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Edinburgh Reporter
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Reporter
As Oasis return to Edinburgh – a new book and a new film are released
Creation label boss Tim Abbot, described as the sixth member, will make a public appearance in the city the night before the Oasis concert with a new film about the band. And as the band returns to Scotland, a new book is also being released. When The City of Edinburgh Council commented unfavourably on Oasis fans relating to their three sell-out concerts at Scottish Gas Murrayfield – the band's frontman responded quickly. Fans were described by the council as 'rowdy' who would 'take up more room' and drink to 'medium to high intoxication'. Gallagher posted on X: 'To the Edinburgh council, I've heard what you said about OASIS fans and quite frankly your attitude f**king stinks. I'd leave town that day if I was any of you lot.' Journalist, musician, and cultural commentator, John Robb – whose grandparents came from Edinburgh – has released a new book: Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis, which details the band's history. John Robb's book He responded: 'I think it's snobbery, and I have a connection to Edinburgh through my grandparents. If they can't cope with the Oasis concerts because of the Fringe, they should have let it go to Glasgow. There are always a few idiots in crowds of over 60,000 at a concert, but I think the problem here is that everyone gets tainted by them. It's one of the problems with the country as people look down on people. It's a working class band and culture and for decades, there has been a sneering attitude, a kind of 'look at them' which is horrible. It was great that Liam stuck up for his fans.' Robb attended one of Scotland's most mythologised gigs, later writing about it in his book about The Stone Roses (The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop). Their concert under a hot, sweaty tent in Glasgow Green, as Robb suggests, paved the way for Oasis. He said: 'It was the classic Roses gig. They sounded like a cross between The Beatles and the Sex Pistols, it was a much heavier gig than Spike Island. Oasis was almost a continuation of that sound and they took those references and ran with them.' It's 31 years since Oasis played their first gig in Edinburgh back in April 1994 at La Belle Angele. By the end of that year, they were headlining the Glasgow Barrowlands, attended by this writer. The gig was seen as a major turning point for the band. Robb said: 'You had to prove it at the Barrowlands. It was one of those gigs. Oasis were seen as an overnight success but they had two years of being ignored. Most bands have to take baby steps doing three support tours, but with Oasis, after that it was really quick.' The show didn't run smoothly with Liam Gallagher walking off stage due to throat problems. It was left to Noel Gallagher to play an acoustic set while promising to return with Liam two weeks later. The promise was fulfilled, but there was something special about the first night despite Liam's absence. Robb said: 'It's almost like two different bands. 'Noel was doing demos a few years before, and that's almost like his style with those more introspective acoustic songs that appeared on the single B-sides, along with the more raucous tabloid band on the A-side, it was like two different bands. While there was this tabloid version of the band, the truth is both brothers are super-smart.' Tim Abbot Liam Gallagher with Tim Abbot (middle) and Oasis producer Owen Coyle. PHOTO Tim Abbot Tim Abbot was the label manager for Creation Records and he is hosting a special event in Edinburgh one day ahead of the first Oasis gig in Edinburgh since 2009. The author and filmmaker also comes from Scottish roots in Dundee. He explained: 'I shot twenty hours of footage which began in 1993 and ran into 1994. I'd say 20% of the Supersonic film is my material. It's all hand-held stuff that includes Noel playing an early version of Don't Look Back In Anger and there's footage of them working on the overdubs for Champagne Supernova. The film is the early story of the band surpassing everyone and their life on the road. I'm the man in the middle of it all with a video camera backstage in places like Earl's Court'. Tim has also been working on a new version of his 1996 book, Oasis Definitely, which includes photos being published for the first time. What was it like to be in the eye of the storm during the band's rise? 'It wasn't chaos,' suggested Tim, 'if it was, then we managed to control it, we kind of harnessed it … we were all holding on for grim life. In truth, we were a functioning team and we were all Celts, there was myself and Marcus Russell, who was Welsh. Maggie Mouzakitis was the band's tour manager, and she was a bit of a star. 'When the wheels did come off after the gig at the Whiskey-a-go-go in L.A. I did have to go and find Noel and bring him back into the flock.' Noel disbanded Oasis in 2009, so I asked if his return to the flock this time was a surprise? 'It was to be honest' said Abbot, 'but I always thought they would when you looked at The Stone Roses getting back together. Liam has always wanted it and when Noel became a free bird again he thought, 'let's get it on' and why wouldn't you?' Tim Abbot will appear in person alongside a showing of The Lost Tapes: Oasis Like Never Before at Cineworld on 7 August. For more info click here John Robb's new book Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis is out now Tim Abbot's book about the band Photo Tim Abbot Photo Tim Abbot Photo Tim Abbot Like this: Like Related
