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New single from Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live from Manchester 11 July '25). Plus fan video + 1994 music video
Just audio with the new single, but the film of this tour should be fun.
Fan video of that song that night:
And ye olde (1994) music video:
From Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarettes_%26_Alcohol
Whereas the band's first two singles "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker" had used psychedelic imagery, and the third single "Live Forever" used softer chords and tender lyrics, "Cigarettes & Alcohol" demonstrated the rougher musical attitude that Oasis appeared to be promoting. The song proclaims the inherent appeal of cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs as a remedy to the banality and seemingly futile nature of working-class life. The line "Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?" taps into a sentiment of disenchantment common in the 1990s. Alan McGee, who discovered the band, boisterously claimed upon first hearing the song that it was "one of the greatest social statements of the past 25 years".[8]