For many, the answer was yes. Cardiff was awash with Oasis fans from all over the world – including Peru, Japan, Argentina, Spain and South Korea.
An Italian couple had “live forever” inscribed on their wedding rings. A British woman, expecting her first child, had scrawled “our kid” – Noel’s nickname for Liam – across her baby bump.
The city was awash in bucket hats and branded tracksuit tops. Outside the stadium, an enterprising busker drew a massive crowd by playing a set of Oasis songs. Everyone joined in.
Inside, the band stuck to the classics, with a setlist that only strayed out of the 1990s once, for 2002’s Little By Little.
The songs held up remarkably well.
The youthful hunger of tracks like Live Forever and Supersonic crackled with energy. And Cigarettes and Alcohol, written by Noel in 1991, about the discontent of Manchester’s working classes after 15 years of Conservative rule, sounded as relevant in 2025 as it did then.
“Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there’s nothing worth working for?” snarled Liam. Fans, young and old, roared along in recognition and approval.
Later, during Wonderwall, the frontman cheekily changed the lyrics to say: “There are many things that I would like to say to you… but I don’t speak Welsh.”
I have seen Oasis many, many times and this was the best they’ve been since 1995, when I caught them supporting REM at Ireland’s Slane Castle, as they limbered up for the release of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
The Manchester band blew the headliners away – instantly making them seem dated and irrelevant – in a show that threatened to turn into chaos after Liam threatened a fan who’d thrown a projectile on stage.
They might not have that sense of danger in 2025, but there was a hunger and a passion that was missing from their last shows in 2009.
Fans, and some parts of the British press, are already speculating over whether Liam and Noel’s rapprochement will hold – but from the evidence on stage in Cardiff, the Gallaghers are finally, belatedly, mad fer it once more.
