For 15 years, Dylan Shepherd's band was closest as you could see Oasis on stage.
Shepherd Fronts Supersonic, an act of Oasis tribute that has nailed every detail of the live sets of his Manchester heroes, from the arrogance adorned with Anorak jacket by Liam Gallagher to the jangle precise of his brother Noel's guitar. For fans worried that the famous Gallagher brothers never gather after their chaotic division of 2009, Supersonic was a solid alternative.
A band has never been happier to be eclipsed.
“Like everyone else, we were surprised and we were euphoric when Oasis announced that they were being together again,” said Shepherd. “We came up with the concept of going and doing a lot of shows in cities just before them so that people are even more excited, if that is possible.”
On Friday, just before Oasis touches the Rose Bowl, Supersonic will head the whiskey to Go, the site of the infamous oasis collapse fed by drug Meeting.
During a weekend, it will become more or less Manchester with palm trees.
“We went to his first Manchester show in July and it was incredible, the atmosphere was buzzing,” Shepherd said. “Outside each store window, each bar, you could hear oasis, and they sounded better than ever.”
At a time when giant pop tours are the health barometer of the live music industry, the Oasis meeting is felt at the old and refreshing, a live and live rock band is suddenly the most popular ticket in the city. The band's shows in the United Kingdom transformed their city centers with a fervor closer to national heritage than the mere rock Fandom band.
Now, for the first time since 2008, it is the turn of the.
Anyone who has seen the documentary “Depeche Mode: 101” or has attended a Morrissey show with a multitude of Chicano. Some Superfans couldn't wait for the band to do it.
“I have been a fan since the 90s, but I could never see them in the past and I have been waiting for things to resolve,” said Rose Ghavami, a promoter of Los Angeles and DJ who flew to the United Kingdom for two Oasis shows. However, that was not enough.
Oasis rock band fans arrive at an exhibition of photographer Kevin Cummins in the band at the Musichead gallery in West Hollywood on September 4, 2025.
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“I am crazy. I go to Rose Bowl on Saturday and then to see them in Mexico City the next weekend. Centering trips around these concerts has been super emotional. I definitely cried along with everyone, singing every word,” Ghavami said.
Among those shows, he organizes a pre-fiera with Oasis theme in cha lounge in Silver Lake on Friday. Among his contingent of Britpop fans here, he sees parallel with the historical scan of another group of US stadiums.
“I wasn't for Beatlemania, but this feels similar to that,” Ghavami said. “It is usually shocking to use a band's shirt for its concert, but this has a pass because people were face to face from their cubes hats to their socks. I see people walking down the street here with Oasis team, and stop to ask 'Are you going to go to the show?'”
Buyers who show their merchandish oasis
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In fact, the lines in the Pop-Up Oasis Merch Mart in Hollywood have been formidable, since fans rushed to commemorate the meeting that feared it would never come. The enthusiastic criticisms of the tour, and a remarkable lack of drama among the Gallaghers, consolidated this as the rock event seen in the year.
Even for experienced veterinarians of Oasis, the effusion of goodwill and camaraderie between the band and fans have been stimulating.
Kevin Cummins is a British photographer who captured the group in his early days, just before launching his debut LP “perhaps perhaps.” He is exhibiting shots of his book of that time, “Oasis: The Masterplan”, in Musichead Gallery in Hollywood from this week. It has even been surprised how friction and cheerful this meeting has been.
“I see football with Noel in England, and we had talked about a meeting in and off the years. I always said no, it will never happen, it will not work,” Cummins said. “So he was as surprised as anyone on the scale of these concerts and the reception they are receiving. When I talk to Noel after the concerts, he says that each one is better than the last one. I do not think they even believe that this has become.”
Cummins has photographed the band for three decades, and always admired how Oasis fans identified themselves with their hardworking working class and scathing humor. In a political climate where each cultural figure can become instantly polarized, the Oasis meeting was the closest that the United Kingdom reached a national consensus.
