The British euphoria night

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Yesterday was the great day!! What do I say... unbelievable, fantastic, SPECTACULAR!! Yesterday was THE day. It'd been more than 50 days since I had bought the ticket for the Oasis concert, one of the most succesful English bands from the nineties, but which still keeps their most loyal fans, and that so-waited day was here.

I got out home at 2.45 PM, and after walking a block I remembered that if I wanted to be able to enter I'd need the tickets, so I went back home, took them and left again :P. At 3.05 I found Magalí in front of the City Hall, then we went to "La Diva" -a popular restaurant in my city- to wait for the others, and at 3.30 Naty, Kary and one of their girl friends turned up, followed by Seba and two friends of him. We waited a little while till a Naty's friend appeared, and when so, we got on the 160 bus to go directly to Polo's field, where they'd do their performance. In the trip -quite long, by the way- we talked about lots of things and about how the concert would be. We arrived at around 4.30, got off following our instinct and "T guides", and saw an extensive queue surrounding a sort of mosque... but the fanatics took much more after Liam than any Muslim, so we guessed that was the right queue, and we were right. A lot of T-shirts sellers were wandering near us, although it was very likely they had never listened to "Wonderwall"; those T-shirts weren't too cool, anyway. The queue advanced quickly and we could effectively check the polo's field was next to the mosque. We got in after a poor safety control, and once inside, we noticed the amount of fans who were already in. A not so popular band was playing, and we went to the bathrooms and started moving around the stalls where people would sit, looking at LeeChi stands, where a T-shirt cost 50 pesos -not very interesting, by the way-. We got near the scenery, and being relatively close, we started to listen to Juana La Loca -the singer was practically a cow-, Intoxicados -how much we hate you!! and on top of that he told us: "they love you all a lot!" ironically, but hey! no one came to see YOU fool!- and Turf -the less bad one-. While Juana La Loca was playing, the sound was really disgusting and the left screen of the scenery fell off and they didn't put it up. In the intervales, you could constantly hear either the safety warnings which claimed "the following message will interest you" or the Personal and Motorola's catchy tunes, which terribly made you feel like buying a cell phone. By the time Intoxicados was playing, I've already separated from Sebastián and friends but I was with Magalí and a girl we had met there. We started getting near the fence, but pushes started to be more common. So, this girl -who I thought that knew my friends- ended up losing her cell phone and her keys, but luckily she found the last ones, and I offered to put them in my bag. Hits were bearable until Turf appeared, when my jeans and my bag started falling off a little and my trainers almost came off because of the movements! That's when I decided to get out of the crowd and, with a little effort, I could breathe non-contaminated-with-sweat air again and buy a 5 pesos drink. Then I got close to the crowd again, but not too much, and there I found Kary and her friend, and I stayed with them waiting for the concert to start. We waited a lot, since Turf had finished playing at 9 PM. In the interval, we were getting more and more impatient and, thanks to that insistence, we got the left screen that had fallen off up.

It was 9.47 PM when finally the Gallagher brothers turned up, with "Fuckin' In The Bushes" as background theme -ugly song-. In that very moment, all of us got crazy and started to jump -we call it "hacer pogo" in here-, which intensified much more when they opened the show by singing "Turn Up The Sun", the first song of their latest album. Then, nobody could stop us, but being in the middle in that moment meant to swing from a side to another and reduce the possibilities to be standing on your feet a lot, therefore it was so uncontrollable you couldn't enjoy it and we decided to move away some meters to the left side. Once we found a calmer place, we were fine with our position and as they played the quiet songs which followed, the three of us got closer to the scenery, but always without getting too inside. So, we listened to a whole list of 19 live songs...

