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highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 06:34 PM Jul 4

Rave review from The Times (UK) about the first concert of the Oasis reunion tour, tonight + VIDEOS of all 23 songs

Last edited Fri Jul 4, 2025, 10:08 PM - Edit history (3)

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/oasis-tour-2025-cardiff-review-sbvjn5fx5

‘The guns have fallen silent,” said the Gallagher brothers, on announcement that they had got over their differences enough to do the reunion everyone was waiting for.

The streets of Cardiff, however, had not fallen silent. With an atmosphere more like a World Cup game than a rock concert, pubs were full to bursting, buskers dusted off their bestWonderwall, hawkers flogged bucket hats, there were defibrillators at the ready for fifty-something men who thought they could consume lager and cocaine like they did back in the Nineties, and the whole city had gone, to use a phrase redolent of Oasis’s heyday, mad for it.

-snip-

The genius of Oasis is that, in time, even their bad songs become good. The secret lies in the immediacy. These are songs that arrived sounding like you had already heard them — probably because, to an extent, you had. Nobody knew how to steal just enough from the past like Noel Gallagher. Combined with his lyrical ability to capture normal life with such clarity, they bring a sense of familiarity that is both uplifting and moving.

The set took on extra resonance given everything that has happened since. Noel may have once called Liam a man with a fork in a world of soup, and Liam accused Noel of being a potato, but Acquiesce is a song about the fact that they “need each other” — and they do. Noel has a soul complex enough to write beautiful songs. Liam has a soul simple enough to deliver them with pure feeling. They are, ultimately, stuck with each other. Which explains a lot.

-snip-


Much more at the link. The journalist who wrote this was in his early 20s when Oasis released their first album, and you can sense the young Oasis fan throughout his review.

I've been checking video from the concert on YouTube. Haven't found anything yet that's worth posting. Really poor sound quality from the fan video.

Okay, just found a video posted less than half an hour ago. This is Oasis taking the stage and opening with "Hello":




Much better video from Knebworth, 1996:




Editing to add better video of tonight's opener:

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Rave review from The Times (UK) about the first concert of the Oasis reunion tour, tonight + VIDEOS of all 23 songs (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 4 OP
Wonderwall, tonight. Video from a fan with a good view of the stage. highplainsdem Jul 4 #1
Champagne Supernova: highplainsdem Jul 4 #2
D'you Know What I Mean: highplainsdem Jul 4 #3
Slide Away: highplainsdem Jul 4 #4
Don't Look Back In Anger highplainsdem Jul 4 #5
Live Forever - and at the end showing Liverpool football player Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident yesterday. highplainsdem Jul 4 #6
Cigarettes And Alcohol highplainsdem Jul 4 #7
The 2nd video... IcyPeas Jul 5 #30
LOL! highplainsdem Jul 6 #34
Morning Glory highplainsdem Jul 4 #8
Stand By Me highplainsdem Jul 4 #9
Masterplan highplainsdem Jul 4 #10
Cast No Shadow highplainsdem Jul 4 #11
Version from todays concert IcyPeas Jul 5 #31
Thanks for the video! And you're very welcome - posting all the songs from the first concert the highplainsdem Jul 6 #33
Supersonic highplainsdem Jul 4 #12
Rock 'N' Roll Star highplainsdem Jul 4 #13
Whatever highplainsdem Jul 4 #14
Half The World Away highplainsdem Jul 4 #15
Roll With It highplainsdem Jul 4 #16
Acquiesce highplainsdem Jul 4 #17
Some Might Say highplainsdem Jul 4 #18
Fade Away highplainsdem Jul 4 #19
Talk Tonight highplainsdem Jul 4 #20
Little By Little highplainsdem Jul 4 #21
Bring It On Down highplainsdem Jul 4 #22
Whew. That's all 23 songs. Out of order, but here's the setlist from The Guardian: highplainsdem Jul 4 #23
The Independent: In Cardiff, Oasis deliver the rock reunion to end them all ***** highplainsdem Jul 4 #24
I thought we probably had more Oasis fans here. :) highplainsdem Jul 5 #25
The good old days... IcyPeas Jul 5 #32
Well, the political stability was Tories in power for a long time, 1979-1997 (John Major succeeding highplainsdem Jul 6 #35
So cool Traildogbob Jul 5 #26
Glad you enjoyed this thread! Yes, we do all need breaks from the political nightmare. highplainsdem Jul 5 #27
Same here Traildogbob Jul 5 #28
You're very welcome! I posted all the messages in this thread before yours, sorting through lots of highplainsdem Jul 5 #29
Some Good Stuff ProfessorGAC Jul 6 #36
Full tour, and they're also recording, so there should be a double album and DVD, and both should be highplainsdem Jul 6 #37
Btw, I noticed while looking at the full tour schedule, which you can find here highplainsdem Jul 7 #38

