John Mackie Featuring Bonehead Updated Tour Dates

May 20th - Friends of Mine Festival - Cheshire

June 4th - Playground - Whitehaven
June 24th The Cellar Southampton

July 9th - Globe - Cardiff

August 12th - Beckfest - Cumbria

Visit John's Facebook page here for ticket information, and pictures from a number of gigs they have done to date.

John Mackie Featuring Bonehead Updated Tour Dates

May 5th - Enterprise - London
May 6th - The Horn - St Albans
May 7th - tbc Liverpool
May 12th - New Roscoe - Leeds
May 14th - Moho - Manchester
May 20th - Friends of Mine Festival - Cheshire

June 4th - Playground - Whitehaven
June 24th The Cellar Southampton

July 9th - Globe - Cardiff

August 12th - Beckfest - Cumbria

Visit John's Facebook page here for ticket information, and pictures from a number of gigs they have done to date.

Photo Credit: Shirlaine Forrest

John Mackie Featuring Bonehead Updated Tour Dates

April 15th - Flappers - Birmingham
April 27th - Death Disco - Notting Hill

May 6th - The Horn - St Albans
May 7th - tbc Liverpool
May 12th - New Roscoe - Leeds
May 14th - Moho - Manchester
May 20th - Friends of Mine Festival - Cheshire

June 4th - Playground - Whitehaven
June 24th The Cellar Southampton

July 9th - Globe - Cardiff

August 12th - Beckfest - Cumbria

Visit John's Facebook page here for ticket information, and pictures from a number of gigs they have done to date.

Photo Credit: Shirlaine Forrest

John Mackie Featuring Bonehead Updated Tour Dates

March 19th - Water Rats - London
March 23rd - Death Disco - Nottingham
March 26th - 20 Rocks - Falkirk
March 27th - Café Drummond - Dundee
March 28th - King Tuts - Glasgow
March 29th - Citrus Club - Edinburgh

April 15th - Flappers - Birmingham
April 27th - Death Disco - Notting Hill

May 6th - The Horn - St Albans
May 7th - tbc Liverpool
May 12th - New Roscoe - Leeds
May 14th - Moho - Manchester
May 20th - Friends of Mine Festival - Cheshire

June 4th - Playground - Whitehaven
June 24th The Cellar Southampton

July 9th - Globe - Cardiff

August 12th - Beckfest - Cumbria

Visit John's Facebook page here for ticket information, and pictures from a number of gigs they have done to date.

Photo Credit: Shirlaine Forrest

Visit my newly launched Beady Eye fan site www.standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.

Even My Kids Call Me Bonehead When They Are Taking The P***

It's been 17 years since Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs played King Tut's in Glasgow.

Back in 1993, his band Oasis muscled their way on stage and played four songs.

Creation boss Alan McGee was in the audience and signed them.

They went on to become the UK's biggest selling act of the nineties.

This month, the 45-year old guitarist who formed the fledgeling band that would become Oasis, is back at the same venue, this time with Glaswegian singer John Mackie.

Bonehead said: "I've been in King Tut's since but I haven't played it.

"It's a bit mental. I've told Alan McGee we are playing. Hopefully, he'll be there and sign us up."

Bonehead, 45, was in Glasgow for former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher's first show with new band Beady Eye.

The pair hadn't seen each other for five years.

Bonehead formed the nucleus of the band which added Liam and brother Noel and became Oasis. But the guitarist quit the band in 1999, during the recording of Oasis' fourth album, Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.

Back then, he claimed he wanted to spend time with his family. But he's since admitted he thought Oasis had lost their spark and should have quit after their massive Knebworth shows in 1996.

He laughs at critics who have said Beady Eye sound like Oasis, pointing out it that's because the line-up includes Liam, Bonehead's guitar replacement Gem and Andy Bell.

He said: "I saw them in Glasgow and Manchester and I think it's the best I've heard Liam singing, ever.

"He's totally on form.

"Beady Eye are just going to get bigger and better."

While he still thinks he got out of Oasis "at the right time", Bonehead is sad that the band he formed in Manchester ended in a big brawl.

But, he added: "I was glad because Liam would go to the right, Noel would go to the left and the music industry needs both doing their own things.

"It's going to be good for music."

Would he play with either of the brothers again? "I'd play with them for a charity gig, of course," he added.

"We never fell out. People thought we had a dramatic fall-out and a fight but we never."

Although Noel is godfather to his daughter, the guitarist was bitchy when Bonehead quit Oasis, saying: "It's hardly Paul McCartney leaving the Beatles."

Bonehead laughed: "He was a bit bitter but that's just Noel being Noel. I got away lightly."

Although he's played in a couple of bands since leaving Oasis, Bonehead sees his guitar and production work with John Mackie as his first proper musical venture since leaving Britain's biggest band.

Singer John was in a band with Bonehead called The Vortex When it fizzled out, the pair started demoing John's songs and decided to build a band.

They play Blackstairs Lounge, Wick, on March 25, 20 Rocks, Falkirk, on March 26, Drummonds, Aberdeen, on March 27 and King Tut's on March 28.

For most people, the draw will be Bonehead rather than John.

But the guitarist reckons this will change by the end of the year.

He said: "People will come to see Bonehead in a new band but, by the end of the year, everyone is going to know John for who he is."

While The Vortex played Primal Scream-style pschyedelia, John's solo music is more emotional.

The setlist is mainly John's songs but there is one number by Bonehead. He said: "It hasn't got a name yet so it's called Bonehead's Tune."

What exactly is his role then? He said: "I play guitar and I produce. We formed the songs at my studio at home."

