General Random Conversation..

[PaddockLad 19341]

Saw Noel at a venue 7 mins from where I live earlier this year. Second half of which was an Oasis fest. Left before the encore. They’ve been played to fuckin death, him and his brother were refreshingly normal council estate kids 30 years ago but now they’re boring middle aged wankers like the rest of us…so yeah, judging by what’s being said on a couple of WhatsApp groups someone will be trying to get me a ticket 😆

[Alex 37304]

Liam’s just a bit thick but Noel comes across as a proper cunt 

[Kid Dynamite 7825]

As an "alternative" kid In the mid 90s I was banging out Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Green Day, Rancid, Offspring, RATM, Soundgarden etc.
 

I never got on the whole Britpop/Indie train so can thankfully watch the scramble for tickets from afar! 

[NJS 4645]

30 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

I liked the first two albums, and then thought it was largely a procession of genuine shite with a few good songs dropped in here and there. I would class myself as a fan though, but I couldn't be less interested in this. 

 

The return and all the will they/won't they that preceded it. 

 

I am interested to see the shock horror response to the price of the tickets though. 

Same here though I did see them a couple of times and thoroughly enjoyed them at the time. 

 

I've no interest in the reunion. 

[Alex 37304]

2 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

I never got on the whole Britpop/Indie train so can thankfully watch the scramble for tickets from afar! 

Tbh it even felt quite manufactured at the time. The peak being the Blur v Oasis and who was going to be number one. I think I’ve mentioned it on here before but it came on the news about it when a few of us were round at my mates. We’d all have been in our early twenties and literally none of us gave a shite. Also I’m not sure how much in common, beyond being guitar based indie groups, a lot of the bands actually had with each other. 
Having said that, Oasis were undoubtedly a huge phenomenon. As evidenced by the amount of twats walking around looking like they simultaneously had a stone in their shoe, had shit their pants and were carrying two rolls of invisible carpet 

[Gemmill 51251]

29 minutes ago, NJS said:

Same here though I did see them a couple of times and thoroughly enjoyed them at the time. 

 

I've no interest in the reunion. 

 

Same. There definitely was something about them live. A weird amount of energy produced on stage by blokes who barely shifted. 

 

I suspect that energy has long since left the room.

 

[Gemmill 51251]

It'll be impossible to get an objective view on how this goes though. There'll be a huge majority who won't say it was anything other than the 90s all over again, and a minority who have already decided today that they're gonna say it was shite. 

[Gemmill 51251]

The worst thing about it for most is gonna be traipsing away from the venue and remembering that your in your 50s now. 

[strawb 4671]

The best thing about this is going to be the pictures of lads in the 40/50’s who never grew out of the “scene” but certainly got a lot fatter, and I can’t wait.

[Gemmill 51251]

Big round faces and double chins with bad dye-jobs on their wispy sideburns. Burberry shirts with serious button-gape. The return of the monkey-walk. 

[Howmanheyman 37178]

[Meenzer 16623]

I hope they open with "Little James" just to fuck with everyone. £300 for a ticket, at least the same for travel and accommodation, beers a tenner each at venue prices, and then:

 

Live for your TOOOOOOOOYS

Even though they make NOOOOOOOOISE

[Alex 37304]

24 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

I hope they open with "Little James" just to fuck with everyone. £300 for a ticket, at least the same for travel and accommodation, beers a tenner each at venue prices, and then:

 

Live for your TOOOOOOOOYS

Even though they make NOOOOOOOOISE

Is that the actual ticket price or is it just speculation? 

[Meenzer 16623]

Just exaggerating for effect - I'm sure the top ticket band will be well into three figures because that's big gigs for you these days, but I hope for everyone's sake it won't be quite that bad. The drinks prices, on the other hand... 😬

[Alex 37304]

3 hours ago, Isegrim said:

Don’t we all?

It says it’s out of spite but do they know if the fish said anything to annoy them first? 
Makes you think 

[Alex 37304]

[Ayatollah Hermione 14820]

Quite a big thing stopping The Smiths reuniting tbf. And I don’t just mean Morrissey being a cunt 

[Monkeys Fist 45838]

This is next summer , the reunion tour? 
 

What are the odds that they’ll have fallen out again by then and the whole thing is called off. 

[Howmanheyman 37178]

I took the missus for a hospital appointment and oasis were on the radio, we came back and it was on a different station, yep oasis on again. I then nipped out to get some shopping and on the news the first story was this with the radio station news presenter saying 'Well people will have been getting their old radio cassette players out and their old CDs of oasis as the band have announced a reunion tour.....blah, blah.' I fucking hate radio news, they're the worst kind of smug, no fuck all type of office cunt around, like.  I mean, just the shit patter premise that this announcement has galvanised oasis fans to listen to them as if they haven't listened to them since the 90s? I couldn't give a fuck either way but the way they jump on anything and exaggerate everything to fuck. Dear Christ, man. Fuck. Off.

[Howmanheyman 37178]

Bit of a wykiki moment, there.

[Tdansmith 3260]

3 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

This is next summer , the reunion tour? 
 

What are the odds that they’ll have fallen out again by then and the whole thing is called off. 

I dunno, they seem pretty close now days.

[Toonpack 11814]

3 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

Quite a big thing stopping The Smiths reuniting tbf. And I don’t just mean Morrissey being a cunt 

Aye, that big thing called crimes against humanity.

[Renton 24200]

I listened to about half of that new podcast series on Oasis on BBC Sounds, then revisited a few tracks. They've aged terribly, absolute fucking shite. I'm as bewildered this being a 'phenomenon' as I am with this Taylor Swift shite. 

I'm in an album club at work where everybody nominates an album to listen to and critique each week. Rule is nothing too mainstream. It's been lush, got to listen to a bunch of stuff that no Spotify algorithm would signpost me to, whole new genres I've previously ignored. 

BTW, Britpop was never a movement, its all manufactured shite. How can Pulp and suede be in the same genre as Oasis and Blur? Ludicrous. 

[Gemmill 51251]

The visible transition to "elderly" continues apace. 

[Renton 24200]

So, I'm enjoying 10 days in Mallorca, but despite the fact I'm not getting back until next Tuesday quite stressed. 

I've been trying to move jobs recently and my 'dream' job has come it. I'm perfectly suited to the role, but it's a competitive field and the NHS arms length body is proving very hard to break into at my level, as they like to promote from within. 

But I spent a long time on the application and have been given a job interview. Trouble is, it's first thing in the morning the day after I get back (late) from holiday. Not ideal. But now they have emailed me and I have to do a presentation, subject TBC, but will likely be highly technical involving a lot of research to do properly. 

FML tbh. I trying to be c'est la vie about this but it's taken me 6 months to get this far and now I just feel hugely disadvantaged. The job application is handled through a third party so there is nobody I can contact and will just have to do it. 

My wife is desperate to change her job and has landed a job interview and presentation for her potential dream job. Time and date, exactly the same as mine.

You have to laugh.