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The Herald Scotland
28 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Oasis song lyrics quiz to test the band's true fans
You may think that if you didn't manage to get tickets, you were deserving of them, as you are a true Oasis fan. But are you really? Take this quiz and see if you can score perfectly and match the lyrics to their correct song. Are you a true Oasis fan? Test your knowledge using this song lyrics quiz (Image: Zak Hussein/PA Wire) Oasis song lyrics quiz With so many recognisable hits, Oasis remains one of the biggest bands on the planet, even after their split. Ahead of their summer tour, take this Oasis song lyrics quiz to test your knowledge. Take the quiz below. How did you score? Let us know in the comments. When does the Oasis tour start? Noel and Liam Gallagher announced last year they had put their acrimonious split behind them, confirming Oasis' long-awaited reunion after 15 years. Making the announcement, the brothers said: 'The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised." Oasis will be bringing its Live '25 tour to venues across the UK during July, August and September, including in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester and London. The tour begins on July 4 in Cardiff, with the full list of dates as follows: Principality Stadium, Cardiff - July 4 Principality Stadium, Cardiff - July 5 Heaton Park, Manchester - July 11 Heaton Park, Manchester - July 12 Heaton Park, Manchester - July 16 Heaton Park, Manchester - July 19 Heaton Park, Manchester - July 20 Wembley Stadium, London - July 25 Wembley Stadium, London - July 26 Wembley Stadium, London - July 30 Wembley Stadium, London - August 2 Wembley Stadium, London - August 3 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh - August 8 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh - August 9 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh - August 12 Wembley Stadium, London - September 27 Wembley Stadium, London - September 28 Oasis will also perform two shows at Croke Park in Dublin on August 16 and 17, while also taking their tour overseas to the likes of Australia, Canada and the US. Can you still get tickets for Oasis? Yes, you can still get tickets to see Oasis; however, they are rare, with minimal tickets left. There remains "low availability" for several UK shows at the time of writing. Some resale tickets may pop up on Twickets or Ticketmaster, and these are the only places to buy tickets. Recommended reading: Prices have been ranging from £421 to £3,020 per ticket, with the latter being a VIP package. Oasis fans have previously been warned of fraudulent sellers on social media, They have also been advised that tickets can only be resold legally, at face value, through Twickets or Ticketmaster.
Sky News
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Robbie Williams addresses Glastonbury rumours - as excitement builds for 'secret' sets
Pulp tried to quash the rumours, Robbie Williams was happy to fuel them - sharing a picture of a blue plaque in his name apparently slapped over a famous Glastonbury sign, before seemingly backtracking. "30 years later..." he captioned his first social media post early on Friday morning - a reference to his headline-grabbing attendance in 1995. This was the year Williams was famously pictured partying with Oasis 's Liam and Noel Gallagher, shunning the boyband shackles with bleached-blonde hair and a blacked-out tooth. The writing was on the wall, and the announcement of his departure from Take That came just a few weeks later. At Glastonbury this year, is the writing quite literally on the wall for a comeback? Well, maybe not. A few hours after his post, Williams shared another, less cryptic message to say he would not be performing, along with his list of recommended acts to go and see - The 1975, Busta Rhymes, Charli XCX, Self Esteem and Reverend And The Makers, if you're interested. Is he bluffing? Double-bluffing? Who knows, but along with celeb spotting and mud, if there's one topic of conversation that makes headlines when it comes to Glastonbury, it's speculation about secret artists. Williams has got everybody talking. Even before his posts, the Let Me Entertain You singer was among the artists rumoured to be performing secret sets this year, along with Pulp and Haim. Lewis Capaldi and Lorde too, with both "TBA" acts turning out to huge crowds on Friday. In recent years, these surprise sets have turned into some of the event's most memorable moments - think Foo Fighters as "The ChurnUps" in 2023, Pulp's comeback in 2011, and Lady Gaga treating fans to a small performance in one of the festival's after hours areas, Shangri-La, in 2009. Franz Ferdinand, famous for hits including Take Me Out and Do You Want To in the mid-2000s, were the first to do it back in 2008. This was actually due to Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles pulling out last-minute, but the approach to announcing the switch was, at the time, a novel one. While officially, the act was "TBA", frontman Alex Kapranos wasn't great at keeping the secret, worried people might not turn up. He and bandmates handed out fliers, and word spread. "We played on the Park Stage and we thought, 'nobody's going to know we're playing'," Kapranos told Sky News ahead of a return performance on Friday. "It actually ended up being one of the most amazing gigs we've ever played, people were so up for it and going crazy. "We weren't keeping it secret. We were walking about like, 'we're playing later on, check it out'. We're a band from Glasgow called Franz Ferdinand." These now not-so-secret performances have become bigger and bigger as each festival rolls around, with leaks making headlines in the run-up to the event. Providing handy tips and hints - and often eventually confirmation, just in time