It Rocked & Sucked

It was supposed to be something that was just to get a burning need out of the Wife’s system.  For a few years now she’s had her desire to attend an Oasis concert blunted.  It didn’t help that Singapore was a fairly out of the way place, but even when Oasis did announce a concert there, they cancelled in the wake of the Bali bombings, and the Wife’s front row tickets went to complete waste.

So when the Virgin Music Festival on Centre Island announced that Oasis was going to be headlining, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that we were going to attend.

Things actually started off pretty good.  The ferry ride to Centre Island was pleasant enough, fast and efficient, and the concert itself was pretty good.  What made it even more amazing however, was the violence.  Right in the middle of Morning Glory some guy actually came running out FROM BACK STAGE and pushed guitarist Noel Gallagher down.  Noel hit the floor and the guy immediately turned and went after vocalist/sibiling Liam Gallagher, who somehow manage to dodge  him, and by that point, security had shown up and dragged the guy off, though Liam was sufficiently pissed enough to try and take a swing at the guy and had to be pulled away.

Needless the say, the concert was interrupted, but amazingly, they came back 15 minutes later to finish the concert.  Understandably, there was no encore, probably because they wanted to beat the crap out of the guy in private.

Where the experience becomes horrible was in the going home.  It amazed me when it finally sunk in that a music festival on an island that was playing host to 30, 000 people was only being serviced by TWO FREAKIN’ FERRIES.  Getting off the island actually took longer than the concert did, and it was punctuated by rain which ran contrary to the forecast for clear skies in the evening.  So yes, we stood for hours waiting to get on a boat, and yes, we got soaked because we didn’t bring umbrellas.  While I’m glad that we got to see Oasis perform live, I’m probably never going to attend another major performance on Centre Island again, the logistics of getting off at the end of the show are just too crazy.

Amazingly, someone managed to catch the whole thing on tape and it’s already hit YouTube…