{"id":2000121,"date":"2025-09-05T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2000121"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:51:23","slug":"for-l-a-s-anglophiles-the-oasis-reunion-is-a-football-game-with-80000-people-on-same-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/for-l-a-s-anglophiles-the-oasis-reunion-is-a-football-game-with-80000-people-on-same-team\/","title":{"rendered":"For L.A.’s Anglophiles, the Oasis reunion is ‘a football game with 80,000 people on same team’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For 15 years, Dylan Shepherd\u2019s band was as close as you could get to seeing Oasis onstage.<\/p>\n

Shepherd fronts Supersonic, an Oasis tribute act that\u2019s nailed every detail of their Manchester heroes\u2019 live sets, from Liam Gallagher\u2019s anorak jacket-bedecked swagger to the precise jangle of his brother Noel’s guitar. For fans worried that the famously acrimonious Gallagher brothers would never reunite after their chaotic 2009 split, Supersonic was a solid alternative.<\/p>\n

Never has a band been happier to be upstaged.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike everyone else, we were shocked and elated when Oasis announced they were getting back together,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cWe came up with the concept of going and doing a bunch of shows in cities just before them to get people even more fired up, if that\u2019s even possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, just before Oasis plays the Rose Bowl, Supersonic will headline the Whisky a Go Go<\/a>, the site of Oasis\u2019 infamous drug-fueled meltdown onstage in 1994. Supersonic will likely behave better than the Gallaghers, but for Angeleno Anglophiles, this week\u2019s revelry is on par with Taylor Swift\u2019s Eras tour or a BTS reunion coming to town.<\/p>\n

For one weekend, L.A. will more or less become Manchester with palm trees.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went to their first Manchester show in July and it was unbelievable, the atmosphere was just buzzing,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cOut of every shop window, every bar, you could hear Oasis, and they sounded better than they ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/b> (What\u2019s the Story): Everything you need to know ahead of this week\u2019s Oasis shows<\/a><\/p>\n

In a time when giant pop tours are the barometer of health for the live music industry, Oasis\u2019 reunion feels both old-fashioned and refreshing \u2014 a hard-partying, live-wire rock band is suddenly the hottest ticket in town. The band\u2019s shows in the UK transformed its city centers with a fervor closer to national heritage than mere rock band fandom.<\/p>\n

Now, for the first time since 2008, it\u2019s L.A.\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has seen the documentary \u201cDepeche Mode: 101\u201d or attended a Morrissey show with a Chicano-heavy crowd knows that L.A. turns out for its idols across the pond. Some superfans here couldn\u2019t wait for the band to make it over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a fan since the \u201890s, but I never got to see them back in the day and I\u2019ve just been waiting for them to resolve things,\u201d said Rose Ghavami, an L.A. promoter and DJ who flew to the U.K. for two Oasis shows. That wasn\u2019t nearly enough, though.<\/p>\n

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