Music Appreciation

When Oasis announced their long-awaited comeback, there was no doubt the UK concerts would be a mammoth success.

The same could not be said for the US, however, as the Gallagher brothers had famously failed to crack the country in the 1990s. Such fears were misplaced, it seems.

The arrival of Oasis in the US over the past week has been greeted with sold-out arenas and fawning reviews. Mainstream publications have heralded the second coming. The rock’n’roll bible Rolling Stone declared that Oasis “finally conquers America”.

The magazine’s review of the band’s debut concert in Chicago last Thursday reserved special praise for Liam Gallagher and said “no frontman in rock’n’roll conveys so much by doing so little”. The crowd’s delighted response to the band’s catalogue and the “remarkable amount of twentysomethings in the crowd” suggested they had cultivated a new generation of American fans.

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