Daily Record
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
First picture of Oasis on stage as band reunite for Cardiff crowd 16 years after split
Liam and Noel are on stage together for the first time since the V Festival in August 2009, and come to Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh next month. Liam and Noel Gallagher are back on stage together as they kicked off the Oasis reunion tour. They brawling brothers put their differences aside to reform the band sixteen years after they split. The Mancunian Britpop legends started their tour at Cardiff's Principality Stadium tonight and will play nine shows before heading north of the border to delight Scottish fans. They are lined up for three nights at Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, before they head overseas, playing to crowds in Ireland and then Canada. After today's Welsh show, they play five concerts at Heaton Park in their home city - where fellow Manchester music legends The Stone Roses played comeback shows in 2012. Frontman Liam, 52, and guitarist Noel, 58, are being preceded by fellow '90s legends Cast and Richard Ashcroft in support slots ahead of tonight's performance. We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story. Get all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you. We're also on Facebook - your must-see news, features, videos and pictures throughout the day from the Daily Record, Sunday Mail and Record Online
RTÉ News
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
"We're here for Silvermints and No. 6 cigarettes": Oasis hit Dublin in 1994
All roads lead to Cardiff this Friday for the first show of the Oasis reunion tour. But way back in September 1994, the band played their very first Irish show at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin . . . We raided the RTÉ archives for this interview with Noel Gallagher and Bonehead which took place just before that gig "Have you heard the new Suede album? It's bloody Queen, it's pomp rock, it's full of eleven-minute guitar solos. It's rubbish." It's either very strange or it makes all the sense in the world. Noel Gallagher, guitarist and lyricist with Oasis, The Best New Band in Britain (1994), has just delivered a damning critique of Suede, The Best New Band In Britain (1992). Because, as Stakka Bo might say, here we go again. Last year it was Suede and this year it's Oasis. Right? Wrong. Britain hasn't had a band worth frothing about since the demise of The Smiths and, if they did, the media powers that be have either conspired to destroy them (Happy Mondays, Ride) or the bands themselves have self-destructed (The Stone Roses). And, oh yeah, does anyone remember The La's? True they've only just released their debut album Definitely Maybe (Creation Records), but it sounds so good you can't but agree that Oasis are set to confound everybody by transcending the "scene"-orientated British music industry that's put paid to the careers of countless UK bands. As Noel's younger brother Liam sings on Cigarettes and Alcohol, "is it my imagination or have I finally found something worth living for?" "We might play our music to a load of nuns in Cork but we're not sellin' out, we're playing our music to people." - Bonehead of Oasis Noel, like Liam, has eyebrows resembling two furry caterpillars halted in mid-samba across his forehead. He scowls under a baggy fringe (circa 1990) and joins Bonehead, aka Paul Arthurs, in a brief discussion about their Irish roots. "My grandparents are from Mayo," says Noel, sipping a fresh gin and tonic in Dublin's Berkeley Court Hotel. "I come over 'ere to indulge my love of Tayto, Silvermints and No. 6 cigarettes." Oasis' notoriety in the run-up to the release of Definitely Maybe has been based on four hit singles and more importantly, it seemed, their love of rock 'n' roll hi-jinks. They've started fights on ferries, they've trashed hotel rooms and, most lovable of all, Liam (22) and Noel (27) have turned sibling rivalry into an art form by beating each other up on a regular basis. Usually in front of the music press. "All that stuff about us fighting all the time was alright," says Noel, his blackeye having receded, "until you get smacked in the face. You get a headache but all the girls give you love and sympathy." Before Oasis, the last time we could get justifiably excited about British pop music was Madchester at the turn of the decade. Noel and Bonehead dismiss that era, praising only The Stone Roses. "The Stone Roses were good, The Happy Mondays were alright," shrugs Noel. "The rest of it was crap. The Stone Roses could have become a great band, if they'd only got out of the studio, The Happy Mondays were