Oasis: Supersonic Page #4

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And that's his big moment,

that, a f***ing riff.

"Just f***ing do it in time, son."

F***ing hell, we're up against it here.

We'd not recorded anything.

Why I chose to write a new song

as opposed to record any of the

others off of Definitely Maybe

is still a little bit of a mystery.

Noel's got the riff, but that's all he's got,

so they're just kind of

knocking this little thing,

which all bands do, you know, a little riff.

Someone had sent out for Chinese,

or fish and chips or something.

Or Chinese fish and chips?

I went in the back room

and, as bizarre as it sounds,

wrote Supersonic

in about however long it takes

six other guys to eat a Chinese meal.

Then he came back in the room with us.

He said,

"Look, I've just written another song."

And we nailed it and mixed it that night.

Rapid, because that's what we'd been doing

every night in the Boardwalk, you know,

and it sounded massive.

Give it up for Oasis, making

their TV debut with Supersonic.

# I need to be myself

# I can't be no one else

# I'm feeling supersonic

# Give me gin and tonic

# You can have it all

# But how much do you want it?

# You make me laugh...

We'd done gigs before that

and there were people coming along

because they'd read about us in the press.

But nobody knew any of the songs.

On the day that Supersonic came out,

bang, the crowd were right there,

and I remember people

singing the lyrics to Supersonic.

You know, they're singing your words back

that you've nonsensically wrote down

at f***ing 3:
00 in the morning.

# You need to find a way

for what you want to say

# But before tomorrow

# 'Cause my friend said he'd take you home

# He sits in a corner all alone

# He lives under a waterfall

# Nobody can see him

# Nobody can ever hear him call... #

We'd play a town,

we'd go off and do the next, do the next,

and then come back to that one you did

a few weeks before and do it again.

Trouble seemed to find us at any given point.

We're barred from a full chain of hotels

and honestly, no one would take us anywhere.

I do remember one hotel,

the whole bedroom went out of the window,

mattress, pillows, everything.

If it moves, fling it.

Poof.

I could never understand it, you know,

hotel rooms being smashed up.

That's like hard work.

You'd get a sweat on.

What do you do?

Go to bed at 10:
00 every night?

I don't think so, you know what I mean?

You only get it once.

You're going to live it to the full.

Have it! And we did!

You can't ask a 21-year-old lad

to be professional, it's like...

It's like, "I don't even understand

that word, what are you on about?"

You're feeling Supersonic? Go to bed at 9:30!

"Give me gin and tonic"?

Get my head down at about 10:30.

F*** off, mate, you know what I mean?

There was something

very different about this band.

It just had a devilish, belligerent,

filthy little sound to it.

Coyle could really mix sound in little clubs.

He was really good at making

it sound f***ing epic.

Noel, I didn't understand

what "Feeling Supersonic" meant,

but I'm with you, whatever it is,

I'd die for you right now.

That's how I felt about Oasis.

Thank you very much.

Did you get your friends

working for you then,

so you can tour around in a big group?

No, it's just so we can exploit them.

Thing is, if we didn't have them

working for us when we're away,

they'd be burgling our houses.

So it's best to have them

on the road with us.

You're being hyped as the best band

around at the moment.

Is all the hype true?

- Yeah.

- It is? Good.

The best band about today on the planet.

It's a fact.

# I'd shake along with me...

We're in a band, we're into football,

we're into taking drugs, and meeting women

and all the rest of it, right?

We won't deny anything

that's been written about us.

Why should we?

They want to write about it, fine.

We're happy with that.

Our music will stand the test of time.

That is a fact.

Right, all this media hype

and all this thing about us being this, that,

and the other, right,

will be dead in a year's time.

Everyone will have forgotten about it.

The records that we make

will be in the shops forever.

# Shake along with me #

It was a wild tour.

At one point, we were going to Amsterdam

to support this band from Wigan, The Verve.

Our first international gig.

So this guy picked us up in a van,

and he's going to be our roadie.

Jason Rhodes.

Marcus got in touch and said,

"Right, do you want to go to Amsterdam?"

I went, "Yeah!"

Up your bum!

I said to him, "All right, nice to meet you.

"F***ing forget that.

Did they give you a float?"

And he said, "No, no, no, that's for petrol."

I said, "Never mind petrol."

And we took the float off him

and then spent about an hour

driving around Manchester getting drugs.

And then set off.

Get on the ferry.

I don't know how we get on the ferry because

we're pissed, but we get on this ferry.

As fate would have it,

there's a load of West Ham fans

on this overnight ferry, it's got a casino

on it and a f***ing night club.

The Thursday night ferry to "The 'Dam."

Who goes to Amsterdam

on a ferry for the weekend?

What kind of clientele?

The drink of choice for a few hours

was champagne and Jack Daniels slammers.

The next thing is that sporadic fighting

is breaking out all round us really.

Liam is very excited by the prospects

of a lot of chaos going on

and he goes and joins in.

Yeah, it was f***ing mayhem, man, I loved it.

You can see him running

through the windows along the deck.

He's having a great time.

He looks like he's in a school playground

chasing leaves.

Liam at one point said

they'd ran through a casino

and he flung all the roulette sh*t

off the table as he was running past.

Then there was a fight broke out

and all I remember

was it was a bit "Benny Hill."

The next time I see him, he's still running,

but he's got policemen running after him.

Someone's punched someone,

someone's kicked someone.

Someone's got nicked, then we're handcuffed

and sent down to the bottom of the boat,

we get locked up.

Woke up the next day

and I spoke to the Customs and I said,

"Look, you know,

I'm kind of missing four people.

"Do you know where they are?"

We were heading back,

we didn't have any money,

couldn't phone anyone, couldn't do nothing.

I can remember getting to the hotel

and having to ring Marcus and Alan

and they're going,

"You f***ing what? You what?"

And he says,

"You've f***ing blown it, you've blown it."

But that was punk rock, man!

I just went, "F*** them!"

I never listened to a word those clowns said

anyway, you know what I mean?

I called McGee, and I'll never forget this

and this is another reason why I love McGee,

I said, "Are you sitting down?

I've got some news.

"Everybody's been arrested."

The only word he said was, "Brilliant."

A hell of a start that, isn't it?

That's a great first day at work. Love it!

Oasis were deported from Holland last week

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