11/30/2023 0 Comments Garbage i think i m paranoid![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Noel Gallagher on stage in Los Angeles in 2023. The ‘90s seem to have taken hold of every generation in every direction. I whisper to my dad friend - who just turned 38 this year - and say, “It wasn’t like this at Oasis shows 15 years ago.” I’m not exaggerating. Noel dedicates “Live Forever” to an exuberantly joyful woman in a white dress, who couldn’t have been more than 25. There’s a grandma behind me in a Blondie t-shirt, and there are teens and twenty-somethings crowding the balcony. So, it would logically follow that at this concert I was surrounded by fellow aging millennials and/or younger Gen-Xers, right? The median age of a Noel Gallagher+Garbage ticket holder must be 42, the age I’m turning this summer. They were both 28 in 1995, a time when I was 14, the perfect age to be obsessed with Oasis and Garbage. Manson and Gallagher are both 56 years old, a fact which they each allude to at various points in the evening. When lead singer Shirley Manson starts crooning the angsty hit “Only Happy When It Rains,” she’s standing behind the drumset, hiding, starting slow, and teasing, as if even she can’t believe she’s singing this ridiculously perfect rock track. Gallagher’s stop in Boston is the last leg of a North American tour, co-headlining with another ‘90s rock legend, Garbage. Until, someone from this great country, f*cked it up by inventing the internet.” And then, Gallagher, with his band, the High Flying Birds (which includes two former Oasis members, Gem Archer, and Chris Sharrock) tear into the 1995 mega-ballad “The Masterplan.” And in an instant, we’re all transported to a time when you couldn’t take a photo with your phone because your phone was a device in your house and it would be insane to take it to a concert. ![]() Back to when everyone was f*cking cool as f*ck. Not known for a preponderance of stage banter, Gallagher pauses and says: “Now we’re going to go all the way back. On stage, at the MGM Fenway Theater in Boston, Noel Gallagher - the famous songwriter of Oasis - is exactly halfway through his set before he jumps into a ‘90s time machine. ![]()
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