Maybe Bonehead is content. Certainly the royalties from playing on albums Definitely Maybe, (What's The Story) Morning Glory and Be Here Now, mean he doesn't have to go back to his old day job as a plasterer.

He's kept some of the fixtures from his front room that was used as the cover of Definitely Maybe.

The house has been sold but Bonehead has the fireplace and used the stained glass to make a door.

He may be moving on but he'll always be Bonehead from Oasis.

Does he mind?

The father-oftwo laughed: "I've been called Bonehead since I was seven. Even my kids call me it when they are taking the p***."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Oasis' Bonehead In Basingstoke Tonight

In a great coup for the town’s music scene, Oasis founder member Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs will play Karma tonight as part of a stunning One Hundred Percent Music line-up.

He’ll be in Basingstoke in a new four-piece – fronted by Scottish musician John Mackie – and he tells me in a quick chat over the phone that he can’t wait for the tour to start.

Paul enthuses: “It’s going to be good because I haven’t done anything for a while. John’s been around on the Manchester scene for a few years as a solo artist and he’s pretty well known.

“We lost the singer in our old band (The Vortex), and we got John in. Then when that split and fizzled out, we just got stuck into doing some recording, me and John.

“We just seemed to gel together workwise and in the studio, so we just thought we’d make a go of it so we recruited a bass player and drummer just before Christmas. I have a very good feeling about it and can’t wait to get out on the road, actually.”

Basingstoke’s One Hundred Percent Music has assembled a superb rock and indie triple bill consisting of Sevesa, ElleKaye and Bluefire Messiahs – who’ll be seen at Basingstoke Live – to perform on the night too.

So, is Paul’s new material in the indie vein?

“Indie yeah, but big powerful songs written by John,” Paul replies. “Big life stories, pretty emotional songs, quite personal to John, but what everyone can share and make something of – really powerful words.”

The new group hope to record with the legendary Owen Morris, who produced the first three Oasis albums in addition to The Verve’s Northern Soul and The View’s debut release.

Paul explains: “We are going to record with him once he can find some space but I’ve got a recording studio at home, so for the moment we’re just doing it there. We have no plans yet but it will be good when it happens – if we can contain him, but that’s another story.”

And now for the inevitable Oasis questions. Credit to him, 45 year-old Paul deals with them in extremely good grace, clearly in complete understanding of the awe in which the band were, and still are, held.

He says: “People ask me a lot about Oasis, how it was and how it is now. But I get nothing but good reaction from Oasis fans in general in the street or out in town.”

Obviously, he left in 1999 before the lesser material of the later years and the friction between the Gallagher brothers eventually caused the bitter end of Oasis.

Dare I ask if he was glad to have been proved wise in hindsight by leaving before it all went wrong and the quality of their output sharply declined?

Impressively, he refuses to say a bad word about anyone connected with the group.

“You’re speaking to the wrong man because I am Oasis’ number one fan and always will be. I am off up to Glasgow to see Liam’s first gig with Beady Eye so that’ll be good.

“I am never gonna put Oasis down but I do think I got out at the right time. I have always said that I do think we should have bowed out at Knebworth, come off stage and said, ‘Thank you, goodnight, we were Oasis’. That would have been a fitting ending to the whole dream, and that’s my perspective.”

When Paul decided to make a break from the band, he cited the need to spend more time with his family, especially his two children who were just toddlers at the time.

What’s it like now that they’re old enough to attend his gigs and critique the old man? Do they understand the legacy he has been a part of?

“My daughter came to see us last year and she absolutely loved it. They do seem to understand – they are both big music fans in their own right and they have good taste in music.”

“Although,” he adds with a laugh. “It tends to be my kid’s mates’ parents who are a bit giddy that I was in Oasis.”

Source: www.basingstokegazette.co.uk

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John Mackie Featuring Bonehead (EX-Oasis) Tour Dates

More dates to follow.....

05th March - Club Y Bont (Pontypridd, Wales) DETAILS
10th March - Karma (Basingstoke, England) DETAILS
12th March - Southwell (Nottingham, England) DETAILS
19th March - Waterats, Kings Cross (London, England) DETAILS
23rd March - Death Disco, Notting Hill (London, England) DETAILS
25th March - Backstairs Lounge (Wick, Scotland) DETAILS
26th March - The Attic, (Bathgate, Scotland) DETAILS
27th March - Drummonds (Aberdeen, Scotland) DETAILS
28th March - King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (Glasgow, Scotland) DETAILS

27th April - Death Disco, Notting Hill (London, England) DETAILS

Photo Credit: Shirlaine Forrest

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John Mackie Featuring Bonehead (EX-Oasis) Full Band And Tour

John was born and raised in Glasgow and spent a lot of time listening to his parent’s wide choice of music from Elvis, Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison.

A move to Manchester in 88 prompted an early interest in the music scene from hanging out with his older cousin who along with his friends were huge fans of the early 90s scene.

John began to develop his own musical opinion with his own personal influences, this became more than just listening but the want and need to perform and express.

John’s music is honest and truthful and maybe closer to reality than some people will want to get but that’s the way he is. John Mackie is not about to make music that you can listen to comfortably in the background whilst sipping your wine and gazing into the eyes of your loved one.

It’s about being given a healthy and much needed dose of honesty.. not sanitised for the X Factor TV market.. anger not angst.

Plus to top that off he is joined by a fantastic backline with the legendary Bonehead from Oasis on guitar duties to bring you John’s own interpretation on sound and songs.

A live set not to be missed, listen to SILVER FISH (here) and ALASKA (here)