for fans to be in position - is the Secret Glasto team. They have no official ties to Glastonbury, but over the years have become a reliable source of information. The account's founder, who now works in a team of six, spoke to us on site - incognito, of course. "We've got our own sources and we can start checking things because we've now had enough years that we can check in with several people," he said. "And they trust us because we are quite sensible with when we time announcements, which I think is the key thing." Sometimes acts themselves will confirm, they said. Their success rate for predictions is "in the low 90%" - but dragged down mainly by inexperience in their first year, which was 2014. Capaldi's comeback yesterday, two years after struggling on stage at Glastonbury in 2023, was a special moment. "It was really, really heartwarming to see him get back up," Secret Glasto said. "There was such goodwill in the crowd and it was just magical. It's just what secret sets should be about." On Saturday evening, a non-existent act called Patchwork have a pretty important billing just before Raye and then headliner Neil Young on the Pyramid Stage. Pulp keyboard player Candida Doyle dampened rumours by reportedly saying in an interview earlier this month Glastonbury "weren't interested" in booking the band. But is this true? "It happens a few times," Secret Glasto said, of artists maybe telling little white lies to keep the secret for as long as possible. "They've got to keep the suspense somehow... "Sources that we got for Pulp were really, really strong. It's just so exciting for us, for the whole team. This is the most exciting secret set that Glastonbury's ever done." It's a fine balance - not spoiling the surprise but giving fans enough time to get where they want to be. When a festival is this big - home to around 200,000 people over the weekend - at a lot of stages, fans need to be in place early. "The point is to always make sure people can get to the set if they wanted to." But if a huge artist is going to surprise fans on a very small stage, sometimes they have to keep schtum for safety concerns over huge crowds. "Sometimes we're like, we can't print this." So, will Williams be playing? The rumour is that he could be joining his mate Rod Stewart, who is performing on the Pyramid Stage in the "legends" slot on Sunday. "Robbie Williams entered this area without accreditation, authorisation, or alignment with prevailing taste," according to the blue plaque in his social media tease, of his attendance in 1995. "His presence was uninvited, unofficial and ultimately inevitable." In his candid documentary series, and biopic Better Man, both released last year, Williams has been open about his struggles with fame and imposter syndrome, and how as an artist known for pop he craved respect from those seen as more credible at a time when indie music reigned. Officially this year, there is no Robbie Williams on the line-up. Unofficially, who knows? But 30 years since his partying with the Gallaghers, pop music is embraced - and there would be a lot of love for the star if he did make an appearance now.
Sky News
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Robbie Williams fuels and then denies Glastonbury rumours - as excitement builds for 'secret' sets
Pulp tried to quash the rumours, Robbie Williams was happy to fuel them - sharing a picture of a blue plaque in his name apparently slapped over a famous Glastonbury sign, before seemingly backtracking. "30 years later..." he captioned his first social media post early on Friday morning - a reference to his headline-grabbing attendance in 1995. This was the year Williams was famously pictured partying with Oasis 's Liam and Noel Gallagher, shunning the boyband shackles with bleached-blonde hair and a blacked-out tooth. The writing was on the wall, and the announcement of his departure from Take That came just a few weeks later. At Glastonbury this year, is the writing quite literally on the wall for a comeback? Well, maybe not. A few hours after his post, Williams shared another, less cryptic message to say he would not be performing, along with his list of recommended acts to go and see - The 1975, Busta Rhymes, Charli XCX, Self Esteem and Reverend And The Makers, if you're interested. Is he bluffing? Double-bluffing? Who knows, but along with celeb spotting and mud, if there's one topic of conversation that makes headlines when it comes to Glastonbury, it's speculation about secret artists. Williams has got everybody talking. Even before his posts, the Let Me Entertain You singer was among the artists rumoured to be performing secret sets this year, along with Pulp and Haim. Lewis Capaldi and Lorde too, with both "TBA" acts turning out to huge crowds on Friday. In recent years, these surprise sets have turned into some of the event's most memorable moments - think Foo Fighters as "The ChurnUps" in 2023, Pulp's comeback in 2011, and Lady Gaga treating fans to a small performance in one of the festival's after hours areas, Shangri-La, in 2009. Franz Ferdinand, famous for hits including Take Me Out and Do You Want To in the mid-2000s, were the first to do it back in 2008. This was actually due to Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles pulling out last-minute, but the approach to announcing the switch was, at the time, a novel one. While officially, the act was "TBA", frontman Alex Kapranos wasn't great at keeping the secret, worried people might not turn up. He and bandmates handed out fliers, and word spread. "We played on the Park Stage and we thought, 'nobody's going to know we're playing'," Kapranos told Sky News ahead of a return performance on Friday. "It actually ended up being one of the most amazing gigs we've ever played, people were so up for it and going crazy. "We weren't keeping it secret. We were walking about