She’s mid-Gollum.

That's who that is?!? I wondered why she was spewing all that folderol at a wad of raw hamburger meat.

24. The Cords - The Cords
25. Wet Leg - Moisturizer
26. Edwyn Collins - Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
27. Suede - Antidepressants
28. Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last
29. Joel Cusumano - Waxworld
30. Men I Trust - Equus Caballus

18. Damon Locks - List of Demands
19. Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
20. Modern Nature - The Heat Warps
21. Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
22. Baxter Dury - Allbarone
23. Andy Bell - Pinball Wanderer

9. Publicity Department - Old Master
10. Blood Orange - Essex Honey
11. Geese - Getting Killed
12. Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
13. Sault - 10
14. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
15. Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life
16. Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn
17. Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying

Great choice! Their album is wonderful!

Blur
Sonic Youth
Grizzly Bear
Pavement
Stereolab

I was an awkward 14-year-old pseudo-punk dork when my father took me to the premiere of this somewhere in Hollywood. I loved the film and was deeply moved after when Christopher Lloyd, bedecked in a Hawaiian shirt and white trousers, chatted with me for around 15 minutes. Good dude.

The most powerful fistful of ground bear meat in science.

Or I’ll play it on September 6, the first anniversary of the first Rose Bowl show, where I joined my son, two of our dearest friends, and 90,000 other happy souls singing indestructible anthems into the Southern Californian night.

And then a year from now I’ll celebrate this day again with whatever live album results from the 2025 tour.

This might always have been a victory lap, the Gallagher brothers returning to their successful-but-less-so solo careers, Andy Bell to Ride and his myriad musical endeavors, Bonehead and Gem again becoming sidemen to separate Gallaghers, Joey Waronker to coffee and drum fetishism.

Who knows what’ll happen next? New music? A return to Knebworth? A gig on the moon? Nothing? It could be nothing.

And the band, too, has seemed like they’re having the time of their lives, crucially Noel and Liam. They gave this tour to all of us, but they might be loving it most of all.

When the reunion announcement came in August 2024, no one could have predicted how it actually unfolded, an impossibly joyous bacchanalia, tens of thousands of total strangers embracing one another, each and every night.