Oasis My Arse
The Oasis hype machine has been rolling for a couple of months now. It started as a dribble of news about the new album; and then the announcement of big summer gigs; and now it's reached a torrent of news with the release of Lyla this week and the album Don't Believe The Truth in a couple of weeks time. We've also had the standard articles in the NME with Liam ranting like a loon and dismissing all new bands - e.g. a bunch of University Challenge students (Bloc Party).

The fact is Oasis are past it. Lyla, is supposed to be a great lost single that almost didn't make it onto the album, but then someone realised it was a great comeback single and it was resurrected from the original Noel demo. To me Lyla just sounds like a weak dirge. If this is the best track on the album then DBTT isn't going to be the best Oasis record since Definately Maybe as Noel has said and has said every time since What's The Story (Morning Glory).

Recently the band have played a series of small club dates (The Astoria being one of them) to good reviews. This may be the case, but when it comes to the big shows can Liam be arsed to put on a show? Last year's Glasto performance would suggest not.

At the end of the day when a band gets to the size of Oasis they really have to have the fire and the urgency to delvier. Otherwise they should just retire and spend time playing golf.

So, in the words of Jim Royale - Oasis My Arse.
- posted by Nigella @ 6:20 PM