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Daily Mirror
15 hours ago
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- Daily Mirror
Hugely popular item from Oasis tour merch sells out hours after launch
Fans are loving one particular item from Liam and Noel Gallgher's Oasis Adidas tour merchandise so much that the garment has sold out before officially going on tour Items from the new Oasis tour range are already selling out on the Adidas website - and that was BEFORE they officially went on sale. At 9.15pm on Thursday Adidas announced their new adidas Originals x Oasis Live '25 apparel collection with 26-piece range of timeless sportswear branded staples in various colours including tracksuits and T-shirts. But in the accompanying advert, Liam is wearing a khaki coach jacket, and unsurprisingly that is the thing most fans want. Although sales are not due to start until 9am Friday, regular users of the Adidas website can join the 'Adi Club' and had access to the items to buy on Thursday night. By 5am on Friday, the Khaki coach jacket was showing as sold out and even the black version only had limited sizes. Some of the coloured bucket hats were also shown as sold out. It's thought there will be more stock in stores and with the tour not yet started, Adidas is expected to replenish stocks, but the appeal of some items is clearly strong based on the first hours of sales. And fans were sure to be in the mood to see Oasis live after watching Liam and Noel back together in the new Adidas advert. It was the first time they had been pictured together since the Oasis global tour was announced. In the promo video, the Oasis anthem Live Forever can be heard and there are scenes reminiscent of early Oasis gigs with fans wearing new Adidas clothing complete with the famous Oasis band logo. Footage of giant Adidas footballs which were kicked out at the start of the Knebworth concerts could also be seen. At one point a tambourine appeared to hit ice and Liams voice could be heard saying: 'There are days when you are in the zone, you know what I mean? You just stand perfectly still while there's all this chaos going on around you. Not feeling the need to join in the madness, just thinking, this is the best feeling in the world. Just absolutely still.' Liam and Noel could then be seen heading to stage ready to play a gig before the final shot of the advert showed them reunited and posing together. Liam's comments on the advert in some ways describe his posture on stage. He is well known for not dancing or moving, singing up to the mic with his trademark pose with his hands behind his back. No doubt whilst he does that later this month at the reunion shows there will be 'chaos' in the crowd as thousands of fans enjoy the first Oasis shows for 16 years. In April, they started filming a new promo campaign for Adidas. Rather than make music the Gallaghers were all smiles as they were spotted arriving separately at a working men's club in Newington Green, London. It was understood at the time they were shooting promo material for Adidas as part of a new planned collaboration with the sports brand. Adidas will make their own range now based around the Oasis Live 25 tour. In the past both Liam and Noel have also released their own Adidas trainers and Noel has spoken in the past about being obsessed with trainers. Oasis split following a backstage bust-up between the Gallaghers at Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009. But thankfully the brothers have now made up and it is believed Liam made the first move to patch things up. Noel and Liam will walk on stage for the first time together in public, since the band split nearly two decades ago, on July 4 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium. There will also be dates in Manchester, London and Dublin as part of the tour.
