Review: Oasis @Ricoh Arena, Coventry

It's 13 years since the mouthy Mancunians played to a quarter of a million people at Knebworth, but the Gallagher brothers’ onstage swagger is still justified.

For as the sun went down over Coventry City’s Ricoh Arena, the World’s most famous Manchester City supporters lit up the stadium with a jaw-dropping sound and visual spectacle.

Three giant screens beamed out bright, psychedelic images of the rockers on stage to an audience of 30,000 plus.

They launched into their two-hour long set with Rock and Roll Star, Liam’s voice as powerful and distinctive as ever.

They then ripped through hit after hit from their two biggest albums Definitely Maybe and What’s the Story (Morning Glory) with songs from their later albums punctuating the set.

The only way a band with as many sing-along, anthemic tunes as Oasis can falter is through a lack of enthusiasm borne of too many years playing the same stuff.

Their stage presence and vigour hasn’t waned over the years however and although band members have changed since their Britpop glory days, their tightness and on-stage presence has not. It was the final rousing Oasis anthems Don’t Look Back in Anger and their homage to The Beatles I am the Walrus which sent the revellers who had each paid more than £30 for a ticket into hysterics.

In a nutshell: Commanding, brilliant, catchy – what more could want from a stadium band?

Source: www.birminghammail.net

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