Oasis didn’t just return to Sydney on Saturday night, they turned Accor Stadium into something almost mythic: a packed house of 80,000 people who, for once, mostly forgot to film anything at all.

In an era where you can barely see a stage for the forest of raised phones, the Gallagher brothers managed something rarer than a reunion: they made a crowd this size profoundly present.

People, for the most part, weren’t capturing the moment; they were inside it.

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In the end, it was everything at once, a wave of nostalgia crashing into a triumphant return, a stadium-scale gig that somehow felt intimate because 80,000 people chose singing over filming.

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