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[Ashley Perreault]

Saturday, November 16, 1996

Book looks for Oasis from press

Invasive tabloid stories prompt third Gallager brother to tell his own

By JANE STEVENSON
Toronto Sun
Don't Look Back In Anger appears to have double meaning for
British supergroup Oasis.

It's not only the title of the band's current single, but also the
mantra of Paul Gallagher, the older brother of notorious band
members Noel and Liam.

"I mean, if it helps one person, then it's done its job," says
Gallagher of his book, Brothers: From Childhood To Oasis,
which details the three siblings' violent childhood at the hands of
their brutish, mean-spirited father.

"There's other people growing up in the same environment --
the only difference is they haven't got two brothers who are the
biggest rock and roll stars in the world."

Brothers, which was only released in Canada two weeks ago, is already a
huge success in England,
where it's sold 45,000 copies since mid-September. It helped that the
publishers (General Publishing
in Canada), who had only expected it to sell about 10,000, moved up the
release date to capitalize
on the band's headline-making cancellation of the remainder of their
U.S. tour.

"I expected it to do more but I expect more than anyone else," says
Gallagher, sounding a lot like his
ambitious brother Noel, who has already layed down four tracks at Abbey
Road Studios for the
new Oasis album expected next April.

Book sales will likely pick up again given the recent Group of the Year
honors for Oasis at the MTV
Europe music awards, not to mention Liam's arrest on suspicion of
possession of cocaine.

"It's just mass hysteria over here," Gallagher says. "I mean if Liam
walked backwards in the street,
they'd say he was retarded and make a story out of it. The press over
here is just like scum,
basically, and I'm not afraid of saying that. We get doorsteps every day
of the week, which means
the press just arrive on your door."

In fact, Gallagher had just arrived back from London where he was
visiting Liam, who has to report
back to police on Dec. 30.

"I've been doing my Highway To Heaven bit, which means angel of mercy
sort of stuff," Gallagher
jokes before adding that Liam is holding up well.

"He's fine, he just doesn't want permanent press attention 'cause he
hasn't really got a private life
anymore -- and it's very, very sad that it has to come to this."

Understandably, neither Liam nor Noel initially wanted their older
brother writing Brothers, but it
apparently had less to do with airing their dirty laundry in public than
with Paul's choice of
collaborator, Manchester-based journalist Terry Christian.

"They still don't like him, probably because he's a Man United fan, but
there you go." (Liam, Noel
and Paul are supporters of Manchester City, the local soccer rivals of
Manchester United.)

But Gallagher decided to proceed, with the blessing of their mother,
Peggy, and says the book has
now brought the three siblings closer together.

"I think Noel has read it, and he's behind it. Liam probably read the
bits about himself 'cause his
attention span isn't very large, and he says it's okay.

"In the end, I don't really care, okay or not. I mean it was a book that
was personal to me and
everyone says, `Well, why share it with the world?' And I say, `Well,
the world is on my nerves at
the moment.' Cause the press was just digging up stories just for the
fun of it, trying to disgrace us."

There are actually nine books about Oasis currently in Britian, but, as
Gallagher points out, "I'm the
only one with the divine right to write one.

"Brothers are brothers and they'll fight anyway but at the end of the
day they still love each other.
They've got a stronger bond than anyone on the outside could ever have.
You can have lifetime
friends until you're ninety-nine but your brothers are forever."

As for their estranged father, who still lives in Manchester and has
sold his own stories to the
tabloids, Gallagher doesn't think he's read the book. Nor does he care.

"He just thinks that nothing's happened. He thinks we're his three
darling little sons. Well, we're not
his sons, we're me mom's sons."

Monday, October 28, 1996

Third Oasis brother goes on record with book

Thinking you haven't heard enough lately on the battling Gallagher
brothers of Brit supergroup Oasis? Well, a third brother, Paul
Gallagher, has released a biography revealing the "unadulterated truth"
about his two terribly famous siblings.

Already a best seller in the U.K., "Brothers: From Childhood to
Oasis", will hit store shelves in Canda next week.

It chronicles the lives of Noel and Liam from their early years at the
hands of a violent father and protective mother, to their rocketing
stardom and the release of mega-hit "What's The Story Morning
Glory."

Oasis has released two albums selling for over 15 million world-wide.

But, the Gallagher brothers (Noel and Liam, that is) are almost as well
known for their fiery tempers
and sibling brawls as for their chart-topping hits.

