A REVIEW OF THE ONE AND ONLY OASIS SHOW I EVER SAW
THE ORPHEUM THEATRE, BOSTON, MA~APRIL 27, 2000
FROM THE BOSTON HERALD

"Last night at the Orpheum Theatre the British accents weren't confined to the stage where Manchester boys Oasis and Glaswegians Travis got down to business.
Hundreds of Boston-area Brits helped pack the sold-out theatre and enthusiastically waved Union Jacks about as Oasis played a sterling 85-minute set of their Beatles-Drenched pop rock.
The notoriously feuding brothers Gallagher, Liam and Noel, were perfectly civil to one another throughout the show, which opened with current single "Go Let it Out," from their latest album "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants." Noel actually cracked a smile at one point and Liam gave subtle props to his brother's guitar prowess with a slight hand gesture.
New members, guitarist Gem Archer, and bassist Andy Bell, blended right in with the rest of the shoegazing group.
The crowd was one of the loudest in recent memory singing along with sports arena enthusiasm to the shuffling "Wonderwall," "Stand by Me" and the defiant "Cigarettes and Alcohol."
Noel Gallagher kept his guitar solos neat and precise, playing with energy but no real flash. Stinging licks leapt out at the close of "Gas Panic" and electricity flowed through his cover of Neil Young's "Hey, Hey, My, My (Into the Black)" and the Beatles "Helter Skelter," both sizzling encores.
The Fab Four, as usual, haunted the set. Aside from ``Helter Skelter," "Tomorrow Never Knows" crept into the intro of one number.
Noel's vocal spotlight, the anthemic "Don't Look Back In Anger," nicked a bit of "Imagine." And the boys even showed a picture of John Lennon and footage of his home, the Dakota and the adjoining "Strawberry Fields" in Central Park during the second number.
Travis opened with a sublime set of mellifluous pop melodies including jaunty hit "Why Does it Always Rain on Me?" and the rocking "Saturday Night."