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
1. Wonderwall, tonight. Video from a fan with a good view of the stage.
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 06:42 PM
Jul 4

He meant 4/7 for the date, not 4/6.

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
6. Live Forever - and at the end showing Liverpool football player Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident yesterday.
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 07:29 PM
Jul 4

IcyPeas

(23,919 posts)
30. The 2nd video...
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 10:49 PM
Jul 5
Fuck off

Fucks sake



(dont know if it was said by the person filming or just someone nearby, but it made me laugh)

IcyPeas

(23,919 posts)
31. Version from todays concert
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:04 PM
Jul 5

Reading some of the comments under all the videos.... people are so joyful. Thank you so much for posting all these videos. Wish I was going to see them.





highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
33. Thanks for the video! And you're very welcome - posting all the songs from the first concert the
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 01:38 PM
Jul 6

other night took a lot more time than any other thread I've posted here in Music Appreciation, but I enjoyed it, too, and the joyful comments I was seeing on YouTube were a large part of that.

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
23. Whew. That's all 23 songs. Out of order, but here's the setlist from The Guardian:
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 09:45 PM
Jul 4
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/04/oasis-setlist-all-the-songs-played-at-cardiffs-principality-stadium

Hello
Acquiesce
Morning Glory
Some Might Say
Bring It on Down
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Fade Away
Supersonic
Roll With It
Talk Tonight (sung by Noel)
Half the World Away (sung by Noel)
Little By Little (sung by Noel)
D’You Know What I Mean?
Stand By Me
Cast No Shadow
Slide Away
Whatever
Live Forever
Rock ’n’ Roll Star

Encore
The Masterplan (sung by Noel)
Don’t Look Back in Anger (sung by Noel)
Wonderwall
Champagne Supernova

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
24. The Independent: In Cardiff, Oasis deliver the rock reunion to end them all *****
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 09:58 PM
Jul 4
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/oasis-review-cardiff-liam-noel-gallagher-setlist-songs-b2781709.html

-snip-

And so, after much fan frenzy and media frothing, finally begins the rock reunion to end them all. And that’s no overstatement. It’s tough to imagine another non-pop comeback on such a momentous scale that might keep the reunion industry ticking over in years to come. Could The Smiths fill seven Wembley Stadiums overnight? A reunited Pink Floyd? Led Zeppelin, even? And what are the chances of those ever happening?

To fully conceive the significance of the Oasis reunion we must finally crystalise their place in rock’n’roll history. Throughout the Nineties they cockily aspired to be the biggest British band since The Beatles, and by some measures they were. The Stones, Queen, Zep, U2 and Floyd all had their triumphal eras and several shifted more units, but consider this – if all 2 million people who applied for tickets to see Oasis at Knebworth in 1996 had got one, the band would have played 16 nights there.