"Brothers" was published by Virgin Books. Here's a excerpt:

Chapter 12: Oasismania

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar
off.
- William Davenant

It was getting too big, too fast. Oasis's success was phenomenal.
They'd released two
singles, neither of which had made the top ten, yet they could have
sold out the venues
on their fourth tour five and six times over. All the press stories
of backstage punch-ups
and trashing hotel rooms and their appearance back in June on the
Naked City TV
show had hyped up this image of the fighting Gallaghers. My
brothers can be spiky and
aggressive, especially Liam, but I heard many a person say when
they saw them,
'They're not very big, are they?' At the Newcastle Riverside club
on 9 August, this
must have gone through the mind of some moronic Geordie, who after
one too many
Newcastle Brown Ales, jumped up on stage and punched Noel in the
face with his
sovereign ring, cutting our Noel around the eye and leaving him
with a nasty bruise. The
gig had only just started and Oasis had only played two numbers.
Noel retaliated by
kicking the guy in the head and swinging his guitar at him, while
Liam went into
overdrive, frothing at the mouth and steaming into the guy
ferociously, eventually being
dragged off. Noel was bleeding and shaken and the crowd weren't
pleased when the
gig was abandoned, throwing bottles at the group and later when
they were leaving the
venue attacking the tour bus and smashing all its windows in...

It was this incident that made the group's management realise that
they were a big name
now, even if they weren't in the top ten. They were the group
everyone wanted to see.
After some discussion the band's security was immediately stepped
up by bringing in
Ian Robertson, an ex-army man and an old friend of the band's
manager, Marcus
Russell.

Ian Robertson (Robbo, as he was known) thought he was the group's
manager as well
as minder and took it upon himself to keep a wary eye on all of
them. I think he tried to
keep them all regimented and Liam in particular felt it an
intrusion when Robbo would
try ordering him about like he was one of his squaddies from his
army days. Liam isn't
the sort of person who likes being bossed around by anyone, and
Robbo was
constantly keeping Liam in check, trying to tell him when to go to
bed, who with, when
to get up and being quite forceful about it. I think Robbo treated
it as a battle of wills,
which is all very well, but that isn't what he was paid to do. Liam
hated him after
several incidents including being physically dragged out of bed one
morning when he
was entertaining, and pushed up against the wall with no clothes
on.

The first gig when Robbo was looking after security was at the
Irish Centre in Leeds,
which went off without a hitch, despite being the night after the
incident at Newcastle.
Our Noel was still sporting a rather ugly bruise on his face, and I
think the fact the band
hadn't cancelled the show brought some extra applause and cheers
from the audience.

The band waited all that week while gigging, excited to find out
how their new single,
'Live Forever', would do in the charts.

Number ten with a bullet, or however they put it. 'Live Forever'
went straight in the
charts that week, but deserved to be a number one single. There'd
been nothing quite
like it in the chart for a long time. I felt especially proud and
was now quite certain that
when Definitely Maybe came out it would top the album charts. That
must have been
what most of the band's fans were hanging in for, otherwise 'Live
Forever' would
definitely have been a number one single.

Continued

October 16, 1996

Oasis in the studio

By JEFF CRAIG
Entertainment Editor
NEW YORK -- Is the family feud on hold?
The brothers Gallagher have holed up in Abbey Road studios in London
to record Oasis' third
album, The Sun has learned.
An industry insider here with ties to the studio made famous by the
Beatles -- to whom Oasis
principals Noel and Liam Gallagher have been compared -- said Sunday
that the band intends to
finish its follow-up to the hugely successful (What's the Story) Morning
Glory by the end of this
month.
The news comes as a surprise after a spectacular sibling dust-up in
Georgia last month which
resulted in the cancellation of Oasis' North American tour, and
widespread rumor that the
multimillion-selling band had broken up.
Singer Liam and songwriter Noel have a long history of animosity
towards each other, and Liam
missed both the beginning of the ill-fated North American tour and the
band's MTV Unplugged
performance.
During the latter, he sat in the audience chain-smoking and mugging at
the cameras as Noel
substituted on vocals.
One source speculated that the band's reunion was sparked by a
lucrative $45-million recording
contract with Sony -- a company that established a hardball reputation
with its artists by forcing
George Michael through a six-year, $100-million court battle to void his
contract.
Late yesterday, British online music magazine Vibe quoted Liam as
saying, "I'm out to prove that
my voice is still tops. I wanna show that I'm the ultimate rock 'n' roll
legend. The LP's gonna have
more soul in it than Motown and more rock 'n' roll than anyone's ever
heard before. It's gonna be
tops, tops, tops."

