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The Wiggles admit they don’t know Oasis and side with Blur in Britpop throwback
The Wiggles revealed they don’t know Oasis very well, with Lucia Field saying she prefers Blur after mistaking 'Wonderwall' on radio.
The Wiggles have quietly wandered into Britpop history, and not exactly with encyclopedic confidence. While appearing on Nova 96.9’s Ricki-Lee & Tim to plug their new song ‘Sparkle’, the Aussie children’s group took part in a music-guessing game that exposed a pretty specific gap in their collective knowledge: Oasis.
When Anthony Field and Lucia Field, performing together as the Blue Wiggles, heard a snippet of the 1995 anthem ‘Wonderwall’, neither could place it. Lucia was the first to admit defeat, and when the song was identified as one by the Britpop giants, she replied: “Controversially, I like Blur more… that is why I have no idea.”
It is a line that instantly drags the conversation back to the old Oasis v Blur split, the rivalry that defined a big stretch of the Britpop era in the 1990s. The feud hit its peak in the summer of 1995, when the two bands went head to head in the charts with Blur’s ‘Country House’ and Oasis’ ‘Roll With It’. Blur took that round, though their own Alex James later argued that Oasis won the war. The whole thing even became a West End play last year.
Host Tim Blackwell clearly knew a clip like that would travel. After Lucia admitted she didn’t know one of the biggest songs of the decade, he joked that the slip-up was “going to go everywhere”.
Anthony Field then made the situation even more charmingly off-kilter. He said he did recognise the song, but his understanding of Oasis was still hazy enough that he had once confused them with The Beatles. Recalling a visit to Abbey Road Studios with his son, where the Fab Four recorded their final album and were photographed on the zebra crossing, Field said he ended up buying what he thought was a Paul McCartney and John Lennon poster only for his son to correct him.
“I bought him what I thought was a Paul McCartney and John Lennon poster and he said, ‘They’re the guys from Oasis’… I am so out of touch, mate,” he said.
As it happens, Oasis have been in the news far beyond a children’s radio quiz. Liam Gallagher was spotted leaving Abbey Road Studios with The Stone Roses’ John Squire last week. The pair released their first album together, ‘Liam Gallagher John Squire’, in 2024, and talk of a follow-up is already circling.
Before that, Gallagher was already stirring the pot, taking aim at Suede and Manic Street Preachers by calling them “both shit and lack attitude, swagger and style”. He also fed the growing chatter around another Oasis tour in 2027, telling Italian fans they will “without a doubt, 100 per cent” play in Rome next year.
Oasis are also due to enter the Rock n’ Roll Hall Of Fame later this year, after nominations in both 2024 and 2025. The induction arrives after the band wrapped their huge ‘Live ‘25’ reunion tour last year.
NME’s review of the Cardiff tour opener on July 4 set the tone for just how loaded that comeback felt, calling it a needed blast of “halcyon ‘90s hope and abandon” for 2025.
