Oasis Ready For Birmingham NIA Dates













There's never a dull moment when Oasis are around but the band hope there won’t be a repeat of the recent onstage incident in Canada.

As the group performed hit song Morning Glory at Toronto’s V Festival a 47-year-old man rushed from the back of the stage and pushed Noel Gallagher onto his monitor speakers.

The 41-year-old singer/ guitarist suffered bruising to his ribs and hip - but later he felt more embarrassed about being bettered by an older man!

He’s still walking with obvious discomfort but hopes to be healed enough for the two dates at Birmingham NIA next Monday and Tuesday. The incident may have cast a shadow over the tour but the band are still anxious to get back on the road in Britain.

“I love playing live full stop, but we’re playing in Britain, indoors to the perfect number of people for it to still be intimate,’’ states guitarist Gem Archer.

He adds that the foursome are now even “into their fitness” but is keen to point out “we’re not like Sting or anything.’’

He says: “I was one of those guys who could eat rubbish all day long and didn’t know what hangovers were.

“I do not want to be 50 and doubled up. We’ve got a responsibility to keep it together, and it’s not even for the thousands of people coming to see us. If we’re going to put ourselves in line with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and The Kinks and The Who, Led Zeppelin – the pantheon of great British rock n roll – then you can’t let the side down. We’re thinking ahead here,” he adds.

“Liam invented Stillism – there’s no jogging around on stage like Mick Jagger in this band – so we could be doing that until we’re 90.”

Oasis are also reinvigorated by new album, Dig Out Your Soul.

“The cliche is normally that bands can’t wait to get away from their music once it’s recorded, but I listened to it again last night.

“In the past, if you’d been out with Liam Gallagher at night and you ended up back at his house after the pub had shut, he’d play you the new album 15 times, but this time around, you might get it 30 times. That says it all!”

Dig Out Your Soul was recorded in Abbey Road studios, the spiritual home of The Beatles.

Unsurprisingly, given their track record for homage to the Fab Four, Oasis’s latest offering comes with no short supply of Beatles references. There’s even a snippet of an interview with John Lennon used in the Liam-penned track I’m Outta Time.

As always, the bulk of the songs on the album were written by Gallagher Snr, Noel, with Liam adding three songs.

The ‘new boys’ – Gem and Andy Bell – supply one apiece, To Be Where There’s Life and The Nature Of Reality respectively.

“To Be Where There’s Life started as a jam in my house with my son,” explains Gem.

“I had the demo, which was just an instrumental at the time, and played it to the lads. Noel asked if I’d got any lyrics. I hadn’t, so then I had to stay in and write some.”

* Ticket Info

OASIS
Oct 13/14: NIA, Birmingham
Tickets: 0871 945 6000.

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