The Telegraph ★★★★★ I don’t think anyone who managed to get their hands on a ticket for this reunion could feel short-changed. Because really it was a reunion between an audience and their favourite band, a reunion between Britain and rock’n’roll … It was very loud, it was simplistic to the point of banality and it was magically, exhaustingly uplifting.
The Standard ★★★★★ Today, reports of gen Z loving Oasis have not been overplayed. There’s been a cross-generational vibe around these shows. Like Noel’s dream of melding dance music communality with punk rock attitude to kill off grunge in the 90s, seems to have been rebooted. Turn off and on again, and the aggro violence has gone, and what’s left is something fresh and cool and utterly exciting.
The Times ★★★★★ Noel may have once called Liam a man with a fork in a world of soup, and Liam accused Noel of being a potato, but Acquiesce is a song about the fact that they “need each other” – and they do. Noel has a soul complex enough to write beautiful songs. Liam has a soul simple enough to deliver them with pure feeling. They are, ultimately, stuck with each other.
The Guardian ★★★★★ Against a ferocious wall of distorted guitars, there’s a weird disconnect between the tone of Noel’s songs – wistful, noticeably melancholy – and the way Liam sings them like a man seething with frustration, on the verge of offering someone a fight.
Og Liverpool’s Diogo Jota fik en varm hilsen fra Oasis i Cardiff…