September 1, 1996

Liam and Oasis... it could have been worse

By JOHN SAKAMOTO
Jam! Showbiz

BARRIE, ONT. -- He came, he sang, he swore a lot, he
left.

That pretty much sums up the first Canadian appearance
of Oasis since bad boy Liam Gallagher finally ended his
hissy fit and re-joined brother Noel and the rest of his
merry band this week.

Not that Saturday's show -- one of those day-long affairs,
this one headlined by Neil Young (more on him in a
moment) -- went entirely routinely.

Following Noel's typically modest opening remarks --
"Show your appreciation for the best fookin' band in the
world" -- wayward brother Liam casually strolled on
stage, holding a beer bottle and clutching a
soon-to-be-battered tambourine behind his back.

He then launched into Acquiesce, which, like virtually everything Oasis
played last evening, took on
an unintentional air of irony, during which he ceremoniously slammed
down his tambourine after the
second verse as if to say, "Okay, I'm back, are ya HAPPY now."

That was followed by repeated bursts of largely unintelligible
profanity, an impressive slam-dunk of
his microphone, a display of bra-sniffing -- the item in question had
been tossed onstage by an
amorous fan -- and a boatload of generally stereotypical Rock Star
behavior.

All of which proved to be tailor-made for the band's surroundings. After
playing what was by some
accounts a very tense show the previous night in Detroit -- one fan
report on the 'Net mentioned
slurred vocals, audience-taunting, and the interruption of one of Noel's
solos by kicking his guitar --
Saturday's display seemed almost calculatedly cartoonish by comparison.

Despite Liam's self-consciously loutish behavior, there was definitely
an air of playfulness to the
whole affair. Part of that can probably be attributed to the presence of
Young on the bill. Both of the
Gallaghers are huge Neil fans -- Liam surfaced during Young's set to get
a close-up look -- and it's
unlikely that they'd risk embarrassing themselves in front of someone
they admire.

By the end of the 85-minute performance, both brothers had settled into
needling the crowd, rather
than challenging them. Liam, in particular, kept up a running gag about
the terrible aim of those up
front who kept hurling plastic bottles at the stage.

"Every fookin' thing that comes up on stage keeps missing me," he said
after a blistering version of
Morning Glory. "It looks like I'm not the only one who has to wear
fookin' glasses."

By the time Noel launched into his mini unplugged set -- including
Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In
Anger, and a nifty medley of Whatever and The Beatles' Octopus's Garden
-- it was almost as
though none of the past week's lunacy had happened at all.

If anything, it added the extra bite that had been missing from the
band's previous Canadian shows.

Neil Young, on the other hand, didn't need any help at all in winning
over the sort-of-hometown
crowd of 30,000. Except for a brief lull at the beginning of his
two-hour set when he worked in a
pair of songs from his recent Broken Arrow album, this was as big a
love-in as Young has probably
experienced this year.

There is simply something undeniably Canadian about seeing Young holding
an acoustic guitar,
blowing into a harmonica, and singing the words, "There is a town in
North Ontario ..."

In fact, here's the kind of night it was: when he got to the line in
Sugar Mountain that goes "With the
barkers and the colored balloons," I swear to God someone in the crowd
actually released a bunch
of colored balloons into the night sky, and thousands of heads turned up
and watched them float up
toward the stars.

Only in Canada.

Here's the complete Oasis set list:

- The Swamp Song (taped intro)
- Acquiesce
- Supersonic
- Hello
- Some Might Say
- Roll With It
- Slide Away
- Listen Up
- Morning Glory
- Cigarettes And Alcohol
- It's Getting Better, Man (new)
- Champagne Supernova
- Whatever/Octopus's Garden
- Wonderwall
- Don't Look Back In Anger
- Live Forever
- I Am The Walrus

Here's the complete Neil Young set list:

- Hey Hey, My My
- Pocahontas
- Big Time
- Slip Away
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- Helpless
- Heart Of Gold
- Sugar Mountain
- Cinnamon Girl
- Fuckin' Up
- Cortez The Killer
- Music Arcade
- Like A Hurricane
- Sedan Delivery
- Tonight's The Night
- Roll Another Number
- This Town
- Rockin' In the Free World

PHOTO: Noel Gallagher was reunited with wayward brother Liam at Molson
Park in Barrie

More Neil Young on his Jam! Music Homepage

July 29, 1996

Live Oasis gets nationwide radio release

By JOHN SAKAMOTO
Jam! Executive Producer

Canadian fans of Oasis who aren't willing or
able to make the trek to Barrie, Ont., next
month have a long wait in store before they get
see the band in concert again. Their Aug. 31
appearance at Molson Park, on a bill with Neil
Young, Screaming Trees, Gin Blossoms,
Jewel, and Spiritualized, is the Gallagher
Brothers' only show in this country 'til at least
the spring of 1997, when their third album is
scheduled for release.

