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Oasis are back — and this isn’t just nostalgia, it’s a cultural reckoning

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08.07.2025

4 July 2025, 15:13

By James Kirkham

Oasis have returned, and with them comes a rush of something which feels bigger and deeper than merely their tunes and music.

Nostalgia isn’t just dominating the British summer it’s powering it completely and fuelling many of us as a result.

Tickets vanished in minutes and it’s not just middle-aged men in bucket hats reliving old glories, it’s absolutely Gen Z in Adidas, teens in Stone Island, and festival crowds who weren’t even born when Knebworth happened.

This is more than a comeback tour to me, it’s like a referendum on culture in the age of the algorithm.

Because Oasis represent a time before........

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