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Oasis, Pulp & Suede are all playing huge tours – we can ride the Britpop wave too
They had three top five albums and a legendary run of nine successive top 20 singles RETRO SCENE Oasis, Pulp & Suede are all playing huge tours – we can ride the Britpop wave too Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) OCEAN Colour Scene hope to ride a BritPop wave spurred on by this summer's Oasis reunion. The 90s rockers shot to fame with huge anthems such as The Riverboat Song and Traveller's Tune in their heyday. 3 Ocean Colour Scene will play in Glasgow later this month 3 The group in their 90s heyday 3 They supported Oasis at Knebworth They famously supported Liam and Noel at their massive Loch Lomond and Knebworth shows nearly 30 years ago. Although this time they won't be warming up for the warring brothers' comeback - as they have their own headline gig at Glasgow's Queens Park later this month. Guitarist Steve Cradock, 55, said: 'We're from a generation that grew up listening to records. That era is still well-loved and it was a great time where amazing music came from our shores. 'People get nostalgic about it because it was such a good time.' The group, which also includes frontman Simon Fowler, drummer Oscar Harrison and bass player Raymond Meade, will also perform two big dates at Dundee's Slessor Gardens in July. With three top five albums and a legendary run of nine successive top 20 singles, the band have plenty of material to keep such large crowds happy. But Steve believes it's extra important to impress their Scottish fans - as they are the main reason the band hit the big time. Steve, who also plays guitar for Paul Weller's band, said: 'Scotland feels like our home ground and I think it goes back to around 1996 when we put out our Moseley Shoals album. 'We just released the Riverboat Song, we were on Top of the Pops, and we had eight Scottish gigs and our promoter thought we wouldn't do them. 'But we never cancelled them. That established Scotland as our base and then we had a Stirling Castle date in 1998. Noel Gallagher looks stony-faced as he makes lonely Tube journey to Oasis rehearsals – but Liam's entrance is chaotic 'It's like our hometown. Why that is I don't know. Most bands will say that to you about Scotland. 'But there's something exceptional in the Scottish DNA.' Even after 35 years, Steve reckons the band is still improving. They completed a huge UK tour in April and had so much fun they immediately added many more dates for the summer. As they've got older, the guitarist reckons they've also got smarter. He said: 'We've all got our s*** together so it's been a joy. 'Every show was a dream. The audiences were fantastic and that just keeps happening. The songs keep growing and the crowds keep growing. 'We keep finding new fans. It's a strange one. If you're in a household and your parents are playing our tunes, it'll seep through. 'It's the same with my children and it gets passed down. We've seen the next generation arrive at our shows and that's fantastic.' He added: 'We've got our act together and we're a good band at the moment. 'Raymond, who's from Glasgow, has been our bass player for ten years and my lad is playing piano and guitar and Oscar's son Leon is playing percussion. 'Simon has calmed down too. I spent a week at my home in Devon before this tour and we got together with the band for a couple of days. 'And it comes together really quickly because we're so old now.' The focus now turns to Queens Park later this month as the group continue their love affair here. Although sunshine can't be guaranteed, Steve reckons the future is bright as they get to play the sort of outdoor gig they love most. He said: 'We played Kelvingrove Bandstand last year and that was one of best nights we've had in Glasgow. It was like being in a miniature Hollywood Bowl. 'I love outdoor gigs. Maybe that's because I'm coming off the back of tour indoors. 'But music flows differently playing outdoor gigs. It makes for a different vibration. 'It's just a nice atmosphere, especially when the weather is nice.'
Reuters
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Portrait of Gallagher brothers to be auctioned before Oasis reunion gigs
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - A 1996 portrait of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher at the height of their Oasis fame heads to auction next week as the siblings prepare to start a series of reunion gigs. Painted by U.S. artist Elizabeth Peyton, "Liam + Noel (Gallagher)" is based on a promotional photograph of the siblings taken the year before and depicts them "in a moment of intimacy and repose", according to Sotheby's. Like the photo, the painting, which was made after Oasis' historic 1996 Knebworth gigs, depicts Liam resting his chin on Noel's shoulder. In the photo, Liam has his thumbs up, but not in the painting. The work is being offered at Sotheby's "Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction" in London on June 24 with a price estimate of 1.5 million to 2 million pounds ($2 million - $2.69 million). "It's a beautiful circular moment for the painting... This was made in 1996, on the eve of their then biggest ever concert at Knebworth," Antonia Gardner, head of Contemporary Evening Sale, told Reuters on Wednesday. "And now this is coming back into the market, coming back into the spotlight... on the eve of their incredible... tour." Oasis made their debut with 1994's "Definitely Maybe" before finding international stardom with their second studio album "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" released in 1995. It went on to sell 22 million copies worldwide and was the band's breakthrough in the United States. However, the Gallaghers' volatile relationship often made headlines. The group split in 2009 when lead guitarist and main songwriter Noel said he could no longer work with frontman Liam after a number of public spats. Last August, they announced they would reunite for a series of gigs, which will kick off in Cardiff on July 4. As well as "Liam + Noel (Gallagher)", other paintings on offer at next week's sale include Tara de Lempicka's "La Belle Rafaela" and Pablo Picasso's "Nu assis dans un fauteuil", both with estimates of 6 million - 9 million pounds.
News.com.au
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Loop the f**king loop': New book reveals how Oasis imploded at the height of their fame
They were the biggest band of their generation, on the edge of world domination … then it all went wrong. As the reunited Gallagher brothers prepare to tour Oasis once again, music industry veteran JOHN ROBB recounts the disaster that deprived Aussie fans of seeing their heroes, in this exclusive extract from his new book Live Forever – an eyewitness account full of interviews with the major players in one of rock's biggest dramas. Yin and yang, hello goodbye, up and down, one step forwards and one step back … only Oasis could follow up a triumph like their enormous gig at Knebworth in August 1996, with a near disaster not even two weeks later. The volatile nature of the band, of course, was one of their magnetic qualities for outsiders. They never faked anything and their hearts were certainly on their sleeves; it saw them often snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and then somehow thrive in the following chaos. The biggest crime in pop culture is to be boring, and Oasis were never boring. On 23 August they were due to film an MTV Unplugged appearance that would become more famous for the inherent chaos that was always bubbling up just beneath the surface. Launched in 1989, the MTV Unplugged sessions were a big deal at the time. Featuring a filmed acoustic live session from a band, they had often been iconic, from Neil Young delivering a stunning take of his Harvest Moon classic to the most famous one of them all, Nirvana whose unplugged was eventually released as an album and is arguably their finest performance. Filmed at the Royal Festival Hall, even the rehearsals for the Oasis show were fraught with problems, with singer Liam Gallagher complaining of having a bad throat and walking out, and guitarist brother Noel having to cover most of the vocals. When it came to filming time, Liam hadn't turned up. The rumour was that he had been out drinking for a few days. Almost inevitably, he had been hanging out with Owen Morris the night before, as the producer remembers: 'The night before Liam didn't do MTV, he had been in my hotel room getting wasted, and I got the f**king blame! It was the first time I had seen him for eight months so we went to the pub and drank too much Guinness. And then Liam decided he didn't want to f**king sing on that MTV thing. I didn't know he was gonna f**king go loop the f**king loop, right?' Now that it was obvious the iconic singer was not going to do the session, MTV scrambled for a plan B. They had already taped a full rehearsal with the band and there was talk of using that footage mixed with a Noel-led performance, but the cost of editing meant they elected to go with the guitarist singing the whole session. Cameras on, Noel announced, 'Liam ain't gonna be with us tonight cause he's got a sore throat. So you're stuck with the ugly four,' and carried it off perfectly, bringing his own more plaintive takes on his lyrics compared to his younger brother's captivating vocals with a now watching Liam sat in the upstairs seats heckling, which further cranked the tension as the 'ugly four' delivered the session. Whatever was going on, it made for riveting viewing and added to the helter-skelter dynamics of the band that defied boredom and conventional careerism with moments of madness like this. With (What's the Story) Morning Glory? in the top 5 of the American charts, the tour should have been a triumph. The sheer scale of Knebworth and the huge success of the album and 'Wonderwall' had put them on a supernova footing. The discipline required to get to the top, forged in those endless hours of rehearsing in the Boardwalk seemed to be dissipating though. The internecine tension between the two brothers, amped by the pressure and further cranked by the cocaine and the post-Knebworth malaise, were playing out in lots of different ways. 'The Knebworth thing was with us when we went on that plane to America,' says Noel. 