That was the mark of a true phenomenon; in comparison, punk was but a (extraordinarily influential) flash in the pan. And – uniquely – it’s a phenomenon that the bucket hat-wearing hordes of Cardiff’s Principality Stadium get to relive authentically on Friday night. Unlike the recent Blur and Pulp reunions, the euphoria involved in watching the Gallagher brothers together onstage after 16 years of virulent animosity is little to do with hearing these songs played live again. Although, over two hours of Oasis hits uninterrupted by solo material is a massive fan rush that has much of this mixed and surprisingly unladdish crowd roaring along like Britpop warriors throughout. There’s not much of the setlist that you couldn’t have heard any time in the past 10 years or so performed by one Gallagher or the other. Yes, there is a life-affirming Hollywood ending to the sight of warring brothers united after such a long, vicious and tawdry online soap opera, described by one hysterical backstage newscaster as “Shakespearean”. But that too is only a third of the “Morning Glory” story.

The real underlying thrill is of a historical moment fully revived. For all the laddish boorishness that Oasis undoubtedly encapsulated, the Britpop era, for Millennials and Gen Zers alike, is as halcyon as Beatlemania or the summer of love – a time of vivid colour, jubilant melody, political stability and affordable flats. And to be a part of this second wind of torrid Oasismania, hyped by effusive press coverage and leading to historic shows such as this one, is as close to actually “being there” as it’s possible to get. For this multi-generational crowd, both nostalgia heads and those who’ve waited a whole lifetime to spend a day in the Gallaghers’s reflected sunshine, Oasis in Cardiff is their bona fide Shea Stadium 1965. Two million wanted Knebworth ‘96 tickets; 14 million wanted tickets to this tour. This generation’s Oasis moment is now.

-snip-


And the review concludes, "To a reviewer who saw Oasis both at Knebworth and on many a post-Nineties slogathon, this is the best they’ve been since ‘96. Some might say better."

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
25. I thought we probably had more Oasis fans here. :)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jul 5

There are more reviews of last night's concert this morning, apparently mostly raves.

As a reunion concert, I thought it was extremely successful. Oasis sounded as good as they had in the '90s, and it was a great setlist. I hope the rest of the tour will go as well as the first night, for the sake of the fans.

I thought the last paragraph of what I quoted from The Independent's review in the reply above was key to how important this reunion was:


The real underlying thrill is of a historical moment fully revived. For all the laddish boorishness that Oasis undoubtedly encapsulated, the Britpop era, for Millennials and Gen Zers alike, is as halcyon as Beatlemania or the summer of love – a time of vivid colour, jubilant melody, political stability and affordable flats. And to be a part of this second wind of torrid Oasismania, hyped by effusive press coverage and leading to historic shows such as this one, is as close to actually “being there” as it’s possible to get. For this multi-generational crowd, both nostalgia heads and those who’ve waited a whole lifetime to spend a day in the Gallaghers’s reflected sunshine, Oasis in Cardiff is their bona fide Shea Stadium 1965. Two million wanted Knebworth ‘96 tickets; 14 million wanted tickets to this tour. This generation’s Oasis moment is now.


Oasis really delivered for those fans, and they deserve credit for that. They'll almost certainly get a very successful concert DVD and album from the tour, maybe using just last night's concert.

I was never that much of an Oasis fan, though I could see why they appealed to others, especially their generation, who hadn't grown up with new music from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and so many other legendary artists. I'd thought the first album by the Stone Roses (a big influence on both Liam Gallagher - https://www.nme.com/news/music/liam-gallagher-opens-stone-roses-meant-much-growing-2155913 - and Noel - https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/noel-gallaghers-high-flying-birds/noel-gallagher-recalls-first-time-stone-roses/ ), released in.1989, was much better than anything Oasis did. And I'd had great hopes for the Seahorses, the band Roses guitarist John Squire put together after the Roses broke up the first time - Liam even cowrote a song with John for their 1997 album - but they split up (over creative differences mostly due to John, with him not wanting to share the songwriting, and often playing so loud he drowned out the others - particularly disappointing given how talented a singer and songwriter Chris Helme was). But we never got to see where their Led-Zeppelin-Beatles sound mix would take them.

