A firsthand account of the momentous Oasis reunion show at Wembley Stadium, reflecting on the nostalgia, excitement, and a subtle shift in the energy compared to past performances. The article analyzes the absence of boisterous chants between songs, suggesting a change in crowd dynamics maybe influenced by a younger audience and a heightened sense of 'being in the moment'. It ultimately celebrates the band’s enduring power and looks forward to their future.
With voices lost and throats hoarse, my friends and I turned to each other as waves of bucket hats and merchandise passed us by and asked each other, “What do we do now?” We didn’t mean it literally, although our last train home was confirmed as cancelled during Wonderwall, thanks to Great Western Railway.
But, a frantic sprint to London Victoria Coach Station aside, what were we to do now we’d actually seen Oasis live? It’s hard to envisage any gig that would top what we witnessed at Wembley Stadium on August 3, even taking into account the £28.50 (approximately €33) for four cans of Stella that the venue was charging. We’d screamed, jumped, cried, hugged and everything in between alongside more than 90,000 others, and now the lights were back on, and we asked again: “What do we do now?” Seeing my favourite band live seemed impossible, or half the world away, some might say (sorry). I’d been reduced to watching some of their biggest gigs on YouTube, having really become a fan of more than just the hits my parents played shortly after Liam and Noel’s infamous 2009 split, and I moved into secondary school. And I can’t help but notice, now I’ve seen Liam and Noel on stage proudly holding hands, that there was a glaring, unexpected difference from the concert I had attended and the older performances from the band’s initial run. It was even noticeable through the grainy livestreams of the reunion shows prior to mine, which I battled to watch through TikTok lives, jumping between accounts as each stream went down. There was no questioning how great the band sounded on the night, or the crowd for that matter, as tens of thousands streamed up Wembley Way, each filled with the same glee as the stranger they passed. And, like plenty have already reported, it was refreshing to be at a gig where people were ‘in the moment’, instead of watching every song through their phone screens. However, despite 90,000 singing every lyric to every song, there was a noticeable lack of chanting between songs, which had always stood out when watching past performances. There were no “Lee-um, Lee-um, Lee-um” chants , or the same for Noel when he took centre stage for brief spells. Even the standard Oasis war cry failed to get going in the time between Richard Ashcroft and the band’s countdown beginning, replaced with an inaudible droning sweeping from seating to standing and back to seating. I wasn’t alone with this thought, with some hard-nosed Oasis gig-goers pointing out the reunion shows had a softer touch to them. “We noticed this… completely different feel to the last time I saw them (2009), also less chants, we tried to get an Oasis chant going, but it fell a little flat,” Chris Greaves wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Chris was replying to the Oasis Podcast account, which had also noted the ‘calmer’ crowds, adding that “a brief ‘Bonehead’ chant” had broken out during Noel’s introduction for the founding member, who had promised to sing Bonehead’s Bank Holiday during one of the Croke Park gigs. Some users tried to put this down to younger audiences only being at the concerts “for the hype”, though this is not what I or most who attended believed. As the Oasis Podcast highlighted, “you could tell people were really into it, singing along, etc. Maybe it’s are so excited to see them, they just want to be in the moment, plus the age and gender split is very different from the 00s when Oasis gigs were basically 80 per cent football lads.” Whatever the case may be, it doesn’t really matter. Oasis are set to perform two sold-out shows in Dublin tonight and tomorrow (August 16 and 17) as the best band in the world continues a historic reunion tour. Here’s to 2026
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