'I guess subconsciously we must have felt we had done it with Morning Glory riding high in the American album charts and 'Wonderwall' in the top five.' The MTV filming had been a warning sign and now the band had to play their first date on the American tour with no singer, who had decided, last minute, that he needed to go house hunting with his new partner, Patsy Kensit, after moving out of the flat he had been renting. This left Noel to front the band at the first gig in Chicago and sing the whole set and songs like 'Champagne Supernova' for the first time ever, after supports from the Screaming Trees and the Manic Street Preachers. Even the Stones at their most decadent hadn't been this unruly. After joining the tour for the second date at the large Glass Palace venue on the edge of Detroit, Liam had the now famous confrontation with the late Mark Lanegan, the then lead singer of the Screaming Trees. The stand-off was sparked when he called Lanegan's band the 'Howling Branches' and it descended from there. On paper it may have seemed an odd bill but, like Nirvana, with whose totemic frontman Noel felt an alignment, Mark Lanegan was close to Kurt Cobain; and Oasis and they and Screaming Trees had things in common. Both had a melodic take on anthemic noise and an ability to weave introspection into the high-decibel void. Both singers were renegade Irish blood transposed into alien nations and reacting in their own ways. It's a shame they bumped into each other at the wrong time in their lives and fell out so badly as there could have been much mutual respect with Mark Lanegan being a fan of Oasis, but it wasn't to be, and the festering ill will carried on until Mark's death in 2022. The tension carried through the next few shows before arriving in New York where Oasis were appearing on the MTV awards on 4 September. On the show, the band performed a loose version of 'Champagne Supernova' with a clearly discontented singer adlibbing 'up your bum' into the song and spitting on the stage. It's as electric in its tension and unpredictability as prime-time Doors. The tour staggered on for a few dates with Noel grimly grinding the shows down before it all finally imploded on 10 September, two hours before stage time in Charlotte at the Bristow Nissan Pavilion, when the guitarist pulled the tour and flew home on Concorde. The rest of the American tour and follow-up legs in Australia and New Zealand were pulled. Oasis had imploded. It was big news. 'Liam had an argument with (rhythm guitarist) Bonehead about a leather jacket and we were all on f**king drugs and I was saying, 'Calm down!' and we blew out four really big gigs,' explains Noel. 'At that point the band could have gone one way or another. There was mayhem when we got back to England, there was chaos at the airport. I couldn't believe the amount of press that was there. We had only cancelled a few f**king gigs. 'It was insane. We had to get driven from the airport to a secret hideaway and we were now in the tabloids all the time. After that, the drugs started to take over. We shouldn't have gone on that tour in the first place. What we should have done after Knebworth was just f**king disappeared. 'It was the classic thing, which we never, ever learned in Oasis, which was biting off more than you can chew, but when you're cocky little working class lads and someone says, 'There's another six-week tour of America, you might be tired …' I would say, 'Tired? What are you f**king talking about? We're f**king there, mate!' But when you get older you realise it's the adults surrounding the band that should have not let that happen.' Noel knew the damage had been done. 'You can get away with unprofessionalism in the UK but the Americans could not understand how we could blow out gigs or be too pissed to meet that guy at the record shop who would rack the records. 'Marcus (Russell, the band's manager) was based in England and we never had an American manager and we were left to our own devices. We were on Epic records in the USA and it doesn't get any more corporate than that. Their two biggest acts were Whitney Houston and Celine Dion and then there was us. They didn't get it for a long time, even with the album at number two in the charts. They think you are trying to trick them somehow because you're playing 'Rock 'n' Roll Star' and no one is moving except for the drummer. 'Musically we could have smashed it, but they are so attuned out there to people like Chris Martin and Bono who give a lot to a crowd, but Liam is into his stillism, which was great of course but they find that offensive out there. They are into showmanship and a stage show and they couldn't believe that 'you guys just stand there!' If you act like Mick Jagger they get it but they were so intimidated by the way we were on stage. They didn't know what to do if you were not performing like a ludicrous idiot. (Record company executive) Alan McGee always said we were too Mancunian for America and 'it's no surprise that none of you from that city have ever done anything there!' 