The Oasis drone show made its way to the skies over Chicago on Wednesday night (Aug. 27) on the eve of the band’s first gig in the U.S. in nearly 17 years. As they previously did in Dublin and Toronto, Manchester and other stops on their reunion tour, the band lit things up over the windy city by flying drones spelling out their iconic logo in advance of Thursday night’s (Aug. 28) show at the 62,000-capacity Soldier Field.
Fans posted pics of the stunning display, which found the massive lower case Oasis logo rendered in blue hovering in the air near the home of the Chicago Bears.
What a difference a decade and a half makes. The last time Liam and Noel Gallagher played in the Chicagoland area they were further up the road a bit at the 18,500-capacity Allstate Arena in Rosemont. The sold out show on Thursday is the reunited Brtipop group’s only Midwestern stop on their North American swing, which kicked off on Aug. 24 with the first of two shows at Rogers Stadium in Toronto. Following their one-off in Chicago, the tour will move on to two gigs at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (Aug. 31, Sept. 1) and a double-down at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. (Sept. 6, 7), before moving on to Mexico City.
And while the Chicago show is completely sold out, luckily for Noel’s daughter, Anaïs, she knows a guy. And even if she misses the Soldier Field stop, she’s already been able to catch a crazy amount of gigs, something she said never gets old.
“I’ve been burning the candle at both ends,” she said on the BBC Radio show she hosts, Mad For Oasis, in revealing that she attended the band’s first 12 gigs in a row in Cardiff, Wales, five nights in the siblings’ hometown of Manchester and a five-night run at Wembley Stadium in London in late July.
“I’m knackered, I don’t know how my dad and uncle do it when they’re actually working on stage every night,” she said. “It’s been great. One of my friends said to me, ‘Are you not getting bored?’ and I’m like, I could never get bored of the shows, they’re just that good that I have an amazing time.”
And, in case you were wondering, yes, she has done the Poznan every single time during the bit in the show where singer Liam gets the crowd to do the Manchester City football team’s signature move in which they face away from the stage, put their arms around their neighbor’s shoulders and jump up and down in unison.
“It’s so funny,” she said. “Every time I bring my friends, they’re like ‘What are we doing?’ and I’m just like, put your drinks down. They’re like, ‘Why am I putting my drink down?’ I’m like, just you wait…”
