Oasis: Supersonic Page #12

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and there's nothing that them

or anyone else can do about it.

We don't really care what they

write about us in the press

as long as we're on the cover.

They can write anything

they want about us inside,

but as long as we are on the cover,

then it don't matter.

It'd do your head in sometimes when they

were writing sh*t about you and that

and f***ing outside your house and stuff,

but that's what I signed up for,

you know what I mean?

Liam? Can we have a quick picture? Liam?

You know the story, it's in the papers,

that's what's going on.

Second to the singing was being the ultimate,

number-one f***ing rock star in this

f***ing country and that's what I was.

I remember going in a pub

some days at like 11:00.

By 12:
30,

people would be dancing on the tables

and snorting cocaine, you know what I mean?

You're like, "F***ing hell, I only went in

for a f***ing pint and a read of the paper,

"now f***ing all hell's broke loose,"

you know what I mean?

It did make life quite difficult, though.

The day that it steps over into the tabloids

and then stays there for years,

then you've gone to the dark side

and then the clock is ticking then.

It had been billed as one of the most

sensational trials in pop music history.

Tony McCarroll, the drummer sacked by Oasis,

going to court in search

of a multi-million-pound slice

of the band's annual earnings.

When sh*t like that starts out,

you do start thinking

all the fun is taken out of it.

You start a band with the best intentions

of just trying to get a big telly

and a fit bird...

And the next thing is

is everybody's hovering around you

with leather man-bags

full of sh*t for you to sign.

"How did it get to this?"

And that was the change.

Your mates are being slowly

discarded to the side.

It's a business now you're in.

The people behind the scenes

were determined to make it a brand.

It was even hard to get on

the guest list some days.

At this point,

the dynamic has changed that much.

It's now in the hands of the industry.

And I think the spirit

of any band rapidly disappears

and it's all about the money.

Here we have Mr Mark Coyle

sat looking rather subdued in the corner.

F*** off!

Can you say that a little more graphically?

F*** off!

Thank you, and here we have Liam...

Always chipper in the morning,

this young man.

Can't get the bastard down.

We tried several times.

We've put monkeys on his back,

a cement mixer once

and we still couldn't get the bastard down.

Look at that kipper!

When you're in a bubble,

sometimes you need a bit of guidance,

don't you?

I felt like all the people that were with us

at the beginning

were kind of getting pushed out a bit.

I think the best times

are when everybody's together

and that gang is out on the road.

They're the best of times,

doing them little gigs.

It does lose something when,

you know, the industry grabs a hold.

I do recall Mark coming up to me and saying,

"I don't think I can do it any more."

People were regularly coming

into the dressing room and going,

"F***ing hell, that was loud."

I went to see a doctor

with my ears, got ringing ears.

The doctor says to me,

"Stop doing this, because you will go deaf."

So I left, and that was

the end of my live life.

I'd had enough as well, I think.

I think he said to me in the past that

he thought it had got a bit too big for him.

I really admire him for that.

I think it was a bit more than that, I think.

It was just getting a bit

too corporate for him.

You know, one minute you're f***ing

hanging with your mates, having a craic,

but when management come into it,

it changes, doesn't it?

If anybody was a fifth member

of that band, it was Mark.

Yeah, and it made me a little bit sad

that he wasn't going to be on tour any more.

Soon after, Phil Smith quit.

I still can't work out what was going

through his f***ing head at the time.

In the early days, it was the five band,

Coyle and Phil, that was it.

Yeah, it's a shame that he wasn't around,

but it's not the end of the f***ing world.

Beginning of a new world,

you know what I mean?

The machine goes on, and the band goes on.

I am not getting in the way of that.

Walking away from that,

I'll never get over that.

But it was the right thing to do.

You can listen to their albums,

but when you go to a gig

and there's thousands and thousands

of people,

that's when it brings it home.

That's really when I feel most proud of them.

# Slip inside the eye of your mind

# Don't you know you might find

a better place to play

# You said that you'd never been

# But all the things that you've seen

are going to fade away

# Going to start a revolution from my bed

# 'Cause you said the brains

I had went to my head

# Step outside, summertime's in bloom

# Stand up beside the fireplace

Take that look from off your face

# 'Cause you ain't ever

going to burn my heart out

# And so Sally can wait

# She knows it's too late

as we're walking on by

# Her soul slides away

# But don't look back in anger

I heard you say

I remember those gigs at The Point

being, like, wildly emotional.

It was breathtaking, the kind

of energy and the vibe in the room.

# My soul slides away

# But don't look back in anger

# Don't look back in anger

# I heard you say

# Least not today #

It's that immigrant thing, isn't it?

It's that sense of identity.

Ireland saw them as their own,

and everybody was in such a good mood.

So we got back to the hotel, right,

so there was loads of us in this bar.

That hotel was fairly public

because Ireland didn't really have security

around rock bands them days.

Anyone could walk in off the street.

My dad, we'd seen him skulking around

and I thought,

"What the f*** is this going on?"

Someone turned round and said,

"Your old fella's over there,

"with a journalist,

trying to get summat going."

And I was about to kill him.

Oh, that was awful, that.

I couldn't believe that that happened

because it really spoiled their night.

There was a scene.

I was trying to take the dignified approach.

F*** him, do you know what I mean?

He doesn't mean anything to me any more.

We were better than that.

Noel was saying to Liam, "Do not react."

He's at one end,

and Noel and Liam are at the other

and Liam's going,

"I'm going to f***ing kill him."

And that's when they locked horns.

"Don't f***ing react.

You're not going to react." You know.

I was f***ing steadfastly

not going to get involved.

I did think Liam was a little bit upset.

To give Noel his due credit,

he contained Liam

because Liam would have gone for him

and Noel protected his brother.

Got him out of there

because they were obviously looking for,

you know, the big fight.

I probably got calmed down by Our Kid,

I think.

It's just pathetic, you know what I mean?

In front of the press with your son,

you know what I mean?

It's like, "See you later, mate."

Round about that time, there was a story

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