Fortunately, relief is as close as your local radio station. This week
and next, 16 stations across
Canada will air a live Oasis performance, recorded earlier this year, as
part of a Sound Source
special.

Here are the stations and airdates, as provided by Sony Music Canada.
Please keep in mind that all
times are local and are subject to change:

ALBERTA
CJAY FM (Calgary) July 30 - 11:00 p.m.
CFBR FM (Edmonton) August 5 - 8:00 p.m.
CKRX FM (Lethbridge) August 1 - 9:30 p.m.

BRITISH COLUMBIA
CKZZ FM (Vancouver) August 4 - 8:00 p.m.
CKLZ FM (Kelowna) August 1 - 11:00 p.m.

MANITOBA
CITI FM (Winnipeg) August 5 - 11:00 p.m.
CHTM (Thompson) August 3 - 9:00 p.m.

NEW BRUNSWICK
CJYC FM (Saint John) August 2 - 10:00 p.m.

NEWFOUNDLAND
VOFM (St. John's) August 4 - 7:30 p.m.

ONTARIO
CFNY FM (Toronto) August 1 - 11:00 p.m., August 3 - 6:00 p.m.
CKQB FM (Ottawa) August 3 - 11:00 p.m.
CFBG FM (Muskoka) July 30 - 10:00 p.m.

QUEBEC
CHOM FM (Montreal) August 3 - 8:00 p.m.

SASKATCHEWAN
CIZL FM (Regina) TBA
CFMC FM (Saskatoon) August 5 - 7:00 p.m.
CFMM FM (Prince Albert) August 3 - 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, July 16, 1996

There's new Oasis over the horizon

By JOHN SAKAMOTO
Jam! Showbiz

Noel Gallagher has finished writing the next Oasis album and plans to
have it ready for release in
March.

In an interview with BBC radio this month, Gallagher revealed he had
written and demoed 13 new
songs while on a month's holiday recently with his girlfriend Meg, NME
dutifully reports.

Among the new tracks are It's Getting Better Man (which Gallagher cites
has his personal favorite)
and the appropriately titled My Big Mouth, tentatively scheduled for a
January release as the album's
lead-off single.

"It's a great album," said the always modest Gallagher. "I've played the
songs to the rest of the band,
and they're all pretty chuffed (pleased)."

As for the long-term future, "As soon as I get bored, I'll be off," he
said, "but I can't see that
happening. I can honestly say there will never be a solo Noel Gallagher
album or single."

In the meantime, impatient Canadian fans will be able to hear a preview
of the new material at the
Aug. 31 Oasis/Neil Young show at Molson Park in Barrie, Ont.

June 6, 1996

Oasis and Neil Young to perform together?

By JOHN SAKAMOTO
Jam! Showbiz

The hottest Britpop band on the planet, Oasis, is coming back to play
one Canadian date on their
late-summer North American tour -- and rumor has it they'll be joined on
the bill by Neil Young.

The battling Gallagher Brothers are scheduled to play Toronto on Aug.
31, Pollstar magazine
reports.

Young -- whose new album with Crazy Horse, Broken Arrow, comes out in
Canada on July 2 -- is
touring overseas this summer. He's tentatively scheduled to play North
America in late August or
early September, so the timeframe fits. Sources say Young would be
playing with Oasis only on the
Toronto date.

Aside from a handful of dates in the U.K., Oasis is basically on
vacation 'til late August, when they
hit the road. The tour -- their first in large venues -- kicks off Aug.
27 in Rosemont, just outside
Chicago. At present, it will include 13 other shows, winding up Sept. 18
in Tampa.

Regardless of whether the Young rumor pans out, this will be your last
chance for some time to see
Oasis play. In November, they plan to head back into the studio to
record the follow-up to the
multi-platinum (What's The Story) Morning Glory? The results are
expected late next spring.

