Oasis Reunion. Its finally happening😱

Might be able to get my hands on some Brasso…

But hang on there, give the man a chance, he's been very busy organising the local GAA club bus full of kids heading for the free "kids' zone" he informed us was definitely happening for the Coldplay gigs! He also mentioned that Coldplay were doing a free charity gig, "for the kids", last Saturday - no word on that since, funnily enough.

Cmon, admit it, can you imagine the attention and atmosphere it would create if this actually happened and everyone was paid back the surplus !!

And then as the final song “don’t look back in anger” EPIC vibes !!!

There's bands louder and heavier with distortion, the sound the Kinks first created, which is the origin of what became heavy metal. Don't worry I know my history.

Oasis simply don't use that, their sound more raw, pounding and bigger in scope than any band before or since, regardless of how loud any band has gone.

The force of Oasis' music has simply never been seen before or since, they landed onto the scene with an absolute balls to the wall sound, a statement of intent that blew everything away. It sent them supernova.

Slipknot and the like can bang as loud as they want, their sound will never be as big or as heavy as Oasis, in scope, force, or real guitar playing.

Maybe I'm not explaining it well, but surely people should be able to grasp the point!

No one to this day has gone as big as Oasis in the force and sound of their music, which is absolutely huge! People wonder why Oasis are so big and can't figure it out, that's the reason why. Their sound is simply off the charts "big"!

I think the two lads have burned any cred they had left with this cash heist. I loved the band back in the day but lost interest after the third album gradually. I didn’t think a lot of the solo efforts either but the latest stuff Liam did with John Squire was great IMHO.

At this point though i don’t want to hear a bit from either of them again. I honestly wouldn’t crud the road to see them now even if I got the ticket for nothing. Talk about giving fans what they’ve been waiting tests for but in such a way that it’s really just a massive kick in the nads for most. I’d have traveled abroad if they were doing a euro leg ads had a weekend away even if I didn’t get UK/Ireland tickets but if they even have any more legs and continue with the same craic they can shag off.

You're definitely not explaining it well, as soon as you said "real guitar playing", I knew you hadn't a clue what you were talking about.

Ye fair point, that's not really "explaining it" either. Dont mean "real guitar playing" from a technically skilled point of view, but the sound. Surely you can see what I'm getting at generally though, no? Doesn't matter I suppose, I'll drop it, can't seem to find the words to get across what I mean in that sense

It's as heavy as a guitar can go, without what I like to refer to, as the kinks distortion. And it's not just that, there's simply a force to their sound, not seen before or since. Hard to put a finger on how they do it, but they do.

Theres a pounding/thumping element to their music, that is heavier than anything that's gone before, when you look at the term heavy in that sense, big and forceful, pounding and raw. No band has really done that before or since, it's what separates them!

There was a resident on Newstalk the other day discussing their allocations and other general stuff about the gigs at Croke Park. Everyone within a 1.5kms radius of the stadium is classified as a resident and goes into the draw. She estimated the number of households to be in the thousands so based on that, there wouldn't be anywhere near enough tickets for everyone!

Emh! Yea I did buy,

Ok not for me for my daughter who was out of the country, and was willing to travel to see them,

As you can see above this is my first post,

I’ve been reading all this topic since Saturday night, and all very interesting and actually better than watching the tv the last 3 nights, so fair play to everyone,

I was trying to find out, what the hell happened Saturday morning and was I the only one that this happened to, I do use ticket master but never where I’m feeling so much pressure,

I joined queue at 7.30 on 2 devices, phone and tablet, was babysitting my nephew who’s mother left me with her tablet to see if I could get her tickets,

At 8 my tablet went to number 322 in queue, phone said 547 (yea even I was in shiock at how low those numbers were) and her tablet said 14k within 1 minute My tablet got to number 1 and then error 404 or something, so that was abandoned, then phone got number 1 and I got in at 8.02, I bleeding thought wow I am in surely I can get tickets, presses for 4 tickets and I got the usual circle going around and waiting confirmation, which actually went on for nearly 2 hours, and then crashed, so only nieces tablet is now still in queue, at 8.30 I got in on hers, this time it did actually tell me no tickets left in the normal price levels, and niece had given me a max off 200 for her tickets, so I made the excecutive decision knowing fully that you could get a refund in the 24hr time period to go for the gold circle standing, for my daughter because that was the next cheapest, it gave me 4 saying what extras you got with these tickets, merchandise etc,

I accepted them and checked out in 3 mins cos all details were all in ready to do quick check out,

Great you may all say, fair play but what’s the issue,
But you see this is real problem,well it’s more a hey what just happened there, and I probably don’t have a leg to stand on with Ticketmaster, but instead of getting a email with 4 gold circle tickets at just gone 8.40am we got a email with 4 IN DEMAND tickets, but yet there had being no in demand buttons on page when I was picking tickets. I have emailed Ticketmaster, probably won’t hear anything back, my daughter is happy she doesn’t have to travel too far, but yes the whole thing has being done very slyly,

So why I started reading all this forum for was to see if anyone could tell me

1. What time did Dynamic pricing start showing up On the screen, does anyone remember seeing it before 9,

2. Would anyone else like to own up to this happening to them,

yes it’s kinda weird feeling great got daughter her ticket's but yet quite sickened.

and yes I hate multi national companies thinking they can just do whatever they want,

Ahh well cheers if you read all this.

god you are nuts.

