Oasis Looking Forward To Liverpool Dates

Reviewing CDs can be a fairly mundane task. Every week dozens land on my desk, and no-one in the office bats an eyelid.

That is until this week. This week, there hasn’t been a day go by where someone hasn’t asked if the new Oasis album has arrived.

It seems the simian- featured Mancunians , plus new Scouse drummer Chris Sharrock, still have the power to spark the music-loving public’s imagination.

Even the band’s guitarist Gem Archer can hardly contain himself.

It’s the band’s seventh album, and the third with the involvement of Gem. He and former Ride and Hurricane £1 guitarist Andy Bell joined Oasis around 1999 after the departure of original members Paul ’Bonehead’ Arthurs and Paul ’Guigsy’ McGuigan.

“I still love it,” beams Gem when asked how he feels about the album, just days ahead of its release on Monday.

“In the past, if you’d been out with Liam Gallagher at night and you ended up back at his house after the pub had shut, he’d play you the new album 15 times, but this time around, you might get it 30 times. That says it all!”

The band head to Liverpool to start the UK leg of their tour on Tuesday, and Noel seems full of expectation about it.

“There’s something about the city that’s been ingrained in me from being a childhood Beatles fan. The architecture, the street signs, everything.

“I love playing live full stop, but we’re playing in Britain, indoors to the perfect number of people for it to still be intimate.

“It’s going to be insane.”

Dig Out Your Soul was recorded in Abbey Road studios, the spiritual home of The Beatles, another link with the city.

Unsurprisingly, given their track record for homage to the Fab Four, Oasis’s latest offering comes with no short supply of Beatles references. There’s even a snippet of an interview with John Lennon used in the Liam-penned track I’m Outta Time.

Dig Out Your Soul is out on Monday.

Source: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk