What to know if you go to Oasis shows at Rose Bowl

Before you ‘Live Forever,’ consider hydration and transportation.

- By Junius MILLER

LIAM, left, and Noel Gallagher, right, lead Oasis at a July show in Cardiff, U.K. Scott A Garfitt Invision / AP

Oasis is back.

The Manchester-born Britpop group last touched down in Los Angeles in 2008, when the venue they performed at aspart oftheir Dig Out Your Soul tour was called the Staples Center. It was in the midst of winter — ifyou can even call it that in L.A. — and the arena was packed.

“Who'd have thought Oasis, the Britpop holdover that seemingly couldn’t be more out of vogue, could fill Staples Center?” the Orange County Register wrote about the evening. “For that matter, who'd have thought a band with such a fractious history and spotty track record would still be together at this point, let alone still visiting the States?”

Perhaps it was a jinx, but a little more than eight months later, the Gallagher brothers would call it quits on Aug. 22, 2009, at the V Festival in Weston Park, England. Some other details from that time? Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States. The country was, simultaneously, dealing with an economic crisis then-ti-tled the Great Recession. Bitcoin was invented under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto—it was worthan eye-watering $0.

Needless to say, it’s been quite some time since Oasis graced the States.

But on Saturday and Sunday, they'll return in style to play back-to-back sold-out shows at the Rose Bowlas part of their reunion tour.

The tour, after a 16-year hiatus, is expected to fetch them around $11 billion, according to the Guardian. It’s a remarkable amount that says a lot about the group’s enduring popularity — and they're probably happy to put issues to bed for now, and even more so when the checks clear.