like, 'we're playing later on, check it out'. We're a band from Glasgow called Franz Ferdinand." These now not-so-secret performances have become bigger and bigger as each festival rolls around, with leaks making headlines in the run-up to the event. Providing handy tips and hints - and often eventually confirmation, just in time for fans to be in position - is the Secret Glasto team. They have no official ties to Glastonbury, but over the years have become a reliable source of information. The account's founder, who now works in a team of six, spoke to us on site - incognito, of course. "We've got our own sources and we can start checking things because we've now had enough years that we can check in with several people," he said. "And they trust us because we are quite sensible with when we time announcements, which I think is the key thing." Sometimes acts themselves will confirm, they said. Their success rate for predictions is "in the low 90%" - but dragged down mainly by inexperience in their first year, which was 2014. Capaldi's comeback yesterday, two years after struggling on stage at Glastonbury in 2023, was a special moment. "It was really, really heartwarming to see him get back up," Secret Glasto said. "There was such goodwill in the crowd and it was just magical. It's just what secret sets should be about." On Saturday evening, a non-existent act called Patchwork have a pretty important billing just before Raye and then headliner Neil Young on the Pyramid Stage. Pulp keyboard player Candida Doyle dampened rumours by reportedly saying in an interview earlier this month Glastonbury "weren't interested" in booking the band. But is this true? "It happens a few times," Secret Glasto said, of artists maybe telling little white lies to keep the secret for as long as possible. "They've got to keep the suspense somehow... "Sources that we got for Pulp were really, really strong. It's just so exciting for us, for the whole team. This is the most exciting secret set that Glastonbury's ever done." It's a fine balance - not spoiling the surprise but giving fans enough time to get where they want to be. When a festival is this big - home to around 200,000 people over the weekend - at a lot of stages, fans need to be in place early. "The point is to always make sure people can get to the set if they wanted to." But if a huge artist is going to surprise fans on a very small stage, sometimes they have to keep schtum for safety concerns over huge crowds. "Sometimes we're like, we can't print this." So, will Williams be playing? The rumour is that he could be joining his mate Rod Stewart, who is performing on the Pyramid Stage in the "legends" slot on Sunday. "Robbie Williams entered this area without accreditation, authorisation, or alignment with prevailing taste," according to the blue plaque in his social media tease, of his attendance in 1995. "His presence was uninvited, unofficial and ultimately inevitable." In his candid documentary series, and biopic Better Man, both released last year, Williams has been open about his struggles with fame and imposter syndrome, and how as an artist known for pop he craved respect from those seen as more credible at a time when indie music reigned. Officially this year, there is no Robbie Williams on the line-up. Unofficially, who knows? But thirty years since his partying with the Gallaghers, pop music is embraced - and there would be a lot of love for the star if he did make an appearance now.
Wales Online
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
I'm a huge Oasis fan and this is the setlist I want to hear and it's missing one massive tune
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A certain Manchester band is making something of a comeback this week - the first time they will have performed on stage together in 16 years. As if you didn't know.... Oasis shocked music fans all over the world last August when they announced a reunion tour which was expected to generate quite a large demand for tickets. The exact level of that demand cannot have been predicted by anyone, however, perhaps not even the Gallagher brothers themselves. Fans across the UK and indeed the globe seemed to spend the whole of August 30 (pre-sale) and August 31 last year glued to their phones or stuck to their desks as an unprecedented quest for concert tickets in Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin got underway. The band also announced further dates in cities across the world. From superstar gigs to cosy pubs, find out What's On in Wales by signing up to our newsletter here, reports Wales Online. Fans both elated at getting tickets and devastated at missing out got on with their lives as Oasis Live '25 seemed like an age away. Well not anymore, it's now just around the corner and the biggest and most anticipated comeback in rock or pop history (sorry ABBA fans, the band has to actually be at the concerts for it to count) will kick-off at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on July 4 and 5. I've been an Oasis fan since I overheard (What's the Story) Morning Glory? making its way from my sister's bedroom in 1995. For the 12-year-old me, all of a sudden Michael Jackson and Wet Wet Wet cassettes were abandoned to the back of the cupboard and I had a new hobby. After wearing out the 'Morning Glory' tape by constantly rewinding tracks three and four, a pocket-money frugal teenage me then bought Definitely Maybe on CD (fancy!). I was hooked. Be Here Now followed in 1997, and although things were never quite the same after that, those first three or four years of being obsessed with indie music and guitars are etched within my soul forever. Now, thirty years after first hearing those distorted tones across the landing, Oasis are back, and attention turns to exactly what songs the band are actually going to sing during their upcoming epic