Fuckin' In The Bushes (Intro)
Turn Up The Sun
Lyla
Morning Glory
The Importance Of Being Idle
Live Forever
Champagne Supernova
Wonderwall
Acquiesce
Mucky Fingers
A Bell Will Ring
Rock 'n Roll Star
Shakermaker
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Songbird
The Masterplan
The Meaning Of Soul
Don't Look Back In Anger
Guess God Thinks I'm Abel
My Generation
Let There Be Love (Ending)

...where classic "Don't Look Back In Anger" and "Live Forever" Noel's solo made me get goose pimples because of the excitement. Obviously, the other songs were hot on their heels, and I couldn't stop singing out songs such as "Lyla", "Morning Glory", "The Importance Of Being Idle" or "Rock 'n Roll Star". Some moments which are worth mentioning: after the first three themes, Liam asks the public to get quieter because they don't want anyone to get hurt -translated by the speakers-, which I don't know if helped something but the situation got a little calmer, maybe because of people's fear of them stopping performing; before playing the last four songs, he claims the following will be "the last one"; at the end of the show, he says we'll see them again -I don't know how much I can believe that, but so we don't give up hope :D-.

As usual, they didn't stop keeping that distance and very little talking with the audience and that coldness which is so common in them -"scantiness", said the papers-, but without any doubt that is what characterizes them -not any artist is haughty enough as Liam to stand up during a whole minute in front of the public so as they applaud him-. However, most of us who went there logically admire the artistic quality of their works and course, beyond their attitude. They were just four Englishmen making more than 45,000 people vibrate. After finishing with "My Generation", they said goodbye really briefly and it was chosen "Let There Be Love" as background song -what a theme!!!-, which after singing it madly for half a minute I noticed it was a CD playing ¬¬. So, I stayed there with Kary and her friend to wait for some people to get out to see if we found someone, and all of a sudden, without expecting it, I saw a disorientated guy sweating, with a funny "where am I" face, shirtless and with his soaked T-shirt in one of his hands... later I watched him better and it was my friend Cristian, and when I said hi I think he understood less than before, but he looked like he'd been in a "La Renga's" concert -one of Argentinian heaviest bands-. The four of us went back to the exit -literally, where the sign which said "exit" was, to find them all as we'd agreed-, but since it was extremely packed I suggested going directly to the second meeting point, which was located outside the field and under the railroad, titled "El Ratón Pérez" -meaning "Pérez mouse", which replaces "the Tooth Fairy" in our contry among others-. By then I had lost the two girls, and while we were walking towards there, Cristian found his "fotolog female fans" and after being adulated for some minutes, I still wanted to get that meeting point but he decided to go for a friend and I told him to come back to where we'd be then. I crossed the avenue and found Natalia, her friend, Karina, her friend and Magalí and that moment I learnt that Sebastián and his friends had already gone by themselves, and that the girl who had given me her keys to keep them safe had never appeared again. The first four of them went home in Kary's father's car and, together with Magalí, I waited for my soaked friend, who never came, and although we went to find him where he'd supposedly be, it wasn't so either. So, after buying some extremely refreshing 7up cans, we wandered a little till we found the 160 bus stop which would take us back. Although it took its time to arrive there, the bus came relatively fast. Once on, tight but not as much as in the concert, I was terribly sleepy and we had nothing to talk about by that moment, but surprisingly I found Faby by chance sitting confortably in one of the seats and told me she had arrived later but she'd enjoyed it a lot as well, and we started talking about how good it had been. I got home still feeling a bit pain, without feelling my legs, but very happy; I drank a whole liter of water almost at once, and although I got online to see if someone was there to share my euphoria -called that someone Dani, who had been there but sitting in the stalls-, when I found nobody I went directly to bed and slept singing half Oasis' discography to myself.

Now's the moment, the concert IN's and OUT's:

The IN's
>> OASIS gave a performance, which would be enough IN's.
>> They played songs such as Don't Look Back In Anger, Live Forever, Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall, which are classic.
>> To be aware of the fact that lots of people -not all- who were there shared the same feeling as you when listening to the band.

The OUT's
>> They didn't play great songs such as Stand By Me, Stop Crying Your Heart Out or Let There Be Love.
>> Not to be able to share it with all my boy and girl friends together next to me.
>> The "clever" Argentinian guy who pushes the others so as to get near the scenery but can't tell the difference between Noel and Liam.

It's been a long time since I didn't publish anything, but I had your patience reserved for this moment :D.

And after saying all of this, if you ask me how much I liked it, I've got to say, in an almost forced way, I've got no words. Sincerely, my first concert and the band which I like most were an explosive combination. If I wanted more reasons to go to live to Europe, that night I found one more...

So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I heard you say...

Oasis at Polo's field playing "Cigarettes And Alcohol"