Craig Berry on the political economy of the Oasis reunion and working class nostalgia:
This is folk music, at its best and truest. Stood in a field with your arms around the lads who bullied you at school singing about Sally needing to wait is pretty much the same as singing about dead relatives in a County Mayo pub while your pissed uncle plays the fiddle.
I was never really into Oasis, but this is a very interesting take on the economic and political undercurrents surrounding the group’s lasting popularity.