In the meantime, there is still talk about a live album or EP from the
band, but a spokesperson for
Sony Music Canada said Thursday that, while such a release is possible,
nothing has been finalized
yet.

Meanwhile, here's the Oasis tour itinerary so far:

Aug. 27, Rosemont, Illinois
Aug. 28, Dayton, Ohio
Aug. 30, Auburn Hills, Mich.
Aug. 31, Toronto, Molson Amphitheatre
Sept. 2, Philadelphia
Sept. 6, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 7-8, Wantagh, NY
Sept. 10, Bristow, Va.
Sept. 11, Charlotte, N.C.
Sept. 13, Atlanta
Sept. 15, West Palm Beach, Fl.
Sept. 16, Orlando, Fl.
Sept. 18, Tampa, Fl.

Saturday, April 20, 1996

Original Oasis demos surface

By JOHN SAKAMOTO
Jam! Showbiz
They may not carry quite the historical heft of The Beatles' original
audition tape, but the first-ever
recordings by the biggest British export of the '90s, Oasis, have
surfaced and are causing a stir
among the band's fans.
Most significantly, none of the six songs -- recorded in 1992 shortly
after Noel Gallagher took over
as guitarist/songwriter -- has shown up on any official Oasis recording
to date.
For the record, those songs are:

Colour My Life, a seven-minute marathon that opens with the couplet,
"If you're wondering
why I've not been speaking my mind, sir/It took so long since I could
call this my home," and
resolves itself into the oddly passive refrain, "You could colour my
life/Until it fits with your own."
Strong enough to take its place alongside many of the tracks on the
group's debut album.

Take Me, a rumbling, minor-key rocker that seems to have been
influenced by early U2, and
features continuous soloing throughout by Noel.

See The Sun, a meandering, bass-driven number most notable for the
fact that it seems to
consist of one long verse.

Must Be The Music, which starts off with an introduction similar to
the one that ended up on
Supersonic, before disintegrating into an incomprehensible,
echo-drenched mess.

Better Let You Know, another effects-laden workout on which Liam
Gallagher's vocals sound
like they're being run through a phase-lifter.

Snakebite, a fiery instrumental that convincingly showcases Noel's
already confident guitar
work.
Meanwhile, Oasis continues its invasion of North America, with cover
stories in Rolling Stone, Q,
Melody Maker, Select, and next month's issue of US, to name but a few.
The band is touring on the West Coast this month before heading back
for a pair of hometown
shows in Manchester, April 27-28. Online music mag Addicted To Noise
also reports that the
battling Gallagher brothers had to cancel at least one high-profiel
show, Monday night in L.A., after
Noel allegedly came down with the flu.

April 12, 1996

Oasis will be back to finish Vancouver
concert

VANCOUVER (CP) -- The lead guitarist for the chart-topping pop group
Oasis says the band
walked out on a Vancouver concert to protect themselves but will be back
to finish the show.
Noel Gallagher says he, his brother Liam and their three bandmates
stopped playing shortly after
the concert began Wednesday night because audience members hurled coins
and a shoe onto the
stage.
After Noel was hit in the eye by a coin and a shoe struck Liam's head,
the band walked, leaving
6,000 fans hanging in the dark for more than 30 minutes.
"I understand why people are upset," said Noel. "But at the same time,
I have no problem walking
off a stage to protect my personal safety."
"I'll personally make sure we come back and finish."
He said a return concert date would probably be scheduled for later
this year.
Oasis also walked off a New Jersey stage last month, complaining that
it was too cold.
"We've always gone back and finished the job," he said. "We've never
left people without a whole
show -- that's our job and we take it seriously."
Fans left the Pacific Coliseum peacefully after the promoter promised
ticket refunds but many also
left disenchanted with Oasis.
Before leaving the stage, Liam had chastized the crowd, saying, "We're
the best rock band in the
world."
"They think they're so great they can just walk off," said 15-year-old
Cassie Price. "Well, they
aren't the greatest band in the world -- no one is."
The group from Manchester, England, stormed to the top of international
charts with their latest
album What's the Story, Morning Glory, which has sold over two million
copies in the U.S. alone.
Along the way they've also gained a reputation for being standoffish
and conceited, referring to
themselves as "the next Beatles."
"But we're really not like that," said Noel, his voice quaking. "That's
the image people have latched
on to. They like the stir and we're very honest."

