Oasis celebrated their enduring legacy on Live '25 tour in Dublin
On August 16, Oasis brought the first night of their improbably historic Live '25 tour dates to Croke Park in Dublin for an adoring audience of die-hard fans, many of who trekked across sea and sky to witness a truly once in a lifetime performance.
Its been said that anticipation is the setup for disappointment, and expectations were perilously high. The weather was pristine and the entire city was fully kitted in powder blue jerseys and floppy bucket hats sporting the iconic Oasis logo like a scene from a World Cup scale event where everyone was rooting for the same team. Notes from the band's most recognizable songs spilled from the open windows of every pub and the portable PAs of Grafton Street troubadours, filling the streets and back alleys of a city renowned for its vibrant musical heritage with a palpable sensation of celebratory, electric expectancy that set the very air itself abuzz.
Inside the stadium, the pitch and the stands were packed with over 80,000 people and countless more gathered on the canal-side greens and residential streets that encircled the venue. It felt like the whole of Dublin, and maybe even the world, was deposited in concentrate, transmuting the vastness of Croke Park and the surrounding area with the intimacy and familiarity of everyone’s favorite local watering hole.
Cast and Richard Ashcroft opened the evening with a pair of sets that celebrated the breadth and potency of Britpop's 1990s heyday, sounds and styles that laid the groundwork for Oasis’s mainstream breakthrough as arguably the most successful band of the era while fleshing out the backstory of one of pop culture’s most exciting zeitgeist moments.
Taking the stage with the confident swagger that is the band’s most defining characteristic, Oasis was in absolute top form. The years away from the spotlight had done nothing to diminish their power as Noel and Liam commanded the arena with their titanic presence and indomitable skills as if it was 1995 all over again, supported by bandmates Bonehead, Gem Archer, Andy Bell, and Joey Waronker that filled out the ensemble with players from nearly every era of the band’s history.
The set was, expectedly, packed with hits that ranged from the chart-bursting to the more modest, each met with torrents of beer-fueled enthusiasm from a crowd that knew every single word by heart and responded in kind to each familiar chord and chorus. Friends and strangers stood arm in arm belting along to anthems that have defined a generation and continue to inspire new legions of fans to find universal meanings within the plain-spoken authenticity and unflappable working-class bravado of the Gallagher Brothers' songcraft, common threads woven inexorably together into the tapestry of everyday life itself - wherein lies the secret to Oasis' success and enduring appeal. These songs make people feel, without effort or pretense, and ask nothing in return but to become a part of who we all are, a shared cultural identity not defined by borders or ideology, but by the furiously beating hearts of billions of souls who’ve put their life in the hands of the last true rock and roll band.
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