Oasis will play their first shows in 16 years and fans have gone absolutely wild at the news. After years of acrimony, the Gallagher brothers have put aside their differences and will play shows in London, Dublin, Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
While the year 2009 may feel like it happened just yesterday, so much has changed in a decade and a half. Plenty of gadgets, devices and apps we take for granted now didn’t even exist the last time Liam and Noel took to the stage.
Fans are being advised to watch out for ticketing scams, while Ticketmaster has issued its top tips to make sure you don’t miss out. Oasis tickets will go on sale at 9am on Saturday, 31 August.
But while you are waiting for tickets to go on sale, let’s take a little trip back in time and see what everyday items we take for granted in 2024 no longer exist. Let us know which you can’t go without.
Fans are being advised to watch out for ticketing scams, while Ticketmaster has issued its top tips to make sure you don’t miss out. Oasis tickets will go on sale at 9am on Saturday, 31 August.
5. WhatsApp
Can you remember what it was like staying in touch with people before WhatsApp - but that was the reality the last time Oasis played a show in the UK. The messaging app didn’t launch on iOS until August 2009 and Android users had to wait until 2010 to get it. Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images | YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images
6. Selfie
No, don’t go throwing rotten veg at me, please hear me out. While people have undeniably taken self portrait photos before, the concept of the ‘selfie’ didn’t gain widespread popularity and awareness until the 2010s - being added to the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. So if you were at the last Oasis concert in 2009 and said ‘let’s take a selfie’ people wouldn’t have had a clue what you were on about. Photo: Ellen DeGeneres/Twitter via Getty Images | Ellen DeGeneres/Twitter via Getty Images Photo: Ellen DeGeneres/Twitter via Getty Images
7. Amazon Fire TV Stick
If you are travelling to see an Oasis show next summer and planning to stay in a hotel, you might be taking your Fire Stick with you so that you can catch up on your shows. But in 2009, when the band last played shows, the Fire Stick was not even a glimmer in Amazon’s eye - not launching until 2014. Photo: DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images | DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images Photo: DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images
8. Netflix in the UK
Speaking of catching up on your shows, Liam and Noel’s massive falling out that saw Oasis split for good (at least until now) happened in 2009. And it would still be three years before Netflix arrived in the UK - with the streaming service launching here in 2012. Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images | PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images