Oasis grew from Manchester club stages into a band capable of filling a country park twice in one weekend. At King Tut’s in Glasgow, four songs persuaded Alan McGee to offer them a recording deal. Maine Road brought a homecoming at the Gallagher brothers’ football club; Knebworth made the scale of their success unmistakable. Then came Saint-Cloud, where a cancelled festival appearance in 2009 became the moment of rupture. Cardiff finally brought Liam and Noel back together onstage in July 2025. Another return now lies ahead: as of 3 October 2026, Oasis have six Knebworth shows scheduled for September 2027.
In the early 1960s, Washington Square Park was a public gathering point for New York folk singers. Its documented Sunday performances make the park a firmer anchor than a generalized account of every Village artist.
By 1977, CBGB’s punk and new-wave scene was active downtown while hip-hop culture was developing in the Bronx. The landmark Sedgwick party was in 1973, so these two places show parallel scenes with different starting dates.
Tokyo is not interesting to record collectors simply because it has many shops. The city built a deep second-hand market around imported records, carefully kept Japanese pressings and stores that split into narrow musical specialties. Hip-hop DJs learned to work backwards from samples to source records, Shibuya’s dense record-shop culture fed local scenes, and Japanese jazz and city pop later found new audiences overseas. A recent Tokyo Metropolitan Government feature counted 93 record shops in the capital by its measure. This trace moves through shops, neighbourhoods and digging stories that help explain why people still travel to Tokyo for records.
Gdzie urodziła się Irena Santor i jak trafiła na najważniejsze polskie sceny? Jej droga zaczęła się w Papowie Biskupim, w dzieciństwie prowadziła przez Solec Kujawski, a po wojnie przez Szczytną i Polanicę-Zdrój. W 1951 roku szesnastoletnia Irena Wiśniewska sama poprosiła o przesłuchanie przebywającego w uzdrowisku dyrygenta Zdzisława Górzyńskiego. Dzięki jego rekomendacji wyruszyła pod Warszawę. Z Nadarzyna chodziła pieszo do Karolina, próbując spotkać kierownictwo zespołu Mazowsze. W Mazowszu uczyła się śpiewu i występów przez osiem lat. Kolejne miejsca pokazują początki samodzielnej kariery: debiut solowy w Sali Kongresowej w Warszawie 26 grudnia 1959 roku, festiwal sopocki w 1961 roku zorganizowany w rzeczywistości w hali Stoczni Gdańskiej oraz występ z „Powrócisz tu” na festiwalu w Opolu w 1966 roku. Mapa zawiera dziewięć potwierdzonych etapów biografii, odróżniając istniejące obiekty od miejscowości reprezentujących wydarzenia o nieustalonym adresie i od nieistniejącej już hali w Gdańsku.
On 15 December 1944, bandleader Glenn Miller left RAF Twinwood Farm for Paris in a small military aircraft. It never arrived. The former airfield and his memorial in Cambridgeshire tell a story of wartime music, a missing flight and remembrance without recovered remains.
August 1991
Manchester, England
Before the stadium crowds, Oasis played the Boardwalk in Manchester. Their official concert archive records a show here on 14 August 1991, near the beginning of their live career. The building combined a nightclub, live music venue and rehearsal rooms. Its blue plaque still recalls that working musical world: bands practising and performing in the same building, long before Oasis could command an audience the size of a town.
May 1993
Glasgow, Scotland
In May 1993, Oasis travelled from Manchester to King Tut’s, where Alan McGee had come to see 18 Wheeler. They played four songs, including the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus”. McGee later recalled deciding during that cover that he had to sign them, and asking whether they wanted a record deal. The encounter led to Oasis joining Creation Records, the label that released Definitely Maybe the following year.
27–28 April 1996
Moss Side, Manchester, England
On 27 and 28 April 1996, Oasis played two homecoming concerts at Maine Road, then Manchester City’s ground. Liam and Noel were lifelong City supporters: the stadium belonged to their lives as fans before they stood there as performers. Manchester City’s retrospective counts 84,000 people across the two nights. Within five years of the Boardwalk performance, a local band was filling its football club’s stadium. The old ground has since been demolished.
10–11 August 1996; return scheduled September 2027
Hertfordshire, England
Around a quarter of a million people came to Knebworth Park for Oasis on 10 and 11 August 1996. Two nights in the Hertfordshire countryside became the defining demonstration of their popularity. Three decades later, the park is part of their plans again. As of 3 October 2026, the official Oasis calendar lists shows on 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 September 2027. Those performances are scheduled; the return has not yet happened.
28 August 2009
Saint-Cloud, France
Oasis were due to headline Rock en Seine on 28 August 2009. Instead, the crowd at Saint-Cloud heard that the band would not appear and that the remaining European dates were cancelled. After the backstage rupture, Noel announced that he could no longer work with Liam. The night ended without an Oasis performance. What should have been another festival headline set became the public announcement of a split that lasted almost sixteen years.
4 July 2025
Cardiff, Wales
On 4 July 2025, Liam and Noel walked onstage together at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium for the first concert of the Oasis reunion tour. They opened with “Hello”, giving the greeting a significance it could never have had in an ordinary set. Nearly sixteen years after Saint-Cloud, the brothers were playing together again. The return began in Wales, before the band’s later announcement of another visit to Knebworth.