Chris Schulz: entertainment commentator on Oasis bringing their reunion tour to Australia

Liam and Noel Gallagher will be bringing their hotly-anticipated 2025 Oasis reunion tour over to Australia next October.

Tickets went on sale earlier in the week - and fans on both ends of the Tasman have been willing to spend as much as $800 per ticket to catch the brothers playing together again.

Entertainment commentator Chris Schulz is among the lucky few Kiwis who got tickets for the tour - and he speculates whether or not the band will be together by this time next year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks edb Oh.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
We're kicking off our entertainment segment with a little bit
of Oasis because Chris Schultz, our entertainment commentator, managed to
score him South a couple of tickets to see Oasis
in Australia.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Do you think they're gonna make it? Do you think
they'll actually still be on tour and functioning as a
band by the time they get to Australia.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
No way, No, that's part of the excitement. Will they
get here? Will they make it past that first show?
No one knows. This is part of the hype behind
this huge comeback of the band. Yeah. I got in
the ticketmaster queues this week, like nearly four hundred thousand
Australians and managed to sneak myself a single ticket to

(00:54):
the last Sydney Shower of this tour they're doing. It
wasn't fun. In half an hour, I had to enter
a ballot into the waiting room, into.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
The Quman committed don't you Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Three credit cards out on a table Francisca and none
of them worked. And I found a credit card in
the back of a draw that I've forgotten about, pulled
that out in desperation and plugged that and it worked,
and so that's how I got my single floor ticket.
But this is what we're having to do now, right
like these big acts aren't coming to New Zealand anymore.
Kylie Minogue, Katie Perry, The Weekend, Olivia and Rego, Billie Eilish,

(01:31):
The Killers, Green Day all touring Australia in the next
six to nine months and none of them are coming here.
So I wanted to experience.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Why not because we suddenly had they were all coming
for a little while there, weren't they.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's a whole bunch of things. Some of them are
quite boring, like the economy when our dollars a bit flat,
then they just can't make enough money. But also infrastructure.
We're missing that big Taylor Swift size stadium to attract
those sort of eighteen ninety thousand crowds that these acts
are now playing, and so we've sort of been left
behind a little bit, I think. So you can see

(02:03):
them setting up these runs now in Australia where they're
playing three four nights in these twenty thousand stadiums, and
we just don't have down infrastructure. I don't know if
it will be like that forever. I really hope not,
because this is going to get very expensive if we
want to see these shows. But yeah, my fingers cross,
they start coming back.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
So off you go on your own to see Oasis.
I love it. I am slightly concerned about how many
credit cards you've got, but that's not then we won't
go into that right now. Hey, reviews for The Office
Australia have been released, and of course it features a
bunch of New Zealanders And I know that this is
a hugely popular TV show, but I think the Australians
are excellent at doing their own satur like that. You know,

(02:39):
there was The Game's Frontline Utopia. This is actually kind
of a genre that they excel at. Do they need
to kind of remake something that's already done it.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
That's the question, right. It's more than twenty years since
Wrecky Jervas and Stephen Merchant released The Office. It was
this genre breaking show that introduced mockumentaries to us. You know,
so many shows now use that format, the talking camera
and all that stuff. So so we've had like the
UK one was a huge hit the US Office remains

(03:11):
one of the most popular streaming shows in the world.
It's huge ask to take that on and try and
make a show anywhere near as popular to make it work.
But they've got really good people in behind the camera.
Being a little parochial, we've got Jackie van Beek and
Jesse Griffin who know what they're doing. They made Educators
one of the funniest New Zealand shows. I've seen the
first couple of episodes and I think it's finding its

(03:33):
fate great. Actually, you know, like all of those worries
we had, we don't need to worry about it. It's
it's good, it's funny, it's bringing in youth elements. They've
got a female boss, which works really well. They've got
these kind of twenty twenty four things like.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Working for that dated yeah, which is good.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
And it's so much there. That's right.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, you've kind of convinced me because I was I
was sort of sitting on the fence about this going.
I've seen this show, I know this show, but actually
you've kind of convinced me you should together it. Well,
it's on screening on Prime. Thank you. Hey. The British
and Irish Film Festival is about to kick off. What
I love about some of these film festivals, and I
was the ambassador for the French Film Festival and the

(04:15):
same guys who did the French Film Festival are doing
this one. Is they take it everywhere around the country.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Oh yeah, which I love.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's going to what something like twenty is it different
locations and about thirty different cinemas are involved.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yes, so from the twenty third this is kicking off
around the country. That but also Francisca. They've got some
really good films in that. It's crazy We Live in
Time as the Andrew Garfield and Florence Puvyy cover. Yeah,
as talking about I've seen a few mixed reviews, but
there's so much buzz about this movie. This is the
first place you can see it. We spoke about Oasis earlier,

(04:50):
also part of that brick pop revival Blur, and they've
got two films in this festival. Would make a great
double hitter. They've got a documentary about these kind of
old rockers reuniting and what it's like doing that at
their age now they're all in their fifties and sixties.
Does it still work. So that was filmed in twenty
twenty three on the road leading up to this Wembley show,

(05:12):
this huge Wimbley show they played. That's in the Film
Festival too, so you can go and see the documentary
and then go.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
And watch the live show. Well like you're at the concert.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Brilliant doubleheader.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Not quite the same as being near the front of
the live at Oasis. Conclave is something else I'm really
keen to see. That's come pretty much directly from the
Toronto Film Festival as well. That's going to be our
first chance to see that film with Ralph Fines and
Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rosalini. You're right. It's a really
great little program, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's really really great make some movies. I honestly went
through that last and was like, whoa, it's it's yeah,
they've got some good films.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Definitely worth checking out. British and Irish Film Festival, dot co,
dot MZ. Thank you so much, Chris.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
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