Legendary band Oasis silenced skeptics with the first concert of their comeback tour in Cardiff, writes the BBC in Serbian today.
After a 16-year hiatus, they took to the stage sounding fresh and reborn. They performed classics like Cigarettes and Alcohol, Live Forever and Slide Away – while 70.000 fans hugged and doused each other with beer, according to the BBC.
They opened the tour with the song Hello, with the chorus "it's good to be here again", and then performed Acquiesce – one of the rare songs to feature both Noel and Liam Gallagher singing together.
The line "we need each other" sounded like reconciliation as the brothers buried their hatchet after decades of feuding and reconnected with the audience.
Fans greeted songs like Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger, both from the 1995 masterpiece (What's the Story) Morning Glory? – one of the best-selling British albums of all time – with mass euphoria.
Throughout the evening, the gathered audience sang a series of songs: Some Might Say, Supersonic, Whatever, Half The World Away, Rock 'n' Roll Star.
During the performance of the song Live Forever – which they dedicated to Diogo Jota, the Liverpool footballer who died in a car accident – the audience even sang along to Noel's guitar solo.
The frontman sounded powerful himself, putting an end to earlier vocal problems that had plagued him on previous tours due to Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune disorder that can affect the voice.
As fans already know, the group Oasis has never been particularly dynamic on stage.
Although they exited holding hands, there were not many other signs of closeness between the brothers, who did not speak to each other during the two-and-a-half-hour concert.
But the very fact that they sang together, after all the hostilities and turbulent past, was very emotional.
"Thank you for putting up with us all these years. We're hard, I know," Liam said before the final song of the night, Champagne Supernova.
As they left the stage, the Gallaghers briefly hugged each other, the BBC reports.
Oasis formed in 1991 in Manchester, and split up in 2009 when Noel left the band due to increasing arguments and misunderstandings with Liam.
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