An Oasis Concert Fraud

When I first bought my Oasis concert tickets 2 months ago, I was so excited as I was going to see them live in action for the very first time.

Few days before the concert, I started googling the only Oasis album I ever owned (the cassette tape has probably degenerated by now) which was (What's the Story) Morning Glory. I looked at the list of song titles and thought I'd better do some homework before the concert, such as -confession- memorising the lyrics. As I went through the lyrics, I could not recall the melody at all. Surely some of you know what I am talking about. The times when you are desperately trying to recall a song, lyrics usually could lend you the melody? Well they eluded me.

So the next best thing was YouTube. The moment the performance came on, the lyrics just came rolling off my tongue. Memories came rushing back, fond secondary school memories of my fanatic Oasis-fan friends. We could sing every single track of the album then, and I still can, well kind of, but with the occassional mouth gagging literally lost for words.

But what I did not know when I first bought the concert ticket was that Oasis had subsequent albums. Oh bummer, too late now. I just kept my fingers crossed that they would sing their older tracks from that one particular album.

The concert started at 8.30pm. Concert started with a song I have never heard before, and continued with more songs that I still did not recognise. When I looked around me, there were many other people who looked just as lost but trying to get into it by swaying their bodies to the melody. My friends and I occassionally screamed, and jumped up and down pretending to recognise the opening bars of some unheard of songs. Each time when a song finishes, I do not think I have ever clapped so enthusiastically in hope that the next song would be one that I know of.

Finally, oh-sweet-banana-chocolate-cake, they sang Morning Glory (song order may be wrong). You remember when you used to study for 2 whole years to prepare for an exam which consisted of only 3 essay questions? During your revision, you were bound to downplay the importance of certain topics thinking it would never appear in your exams paper. So all you did was memorise about only 5 facts of that topic. Then when that darn topic does appear in your exams, you kick yourself wishing that you have revised and memorised more facts to fill up an A4 page. That was exactly how I felt when they finally played a tune I knew!

After that, there were more obscure songs, but they did play Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger and Champagne Supernova. I called Reena when they played the Champagne because it is her most favourite Oasis song. After all what are the chances right?

So when the concert finally ended, I thought to myself that I should have invested the ticket money to replace my phased out Oasis cassette tape instead. Don't get me wrong. They are an excellent band but I knew only 4 songs in the 90 minutes long repertoire. By the way, so did hundreds of people around me judging from how they suddenly came to life when Don't Look Back In Anger came on. The band did not even have to sing the chorus!