20 May '22 05:45>
I watched a documentary called “Supersonic” about the band Oasis last night. It wasn’t that great to be honest but there was a section in it which was Noel Gallagher reflecting on their 2 day mega-gigs at Knebworth in 1996 where they played to 250,000 people.
He was taking about the significance of that event in terms of it being “before the internet” had taken over the world, and how he felt that there would rarely if ever be gigs like that again where people gathered to see a band rather than consume it on TikTok, or whatever.
He went onto say that we should be worried about that because the internet has fragmented us and where people perhaps won’t gather to “see” a band like that again.
I’m not sure he’s right, but I do think he has a point. The internet seems to have divided us or at least highlighted our divisions. It’s made live performance more accessible digitally but diluted the need to gather. It’s spawned an army of these dreadful “influencers” and a generation of Instagramers, TicTokers and Facebookers who photograph their food and their ass and think it art.
It made me realise how long ago 1996 was, and what a brilliant time it was to be alive; Britpop ruled, live gigs by proper bands were on the rise and tolling the demise of the awful soulless “house music” and raves.
Maybe I’m being nostalgic and losing sight of the bigger picture, but I quite like the small picture every now and then.
Thoughts?
He was taking about the significance of that event in terms of it being “before the internet” had taken over the world, and how he felt that there would rarely if ever be gigs like that again where people gathered to see a band rather than consume it on TikTok, or whatever.
He went onto say that we should be worried about that because the internet has fragmented us and where people perhaps won’t gather to “see” a band like that again.
I’m not sure he’s right, but I do think he has a point. The internet seems to have divided us or at least highlighted our divisions. It’s made live performance more accessible digitally but diluted the need to gather. It’s spawned an army of these dreadful “influencers” and a generation of Instagramers, TicTokers and Facebookers who photograph their food and their ass and think it art.
It made me realise how long ago 1996 was, and what a brilliant time it was to be alive; Britpop ruled, live gigs by proper bands were on the rise and tolling the demise of the awful soulless “house music” and raves.
Maybe I’m being nostalgic and losing sight of the bigger picture, but I quite like the small picture every now and then.
Thoughts?