THE LAST time I went to an Oasis concert I ended up with a sprained ankle, grazed knuckles and a black eye. No, I wasn't in a fight; I was in the mosh pit.
By comparison, Sunday's concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium was a rather tame affair.
Admittedly the last time I saw Liam and Noel Gallagher perform was about 10 years ago, but I really didn't think they'd mellowed as much as I had.
Gone are the days of delayed interviews, arrests on planes and waiting hours for the band to get it together enough to get on stage and play. The wild boys of the Madchester movement have been tamed... and so have their fans.
Sunday night's crowd was boringly well-behaved. There wasn't a fist-fight in sight, the ambulance crew twiddled their thumbs and even the slightly inebriated Brit Pack Expat crowd wandered home gently into the night.
For rock's sake; there was even a massively pregnant woman there!
The relative calm of the show made me realise that not only was I getting older, but all my musical idols were too – at least those who have survived the drug addictions, arrests, parenthood and bad fashion choices.
Starting on time for once, I missed the band's first song as I was in the loo – along with the aforementioned pregnant woman – which was a shock for a start. The last Oasis gig I went to was about an hour overdue.
The band ran through most of their popular tracks – although Liam seemed a bit put out when the crowd sang Wonderwall word for word with him, calling out that while we knew the words, they sang it better.
The same thing happened with Morning Glory, Don't Look Back in Anger and Champagne Supernova, but their less-known tracks, especially those off the latest album Dig Out Your Soul, only had about half the crowd singing along.
Probably one of the best songs of the night wasn't even an Oasis original. In their encore, the band started grooving out to a pure 70s rock version of the Beatles' I Am the Walrus. It perfectly matched their keyboardist who looked like a time-traveller from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
When Oasis play live they add more guitars, a keyboard section and a massive drum kit to bulk out their production – all of which adds to a 'Wall of Sound' dynamic that left some sound purists (you know who you are) a little put out.
However as the expanded band is combined with a great lighting set-up and nicely mic'd vocals the majority of the crowd heard every word and enjoyed themselves.
There were a number of puzzled looks on punters' faces when Liam mumbled brief introductions – but that had more to do with his Mancunian accent than the sound equipment.
And there was more puzzlement when Noel asked – in the middle of the tail end of Don't Look Back in Anger - "What the f---'s a wheelchair doing there? Someone have a stroke or something?"
Okay, so they haven't mellowed completely; thank all the gods of rock.