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Post by matt on Sept 2, 2024 8:34:43 GMT -5
Come on Noel, where's your anti-corporate, anti-exploitative stance now. Remember this, the tension with Liam promoting Pretty Green? "I didn't think it was right for Liam to be flogging gear to our fans". So a parka is where you draw the line, but not £1000 tickets? Suddenly 'your fans' are meaningless now. Wasn't the problem that Liam didn't want Pretty Green to pay for the advert(s)? If it was Coca Cola or Jack Daniels' for example, they would have been charged. "Our fans" suggests it was a point of principle and not selling out. Something they've done here with this ticket fiasco. |
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Post by matt on Sept 2, 2024 8:24:18 GMT -5
Come on Noel, where's your anti-corporate, anti-exploitative stance now.
Remember this, the tension with Liam promoting Pretty Green? "I didn't think it was right for Liam to be flogging gear to our fans".
So a parka is where you draw the line, but not £1000 tickets?
Suddenly 'your fans' are meaningless now.
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Post by matt on Sept 2, 2024 8:19:51 GMT -5
The atmosphere around this isn't quite on the mark, at this moment. The return of Oasis should feel like a party! Give me some interviews with the brothers! Give me recreations of classic photoshoots! Make it seems like there's a feeling of communal fun and effort driving this, rather than monochrome frowning pictures and fleecing your own fans. At the moment, it's a bit "Your Low-Effort Nostalgia Cash-In; Brought to you by Sara MacDonald". Ignition management, with their awful PR, will no doubt be telling them to ride it out, shut up and it'll die down. Unfortunately these things people don't forget about. |
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Post by matt on Sept 2, 2024 7:41:53 GMT -5
Achievement of the Year?
Me getting blocked by Simon Price on twitter for calling him a 'student level ranter'.
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Post by matt on Sept 2, 2024 6:49:14 GMT -5
Let me guess. The government (whichever Western 'democracy') will let them get away with it. You shouldn't confuse democracy with capitalism. Capitalism 101: Supply and demand But don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism though some things, like dynamic pricing, should be illegal. But can also see why they are not - as (declared) egalitarianism never brought any good to people... Hard subject. Don't get me wrong, not advocating communism! Fed up of our living standards being stolen by greedy corporations. |
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Post by matt on Sept 2, 2024 5:34:03 GMT -5
Supermarkets are testing doing it also. Water being more expensive on hot days etc. Yeah in some supermarkets they've replaced price tags with digital ones so they can change it through the day. Let me guess. The government (whichever Western 'democracy') will let them get away with it. |
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Post by matt on Sept 1, 2024 17:31:04 GMT -5
It's a pissin joke and if Noel and Liam actually think forking out £1000 for two hours concer is sensible then they can shove it up their wonderwalls.
No surprise to see Marcus Russell's dirty hands over this.
From bean to cup, Ignition fuck up.
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Post by matt on Sept 1, 2024 16:41:20 GMT -5
Think the band have personally dropped the ball massively on the dynamic pricing.
All positive headlines and accolades and they've burst the bubble due to greed.
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Post by matt on Sept 1, 2024 11:31:02 GMT -5
He'd done his photoshoot with Liam before that gig no? |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 18:48:58 GMT -5
Yes all good here thanks, great to have you back. Stick around will you, I'm keen to see the Dons do well this year! Yeah I'll definitely be sticking around, went through a bit of a metal phase and didn't have time for the forum with general life but back after this week's news! Genuinely cannot believe I'm going to see Oasis live. Thought Liam in Manchester 2017 would be the closest I'd ever get. Incredible stuff, how on earth did you get tickets? Still yet to see the big O myself. |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 18:47:22 GMT -5
We gotta get Part Of The Queue to #1 this week…. Part of the Queue to be Part of the Queue |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 18:32:21 GMT -5
Ha, was back in the Granite City a few weeks back for a couple of days, stranded because of fog! Had a walk around the place, a real trip down memory lane. Miss it a lot. Jimmy Thelin though, what an appointment. About time an overseas manager made waves in the league with progressive exciting stuff. Matt! Good to see you're still active here, easily one of the best posters on the forum. Can't remember when I was last active on here. Hope all is good with you mate.