a good band, they were never a great band." Noel would rather see Oasis' lineage stretching back to the Fab Four and, in particular, to John Lennon's special style of lyrical doggerel. The cover of Oasis' most recent single, Live Forever, even goes so far as to feature a black and white photo of the house in Liverpool Lennon lived in with his Aunt Mimi. "John Lennon is probably the biggest single influence on our songwriting," says Noel. "He was part of the greatest band in the world, ever, and he was probably the best single songwriter ever. It was him and McCartney, but Lennon wrote the best songs. I think the girls liked Paul McCartney and the boys liked John Lennon and, being boys, John Lennon is king. "I don't know if Our Kid is gonna become a raving Kurt Cobain smack head. Anything could happen, I could walk out tonight and get splattered across the road by a bus. And that's the beauty of it, you can't predict what's gonna happen" - Noel Gallagher "That fantasy of standing on stage playing guitars is part of our make-up and again it goes back to The Beatles," continues Noel. "That was my first vision of a band and it's the same for a lot of people. There is something inspiring about a load of young guys playing music in a band, whereas a lot of young girls doing it doesn't have a lot of appeal. You get a lot of girl bands but they don't have male groupies." What would you say if The Rolling Stones asked you to support them? "We'd say bloody hell, yeah!" says Bonehead. "You've gotta be ambitious if you're in a band. If a band like The Rolling Stones, who are gonna play in front of two million people on a tour, offers you a support slot you don't say no. "You've gotta do the best for yourself. Supporting the Stones wouldn't be selling out, selling out is signing to a big record company who start telling you what to do. We might play our music to a load of nuns in Cork but we're not sellin' out, we're playing our music to people." Oasis are trying to re-create the idea that rock 'n' roll is fun, that it has little to do with the doom-laden lyrics of Suede's Brett Anderson. "The Manic Street Preachers are dour intellectuals and nobody knows what the bloody hell they're on about," says Bonehead. "As for Brett Anderson, going on about meeting you under a nuclear sky and all that crap! Our answer to that is all you need is cigarettes and alcohol." Bonehead and Noel care little about the fate of their fellow British bands - the Suedes, Stone Roses and Primal Screams - who deliver classic albums and then let something go horribly wrong, whether it's a guitarist leaving or winning The Mercury Music Prize. "I'm sure if you asked those bands who were in our position back then what they thought of that, they'd say . . . well, I don't know what they'd say but I'll say now. I don't know. I don't know if Bonehead's gonna leave, I don't know if Our Kid is gonna become a raving Kurt Cobain smack head. "Anything could happen, I could walk out tonight and get splattered across the road by a bus. And that's the beauty of it, you can't predict what's gonna happen. People ask us are we gonna be around in five years; are we gonna make a second album. Wait and see, we don't know." Best new band in Britain? It's too early to tell but barring ODs, musical differences and errant double-decker buses, there's something about these Manchester rogues that should see them enjoy a long and brilliant recording career. Déjà vu has never sounded better.
Leader Live
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
Pulp revealed as mystery band Patchwork as they appear for Glastonbury set
The Sheffield band began with a rendition of their hit song Sorted For E's And Wizz while the words 'Pulp Summer' appeared on the screen behind them. Their performance comes 30 years after their headline performance at the festival when they stood in for The Stone Roses after the Manchester band's guitarist John Squire was injured in a cycling accident. Groups of people wearing waterproof parkas took to the stage before the performance began, and footage from their 1995 headline show was broadcast on the screen behind. Following their opening track, the Jarvis Cocker-fronted band launched into one of their best known songs, Disco 2000, from 1995's Different Class, one of the most acclaimed albums of the 1990s, prompting a mass singalong from the Glastonbury crowd. Following the song, Cocker said: 'My name's Jarvis, we're Pulp, sorry for people who were expecting Patchwork, did you know that we were going to play?' After cheers from the crowd, he added: 'Psychic? Good. 'Listen, those two songs we just played, Sorted For E's & Wizz and Disco 2000, were first played on this stage 30 years and four days ago. 'It was the very, very first time they were played – you could say they were born in Glastonbury. 