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OASIS WILL KICKSTART their long-awaited worldwide reunion tour in Cardiff this evening, their first concert in almost 16 years.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher will perform together for the first time since their dramatic split in 2009, when they appear at the Welsh capital’s Principality Stadium.
The brothers announced the Oasis Live ‘25 tour last August, starting with two dates in Cardiff on Friday and Saturday, before heading across the UK and Ireland.
Doors are expected to open at 5pm, with Cast and the Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft in support.
Former members of the group are expected to make a return, with Andy Bell on bass, and Gem Archer and Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs on guitars.
Noel was spotted getting off the train in Cardiff on Tuesday, while a drone display spelling out the band’s name could be seen over the stadium on Wednesday.
Fans across the city have also heard what they believe to be rehearsals in the Principality throughout the week.
The reunion announcement came 15 years after Noel quit the band, saying he “simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer,” following a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris.
While fans have been pleading for the group to reunite since they disbanded, website issues and controversial dynamic pricing brought outrage, with many failing to secure a spot.
After tickets for the UK and Ireland shows went on sale last year, some standard tickets appeared to have jumped from €176 to €400.
The controversy prompted the UK Government and the UK’s competition watchdog to pledge to look at the use of dynamic pricing.
Following Cardiff, Oasis will visit Manchester’s Heaton Park, London’s Wembley Stadium, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and Croke Park throughout July, August and September.
The group will then head to Japan, South Korea, South America, Australia and North America.
A movie, produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, is being made in conjunction with the reunion tour.
Formed in Manchester in 1991, the rock band was led by lead guitarist Noel and his brother, lead vocalist Liam, during their 18 years together.
Oasis signed to independent record label Creation Records in 1993, rising to fame with the release of their debut chart-topping album Definitely Maybe on August 29 1994.
They had hits with songs including Don’t Look Back in Anger, Champagne Supernova, Wonderwall and Live Forever.
Dig Out Your Soul, the band’s last studio album, was released in 2008, just months before the Paris row.
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It takes away the personal aspect of the game, with no line judgement. When you go back to the times of John McEnroe and Jimmy Conor’s,and even Nick Kyrgios in the tennis matches a few years ago, it was more exciting with the line judges making a call and for the player to disagree. Then you would be waiting for “VAR” to show if it was in or out. Bring back the line judges.
Hawkeye is a great example of using technology to backup the umpires when necessary. Shouldn’t ever be replaced fully for the exact situation outlined above
Unfortunately life has being taken over by machines.
People make these machines to put people out of work so others can get bigger profits.
Just look at self cash out in shops never mind trying to see someone in a bank.
@Ivan Genockey:
I doubt it saves that much money but saves on strikes or needing people who love the game objecting… It gives more power to fewer people..
But what it really does is make Wimbledon a more sterile place… It just becomes another ATP tournament… In marketing terms it is a huge own goal, it clearly means you totally don’t understand the product you are selling.. Wimbledon is as much about drama as it is about Tennis..
Tech is only as good as the people using it. This was human error.
For the money these competitions generate, having trained linesmen should still be there, even if aided by the stuff like a Hawkeye or VAR system.
Even if the detection was turned off, they should have still had camera footage to replay.
It’s pretty weird that someone would or could have turned off that system during a game.
Wish we had it for Henry’s Le Handball.
@Notty Tee: That match ruined most of my love for the game. It wasn’t just how obvious of a foul and failing by the officials, but that it was from someone that I’d admired as being a pretty honest sportsperson.
@ben wu: Nearly all footballers try to cheat in every match by claiming throw-ins that they know should go to the other team and so on. I think it’s unfair to hold that incident against one of the greatest footballers.
@Brendan O’Brien: What are you on about? He not only handballed it once, but TWICE.
Yeah sure. We all make mistakes. But he never apologised. Keeps using the term “expressed remorse”.
No respect.
@Notty Tee: Yeah, there are a lot of soccer players that are known for diving, or feigning or faking.. Henry was not really in that cohort, but he gave away any concept of being honest in that match.
If its not activated as in this case then the problem is Human Error
VAR has destroyed football, and the TMO in rugby is heading that way. We are no seeing tries been disallowed, due to a missed infringement two or three minutes before the try, so where does it end??
@The Firestarter: I think VAR has reduced the number of wrong decisions, therefore it’s a good thing.
@The Firestarter: the biggest difference is rugby interacts with the crowd and the TV viewer, with VAR no one knows anything except the ref.
@The Firestarter: perfect systems used dishonestly.
VAR is absolute bollocks and has ruined football as a spectacle imo. It was suppposed to be for clear and obvious errors, now officials are falling over themselves to disallow everything. If you have to draw lines for 5 minutes to determine if someones elbow was a cm over the line, has the attacker really gleaned that much of an advantage? There is no consistency in handball decisions either. The charade of the refs going over to the screen as if 99.9% they are ever going to do anything but toe the jobsworth line annoys me too. Prefer the ol’ things evening themselves out over a season tbh.
The simple thing is it would remove all the errors. Removing all controversy, and ability to allow manipulation in favour of certain teams/athletes. However there is no appetite to remove that controversy, as we all know that what draws attention and keeps journalists in their jobs. When there’s an opportunity to for it to look like technology made an error it’s seized upon. Regarding the latest controversy at Wimbledon, it would be reasonable for one to suspect that that system was turned off on purpose to create a media hullabaloo.
The judge’s/referee’s decision must be final in all sport.
It’s a front for ‘Skynet’…
TMO/VAR should ONLY intervene in cases of dangerous play. Otherwise let the ref and umpires get on with it. In my own sport (rugby) it has reachec the stage where touch judges completely ignore everything apart from line outs and refs refer everything onwards to the TMO. Bring back the good old days where touch judges flagged for forward passes and off sides, etc. and refs were brave enough to award tries and give straight reds!!
In sport the most accurate system is always the best. Participants and spectators want dependable continuity. If the AI is more reliable and faster than the human, then use the AI. There are still a lot of things for a human ref to do, that AI’s can’t do yet. Some of the worst moments in sport have been the egregious errors of bad referees.
Rugby has the best field sport back up for the field ref and line refs. GAA has the best tech support but the operating skills are variable at times. Other fast ball sports need tech recheck support as tefs have just 1 split
second view, but operational skill/ reliability essential.
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