Oasis stood and stand for nothing except having a good time and by the look of Liam above, having a good time doesn’t come too easy!

Oasis are good at business and have made the most out of their two great albums and several ok albums that followed, but the bottom is that they caught a moment in 1994 and 1995 and they are now bringing that moment back forty years later.

After the group kicked off their comeback tour last week, their greatest hits compilation Time Flies has gone back to the top spot, followed by 1995 album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? at number two.

Debut album Definitely Maybe, from 1994, is at number four – with only Sabrina Carpenter preventing them from completing a clean sweep of the top three.

News of the chart revival comes as the Britpop heroes prepare for their homecoming with the first of five sold-out nights in Manchester.

Infact Oasis has sucked most of the money in the pop-lover’s budgets out of their pockets and into their bank accounts of these Mancunian chappies. Of course they don’t live in Manchester any more, they live in Islington and such like, friends of mine boast of their street creds for having kids going to school with Gallaher kids , we’re actually celebrating the wealth of Gallagher.

Which is different isn’t it. The product is of the dispossessed Mancunians but its delivered by the mega rich Gallaghers who have come again to tell us how well they’re doing and how nice it is to see how we’ve all grown up.

Of course “us” means those willing to pay for the inflated ticket prices and everything else that is needed to make this kind of gig special (a bit like Glastonbury eh!).

Meanwhile, street music, our in Notting Hill, struggles to get by. We nearly lost it this year.

Oasis have had eight number one albums in total, and last topped the chart when Definitely Maybe went back to the summit last September after the reunion was announced. Time Flies and Morning Glory also went back into the top five at that time.

Three of their songs have also gone into the top 20 singles chart this week, led by Acquiesce, which was originally only a B-side, at number 17. That’s followed by Don’t Look Back in Anger at 18, and Live Forever at 19.

Noel and Liam Gallagher buried the hatchet to get back on stage for the first time in 16 years in Cardiff a week ago, and received enthusiastic reviews from ticket-holders and critics.

They have now moved on to Manchester’s Heaton Park, where about 80,000 people  watch them every night.

They will also play seven nights at Wembley Stadium in London as well as shows in Edinburgh and Dublin, and a world tour.

The success of the brotherly reconciliation has gone some way to eclipsing bad memories of the scramble for tickets, when some fans found that prices more than doubled while they spent hours in a virtual queue.

I wonder if Oasis isn’t a celebration of growing up, having kids and plenty of money. I suspect that it gives a lot of people the comfort of thinking they can afford to be a part of the Gallagher experience.

I’m going to Notting Hill this summer. The Great Escape tickets cost a fraction for three days that Heaton Park cost for an afternoon and evening. New music comes from new bands and not from cherishing a life that is forty years old. I’ve got better things to do.

Oasis nostalgia isn’t good for me!

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Thanks to a certain woman who helps me out a log