Oasis At The Controls

Oasis will inhabit the studios here at 6 Music next month.

That’s after Steve LaMacq announced they’d be taking over the controls as one of the Selector artists in December.

Selector is now in its 4th year, and gives artists the opportunity to take over the network for a day, meaning they can play their favourite music, pick sessions from the BBC Archive as well as their choice of documentary and a Headline Slot for Dream Ticket.

Speaking to 6 Music earlier, Andy Bell, bassist for the band, admitted this was something he was really excited about:“I was a late night listener to radio when I was a kid. That was how I heard The Smiths for the first time, and many other bands like that, I am really looking forward to it.”

He also claims that after they do this DJ slot, and when Christmas festivities have died down the whole band want to hit their own studio to start work on the next Oasis album:

“We’re going to start the new album, maybe not start the real album, but start demos and getting our ideas together, but I don’t think we are in any big rush to get it out like right now.”

Suggestions that an Oasis band on the airwaves might turn riotous was dismissed by Bell, he says he’s confident they can all agree on what songs to play and picking the album of the day will be easy:

“To be honest we are all pretty single minded about music, so it will come down to one or two albums so that shouldn’t be a problem.”Previous artists that have taken part in Selector are Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers and in 2005, Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand.

Oasis will take over 6Music on Tuesday 12 December and Moby on Thursday 14 December.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/6music/