Oasis reunion

You joke Johnny but having recently attended the Rebellion festival in Blackpool, I can tell you there was a worrying number of elderly punks there driving mobility scooters! Nothing like that to make you feel old!
A former colleague of mine was a guy called Nigel Crossthwaite, he was on guitar and vocals for a couple of Blackpool bands, Pink Torpedoes and Sick 56, played the Blackpool festival quite a few times, have you ever seen them there?

He was a Project Manager at work, I went to a Pistols gig with him in Manchester in the early 200'0's, he turned up with green hair, a ripped tee shirt, red jeans and boots that came up to his calf's. Plus the obligatory tattoos that he kept covered up at work when he usually wore a suit with shirt and tie.

He was a mate of Charlie Harper, his elderly neighbour said to him one day, "there's a man with green hair been knocking on your door, I nearly called the police" Nigel said "don't worry, it's only Charlie my mate, he's inside the house having a brew with Mrs C". Punk Rockers giving it large, UK Sub still doing gigs and Charlie Harper is 80 years old now.

Edit: Nigel was also in a band called One Way System with the brother of former boxer Tracey Couch, just went in line to see if I could find any of their music and had completely forgotten about them, it was 20 years ago and I'm a FOC!
 
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Hello, so, after burying the hatchet in each other's head the brothers grim have decided not to fade away and have definately, maybe decided to shout it out load that they are getting the band back together to do a series of gigs for 2025. Some might say "Don't look back in anger" lads - i just say "Roll with it".
 
I have seen them 7 times

1996 Maine Rd – I had just turned 15 and it was my first gig. It’s still the best gig I’ve ever been to. They were the biggest band in the world at the time and it felt like the eyes of the whole world were on Maine Rd that day.
2000 Reebok
2001 Apollo
2002 Lancashire CCC
2002 Sydney
2005 Etihad
2009 Heaton Park

The 2009 gig at Heaton Park was good but it felt like they were running out of steam at that point and it wasn’t a huge shock or even a disappointment when they split up later that year. If you would have told me then that they would generate this much attention 15 years later I wouldn’t have believed you. My mate is in a covers band, performing gigs all over Greater Manchester and the most requests he gets are Oasis and it’s from kids in their late teens & early 20s. They have certainly stood the test of time and fair play to them.
 
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Turgid derivative bland Dad-Rock , a year of hype for the tenth rate Slade at least the manufacturers of bucket hats and Adidas will be happy with the massive increase in samba sales to the middle- aged lemmings, bugger me i'd sooner listen to James Blunt or Nickelback than this grim shite.
So that’s a maybe then?
 
When will we see them both in the same room as each other, or is that being limited due to the potential for it to turn into another kick off between them?

I'd imagine it's little more than a business dealing

Like Simon and Garfunkel, they couldn't stand each other but they'd get through rehearsals and gigs for the money.

No doubt Noel wants that £20m back he just lost in a divorce.
 
We’re all wearing this to Heaton Park. I take it all back:

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You joke Johnny but having recently attended the Rebellion festival in Blackpool, I can tell you there was a worrying number of elderly punks there driving mobility scooters! Nothing like that to make you feel old!

And they still managed to kick the fuck out of Yaxley Lennon’s yobbos!

Don’t fuck about with old school punks, even if they’re in mobility scooters haha
 

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