April 11, 1996

Vancouver fans angered when Oasis walks
off stage

VANCOUVER (CP) -- Extra police were called in Wednesday after an abrupt
walkout by the
British rock band Oasis sparked fears of a riot by thousands of angry
fans.
The concert had just started at Vancouver's Coliseum when the band
suddenly stopped playing and
left the stage.
The walkout was apparently triggered by someone throwing a shoe
onstage, said Sgt. Bob
Chapman of the city police.
The reinforcements weren't necessary because the band's fans left
peacefully, he said.
Attendance figures weren't available but some fans said they had
travelled by ferry from Victoria
and one flew in from Toronto.
One disgruntled teen was clearly disillusioned.
"When your ego's this big," he said, spreading his arms, "it's just
brutal."

December 11, 1995

Finding Oasis in rock storm

By JANE STEVENSON
Toronto Sun
Noel Gallagher, the braintrust behind Britain's band-of-the- moment
Oasis, couldn't be happier.
This despite:
- Replacement bassist Scott MacLeod quitting in the middle of a string
of dates that included an
October stop in Toronto (original bassist Paul McGuigan is now back in
after recovering from
"nervous exhaustion");
- Ongoing rivarly with England's other hot band Blur;
- Negative reviews for Oasis' sophomore effort (What's The Story)
Morning Glory?
- And British tabloid reports of drug use,
trashing hotel rooms, and regular punchups
between Gallagher and his brother Liam, who is
Oasis' lead singer.
"Felt pretty down around about September
with all the bass player stuff and the album got
bad reviews all over the place, and the Blur
thing and all that, but now I don't think I've been happier, actually,"
said Gallagher on the phone
before the band's makeup date Wednesday at the Warehouse.
The Manchester-born Gallagher, you see, is a rock star, and that was
always his goal. He
fantasized about it in the aptly-titled song Rock 'n' Roll Star on
Oasis' first release, 1994's Definitely
Maybe, which became the fastest selling debut album in UK pop history
and sold more than two
million copies worldwide.
"We don't just want to be little England, stay in England,
pontificating about how great England is,
because basically it's not," said Gallagher.
"People in Toronto mean as much to me as people in Manchester, it's as
simple as that," he said.
Gallagher says Morning Glory is a natural follow-up record with lines
such as Don't put your life in
the hands of a Rock 'n' Roll band who'll throw it all away, or All your
dreams are made when you're
chained to the mirror and the razor blade.
"It's more or less about being a rock star. If Definitely Maybe was an
album about a dream, then
this is an album about what it's like when you've woken up. More
realistic."
Comparisons to The Fab Four have dogged Oasis from the start, given
Gallagher's heavy
borrowing of their sound and outright Beatles' references in his songs.
The title of the latest single Wonderwall was taken from the George
Harrison album Wonderwall
Music Another track, Don't Look Back In Anger, contains the line So I
start a revolution from my
bed.
"Our ambition was always to be as big as the Beatles, right?" said the
lead guitarist, lyricist,
songwriter, arranger and producer. "And then somebody misquoted us as
saying that we thought we
were better than the Beatles, which is not true.
"I cringe most of the time really, because they're the Beatles, the
greatest band EVER."
In fact, Gallagher recently collaborated with Paul McCartney and Paul
Weller on a cover of Come
Together for the Bosnian relief record Help. They first met at a party.
"It was all right, but I can't remember much about it to tell you the
truth, because I was a bit drunk,"
he says. "I wouldn't say it was disappointing or surreal. I'd just say
it just was what it was."
But now Gallagher says he can't stop listening to the new Beatles
song, Free As A Bird, off
Anthology 1.
"I don't think much of the double CD. I'll be more interested in the
next one really, but I think the
song is great. I'm not really interested in the Beatles up until they
started smoking pot. After they
started smoking pot they became much more interesting."

PHOTO: BACK ON TRACK...Oasis' Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, left, Noel
Gallagher, Alan
White, Liam Gallagher and Paul McGuigan.

Oct. 21, 1994

Oasis makes Canadian debut

By JOHN SAKAMOTO
Jam! Showbiz

Suede, Pavement, Offspring ... add Oasis to the ever-lengthening list of
Next Big Things to arrive in
Toronto on a wave of hype - to which some of us willingly contributed -
only to crash to the ground
10 minutes after they hit the stage.

Part of the reason for that situation is that none of the above acts is
particularly interested in the
time-honored tradition of pandering to the crowd ("Toronto! Are you
ready to rock?!")

In Oasis's case, however, the explanation is simpler than that.

They have all the stage presence of a bunch of sedat