00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name's Theo Hewson-Bett and it's the start of another brilliant week here in the city of Manchester.
00:06Now today I'm out on the streets of Manchester talking vaguely about Oasis.
00:11How could we not of course? This weekend Just Gone saw their first gigs back in the city for a long, long time.
00:17And obviously it's captured the imagination of every manc across Greater Manchester.
00:22The question that we're asking today though is only slightly related.
00:25We want to know if there was a group or an act to do a big comeback tour, a big comeback gig, who would people want to see most?
00:33We are going to allow them to say people who have died because you know, why not?
00:37This is a hypothetical after all and then we're going to let them pick someone who's definitely alive and definitely might be up for doing a little reunion gig here in Manchester.
00:46So let's go see what people have to say.
00:48Mine would definitely be Elvis.
00:49What's worth a preface to this to say, we actually did go and see Oasis on Friday and that would have been my answer a year ago.
00:56It was an absolute dream come true.
00:57They were like my band growing up and I genuinely never thought they'd get back to it again and it was 10 out of 10, unbelievable despite the heat.
01:06But away from them, we've literally just been talking about Morrissey walking up, so I think we saw a Smiths, like a mural or something like that.
01:13And that would be my other answer, the Smiths, so that definitely will never happen.
01:18I mean, they've been separated a lot longer than Oasis ever were.
01:22For me, it's probably a couple that I wish I'd have seen, well, two or three I wish I'd have seen.
01:28Prince, Freddie Mercury and probably David Bowie.
01:33I think the list goes on and on, John Lennon maybe, but a lot of the iconic singers and bands, Prince, you know, I've said Perper, and I like Prince's guitar playing.
01:44After he died, I saw him playing at one of the concerts and doing a lot of guitar work and I was blown away by, yeah, my guitar, Gentle Weeks.
01:55He got it. That was shredded on, that was absolutely amazing.
02:00So I didn't realise how good he was till after, so that's a regret.
02:03I definitely have to go for Bob Dylan at New Corpete Festival, just because I think to witness that kind of turn and putting his career there from being like a kind of food artist to like more of like an electric kind of art and art and art and art and art, right?
02:16There's definitely, as we've talked about, a lack of bands since the year 2000, it seems to have gone down and down.
02:26Everybody's just playing with a guitar, Red Sheeran style or Taylor Swift and that.
02:31You've got just single singers, solo, but we've got a lack of bands.
02:37To be honest, one of my favourite bands of the minute are from around here, The Lathams.
02:41Love The Lathams and things like that. I like somebody who can write good songs and I like the bands.
02:49I think I went to see The Rolling Stones in their recent tour and actually like, I think, I mean, I know obviously they're still like an old band, but like considering they're on like the 80s, they can still like command the stage.
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