The Wiggles admit they’re not up on Oasis, with Lucia Field siding with Blur

The Wiggles have admitted they’re not exactly fluent in Oasis lore, and Lucia Field has even gone a step further, saying she “controversially” prefers Blur.

The Australian children’s group made the comments while appearing on Nova 96.9’s Ricki-Lee & Tim to plug their new song Sparkle, where they were put through a music quiz built around snippets of well-known tracks. It was there that Anthony Field and Lucia Field, performing together as the Blue Wiggles, were played a section of Oasis’ 1995 anthem Wonderwall and couldn’t identify it.

Lucia was the first to own up to not recognising it. Once told the song belonged to the Britpop heavyweight, she replied: “Controversially, I like Blur more… that is why I have no idea.” It was a neat little reminder that the Oasis-Blur rivalry still carries enough cultural charge to read as a joke, even decades on from the chart skirmishes of the mid-’90s.

That feud peaked in the summer of 1995, when Blur’s Country House and Oasis’ Roll With It went head-to-head for chart dominance. Blur won the battle, though Alex James later framed it another way, saying Oasis won the war. The whole thing was even turned into a West End play last year, which says plenty about how stubbornly the Britpop era still hangs around in British pop culture.

After the Oasis slip-up, host Tim Blackwell joked that the moment was “going to go everywhere.” It probably will, if only because the band they missed is so embedded in the canon. Wonderwall is nine-times platinum and has more than 2.3 billion Spotify streams, the kind of number that makes a genuine blind spot feel almost implausible.

Anthony Field, meanwhile, showed he had at least some awareness of the song, even if his band knowledge was shaky. He admitted he had previously confused Oasis with The Beatles, and recalled a trip to Abbey Road Studios with his son, where he bought what he thought was a Paul McCartney and John Lennon poster before being told, “They’re the guys from Oasis.” “I am so out of touch, mate,” he said.

The timing is slightly funny given how active the Oasis conversation has become again. 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 there is already speculation that a follow-up may be on the way.

Gallagher has also been keeping the headlines warm elsewhere. He recently took aim at Suede and Manic Street Preachers, calling them “both shit and lack attitude, swagger and style,” while also nudging reunion talk forward by telling Italian fans that Oasis will “without a doubt, 100 per cent” play in Rome next year. All of that arrives as the band prepare to enter the Rock n’ Roll Hall Of Fame later this year, after nominations in 2024 and 2025 and following the end of their huge Live ’25 reunion tour last year.

NME gave the Cardiff launch of that run, on July 4, a five-star review, writing: “Lord knows we needed a taste of that halcyon ‘90s hope and abandon in 2025 – especially for the raving and craving Gen-Zers. The world is a rotting shitty bin-fire and tomorrow never knows, but tonight, you’re a rock’n’roll star.” That kind of language tells you the reunion was being received less as nostalgia and more as an event with real cultural weight. The Wiggles, knowingly or not, have now added one more tiny footnote to that ongoing story.