'We were expected to go and repeat the staggering success of the UK – I'm sure McGee and Marcus were not thinking that but someone at Sony was. I had already been to America with the Inspirals and I knew that New York and LA were great but the rest of it can be like a Wednesday afternoon in Bury. 'Our reputation preceded us for being somewhat tetchy, 'Here, these are the guys that fight all the time.' Yet we didn't fight all the time although we do like an argument, particularly in the press, but it's often tongue in cheek, but because Americans have a different sense of humour they think it's all real!' Band PR Johnny Hopkins saw the genuine band dynamics: 'There was so much love between the brothers at first, and the atmosphere around the band in those early years was just beautiful and hilarious. Maybe it changed after Wibbling Rivalry (an infamous recording of Noel and Liam arguing) which created an expectation.' The cultural differences between the UK and USA baffled both sides. Noel explains: 'They said we were going through the motions because we were not as big in the USA, but I found that quite insulting. In England we call that nonchalance. I remember a girl from the label was driving us around to do press in Seattle and she asked me what Creation Records was like. She was horrified when I said they get us drugs and have their own drug dealers.' Despite this pervading feeling of car crash, the band were actually the most successful UK band in the USA for years; and decades later, when they reformed in 2024, they sold out their biggest ever shows in minutes because, in the end, it's the songs that really matter.
The Guardian
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Very beautiful' portrait of Gallagher brothers to go to auction for £1.5m
'Where you gonna swim with the riches that you found?' Oasis asked in All Around the World. Maybe in the art market, buying a portrait of Noel and Liam Gallagher at the height of their fame for a possible £2m. Sotheby's has announced that a 1996 painting of the brothers by Elizabeth Peyton is to be part of its June contemporary art auction in London. It was based on a photograph of the brothers taken by Stefan De Batselier in 1995, the year Noel is said to have hit his brother with a cricket bat. You could feel the 'quiet tension' between them in Peyton's portrait, said Antonia Gardner, a specialist at Sotheby's. 'It feels so prescient, knowing now how it all ended up.' She added: 'It is a press image … They've got their arms around each other, but you can feel that sort of slight tension within it.' You also could not fail to be struck by the prettiness of the pair in the portrait, Gardner said. 'Peyton always slightly feminises these big male, macho pop stars,' Gardner said. 'You've got bright red lips, almost soft rosy cheeks, aquiline noses … Peyton certainly does make her subjects look very, very beautiful.' That year, 1996, was huge for Oasis, playing what were thought at the time to be the biggest live concerts ever staged in the UK. An estimated 2.5 million people applied for tickets at Knebworth Park and 500,000 people were at the two spectacles, considered a defining moment in the history of Britpop. This summer Oasis are back, putting aside years of mutual loathing to reunite for concerts in the UK and Ireland 16 years after they split. Like Knebworth, many more people tried to get tickets than were available, with a reported 14 million fans missing out on the 1.4m tickets. It showed the band's enduring importance, Gardner said. 'It feels like this is just the most perfect moment for this painting to come up again. It has come full circle.' Ticket prices for 2025 were considerably higher than the £22.50 charged at Knebworth, and the sale was mired in rows over 'dynamic' ticket pricing that meant some fans paid more than £350 for a £150 ticket. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion This year's reunion is predicted to be the most popular and profitable in British music history, with fans expected to spend more than £1bn on tickets, accommodation, food, drink, outfits and merchandise. Gardner, Sotheby's head of contemporary evening sales, said Peyton was one of the most important painters to emerge in the 1990s. While the Young British Artists dominated the UK art scene, Peyton was an American artist looking in at the birth of Cool Britannia. She is famous for her paintings of musicians including John Lennon, Keith Richards and Kurt Cobain. One of the four paintings she made of the Gallagher brothers is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, while one of Liam sold for $4.1m in November last year – an auction record for a Peyton work. The painting being sold in London on 25 June has an estimate of £1.5m to £2m.
