The UK and Ireland can be divided into two camps this morning: those who got Oasis tickets and those who didn’t. You can be sure that WhatsApp chats across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland are ablaze with back and forths about who got lucky and bagged their pass to witness the return of the Gallagher brothers’ band, and those conversations are likely happening further afield too. There is a high chance that across the pond right now, in between two giant shows at Seattle’s Lumen Field, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich is shaking his fists at the sky and complaining to his bandmates about Ticketmaster’s queuing system.
That’s because the Metallica drummer is a self-confessed Oasis fanboy, as he explained to The Guardian for the 20th anniversary of their classic debut Definitely Maybe. He revealed how he got into the Britpop legends in their early days after reading an interview with the siblings and then stumbling across one of their tunes on the radio. “In 1994 I was browsing through an issue of a magazine called Select, and there was a story about a band from England, with some unusual looking fellows, that I’d never heard of,” he explained. “I skimmed across the article, and was quite amused by the fact that every other word was either “fuck” or “cunt”. There was a pretty detailed description of a conversation between one of the guys in the band, Noel Gallagher, and Paul Weller, that was particularly off-colour and very, very funny. It reeked of attitude and not giving a fuck, which at the time – at the height of the shoegazing-I-can’t-handle-being-a-rockstar attitudes that were becoming mainstream – was very refreshing.”