'Why were we here at Glastonbury that time? We'll get into that, but if you listen to this song, which isn't so old, and actually was released four weeks ago or something, it gives you a clue in the title, and I want you all, every one of you, right back to those tents at the back, to come alive.' The band then played Spike Island, which was the first single from their first album in 24 years, More, released earlier this year, which the band said was intended as a follow-up to Sorted For E's & Wizz. Pulp also treated fans to Acrylic Afternoons from 1994's His And Hers, backed with violin, with Cocker holding some cups up as he sang about cups of tea, and appearing to throw food into the crowd. Cocker, who was wearing a brown suit and green shirt, then picked up an acoustic guitar for a performance of Something Changed from Different Class, which brought a sway from the crowd. The band finished with a double whammy of two of their best know songs, Babies and Common People, having played their breakthrough single Do You Remember The First Time? earlier in the set. Pulp's appearance comes after keyboard player Candida Doyle had appeared to confirm the band would not perform at the festival. Asked whether she would be performing on BBC 6 Music, Doyle said: 'We wanted to, just because it's the 30th anniversary and that kind of thing, and they weren't interested. 'And then we were thinking maybe next year, and then they're not doing it next year.' Formed in 1978, Pulp struggled to find success with the dark content of early albums It (1983), Freaks (1987) and Separations (1992), before finding their audience during the 1990s Britpop era with their first UK top 40 single, Do You Remember The First Time? and the subsequent His 'N' Hers album, in 1994. In 1995, they gained nationwide fame with the release of the single Common People and their Glastonbury performance. Pulp are currently made up of singer Cocker, keyboard player Doyle, drummer Nick Banks and guitarist Mark Webber, and have achieved five UK top 10 singles and two UK number one albums.
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pulp revealed as mystery Glastonbury band as they echo famous 1990s headline set
Declaring a 'Pulp Summer' on the screen behind them, the band appeared on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage for another of the festival's "surprise" performances. Billed as the non-existent act Patchwork in the days beforehand, - similar to when The ChurnUps turned out to be the in 2023. A group of people mysteriously walked on to the stage in waterproof ponchos before the "secret" was revealed and the homage to fellow Saturday night performer Charli XCX's Brat Summer appeared on on Friday, everyone at knew who to expect by the time and co began at 6.15pm, thanks to the bookies' odds, "secret" sources and whispers around the festival. The Sheffield band were welcomed with a huge turnout at the festival's biggest stage. In tribute to their headline performance in 1995, when they famously took over from The Stone Roses at short notice, Pulp started with Sorted For E's And Whizz and then straight into Disco 2000 - two songs played live for the first time on this same stage 30 years ago. "It was the very, very first time they were played - you could say they were born in Glastonbury," Cocker told the crowd. From the Mercury Prize-winning Different Class, the album that propelled Pulp to topping the charts and platinum sales, and one of the most critically acclaimed records of the 1990s, the songs prompted a mass sing-along - and jump-along from an enthusiastic crowd who knew every word. "My name's Jarvis, this is Pulp," Cocker announced, just in case anyone was in any doubt. "Sorry for people who were expecting Patchwork. Did you know that we were going to play?" After their 1990s hits, the band launched into Spike Island, the lead single from More - their first album in 24 years, released earlier this month. It was a set full of memorable moments - including the Red Arrows flying over - and Cocker picking up an acoustic guitar for the poignant Something Changed. Do You Remember The First Time? And Babies also featured, before the band of course ended on their biggest hit - Common People. Pulp's appearance came after keyboard player Candida Doyle appeared to confirm the band would not perform at the festival in a BBC interview beforehand, despite much speculation that they would fill one of the unannounced slots. Read more from Sky News:' "We wanted to, just because it's the 30th anniversary and that kind of thing, and they weren't interested," she said. "And then we were thinking maybe next year, and then they're not doing it next year." Along with the headliners and the Sunday afternoon "legends slots", unannounced sets from the likes of the Foo Fighters, The Killers, and have become some of the most talked-about performances at Glastonbury in recent years. As well as Capaldi and Pulp, acts including Lorde and Haim have also popped up as "secrets" this year. Pulp have a history of surprises at the festival, having performed a secret set on the Park Stage in 2011 following their first hiatus. Formed in 1978, they released three albums in the 1980s and early '90s before finding mainstream success with 1994's His And Hers. Different Class came 18 months later in October 1995 and Pulp became huge, helped in no small part by their memorable performance at Glastonbury earlier in the year. Thirty years later, they have entered the festival's history books once again.
