Oasis: Supersonic Page #5

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after they were involved in a drunken brawl

on a cross-Channel ferry.

The Creation act were forced to cancel...

I thought it was game. That's how

I want my rock 'n roll stars to act.

Stick up for themselves,

get in a bit of shenanigans and that's it.

We lived to fight another day.

To me, it felt right.

The thing about getting thrown off ferries,

blah, blah, blah, getting deported

is summat that I'm not proud about.

Well, I am.

Right, well, if you're proud about

getting thrown off ferries,

then why don't you go and support West Ham

and get the f*** out of my band?

These lot think it's rock 'n roll

to get thrown off a ferry.

- No I don't

- To get... Shut up!

These lot think it's rock 'n roll to get...

Shut the f*** up, man!

These lot think...

Am I going to have to say this

part or are you going to shut up?

- Is this my question?

- This is your question.

No, I ain't a hooligan.

I'm not a hooligan. Right?

Obviously, once you get that reputation,

there's always someone

who's going to go, "Well, I'll show him."

If it'd never been in the paper, having a ruck,

that probably wouldn't have happened.

There was a full section of the tour,

it was just going off every night.

I felt that people were turning up

to cause trouble.

It was getting me down, if I'm being honest.

F***ing dick!

We were getting a reputation

as these bad boys of rock 'n roll.

"That's all f***ing great,

but can we talk about the music first?"

I think any band worth their salt,

it's not about just the music.

If you haven't got that kind of behaviour

and you've just got great tunes,

then you're f***ing pretty boring,

as far as I'm concerned.

It's about both.

When both come together,

you'll have greatness.

We showed their video

a good couple of months ago.

They've wasted no time in releasing

a new single, Shakermaker,

Noel and Liam from Oasis.

Thanks for interrupting your hectic schedule.

What's it like being brothers in a band?

He's speechless. Look at that.

It's all right. I think it's all right, me.

I think it's very, very funny.

I mean, if you row,

what sort of things do you row about?

Everything. Everything.

We don't even have to row.

All we got to do is look at each other

in a certain kind of way

and we row without even opening our mouth.

We're just going, "Grrr" inside our heads,

you know what I mean?

I hate the term "sibling rivalry,"

but that's effectively what it is.

I know my brother better than anybody else.

Liam's like a dog, and I'm like a cat.

Cats are very independent creatures.

They don't give a f***, right bastards.

Dogs are just f***ing,

"Play with me, play with me.

"Please f***ing throw that ball for me."

Because they f***ing need some company.

It's as basic as that,

can't change the way that you are.

I'm a cat, okay? That's just what I am.

I've accepted it. I'm a bit of a bastard.

What can I say, you know?

I'm a bit of a c*nt.

They are two brothers, grew up together,

one's one way, one's the other.

Noel has a lot of buttons.

Liam has a lot of fingers.

It's that simple, really.

It's about a power struggle, is what it is.

It's about me being in charge

and everybody directing

everything towards me,

and Liam being pissed off about it.

That's basically what starts it all.

I think it all stems down

to when he bought a stereo years ago

when we shared a room.

I think one night I've come in pissed,

and I couldn't find the light switch,

so I pissed all over his f***ing new stereo.

I think it basically boils down to that.

He's held that grudge.

You let go of them grudges, brother!

Democracy never works in a band.

It's been proven a million times.

And the trouble you had with Oasis is

you had two people

vying for the Prime Minister job.

That tension, that antagonism,

it drove that band,

and it killed that band, is what it did.

No lifting of the arms.

He got a better stance than me.

He's a dick! Official!

Yeah, but, anyway. Right?

It's all about what's inside

the f***ing tin of beans that counts,

not what the f***ing wrapper is,

or how much it costs,

or who you buy it off,

or what till you get it from.

Or even whether it's your Spar,

your Kwiksave, or your f***ing Sainsbury's.

Man, it's about what's inside

the tin of beans, man.

And, like, if it's right, it's right.

If this ever goes on, like,

a video, for the kids, right,

I would apologise, but I'm not going to!

Because he's a prick!

Check it out!

One-two, one-two, one. One... Two?

When people go,

"Oh, what's the best thing about Oasis?"

It's just getting that chance

to record our album

because we knew

we weren't going to f*** it up.

We were ripping, man!

So, we'd been to Monnow Valley.

We recorded what we thought

was a great album.

Everybody else surrounding the band

kept chanting this mantra,

"Oh, it doesn't sound like they do live,

it doesn't sound like they do live."

I was like, "Well, who does it

f***ing sound like, Spandau Ballet?"

# Is it my imagination

# Or have I finally found

something worth living for?

I said to Noel Gallagher,

"It's not good enough."

I knew what Oasis should sound like

'cause I'd seen it live

and I just knew the performances were wrong.

At one point, he was so frustrated

by the whole thing,

he went, "Look, why don't we just put it out

and we'll get it right in the second album?"

And I went,

"You'll never get to the second album."

# 'Cause when it comes on top

# You got to make it happen

It was not happening.

The pressure was definitely on.

I phoned up Marcus one Saturday morning.

I'd be interested to know

why they took that risk,

just putting me in charge of that.

No track record whatsoever.

The thinking is, "Who does the live sound?"

"Mark does. So let's go do it live."

Time for plan B on Definitely Maybe.

And thank God for that, you know, because

we all knew that Coyle understood us.

He always made us sound how we should sound.

We hit upon this system in the Sawmills,

everything was crowded around the drum kit.

We'd just do three takes

of each song and then move on.

I would have thought that

that album was recorded

in three days, maximum.

But, I started mixing

and it didn't really sound very good.

I think at that stage,

I'd took it as far as I could.

I do remember taking a cassette,

the final mix we did with Mark,

to McGee's flat

and sensing that he was

completely underwhelmed by it.

And me thinking, "Oh, f*** it, I give up!"

Marcus announces that he's going to get

Owen Morris to do a mix on spec.

Marcus got me in because

I don't think he knew anybody else.

So I was very lucky to be in the right place.

And I'm thinking, "What has he done?

You know, I don't get it."

He did one mix and it was just outrageous.

We did a session. That's where I met Liam.

And I told him he sounded like John Lennon

and he was like, "You got it!"

at, like, 1:
00 in the afternoon.

Liam, lead vocal, rock 'n roll star.

# I live my life in the city

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