Oasis⚫⚪Week🎸🎙️: Finally Attending My 15th Oasis Concert

“Time flies” – Oasis compilation album.

Oasis Week: Finally Attending My 15th Oasis Concert

Time really does fly. From my first ever radio listen of Oasis in April 1994 on a Radio One session, before finally getting into buying CDs and cassette tapes of Oasis, it has been a wild 31 years. In the early years of Oasis, 1994 to 1998 I owned every CD single, album, video, rare release and a load of bootleg and other memorabilia. It was a great time to be alive. Be Here Now and August 1997 felt like a massive peak, and I later backpacked Saint Vincent on a Noel Gallagher pilgrimage. I had just started a course at Tech in Belvoir in Belfast and life was wild.

“Wash your face in the morning sun” – Noel Gallagher.

Watching Oasis🎸🎙️⚫⚪In 1997 In Dublin🇮🇪On The Be Here Now Tour

Oasis – Be Here Now

Be Here Now: The Time Of My life At Casa De Snagg, Chester Cottage Saint Vincent

So just a quick post today as I am sentimental ahead of my return to Cork, Dublin and Belfast – three places where I have Oasis memories. Next week will finally be my 15th Oasis concert, dating way back to 1996 when I made my debut at Cork away. Exactly 20 years later, I made another pilgrimage to it when I returned to Cork.

Quick lunch stop off on route to Cork for Oasis gig in 1996. Colin, Keith, Jonny. Jean, Amy.

My Oasis t-shirt around the time of the Cork concert

But here in 2025, it will be my first Oasis concert for 17 years. That’s unfathomable. Since the last one in Bournemouth in 2008, a person could have been born and passed their driving test!

How I Got Oasis Tickets In 1997 For The Be Here Now Tour

Since my debut in August 1996, almost 29 years to the day to my comeback gig, I was at 14 Oasis concerts.

My ticket for the Oasis gig in 1996 at Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork, Republic of Ireland

I’ve listed the ones I was at below. I also tried to get tickets for Poole in 2005 and couldn’t. Oasis have only played as a band in Poland only ONCE. That was in the year 2000 on the Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants tour. In contrast, the band have played in Northern Ireland EIGHT times! And I was at 3 of them, 4 in Republic of Ireland and 7 in England. I have also seen Noel Gallagher live at Hong Kong away and 4 different “tribute bands”. #oasis
1.Cork, ROI 15th August 1996.
2.Dublin, ROI 4th December 1997.
3.Dublin, ROI
4.Belfast, NI 29th June 2002.
5.Belfast, NI 30th June 2002.
6.London, England July 2002.
7.London, England July 2002.
8.Witness, ROI 14th July 2002.
9.Prehen, NI September 2002.
10.Dublin, ROI March 2003.
11.Scummers, England July 2005.
12.Wimbledon Thieves, England July 2005.
13.Wembley, England October 2008.
14.Bournemouth, England October 2008 (free entry-was working at it).

So bring it on. Bring it on down. I’ll see you all there…at Crokey. Croke Park away will be nuts.

“Slide away and give it all you got” – Noel Gallagher.

A collection of my Oasis memories down the years, many of whcih were taken on old disposable cameras.