Smartphone photos and videos, social media posts, email confirmations . . . these 2023 memory box equivalents don’t really hold the same meaning
Revellers enjoying Oasis at Slane Castle, Co Meath, in 2009. If Oasis ever do reform, I might be glad to have my box of memories to really lean into the nostalgia. Photograph: Dara Mac DónaillI attended my first solo Noel Gallagher show in December 1997. It was actually an Oasis gig, but Gallagher’s brother Liam pulled out of frontman duties because of a throat infection.
That night in 1997 was something special. Liam scowled in the wings while Noel belted through hit after hit, rather than the few trademark songs he usually performed acoustically in the middle of Oasis shows. He went straight from the Point to the RTÉ studios to catch the end of The Late Late Show with Uncle Gaybo, his mother Peggy Gallagher in the front row.
That video tape went into a precious archive, along with other recordings of My So-Called Life and ER. I was a memory hoarder of sorts, terrified of banishing fleeting moments forever in case I one day wanted to share them with the children I never really had any intention of having. My concert ticket from the gig went into a box with countless others. The Cranberries, Blur, Radiohead. There was never any doubt what I was spending my babysitting and waitressing money on.
When VCRs went the way of the dodo, so did the tapes. There didn’t seem much point in keeping items that could only be played on obsolete equipment. The concert tickets were different. I could never bear to part with them. I added to the collection over the years. Paper representations from Slane, Whelan’s, Vicar Street, The Pod joined beautifully illustrated tickets like the ones from REM’s intimate “rehearsal” shows in the Olympia theatre and Oasis’s big gig in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
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