Word in the upper decks at the sold-out Rose Bowl Saturday night just before Oasis was to take the stage was that all the bars on the concourse level below had entirely run out of gin already.

Fitting, what, for the wildly anticipated reunion tour of the bad-boy Manchester band, whose feuding Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, had not been even talking, much less playing together, for the last 16 years. Seemingly every expat Englishman in Southern California were among the 90,000 fans packing the hallowed stadium in the Arroyo Seco. The return of the band “turned L.A. into Glorious Brittania for a weekend,” raved Variety. Your Brits require your gin.

Then, by 9 o’clock, 15 minutes later, we were to understand not a drop of lager nor whisky was available downstairs as well.

The crowd had

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