Really excited about the Jimmy T era, finally a proper manager in the dugout after the disastrous post McInnes appointments. Anyone who can make Gueye and Morris look like world beaters must have something about them. Yes all good here thanks, great to have you back. Stick around will you, I'm keen to see the Dons do well this year! |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 18:31:06 GMT -5
Another theory is he might have stored Oasis like tunes away for the last 15 years as he consciously tried to get away from it. If the songs still works for him, it might give him the confidence to pursue an Oasis album. Didnt he say it multiple Times ? Its not just a theory Perhaps, might just be misremembering it. |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 18:14:49 GMT -5
Oasis tickets for Murrayfield and the Dons are fucking back baby Missed all of you on the forum, peace and love x Ha, was back in the Granite City a few weeks back for a couple of days, stranded because of fog! Had a walk around the place, a real trip down memory lane. Miss it a lot. Jimmy Thelin though, what an appointment. About time an overseas manager made waves in the league with progressive exciting stuff. |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 18:12:31 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 17:58:18 GMT -5
Going from that May clip of Noel, it sounds more like the re-union is more something to give him a break from writing and recording than something for him to write the most anticipated rock album of the decade around. I think he just wants to bag the cash, have a year of huge stadium gigs to boost his confidence, mend some family ties, and then get back to his own stuff when he's refreshed and hopefully inspired again. And I say good luck to him. I think this is the most credible scenario, but I wouldn't rule an Oasis album out completely He's gotta feel he has a good one in him and want the challenge, which I'm still not sure about, but if this gives him the right vibes why not Another theory is he might have stored Oasis like tunes away for the last 15 years as he consciously tried to get away from it. If the songs still works for him, it might give him the confidence to pursue an Oasis album. |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 17:55:22 GMT -5
Going from that May clip of Noel, it sounds more like the re-union is more something to give him a break from writing and recording than something for him to write the most anticipated rock album of the decade around. I think he just wants to bag the cash, have a year of huge stadium gigs to boost his confidence, mend some family ties, and then get back to his own stuff when he's refreshed and hopefully inspired again. And I say good luck to him. I didn't think of it like that, plus there's the pressure and scrutiny of delivering an Oasis album that he might not necessarily want. Just remember the attention Don't Stop got when it was released during lockdown four years ago. As mediocre a tune as Noel has written in Oasis, yet it received a fair bit of press. The fact he had b-sides in High Flying Birds that were a million times better is neither here nor there, he slapped the Oasis name on a throwaway tune and that automatically gave it attention. |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 16:57:33 GMT -5
How I'd love to have been a fly on the wall during that photoshoot, observing the dynamics and interactions between the two.
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 16:55:16 GMT -5
If the lads aren’t mates, what’s the point? 😔 It's The Sc*m remember. They may very well have separate travel/accommodation arrangements. But they are two massive imposing figures with their own team of people and families to deal with, more so in the 15 years since with their solo careers and the people they've worked with along the way. It's most likely a practical arrangement, and probably not without some acknowledgement of giving each other space given you're cooped up together for weeks and months. Touring tests the patience of any saint towards even their closest pal, let alone sparring brothers. That's the reality, but that news doesn't sell. Who knows what happens next week, if its rumoured both are in the south of France. Standing on the Shoulders 25th anniversary?! Or better still, going back to that recording studio to begin their eighth album! |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 16:37:30 GMT -5
The hints of social commentary in Definitely Maybe are just window dressing to an already great album, because it boils down to life affirming sentiments aligned with top class melodies that give it conviction. It's extroverted showmanship by Liam from an introverted soul in Noel. It's euphoric, it's also melancholic. The music treads a line perfectly between the two qualities, often in the same song, same melody and same lyric. No other act on earth comes close to so perfectly balancing euphoria and melancholy. It's why their optimism and happiness is not the forced theatrical fantasy of most acts (hello Queen, latter Coldplay, most popstars) because the melancholy gives it a grounding in reality. It recognises that reality but makes you believe in better things. It's not art, it's not intellectual, it's sincerely emotional. It's a primal thing, and tapping into that and bottling it up in a simple song is genius. No wonder they're still huge. That might be the most beautiful and concise summation I've seen of the dynamic at the heart of Oasis, and why it works. Someone should show that to Noel. Cheers man, I love my Oasis! |
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 3:21:33 GMT -5
Oh well, never liked them anyway...