tour. It's important to stress at this point that as music is probably the most subjective of all the arts, everyone is entitled to their opinion, including me (yes, I'm talking to you in the comments section/on Facebook). (Image: PA) As all Oasis fans will agree, the band simply have too many good and popular songs for it to be possible for them to please everyone, and they can't sing non-stop for three hours each night. With that in mind I've whittled things down to 21 songs (they played 22 the last time they were at the Principality - then Millennium - Stadium in 2009). They could of course mix things up as the tour goes along, but as the band has not written or recorded any new material despite the hype surrounding them pretty much guaranteeing that even the most formulaic of new offerings would be a smash hit, we can comfortably assume that the lads are planning on playing things a bit safe. So what I have done below is devised MY dream setlist. This is not the setlist I think it will be, but the setlist I would personally pick were I to win a competition and Noel and Liam said 'you pick'. The first point which is likely to make people click off this article faster than a cannonball is my omission of Supersonic, which everybody loves and both Gallagher brothers have claimed is among their favourite ever Oasis songs. Again, this is my list, and I never really took to Supersonic. 'She done it with a doctor on a helicopter' - meh. As for other considerations, the opening track is going to be a big deal for fans paying hundreds of pounds (some even more that!) to see their favourite '90s band. Again, without wishing to be a contrarian, I do not want to hear Rock 'n' Roll Star as the opener in Cardiff. Why? It's undoubtedly a great song, but I've seen Oasis several times over the years and they more often than not opened with Rock 'n' Roll Star, including when they last played in Cardiff back in 2009. I've also seen Liam Gallagher performing solo in recent years and he always tends to start with it. It's a fine song, and undeniably deserves its spot in the setlist, but Oasis have a plethora of fast-paced 'bangers' capable of making the crowd go mad for it from the off in a vast stadium: Morning Glory, Cigarettes & Alcohol, Shock of the Lightning, Hello....... The latter would make lyrical sense as it contains the words 'it's good to be back'. However, given that disgraced former rock star and paedophile Gary Glitter has a writing credit on it because the song borrowed that phrase and a section of melody from his 1973 hit Hello Hello I'm Back Again, it's probably best to leave that particular Oasis song in 1995, although Liam did hint in a post on X earlier this year that Hello would be played. We shall see...... The first song of the 2000 album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, F***** in the Bushes, has to be the walk-on music in my opinion. It's iconic, short, sharp, and whips everyone into a frenzy because it's become symbolic of who is about to walk out on stage. Elsewhere, it's important for me to make sure that different eras and albums are at least partly represented, otherwise Liam, Noel, 'Bonehead' and the rest might as well play Definitely Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? back-to-back and then exit stage right. Oasis competition Win tickets to see Oasis at Wembley Having said that, I'm not holding out much hope for live performances of any songs from 1997's Be Here Now, even though it's probably (maybe) my favourite Oasis album. That opinion - shared by nobody else on earth it seems - may well have its roots in nostalgia rather than quality songwriting and production values, but it would be nice to hear something from a record that, despite Noel publicly dismissing it several times, was ultimately the biggest selling UK album of 1997, one which shifted more than eight million copies all around the world. There are a couple of other notable exceptions: I love Up in the Sky but I'm not sure Liam can reach those high notes like it's 1994, especially with a busy summer ahead, and Whatever, with its brilliance largely stemming from a string section Oasis are unlikely to deploy in a stadium containing around 80,000 people. Anyway, here is my dream setlist of 21 songs for Oasis's comeback concerts at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on July 4 and 5. Bring it on (down)...... (Walk on) F***** in the Bushes 1. Morning Glory 2. Some Might Say 3. Lyla 4. Acquiesce 5. Cigarettes and Alcohol 6. Stand By Me 7. Stop Crying Your Heart Out 8. Wonderwall (Noel Gallagher vocal section) 9. Don't Look Back in Anger 10. Masterplan 11. Half the World Away 12. The Importance of Being Idle (Liam Gallagher returns) 13. D'You Know What I Mean? 14. My Big Mouth 15. Roll It Over 16. Slide Away 17. Champagne Supernova (Encore) 18. Shock of the Lightning 19. Stay Young 20. Live Forever 21. Rock 'n' Roll Star With now less than a month to go, you can find all the details about the Principality Stadium gigs here. For all the latest information about tickets, including resale sites, click here.
Irish Independent
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
From ‘Gladiator' to ‘La La Land' – here are the 10 most overrated films of 21st century
Whether it's forced 'Oirishisms' or the rampant cliches, these duds rode the wave of hype It's easy to get caught up in the moment and let your emotions run away with you. Just ask anyone who paid €600 for Oasis tickets only to realise they were sick of hearing Wonderwall and that it was going to be impossible to get a babysitter anyway. Belated buyer's remorse is just as much a feature of the big screen, where mediocre films are often heralded as masterpieces in the moment. It's only afterwards, when the hype has died, that we can admit to ourselves that a supposed 24-carat classic is actually a tin-plate clunker.
