More than an exercise in nostalgia, the former Oasis frontman and the ex-guitarist of the Stone Roses leave grown men in a state of crazed euphoria.
“Yes, Leeds!” Liam Gallagher exclaims before a note has been struck at the city’s O2 Academy. Beside him, John Squire acknowledges the roar of a sell-out crowd with a nod, already drawn to his fretboard. Here, the marriage of two of the most idiosyncratic figures spawned from the imperial phase of Cool Britannia – the swaggering singer of Britpop, and the acid architect of Madchester – is enough to leave grown men with mod cuts, camouflage parkas and bucket hats in a state of crazed euphoria.
As defining sounds of a musical era rooted firmly into the psyche of a nation, their union is practically manna from heaven. Still, this supporting tour is more than an exercise in nostalgia – an exercise, in fact, so shrewdly opposed to nostalgia that it eschews any prior material by Gallagher, Squire or either of their old bands.
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