25 July 2025, 09:50

By Johnny Vaughan

You don’t have to like Oasis.

They might not be your cup of tea. Maybe the songs don’t move you, the attitude rubs you the wrong way, or the Gallagher brothers’ swagger feels like a throwback too far. But to deny their cultural significance — to pretend they’re just another band from the 90s — is to misunderstand what they mean to people. Not just fans, but a generation. Several, now.

Because when you say Oasis don’t matter, you’re not just dismissing a band — you’re dismissing the feelings, memories, and lives of millions. You’re saying they were all mistaken. That somehow, the connection they felt was delusional. That their tears, their joy, their catharsis — wasn’t real.

But it was real. It is real.

It hit me properly on in Cardiff, stood in a stadium watching Liam Gallagher perform those songs again. The sheer emotional force that swept the crowd — it wasn’t just nostalgia, it was something deeper. Recognition. Reconnection. It felt like being reunited with a part of yourself you’d forgotten.

Oasis’s songs are stitched into our cultural fabric. As........

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