Amid of sea of discarded beer cans, bottles and plastic beakers strewn outside the gates, the queues at eastern entrance to Murrayfield Stadium stretched back to Roseburn and beyond.
Youngsters came with their parents, and even grandparents. The appeal of 90s rockers Oasis cuts across the generations.
The Manchester band are expected to set a crowd record for Edinburgh with more than 200,000 fans descending on the city for the three nights of concerts, concluding on Tuesday.
They came from just down the road, but also from America and Japan. All for a night to relive the Britpop era, or to find out for the first time what the fuss was all about.
At least every other one appeared to be wearing a bucket hat. Some wore Parka jackets similar to the one made famous by Liam Gallagher, or union flags around their shoulders (for which, no doubt, the nationalists were prepared to make an exception).
Some paid up to £400 for a ticket, nearly £1,000 for the family, and spent hundreds more at the pop-up merchandising shop in the city. Cost of living crisis? Not when there’s a night to remember. The city economy is expected to benefit by £136 million.
The Roseburn bar was enjoying its best day’s takings since Taylor Swift came to town last summer, while the Tesco Express on the opposite side of the road was supplying carry-outs to fans who had no chance of getting near the bar.
For those waiting to enter the stadium, the band could be heard warming up. These were the lucky ones. More than 10 million fans from around the world applied for 1.4 million tickets for the 41-date global tour.
Oasis could beat the record set last year by Taylor Swift for the largest stadium concert in Scottish history and the Gallaghers are expected to earn £50 million each from their decision to reunite.
Not a bad pay day, but celebrating a reunion is perhaps a badly-needed message at a time of international division.
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