If this Oasis tour leads to more young artists being inspired by Britpop or the classic rock that inspired it, that will be a good thing. I want to hear more bands producing melodic rock again. I want to hear more bands again, period.

Even if there's sibling rivalry. I have two kid brothers who don't get along, so Liam and Noel squabbling didn't surprise me. I hope they can get through the reunion tour before blowing up again. For their sake, and their fans'.

Kudos to them for what they did last night.

IcyPeas

(23,919 posts)
32. The good old days...
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:27 PM
Jul 5
... time of vivid colour, jubilant melody, political stability and affordable flats...

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
35. Well, the political stability was Tories in power for a long time, 1979-1997 (John Major succeeding
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:10 PM
Jul 6

Margaret Thatcher in 1990, then finally Labour regaining power, led by Tony Blair). And the "affordable flats" might've had something to do with a recession and housing market crash in the early '90s. But melodic rock becoming ascendant again then probably made everything seem brighter and more hopeful. Especially for teenagers.

And the Stone Roses had already done a lot to push music in that direction with their debut album in 1989. It would be hard for any rock song to sound more jubilant than this:



Traildogbob

(11,518 posts)
26. So cool
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 12:46 PM
Jul 5

Thank all of you for videos. This helps so much during our hell on earth in America to have some joy and share it with others that love this band and a few hours away from all that is wrong, and a feeling of helplessness to it all. Much more of this reuniting stuff and lots less of all the other shit.
How about one day of nothing but concert footage and animal videos with nothing about the Satan and his cult. One day of no news no free airtime to that canker on a hemorrhoid.
Every Sunday just a break from the other. Gawd even took one day off.
Thank you OASIS fans for sharing that time of fun with us all. Hell of a great way to start a Saturday morning.
Tour De France, lots a soccer all day and the Prefontain classic at 4 EST and OASIS reunion videos. And too day hot to be outside.
I may dig way down in the closet, get my old sea bag and find some 4-6 year old bud that needs attention.
And thank you Gallagher brothers for showing we can get back together, and do good.


highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
27. Glad you enjoyed this thread! Yes, we do all need breaks from the political nightmare.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 01:16 PM
Jul 5

I've depended so much on music to help me through it.

Traildogbob

(11,518 posts)
28. Same here
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 01:27 PM
Jul 5

May be losing my hearing with headphones on to escape, most of every day, but then I would never hear him again.
Thanks again for this awesome post. And all that contributed.

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
29. You're very welcome! I posted all the messages in this thread before yours, sorting through lots of
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 01:45 PM
Jul 5

YouTube videos last night as they appeared there. I hadn't planned to post every song they did, but decided I should since this was such an important concert, and after initially being very unhappy with the quality of the YT videos I saw, I started finding better ones.

We both owe thanks to the fans posting the videos on YouTube.

ProfessorGAC

(73,651 posts)
36. Some Good Stuff
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:48 PM
Jul 6

I wish there were some videos with legit audio. I'm sure it would be way better than phone recordings. Like a thousand times better.
Are they on a full tour, or was this a single event?

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
37. Full tour, and they're also recording, so there should be a double album and DVD, and both should be
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:59 PM
Jul 6

spectacular.

highplainsdem

(57,420 posts)
38. Btw, I noticed while looking at the full tour schedule, which you can find here
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Jul 7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_Live_%2725_Tour

that although they're doing as many as 5 shows at some stadiums, they never do more than two nights in a row. I gather from fan comments I've seen that this is to protect Liam's voice. At least they are singing live, not lip-syncing like some acts.

Though we still might end up with songs on the album and film I'm sure we'll get being pieced together from more than one night, as was the case with the film of Liam at Knebworth three years ago, which I just added to the OP here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034147633 .

That sort of thing isn't unusual for concert films, though.
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