{"id":398672,"date":"2025-09-05T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:06:11","slug":"suede-on-oasis-anti-nostalgia-and-society-at-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398672\/","title":{"rendered":"Suede on Oasis, anti-nostalgia and &#8216;society at breaking point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a feeling of control in 21st-century life,\u201d Anderson posits. \u201cThis feeling that you\u2019re being shepherded through life. You put your headphones on, it\u2019s connected, disconnected. You get on the train, and it\u2019s \u2018see it, say it, sorted\u2019. It\u2019s like you\u2019re this little sheep that\u2019s been ushered into the slaughterhouse.\u201d Live music, he argues, is one antidote. \u201cThe performers are allowed to be wild and carefree, and the audiences are allowed to let go. There\u2019s a joy within that, and a sense of defiance.\u201d He was also keen to reflect the knife-edge mood of the times. \u201cI feel that there\u2019s a tension in society,\u201d he says. \u201cIt feels like things are at breaking point\u2026\u2009and I wanted to reflect that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s a feeling of control in 21st-century life,\u201d Anderson posits. \u201cThis feeling that you\u2019re being shepherded through life.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[480,77,257,269,25181,11646,76350,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-britpop","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-london","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-oasis","13":"tag-southbank-centre","14":"tag-suede","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149012202800221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}