I'm seeing articles saying the Oasis reunion will help young rock bands. Two of them, the K's and the Guest List

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I saw the K's mentioned first, in this article:

https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/183325/The-K-s-frontman-Jamie-Boyle-believes-Oasis-reunion-has-rescued-guitar-music

They've been around since 2016 but didn't release their first album till last year, when it debuted at #3 on the UK album chart. Wikipedia, album review, and interview from last year:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%27s
https://theindyreview.com/2024/04/03/album-review-the-ks-i-wonder-if-the-world-knows/
https://www.liverpoolguildstudentmedia.co.uk/2024/03/29/its-good-to-listen-to-everything-if-you-want-to-progress-as-a-songwriter-the-ks-on-their-debut-album-and-more/

I like their music but couldn't decide which video to post.


And I found the Guest List more interesting. They remind me of the Beatles.

They're a younger band, formed in 2021 when they were schoolmates and in the the school band. This is the first year they've all been out of school. I heard about them thanks to an article today by John Robb in Louder Than War:

https://louderthanwar.com/the-guest-list-are-the-latest-brilliant-young-manchester-guitar-band-about-to-break-big/

The Guest List are the latest brilliant young Manchester guitar band about to break big
By johnrobb -25 July 2025

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The young band hail from Altrincham and are masters of those quicksilver tunes like the Stone Roses were between their punkier early days and that classic debut album. Those honey sweet with a heart of soul tingling melodic brilliance songs hook you in with their inventive brilliance. It’s geographical and its musical as not only do The Guest List live in their own Mersey paradise they sound like it to.

Their upcoming single ‘Weatherman’ is the band’s best yet and will hasten their inevitable crossover. Yet again it drips with melody and dynamics and plays with light and shade as it toys with its mysterious and poetically intriguing lyrics that in their ambition and intriguing multi levelled word play are a nod to Mancunian poets past like Morrissey and Marr.

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I saw the band play recently and posted this review…



There is always something quite magical about watching a band who are about to break out. The Guest List are currently emerging from under wraps and just beyond the ears the music biz but they already have the buzz, and in their home city of Manchester they are already onto the 1000 cap venues. The rest of the nation is about to discover their delicious, delicate, melodic windowpane tunes that deal in that exquisite melodic slip and slide of the Stone Roses in between their early rock bit and the debut album. Fittingly, for a south Manchester Sale/Altrincham band hailing from the same streets as the Roses , they are immersed in this Mersey Paradise of chiming guitars, exquisite vocals and deceptively light, yet with a big punch, songs that come armed with sugaring-the-pill melodies and already sound like indie classics.

A bit more info about them here:
https://www.bodeganottingham.com/gigs/the-guest-list/
https://therockrevival.co.uk/in-conversation-with-the-guest-list-from-gazebos-and-garage-tiktoks-to-their-biggest-tour-yet/

Videos below, of Weatherman live, then 161, the music video and a live performance.

Re the song below, 161 - this Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4365176373531005&id=149285668453451 - explains what it's about: the street in suburban Manchester with only 60 houses that still had 161 men and boys volunteer to fight in WWI, with 29 of them dying. A review of the song: https://medium.com/@jldmusic1/song-review-161-by-the-guest-list-833439b36fb1

And I'm editing to add the lyric video for 161 first. That has over 200,000 and 700 comments.

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