(cries listening to Sunday Morning Call).
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 3:18:34 GMT -5
Had it neatly set up last night, logged in, a tab opened for one of the Wembley shows.
Switched on an hour before, website already crashed, 'error message, max con'.
No surprise at all!
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Post by matt on Aug 31, 2024 2:57:56 GMT -5
Going as well as expected, website crashed and lost my place in the queue.
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Post by matt on Aug 30, 2024 19:31:48 GMT -5
To be truthful, I always thought that by reuniting it would be pretty huge live. I thought the demand would immediately put them back on the A-list; they’ve been big enough, Liam especially with things like Knebworth 22 and the DM Tour, to slot right back in. I maybe didn’t expect the old catalog to see such a surge in popularity. Maybe the first 2 albums and Wonderwall denting the Top 40, but not this. I won’t lie they did pick a good time, with the reissue having already generated some interest in advance. But they still wouldnt have generated this hype if they weren’t truly in demand. The boys are back. I Listen to LBC all day at work and to hear it in the hourly headlines all week amongst the political stuff is surreal. "So yeah Keir Starmer is doing this, also Oasis".. James O'brien and Tom Swarbrick dedicating parts of their phone ins to the Oasis reunion is madness. Someone made a point that Oasis broke up in 2009 when Labour were in government and we got 14 years of the Tories. Labour come back in and we get an Oasis reunion.Because Oasis were associated with New Labour, there's this thought from social commentators that their popularity stemmed from optimism of a new government. Yet everyone fails to realise their best albums came during the Tory administration. So it discredits the idea that their music was a mere side effect to over-inflated optimism. It's such a cliche, and I'm surprised so many journalists still fall into that trap. Much like dunces like Simon Price who think Oasis presaged nationalism and Brexit. If that's the case, why are so many Gen Z youngsters jumping on board, those who know nothing of the 90s and those who are hardly catalysts for far-right ideology? Heck, even I only got into them as an angst ridden teenager at the start of a horrific recession, hardly an optimistic time... So for all the accolades the soap opera between Noel and Liam being analysed, and the 'intellectual social commentaries' on the band, I don't know why writers fail to mention that the simplest answer to all this is, as Noel says in Wibbling Rivalry, 'MUSIC! MUSIC! MUSIC!' The hints of social commentary in Definitely Maybe are just window dressing to an already great album, because it boils down to life affirming sentiments aligned with top class melodies that give it conviction. It's extroverted showmanship by Liam from an introverted soul in Noel. It's euphoric, it's also melancholic. The music treads a line perfectly between the two qualities, often in the same song, same melody and same lyric. No other act on earth comes close to so perfectly balancing euphoria and melancholy. It's why their optimism and happiness is not the forced theatrical fantasy of most acts (hello Queen, latter Coldplay, most popstars) because the melancholy gives it a grounding in reality. It recognises that reality but makes you believe in better things. It's not art, it's not intellectual, it's sincerely emotional. It's a primal thing, and tapping into that and bottling it up in a simple song is genius. No wonder they're still huge. |
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Post by matt on Aug 30, 2024 19:03:44 GMT -5
Shows that the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame is a complete sham. The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is one big joke. Basically that arsehole Jann Wenner from Rolling Stone, and a few other nobodies, who are self-appointed gatekeepers of music dictating what is and what isn't 'legendary'. It basically boils down to what appeals to narrow minded American boomers. I can't believe its still a thing. The fact that shite like Bon Jovi got inducted says it all, while Oasis and The Smiths aren't anywhere near it. Tasteless and tacky in the extreme. |
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