Thanks for this excellent summary of what happened at the weekend. This reminds me of the annual online scrum for Glastonbury tickets every October. I'm convinced there are IT professionals and bots spamming these big online sales which locks all regular trusting folk out. It makes sense when you see the same people go to Glastonbury year after year after year and from your description it looks like the same tactics were deployed throughout the UK and Ireland on Saturday. There is no reason at all why you should have been kicked out at so high a point in the queue.

You seem to be unwittingly acknowledging they had a brilliant sound engineer and producer back in the day who carved out that sound for them - that's what you're saying without realizing.

Prince in his Purple Rain era with the dirty mix of synths and almost "sizzling" guitars is a good example. That sound was created for him by a sound engineer called Susan Rogers. Listen to other Prince albums (yes I know he's brilliant) where she wasn't working and you won't hear the same depth and scope.

Well I’m speaking for myself. I hope the gigs are good. I hope those who got tickets enjoy every minute of it. Springsteen, Pearl Jam etc will tour again and again. The ticket system is crap. I don’t dispute that. What pi$$es md off now is the two lads leveraging their fan base to extract the maximum amount of money for the least amount of work. It’s a smash and grab effectively. I don’t think they intend to do a more extensive tour.

I wouldn’t feel this way if I believed that Oasis was now to be a project they’d tour every so often and maybe resurrect for festivals from time to time. Instead it looks like both lads need money so it’s a half arsed effort with only money in mind. It’s a blatant 2-fingers to the fans. Message received lads.

Sorry but that is so subjective - I will leave you to it.

Oasis use HUGE amounts of guitar effects and distortion on much of the first 2 albums (I am most familiar with).

All I want to say is there are much louder/“forceful” “big” sounding bands in the heavy metal genre which you should check out if that is what you are after.

At least he’s sensible staying off twitter. Lots of pissed off people out there. They’d be pissed off anyway, millions of fans vying for a few hundred thousand tickets overall. The sales fiasco however would have turned a bit of ire into a raging mob. I’d stay off twitter too if it was me.

Having already seen Liam this year (for 80 quid) playing all the hits and sounding great paying 250-500 quid or whatever for what will be a weaker setlist is baffling.

Reports apparently have come out saying it'll be none of the original lineup bar Liam and Noel, and that members of High Flying Birds will play with them.

I'm as much a sceptic as any about those "prices from" jobbies but the seats are actually decent Upper Tier, not far from halfway line so not sure how the view could be considered so restricted.

And definitely feeling lucky as with 1000 forms filled in <5 mins, well there'd easily be multiple 1000s if not in to 10,000s at a guess. It's based on a 1.5km radius within Croker and then whoever is on the ball enough to have signed up in the first instance.

That’s another kicker IMHO. For a big payday you’d expect them to at least reach out to the former members and get some on board if they were willing or available. Using HFB is kind of a bummer. I think that’s be fine for festival gigs as it’d be practical but now it just kind of feeds into the opportunism factor already at play.

yeah that’s it. Oasis were the soundtrack of my last two years in college in the 90s. I’ve enjoyed seeing them over the years. Back at that stage I was discovering the Beatles and really being into that so I can easily see much younger favs being at the stage of discovering Oasis and getting into their stuff. I couldn’t have afforded the 90s equivalent of a €400 ticket. Probably the sane with young fans now. Fine do the cash grab shows but at least swing back and allow those fans and old timers like myself to go along. The only people seeing them now are the super favs, and fair play to them, or the well heeled and poser types who absolutely have to be at the trendy gig of the year.

If you like that sound, check out the band Rival Sons, Big ballsy bluesy rock, Pressure and Time is a great album.

A lot of Metal bands would have a sound that is far bigger, but I don't think it would be your cup of tea.

I heard that lady on Newstalk. And to be honest, she hadn't a clue and her story changed every minute. A pointless interview.

No way to no what the plans are for Oasis long term yet, but given that a European tour looks like it will happen in 2026, they will be around until then at least. I heard off someone they tried to get them to play Slane this year, of course no idea how true that is, but you’d assume that would be a possibility for them