Key events
First on the bill is Cast, whose frontman John Power couldn’t contain his verbosity when he was quizzed about it earlier this morning on Virgin Radio.
I’m just about now getting excited. I mean, the thing is, the way I live my life and look at things is, I kind of take each day as it comes and not try and look too far ahead. But there’s no doubt about it now that, you know, Friday is upon us, and the first chord of this tour is going to be one I hit. So it’s going to be quite a moment, I think, Cardiff Principality Stadium.
Steady on, John! Don’t add too much coal to the hype furnace!
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
With 15 minutes until the Principality Stadium welcomes a sea of chanting, singing and people keeping on their Stone Island jacket even though it’s really warm out, Laura is right in the mix: “Lots of spontaneous breakouts of song outside the stadium as doors are preparing to open – it’s human soup outside the City Arms.”
We’ve been doing a fair bit of Oasis pre-amble prior to this pre-ambling blog. Not least with the poet laureate, Simon Armitage, writing us an essay on the momentousness of their return, and why the weird psychodrama of the Gallagher brothers keeps hooking us back in.
Also today we’ve had Rachel Aroesti opining on how Oasis created the formula of the gobby contemporary British musician – but how they could never exist in the same form again.
And Dave Simpson spoke to 17 different indie musicians – and Princess Superstar! – about their favourite Oasis song. I know it’s pure clickbait to say it, but you really won’t believe what Johnny Marr picks here.
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Your set times for tonight:
Welcome to our Oasis liveblog!
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
The bucket hats are on, the pints are flowing and the sun is sheeeeiiiining – Cardiff is getting ready for a gig being closely watched by a truly global cohort of fans: the return of Oasis. The BBC counted up that it’s been 5,795 days since the band were last together, when it all kicked off backstage at a Paris festival set and Oasis broke apart. In that time we’ve had numerous solo albums, new bands and tuber-based insults. But finally, whether it’s down to fraternal love or a number with a lot of zeros on the end of it, the band are back together.
We’ll be documenting the whole of the first night as it happens. I’m sat in the decidedly un-rock’n’roll environs of my bedroom, but deputy music editor Laura Snapes and chief rock and pop critic Alexis Petridis will both be inside the stadium this evening and will be feeding back everything that happens. In the runup we’ll have plenty of analysis, photos and semi-random predictions. Hope you’re mad fer it all.
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