UPROXX review: I Saw Oasis At Wembley And It Was The Greatest Stadium Show Of My Life

[highplainsdem]

6. NPR transcript/audio on the Wembley shows and comments from both fans and journalists:

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-5467340/oasis-returns-to-wembley-stadium

From Laura Snapes, deputy music editor for the Guardian, talking about how important the first two Oasis albums are for the UK:

LAURA SNAPES: There are so many actual anthems on them that have become almost like folk songs in the U.K. They are designed to be sung by thousands of people at once. They've got a sense of striving and us against the world and, like, trying to get out of your situation, which is obviously very appealing and communal and sort of reflects their working-class origins.

From music journalist and podcaster Yasi Salek:

YASI SALEK: There's just something otherworldly about Liam Gallagher's, like, confidence and swagger that I think really translated all over the world, also, the goss (ph). Like, the fact that they were, like, in the press constantly slagging off everyone else but also each other, and they were just, like, chaos. They were chaos incarnate. They were real rock stars.

Goss is British slang for gossip.

From a Guatemalan fan at Webley with her brother:

STELLA MARROQUIN: They are playing in Mexico, which is close to us. So we had, like, the opportunity to see them there. But as my brother was saying, it was like, oh, I don't know if they're going to (laughter) still be there for September, so let's do it right now.

From a 26-year-old fan from New Jersey who got into Oasis in high school:

ALTOMARE: I'm going to level with you and be vulnerable. I think I'm going to burst into tears as soon as they start, "Hello" (laughter). I didn't know if this was ever going to happen. Like, I didn't ever expect to be able to see Oasis. I'm being given something that I never thought I'd get.