In a devastated by fires, ice and a mood affected by fatality in its Hallmark entertainment industries, Oasis' return is also a rare show that expects.
Liam Gallagher, on the left, and Noel Gallagher, on the right, of the Oasis band act during their meeting concert on Friday, July 4, 2025 in Cardiff.
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“In England, concerts were a moment of renewal, if that is not too cheesy,” Cummins said. “This year has been quite miserable, political year, so this tour has appeared and has been a great distraction. Oasis has always been a band that people were fiercely proud, and this is like going to the football game where 80,000 people are supporting the same team.”
All week, the bars of Los Angeles and the nightclubs have packed their calendars with holiday parties. Regular customers in Club Underground, a British independent night now at the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown, would naturally enter the occasion.
“Every week, 'Don's Look Back in in anger' is our closing song,” said Lawrence Gjurgevich, who throws the club underground like DJ Larry G (naturally, they are launching a pre-fiesta Friday night). The affection for Britpop in Los Angeles “dates back to the original Kroq, who played bands like New Order, The Smiths, The Cure,” he said. “There has always been a lineage here that continues with bands such as Arctic Monkeys and Fontaines DC”
Gjurgevich lost his home in Eaton's fire, and although he is buried in the reconstruction process, these Oasis shows are a respite and a reminder of why he made a life in the Los Angeles music scene. “The shows are in our backyard, which is incredible,” he said. “We are rebuilding and is heavy, but this has been something to expect, a place to make new friends.”
Even newcomer young people, who lost the oasis in their rumors of the 90s and the collapse of the 2000s, are forced by this tour, said Holiday Kirk, a promoter, writer and memelordio of Los Angeles (which is partially responsible for the Nu-metal rebirth between generation Z).
“If you are under 25 years old, you don't remember how omnipresent it was Oasis. You couldn't get away from them, they could park in the single people in number one for pure will,” said Kirk, who about thirty years old, he said.
Kirk is turning to Britpop for an Oasis-Heavy pre-party in Gold Diggers on Friday. Certainly, there is a nostalgia factor for older fans, but also a curiosity of the youngest about a band that hung insults, fists and cocaine in equal extent while writing some of the most affected songs of their time.
A fan, Rose, looks at the images of the British rock band Oasis taken by photographer Kevin Cummins that was exhibited for an exhibition.
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Fans of gene generation are “fascinated by the idea of being an uncompromising rock band and conquering the world. That is far from the conception of anyone what is possible today,” Kirk said. “Can you imagine Sabrina Carpenter, in an interview, saying that I hated Taylor Swift? It is very fun to think that you can do that and would not ruin your career. I have seen so many Fancams of Liam Gallagher in Tiktok where the comments are like 'OMG, so Babygirl'”, a term of the generation of exercises for older men, “because no other leader has had that arrogance since then.” “
Even for fans who were out of Rose Bowl's shows, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in the center of Los Angeles projected the 2016 Oasis documentary “Oasis: Supersonic” this week to offer a sample of the band in its incendiary peak.
“There is such an attraction for the young public to see these cultural documents of a world before the celebrity became so conscious and considered of interested parties,” said Jake Isgar, head of specialized programming for Alamo Drafthouse. “The Gallagher brothers cannot avoid being themselves, and that is why people feel so attracted to them.”
A detail of a contact sheet of the British rock band Oasis of photographer Kevin Cummins.
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While Pasadena will be the center of the Rock and Roll universe this weekend, Oasis published a live map of prearties and historical band sites in Los Angeles, where devotees can take a pilgrimage. (Yes, whiskey is there.
“I have seen people bringing their children to these shows, several generations with communal experiences. I can't think of another band that can have this impact,” Ghavami said. “After ice raids, fires and political tension, things are horrible. We need to bring joy to people. Something as one of the best rock and roll bands of all time. I am excited to be alive for it.”
