Oasis: Supersonic Page #2

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I thought we were great.

I mean, clearly we weren't

because we did get fired,

separately got fired by the band,

for being unprofessional

and somewhat unapproachable

by various tour managers.

Lazy c*nts!

Yeah!

I'd like to thank the Inspiral Carpets

for sacking him. Well done!

We had some great, funny f***ing times.

I wasn't sitting at the side of the stage,

tuning guitars, thinking,

"One day, this is going to be me."

I thought that I'd arrived at that point

and that was it.

I thought, "This will f***ing do me,"

do you know what I mean?

I was doing a gig in Munich.

I was somebody sound-checking a bass drum.

Boom.

One, two. What's sibilance?

I used to phone home on a Sunday,

phone my mum.

It's Noel.

On the phone? Just a minute.

I'll get it out here. Hello?

How are you, Noel?

- Are you all right?

- Yeah.

Just doing Liam's washing for him.

Doing his dirty washing for him.

But, anyway, we were chatting

away about family stuff

and then I said, "How's Liam?"

"Oh, he's out rehearsing."

"What for? He's not joined the

Shakespeare f***ing group, has he?"

"Oh, no, he's in a band."

"What? Doing what?"

"He's the singer."

"He's the singer? He can't f***ing sing."

"Oh, I don't know now.

He said he's the singer."

And that was it,

and then I, kind of, got home

and our Paul's going,

"Oh, yeah, he's in this band.

"They're pretty f***ing good, you know."

And then they were playing

at the local band night

on at the Boardwalk.

And I went down to see them.

# Take me, when I'm young and true

# Was it me or was it you?

# Take me, when I'm not so strong

# Why has it taken you so long? #

I was like, "Wow, f***ing hell!

I'm pretty impressed."

They had their own songs,

and Liam didn't look that out of place.

The first thing they said when they

come up to me was, "What did you think?"

I said, "It was f***ing great,"

and they said, "We were thinking,

would you fancy being our manager?"

I was like, "What?

What the f*** are they talking about? No."

And they were, like, "Because you know

loads of people, and all that."

"Not sure about that.

I think you'd get a better manager than me."

And then a couple of weeks later

Liam said, "Come and f***ing jam with us."

You know, so I went and sat in with them

and I was playing their tunes,

and it was great.

And then I think the second time I went,

Liam was going, "Play them

that f***ing song that you played us."

And then once everybody all joined in

and you hear this thing

that you've, in inverted commas, "written,"

being played back to you in this room

and it's like,

"Wow! F***ing hell! That's amazing!"

It just went from there, really.

# It's a bit early

in the midnight hour for me

# To think of all the things I want to be

# I don't believe in everything I see

# You know I'm blind, so why do you disagree?

# Take me away

because I just don't want to stay

# And the lies you make me say

are getting deeper every day

# These are crazy days but they make me shine

# Time keeps rolling by

# All around the world

# You've got to spread the word

# Tell them what you heard

# Because you know it's going to be okay #

To hear your own stuff played back,

it was really a mega moment.

And then it went nowhere for two years.

So, I mean, there is the myth that I kicked

open the f***in' rehearsal room door

to the theme tune from

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,

and said, "Everybody, stop what you're doing.

I am here to make us all millionaires."

You know, It wasn't that at all,

you know what I mean?

No, the truth is,

he got on his hands and knees and said,

"Listen, I'll do anything,

just, please, let me be in your band."

I said, "Get up off your hands and knees,

son. You're all right, you can do it."

I think I've got a picture of it somewhere.

For that 18 months to two years,

we never gave up.

If nothing else, we were dedicated.

Yeah, I loved it. I loved it.

That was when we were on our own for a bit,

when everyone was in the hacienda

popping pills and that,

and all my mates would be

knocking on the door going,

"What are you doing now?"

"I'm going down

to the f***ing rehearsal room."

The whole f***ing city was like

just immersed in this music

that didn't make sense to me,

you know what I mean?

We weren't the best musicians,

but we had spirit, man,

and that was lacking massively at that point.

I always thought that we were greater

than the sum of our parts,

you know what I mean?

Bonehead?

He was kind of the glue

that held it all together.

God bless him.

If anything, I'd say Bonehead

was the spirit of Oasis.

He's a top musician and all, Bonehead.

He's like, he can play anything,

but he's a mental c*nt

and I loved his mad side.

So me and him would get up to mad

sh*t together, you know what I mean?

Guigsy? Guigs brought a calmness to it all.

He never got flustered.

He loved cricket and Doctor Who,

and weed and Man City.

I'd say fifth after that was being in Oasis.

I'd say that came a lowly fifth.

Guigsy, chilled out motherf***er, man.

Lovely lad, but just a complete

and utter f***ing stoner.

Tony was a person that I shared a room

in the early days, you know,

and I really, really got on with Tony.

Really nice person.

Very Irish in his ways, you know,

came from a massive Irish family.

Definitely the quiet one.

The one who was most reserved.

None of them lot had kids,

none of them had responsibility.

I had a different outlook on life.

I always had my daughter

in the back of my head.

That moulded me.

Oasis was going for about maybe six months,

a year,

and I was writing songs just to amuse myself,

and then one night, I went down with a song

and everything changed

# Maybe I don't really want to know

# How your garden grows

# Because I just want to fly

# Lately, did you ever feel the pain?

# In the morning rain

# As it soaks you to the bone

# Maybe I just want to fly

# I want to live, I don't want to die

# Maybe I just want to breathe

# Maybe I just don't believe

# Maybe you're the same as me

# We see things they'll never see

# You and I, we're gonna live forever #

Bonehead, he was saying,

"You've not just f***ing written that.

"That's no way that's your song."

Well, I wouldn't believe it.

For someone to come in a room and just go,

"Oh, I'll play you one of my songs,"

and then play you Live Forever,

it's like, "F*** off!

"You didn't write that."

He said, "Why didn't I?"

I said, "Because listen to it!"

You know, I thought, "Wow! What a song!

You didn't write it."

"Yeah, I did." "No, you didn't."

I knew enough about music and about songs

to know that that was a great song,

and then one followed another.

And it's like, "No, this happening now.

"And even if no one else takes any notice

of it, this is happening."

I didn't really get involved

with the music kind of thing.

I was, like, "Look, that's your thing,

you do that.

"I'll just be cool as f*** over there."

Once they were in a band

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