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Ferret's All Important Oasis At Wembley Review
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I saw Oasis for the first time on Thursday. They have been my favourite band since early last year since I saw the Live Forever video on TV, but their other UK Tour (autumn last year) had escaped me. Luckily I managed to get tickets for the first night they played at Wembley Stadium, although they weren't particularly good tickets. But more on that later.

To be honest, I'm not sure I'd be able to afford tickets for more than one date anyway, and this UK Tour was far better than the other UK Tour in many ways. Liam's voice is back on top (though I mainly heard my voice and my mate Tim's voice at the gig itself), and they're playing the longest setlist they've done in years. Here it is, just so you can all see how monumental this setlist is:

1. Fuckin' In The Bushes
2. Rock N Roll Star
3. Lyla
4. Shock Of The Lightning
5. Roll With It
6. Cigarettes And Alcohol
7. To Be Where There’s Life
8. Waiting For The Rapture
9. The Masterplan
10. Songbird
11. Slide Away
12. Morning Glory
13. My Big Mouth
14. The Importance Of Being Idle
15. Half The World Away
16. I’m Outta Time
17. Wonderwall
18. Supersonic
19. Live Forever

Encore:
20. Don't Look Back In Anger
21. Falling Down
22. Champagne Supernova
23. I Am The Walrus

Brilliant! And they dropped The Meaning Of Soul, fucking result!

Still, it wasn't all good. I missed the all the support acts apart from half of Kasabian's set, and I was looking forward to seeing them almost as much as I was Oasis. Still, we made it into the stadium in time for Kasabian's monster tune Vlad The Impaler....well, the instrumental outtro of it. Luckily I'm seeing them again in November. Anyway, the rest of their set was quality, despite the terrible mix making them sound like a rap band. LSF and Club Foot got massive singalongs, and I went mental when they played Fire.

So, we sat and talked after Kasabian went off. Then both of us went for a piss. All of a sudden, as we were walking down the stairs to the toilets, a woman started talking over the PA System. "Attention, get back to your seats, Oasis will be on within a minute" she said. SHIT. Without emptying our bladders we legged it back to our seats just in time to hear the collosal roar of Fuckin' In The Bushes. Liam walked onstage in his brilliant green parka and all was well. The band plugged in and they launched into Rock 'n' Roll Star. The song went down even better than Livin' On A Prayer on either times I've seen Bon Jovi, and that's saying something! Awesome opener.

Lyla next, and after the second chorus we went for a piss, only missing the solo and another chorus! The Shock Of The Lightning was great, and people seemed to think I was having a seizure as I air drummed to the drum solo. Chris Sharrock is a fantastic drummer, possibly the best Oasis have ever had.

Why the fuck has Noel stopped singing along to Roll With It? It's not the same without his ridiculous falsettoes and "Take it awaaaay"s. Still, it sounded brilliant, and I'm really glad it's back in the set. Liam sang it faultlessly. Noel's guitar solos are shit, though. Sort it out, Noel. Cigarettes and Alcohol was mental, with much pogoing and all that. To Be Where There's Life sounds amazing but nobody digs it apart from the hardcore. Waiting For The Rapture does work suprisingly well, especially after the first chorus, when it kicks off. Noel was in fine voice.

The Masterplan doesn't feel as special as it should, but it was still pretty good, and we were all digging it. Sadly I was recovering from a bad cold at the time of the gig and could never make it through the chorus of this one (and several others) without coughing like a bastard. Songbird was nice, and people knew it, so I'm fine with it in the setlist for now. Couldn't hear the piano on the outtro, though. I was shouting "Who the **** is Andy Bell?!" throughout

Slide Away was safely one of the greatest moments of my life. Back in my mind as the greatest song ever written. Screaming the chorus out was a truly monumental moment, and I had my arm around Tim throughout half of it (no homo!). Had one of the few decent guitar solos of the night as well. Morning Glory sounds shit on bootlegs as Noel sings half of it these days, but live it's a different matter. Everyone goes mad and it's got a great atmosphere.

And then, the song of the night...MY BIG MOUTH! After they dropped this monster of a song, the oral equivelant of having a tonne of bricks dropped on top of your head, in Liverpool, I thought it was done for good, and I'd never get to hear it. Thank god I did! Aside from Noel's shitty backing vocals it sounds amazing. Went down like a lead balloon obviously, even Tim, who's a fairly big fan, wasn't singing along, but it's great that Oasis are playing it for the diehard fans.

The Importance Of Being Idle was marred for me by the fact that my voice was blown and I couldn't sing along to the falsetto bits, but I'm sure it was a good peformance. To be honest, I'd have prefered Whatever, which they played in it's place last night. Half The World Away was awesome, though. I don't regret seeing that one atall. It's great to have a full band version played regularly.

Liam sounded like the man on I'm Outta Time. His voice really has gone miles and miles from the horrible "rah rah rah" sound of the Don't Believe The Truth Tour. It was one of the best times I'd ever heard that song live. I hate to say it, but I was blown away by Wonderwall. Not so much the way the band played it (though that was great too), but the crowd response, which was absolutely mental, obviously as all the tossers come along just to see that and Don't Look Back In Anger.

At the "You're my wonderwall" bit, the power cut, like in Manchester! At first I thought it was just to hear the crowd, as it would have been a perfect moment to do that, but then I saw Gem and Chris still playing along, and knew the generator had blown. Still, everyone carried on singing along, and the band picked up in precisely the right place. Then the power cut again. So no instrumental at the end. We had to wait a minute while Noel joked to us about "no fucking refunds this time!", but luckily the power came back very soon. They played Supersonic, and despite the singalong, the sound was shit (probably using a backup generator?). Luckily the power came back during the final guitar solo of the song.

Live Forever was suitably brilliant, and after it the band went off for the totally unnescessary encore break. The encore isn't really an encore, it's merely an extension of the setlist, and they've played the same four songs at every gig this tour. I tried to talk to Noel to no avail (geddit?), requesting Some Might Say, but sadly I was as far from the stage as was physically possible I don't think he heard my request for Bonehead's Bank Holiday either

Don't Look Back In Anger needs to be the full electric version, but it was good anyway because everyone sang along. Falling Down is actually sounding good now, but nobody in the crowd seems to know it, and it doesn't go down well at all. Champagne Supernova was top, but it needs to have a longer guitar solo like on the Morning Glory and Be Here Now tours. That would be mindblowing. I Am The Walrus was brilliant, a great ending to the show.

So, what did I think? I'm very impressed. Oasis have finally got it right with their gigs. However, there are a few things they could improve:
1. Drop Falling Down. It always goes down badly.
2. Noel needs to sing harmonies on Roll With It, but not on My Big Mouth and Cigarettes and Alcohol. Live Forever is also missing a good harmony on "I just wanna fly/soaks you to the bone", which I always liked. Noel, keep the harmonies to the songs that need them, not any song you want to exert your presence in.
3. Better guitar solos. Champagne Supernova needs to go on for ten minutes again! Six will not do! And what the fuck is Noel playing on the outtro to Roll WIth It?
4. Have an acoustic set. There are three spots where Noel could do his acoustic set (let's be realistic, Liam isn't going to do one, is he?). Between The Masterplan and Songbird, although that would kill the momentum, around the area of TIOBI, or just before Don't Look Back In Anger. This could mean setlist change. I think it's a great shame they haven't played any new b-sides since the Heathen Chemistry era.

Great gig anyway.