The Farmer hates Oasis Smashing Tunes thread

[myboyblue]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Arthur

Most of them are shite at football though. Are there any genuine dual stars in music?

Rod Stewart

Nicky Byrne

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

@Arthur

Was there many other successful British bands made up of those kind of working class, football fan, building sites, punch up down the pub ‘lads’ like oasis were? As in not more arty working class chaps like pulp or the smiths or middle class fellas like blur.

I’d have thought it would have been easier to identify which of the big British artists pre-Oasis weren’t working class in origin. Mick Jagger wasn’t. Joe Strummer wasn’t.

Outside of punk the Happy Mondays were probably the only major band who embraced a sort of quasi-football hooligan persona similar to Oasis.

Slade and The Jam were identified as solid working class “bands of the people”. Those two were big influences on Noel Gallagher.

Sham 69 were quite a successful football hooligan type band.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Arthur

Most of them are shite at football though. Are there any genuine dual stars in music?

Julio Iglesias was a professional goalkeeper in the Spanish second division before a car accident finished his career.

[Juhniallio]

I think Robbie Williams was handy

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Cheasty

@Arthur

Was there many other successful British bands made up of those kind of working class, football fan, building sites, punch up down the pub ‘lads’ like oasis were? As in not more arty working class chaps like pulp or the smiths or middle class fellas like blur.

I’d have thought it would have been easier to identify which of the big British artists pre-Oasis weren’t working class in origin. Mick Jagger wasn’t. Joe Strummer wasn’t.

Outside of punk the Happy Mondays were probably the only major band who embraced a sort of quasi-football hooligan persona similar to Oasis.

Slade and The Jam were identified as solid working class “bands of the people”. Those two were big influences on Noel Gallagher.

Sham 69 were quite a successful football hooligan type band.

Though the tunes weren’t football hooliganny, the Sweet were solidly working class. The ultimate working class band I think were Doctor Feelgood from Canvey Island. Canvey Island Confidential is a great rockumentary.

The Bay City Rollers were from solid working class backgrounds as well and their look certainly appealed to hooligans.

[gilgamboa]

@Kyle

The acid test for any band is cracking American. Oasis couldn’t do it.

You must be a massive U2 fan

[Cheasty]

@Fagan_ODowd

AC🌩️DC are huge Rangers fans.

Dirty Deeds Done Cheap
Down Payment Blues
Riff Raff
Highway To Hell
Evil Walks
Bon Scottish League Division 3
Back in Black (Protestants)
Rangers 0 AC/DC Milan 5
Cheatseeker

[Fagan_ODowd]

A lot of the solidly working class (white) football hooligan type bands of the late 70s and early 80s got pigeonholed into the Oi! Music sub genre which in turn attracted a racist boot boy following and got sidelined on to the wrong side of history as a consequence. Particularly when there was the alternative sub genre of Twotone which was also mostly working class (apart from Jerry Dammers who was the son of a vicar) and multiracial. And musically much more attractive than Oi!

[Arthur]

Oasis were by a million miles the biggest though. And certainly the last big one.

[Cheasty]

Ulster says Oi!

Terror chiefs Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair and Sam McCrory hailed as trailblazing...

[briantinnion]

Three more dates added due to unprecedented demand.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

4 per cent of the population of the UK tried to get tickets for Knebworth.

This will be bigger.

I don’t recall as much interest in a gig ever. Literally everybody you meet is talking about it.

[briantinnion]

It’s crossing all the generational divides. Millenials, Boomers, the Greatest Generation, the Silent Generation, X, Y, Z. They all want to see the show.

[myboyblue]

@briantinnion

Three more dates added due to unprecedented demand.

Very smart use of the news cycle. A story every day.

https://twitter.com/oasis/status/1829051399482540220

[myboyblue]

@briantinnion

It’s crossing all the generational divides. Millenials, Boomers, the Greatest Generation, the Silent Generation, X, Y, Z. They all want to see the show.

Oh, they’re very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore them. They think they’re righteous dudes.

[Cheasty]

@briantinnion

It’s crossing all the generational divides. Millenials, Boomers, the Greatest Generation, the Silent Generation, X, Y, Z. They all want to see the show.

They’re coming from Gdansk to see the show.

[Kyle]

Eh, you don’t have to like a band because they break the US ffs

[TheUlteriorMotive]

The North American leg of the tour will be unreal.

[Arthur]

It’s like releasing the extended squads for the magners league matches

[myboyblue]

Those got me a few thousand posts back in the day.