Oasis To Play In Front Of 80,000 Irish Fans Next Summer

After taking an enforced year out due to the lack of a suitable headliner, Slane returns on June 20 with current Hot Press cover stars Oasis headlining.

The news, which broke earlier this week, was officially confirmed a few minutes ago at a Slane Castle press conference hosted by Lord Henry Mountcharles and attended by Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer who, rock stars that they are, arrived by helicopter.

Noel and Liam will be no strangers to Slane having previously played there in 1995 as support to REM – an event that’s comprehensively documented on hotpress.com.

The prospect of performing in front of 80,000 people is unlikely to phase the younger of the two Gallaghers who tells Hot Press: “It’s like a holiday for me playing in Ireland. It’s not like a ‘gig’ – you just go there and get fucking slaughtered with the fans, and then you wake up the next day and get slaughtered again. As soon as you get off the plane, it’s ‘Do you want a Guinness?’ and before you know it you’re having to belt out a couple of songs that they like. There’s no fucking graft in that.”

Nicely put. Headlining Slane is yet more good news for Oasis whose Dig Out Your Soul album is currently number two in Ireland, and top of the pile in the UK.

Source: www.hotpress.com

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