Same, I thought it would be business as usual. Maybe an announcement equal to that of the split, big news, certainly for those who care but also a lot of indifference with none of their albums shooting up the charts. And people get on with their lives.

Now we're back to 90s level hype. Even my mum brought it up unprompted in a conversation on the phone and she doesn't know anything about them!

This ain't kalas, doesn't write like him.

Mind you if they do fuck the second half of an album again, it will give us plenty of material to discuss over the next 15 years.

Relax. Tour announcement videos aren't a big thing, I barely watched it myself, seen all the montages before.

Also, the silence is coordinated. It builds anticipation but given the importance of comms for ticket sales, it's important they don't muddy the waters with messages flying around right left and centre.

When the time comes to talk, it just allows for more exposure further down the line.

As an aside, I actually like Pulp and Suede too!

Well you've just summed up the media representation of the working class. If it's not negative stereotypes (the ugly right wing piss throwing brigade), it's positive discrimination of an undervalued 'intellectual' class.

For those 'protectors of the working class' in the media, the likes of your Stuart Maconies, John Harris, Paul Morleys, and Simon Prices, they project this romantic middle class idea of the working class, as if it's an underrepresented, romantic, rebellious and intellectual group of people.

And of course the middle class Guardian types lap it up because, hey, this group of urchins seem oh so civilised and sophisticated, and haven't they done well for themselves. So tick that box, the likes of Price speak to an audience that gives them their only experience of working class reflections, an audience that secretly would rather be dead than visit a council estate. Price et.al. base their entire careers from the approval of middle classes.

And then there's the unspoken unrepresented majority of working class folk. People like you and me who are not represented in the media. We don't adhere to the right wing thuggery nor the pseudo-intellectual polishing of the working class.

Unfortunately we don't suit a simple binary narrative of ignorant and naive middle class assumptions.

The majority of us are peaceful, fair minded folk, not racist thugs and at the same time, don't feel the need to intellectualise every bit of culture if we happen to like it.

And so to narrow minded idiots like Simon Price and his lackies in the media, I love Oasis. They are not art. They are not intellectual. They are not sophisticated. They are not rebellious. But music, going back to campfire singalongs, was never originally these things. If it speaks a truth, a communal truth through sincere emotional melodies that aligns with lyrical sentiments, then it's music that speaks to the heart and not the mind. It can just make you believe in better things. It's an emotional and expressive thing, and that makes it as great and impactful as Price and his ilks far more intelligent and artsy band.

I don't need Price projecting his insecurities by thought policing my musical tastes but he crosses the line with his reductive takes on working class ethics, a class of which he evidently has no proximity to anymore.

Yes and according to Price, what working class people they do represent is just the vile horrible racist lot. Obviously good working class people never liked Oasis, as Price is the gatekeeper of their tastes. His binary, stupidly simplistic take is spoken like somebody who is so far removed from the working class, like most of the media bubble.

Price also boasts he's apparently more working class than the Gallaghers so speaks for them more than Oasis.

He also fails to mention he went to public school.

Liams had his phone taken away from him by Debbie it seems.

Echoing Anais Gallaghers social media post, I'd much rather some teenagers wearing pink cowboy hats who are only there for Wonderwall and social media likes than piss throwing bellends. That's how bad they are, and I always thought the young modern concert goer was ruining the live spectacle.

Hopefully demographs have changed in 15 years since and the appeal the band has to Gen Z overawes the knuckledraggers.

Still can't believe it took 15 years. That's much longer than the average pop/rock group split.

I think in my mind back in 2009, it was going to be a five year break max and they'd come back. So essentially wasn't too disappointed what with both Noel and Liam material to follow.

But the years just crept by. And so it went on and on. We just got normalised to life without Oasis, but discussing album rumours, producer choices and setlists the last day or two, it all feels so normal again.

Like an old friend you haven't seen in years, you're overwhelmed to see them again but like a true friend, familiarity takes hold not long after.

And that would be a failure of a decision.

I know Liam's albums are not perfect but things like Wall of Glass or Everything's Electric hit harder than any sound Noel has produced on his guitar based rockier solo moments. It's just a dull lifeless sludge of a sound.

I also don't want to sound like a A&R man, but it would be good for them to capitalise on this hype by really grabbing the audiences attention with a visceral sound that makes you sit up and stands out on the radio (just like they did with Owen Morris and Definitely Maybe) rather than handing production duties for this now massive thing to a bunch of dithering 50-something year olds in Noel's camp who are out of touch with what excites listeners.