Join us for a live episode of Music Maps Podcast with John Robb recorded live at the Walthamstow Trades Hall.
We are also joined this week by James from The Oasis Podcast & Sam Shiner to discuss the return of Oasis last week in Cardiff & the 2025 tour.
John takes us through the highlights from his new book Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis we start back in the 70s with the Gallagher brother’s childhood in Manchester.
Eventually settling in Burnage, Noel Gallagher finds a guitar lying around the house & learns to play it while beginning to pick up Greatest Hits compilations from local record shop Sifters, listening to the Beatles, Slade, The Jam, The Smiths & the Sex Pistols.
Acid House is another key influence & Noel begins to frequent the Hacienda but its a gig at the International 2 featuring James & the Stone Roses which becomes key as younger brother Liam also attends & subsequently joins local band The Rain, founded by Paul Arthurs (AKA Bonehead).
Meanwhile Noel Gallagher is touring the world working for the Inspiral Carpets & is amazed to hear Liam has joined a band asap till then he had expressed no interest in music.
After attending an early gig Noel eventually joins the re-named Oasis & the band rehearse diligently at the Boardwalk in Manchester.
Alan McGee famously spots Oasis at King Tut’s Way Way Hut in Glasgow in 1993 & manager Marcus Russell enters the equation via Johnny Marr.
After the buzz created by the Columbia white label demo, Supersonic becomes the first single in the spring of 1994.
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