it was so good i almost cried

is anyone going to put any vids on Youtube.

Great show. Had front row seats directly in front of Noel. Unfortunately did not get the tambourine as a guy 4-5 people down from me did. Got one of Noel's guitar picks though. Agree with the guy earlier that the sound for Ryan Adams was a bit too loud, but for the Oasis set. I would have to say the Security was tight, but really you have to with some of the drunks and mooks that were there. I was getting annoyed with the people who would sneak into the first row, that didnt belong there when we all paid extra money on ticketmaster auctions for those seats.

A few highlights:
-Noel spotting a 10 year old behind us and dedicated Masterplan to her. He asked if her parents couldnt find a babysitter. I heard the people talking and it was actually her birthday. He then said that girl will be buying a lot of Oasis stuff through her years.
-People making song requests. Why be that annoying guy? You know the person who yells out Aquiesce the whole show, despite them not going to change the setlist for you. That was quite annoying. Noel finally responded to this mook and said we don't take requests and that he didn't spend all this time on the setlist to throw it out the window. Someone requested Whatever to Liam and he say "no fucking chance". If you are going to make a request least making it an interesting one like "Record Machine" or "Purple Parrellagram".
-Another annoying thing is people that act like and say they are the biggest Oasis fans to others at shows to seem cool. This was on hand with the mooks behind us. Heard them talking and the girl had stated she is a huge fan and has been following them since 1994 (of course to sound cool). Then throughout the conversation she said that she has never seen them though and had to come to this one since they havent visited the states in over 10 years. My wife and I looked at each other and laughed. Cmon. Then throughout the concert would only sing stuff off the first two albums, she didnt even know lyla. The also acted as if they were at Woodstock with their hypnotic dance throughout the show. I hope they were on something.
-Merchandise was a bit expensive, but it seemed a lot of people were buying shirts and programs.
-Ryan Adams was spot on, didnt know he sung some of the songs he did. Pretty good. Redwalls might have been better, but they are in the UK right now.

Again overall great show.

Here are some pics.

Show was nothing short of AMAZING. My mother and I agree it was probably the best concert we have ever been to. There seemed to be energy throughout the arena for nearly EVERY song. I had no idea Americans were so good at Don't Look Back in Anger.....

it's "were" not "where" goddammit!

get over it were ,, or where you get my fucking point ,, i was typing that with a terrible hangover from this morning ,, looks like the gestapo has moved into this forum , are you sure you dont work at the allstate arena

here's some photos i took:

^lions? ;D

thanks for the pics, guys.

Oasis makes it clear: Nobody does it better


Have you ever had the experience of getting a truly annoying but irresistibly catchy tune stuck inside your head?

The popular name for this phenomenon is an “earworm.” Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks (best known for being portrayed by Robin Williams in “Awakenings”) writes about it in his recent book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and he summarized his thoughts in an interview with Wired magazine.


Oasis returns from Britain with a new album and a new tour.


“I can’t help wondering if the incidence of earworms and musical hallucinations is higher now, with background music in every public place,” Sacks said. “You can’t go to a restaurant without music, and they get offended if you ask them to turn it off ... The brain is very sensitive to music; you don’t have to attend to it to record it internally and be affected by it.”

In other words, pity the poor soul who catches a snippet of Britney Spears' "Womanizer" and then can't get it out of his or her head. Thankfully, a friend of mine has come up with the perfect solution when such a song is stuck on auto-repeat in your brain: Just sing "Champagne Supernova" by Oasis instead. It's also insanely catchy, but as my buddy says, "it isn't quite sticky enough to get lodged in your head, so once you've gone through the refrain and the chorus, not only is the prior earworm gone, so too is 'Champagne Supernova.'

"They must have had this in mind when they wrote it," he adds, "because what's a supernova, after all? It's a violent, intergalactic explosion that irradiates everything within its constellation. And champagne? Kills brain cells off faster than a Michael Crichton book. Put the two together and any other song doesn't stand a chance in your head. Then, just like its namesake, it disappears and all is right in the universe."

I have been writing about Oasis since it first emerged on the music scene with "Definitely Maybe" in 1994, and if there's ever been a better explanation for the appeal, however fleeting, of the Brothers Gallagher's brand of Brit Pop, I haven't heard it.

Superstars on the level of David Beckham at home in the U.K., Oasis won its biggest audience in the United States with "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" in 1995, selling nearly 4 million copies. But as USA Today recently pointed out, that's seven times the combined total of the group's last three studio albums, including this year's "Dig Out Your Soul," the group's seventh album.

Nevertheless, in their charmlessly boastful fashion, the Gallaghers maintain that they're the best rock band in the world. "I don't say that for the sake of saying it," vocalist Liam said. "There are other good bands. They're just not as good as Oasis."

In other interviews, Liam has been busy trying to drum up a feud with Coldplay to match its old rivalry with Blur -- "I don't give a s--- about Coldplay. We are the coolest band and we are the best f-----g band. We are the most important band. We may not be the biggest band in America, but who would want that?" he told the India Times -- while his equally quotable songwriting brother Noel confessed to the BBC that he "doesn't remember" anything that took place between 1994 and 1998, the years that yielded the band's best music, but that, nevertheless, narcotics never affected him "mentally or physically," he just took them because it was "f-----g brilliant."

Oh, those boys. The fact is, no matter what they say, legions of their fans agree that Oasis cannot be topped. Go ahead: Dare to suggest that "Dig Out Your Soul" not only finds the band once again attempting to rewrite the droning psychedelic pop of the Beatles' "Revolver" as a series of sing-along soccer chants, but does so with less energy and more disappointing results than previous efforts (as I did in my review of the disc).

Or note that, in concert, Liam's moping, enervated presence and the decided lack of charisma on the part of the rest of the band -- which is now completed by guitarist Gem Archer, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock, who recently replaced Zak Starkey -- means you might as well stay home and listen to the recordings (as I've contended almost every time I've reviewed the group).

It doesn't matter: The Oasis fans stand by their band.

The fact is, at least a few times during every Oasis gig -- say, during "Cigarettes and Alcohol," "Wonderwall" or "Champagne Supernova" -- you'll find yourself irresistibly drawn in and inevitably singing along. The only questions are: Will you give any of them a second thought as soon as the last chord rings out? And is that really all it takes to be the best rock band in the world?

www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/poprock/1326769,WKP-News-live12.article

That "review" was written before the concert. It came out on Friday morning.