The wait is over. Oasis are back for you to blame for everything again. Since the announcement of their reunion tour next year, Oasis have been castigated for everything from bad haircuts and “football crowds” of middle aged fans in parkas and bucket hats who walk funny, to boorishness, sexism, the demise of 90s music culture, and spreading laddism like a virus. Wilder claims hold them responsible for the dumbing down of society, the degradation of western civilisation, and facilitating nationalism, Brexit, and more.
However much some protest to the contrary, the snobbery (and often outrageous classism) on display has been … interesting. Has anyone called it “Snobworth” yet? Yet all these years on, is it time to properly unpick the meaning of Oasis, then and now? Also to ask, how will the 90s Mancunian working-class rock behemoths affect 21st century culture? As just another heritage act trudging around the nostalgia circuit – or will it be a lot more interesting than that?
