it, I still wasn't sure if it was. The atmosphere was electric and the crowd were well up for it, begging to see their heroes in the flesh. Turn Up The Sun first, but it was Lyla and Bring it on Down next, which really got the place gig rocking. The show was like the last few I'd been to, recent tunes got good receptions but lets face it, the classics were what we had forked out for and they were there in abundance, Live Forever, Champagne Supernova, Supersonic etc. What could have made the gig even more better would be if Liam, just for once dropped his attitude a bit and worked the stage and the crowd like he used to instead of just standing there inbetween songs/vocals. Yep, there were moments of magic but compared to some of the cracking music being made today, Oasis are lagging well behind. That will be the last time I see them.........or will it ?
Mark
An absolutely unbelievable concert - the band didn't sound flat in slightest! Singing to wonderwall, live forever & don't look back in anger was awesome. ITS JUST ROCK AND ROLL!
Davey
"and though at times their performance was mediocre, flat and out of tune" - to be fair, it's pretty hard to tell when there's so many people screaming the words. Also, the song that they had to stop was Turn Up The Sun, not Lyla. For me, Lyla was the best tune of the night actually, it just went down soooo well and i've never screamed so loud in my life. Heeeeeyy Lyla!!
Emma Jones
I have seen Oasis live 6 times now and after the barrier breaking at the beginning of the concert in Manchester I thought that Liam and Noel would have to work damn hard to get the crowd going again...and hard they worked. The new tunes such as 'The Importance of Being Earnest' were fabulous and the old classics blew the excited crowd away. Liam delighted the fans with a heartfelt rendition of 'Song Bird' and the gig ended on a high with The Who's 'My Generation.' Overall a fantastic performance, with 'Champagne Supernova' and 'Don't Look Back in Anger' filling the stadium thousands of contented voices.
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