Getty Images Oasis reached the peak of their success with 2 giant gigs at Knebworth in 1996 The BBC’s Anna Doble was 17 when she saw Oasis play at Knebworth. Almost 3 years on, she speaks to a brand-new group of young, hardcore – and frequently woman – fans who are drawn to a band who peaked before they were even born. Jasmine Griffin-Jones, whose valued ownership is a Liam Gallagher set list, still can’t think it’s real. “I was sat in shock for rather a while,” she describes about hearing news of the Oasis reunion. She is 19 and lives in Widnes in Cheshire, 30 miles west of Burnage, where the Gallagher siblings – Noel and Liam – grew up on the borders of Manchester. Her mum is a fan of fellow Mancunian band the Stone Roses, which might hold a hint to her enthusiasm for Oasis. But she likewise enjoys Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and – gasp – Britpop competitors Blur. Half a world away, in St Petersburg, Russia, 23-year-old Yulia Markovskaia stands in her bedroom surrounded by Oasis posters and her own illustrations of the band. She is sensation like she may “explode” while anxiously attempting to work out how to get to one of the UK shows in2025 “I’m going to sob so hard if they sing Acquiesce together,” she states of the fan-favourite tune sung by both Gallagher siblings. Jasmine Griffin Jasmine Griffin-Jones holding a set list from a Liam Gallagher solo gig This brand-new Oasis scene appears to function less chaps with sideburns, baggy nylon football t-shirts and those loud burps that follow swiftly-downed cans of Carling. Instead, this 21st Century fanbase gathers more nicely on TikTok, Instagram and X, where the hashtag that brings fans, Liam memes, and Bonehead jokes together, is #oasistwt. It includes a near-constant stream of favorable speculation and good-natured gratitude of Liam’s gorgeous eyebrows. The Spice Girls, Blur and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker’s pointy fingers make routine looks too, and there is an bypassing sense that these fans would alot love to be carried back in time to the hot, hazy tambourine summertimes of the late 1990s. The thing is, I was there. It was me in the hyper line of container hat-wearing teens waiting to get into the Oasis performance at Knebworth. It was me listening to Shakermaker on devoted station Supernova Radio as its opening drum beats wafted from the speakers that lined our path into the park location. And it was me hoping my Blur T-shirt, underneath a zip-up Adidas leading, wasn’t a entirely silly relocation amongst 125,000 lagered-up Liam and Noel fans. Anna Doble Anna Doble in the 1990s in front of a Blur poster I was 16 in 1995, the ideal age for Britpop. I had the ticket stubs on my wall, the shoebox filled with Longpigs and Cast cassettes, and the wannabe Elastica hairstyle that lastly made me appearance old sufficient to sit by the swimmingpool table in the bar. My copy of Definitely Maybe was acquired on the £3 stall of my hometown market in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire; a odd illegal variation acqui
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