Oasis as a family band? Yep, the young idealise the 1990s like we did the 1960s

OASIS reforming is just the tonic the nation needs.

- Martin Robinson

While those social media memes declare that everything went wrong in the world after David Bowie died in 2016, perhaps it was actually Oasis's split in 2009 that brought about the bad times, given the fact their reunion announcement has very quickly brought a wave of excitement and enthusiasm from, well, everyone, even former naysayers.

I was a fan but not a mad-for-it fan.

I'd go to their gigs, have a great time, but I was never living through them as much as others so obviously were. But as much as I'm nauseated by the thought of middle-aged blokes around the country buying a new parka, affecting a Manc twang and getting "on one" from now until the band breaks up again, it does feel like the country really needs this.