Liam Gallagher On School, Family, Oasis, The Rain, Manchester And More

Below are a number of quotes from Liam Gallagher from a article/interview from 'The Telegraph' you can read here (Sign Up Required).

I left with no qualifications, and the school got me a job in a garden centre, creosoting fences, a YTS thing. I was getting £50 a week. I'd finish at 3pm, midday on a Friday, so I'd walk past the school, waving my 50 quid at my mates.

I discovered I could sing by singing along to the Top 40 on the radio Then when I saw Roses live, I thought: "I could do that. I've got the look, I've got all the clothes, the haircut's intact, all I've got to do is stand in the front of the microphone and open my mouth - easy."

Three mates that I knew through playing football had a band called The Rain. I was thinking: "If I can get in there with them, and do my singing, I know for a fact that I can get our kid in."

My 16-year-old self imagined being in a band exactly as it is for me now. Music has never ever failed me once. It's everything I imagined it to be. Even when it was particularly bad with me and Noel at the end of Oasis, it was still better than digging holes.

I was the baby of the family - Noel's five years older than me, Paul's seven - but my mam treated us all the same. Burnage was a great place to grow up. It's not as moody as people make out.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Liam Gallagher On 'The Rain' And 'Oasis'

Liam Gallager has spoke to BBC Radio 6 about joining The Rain he changed the band’s name to Oasis, inspired by the Oasis Leisure centre in Swindon where Noel had recently roadie-ed with Inspiral Carpets.

He said “Obviously they were called The Rain, but before we go any further, we had to stop that name, I was never in Rain, we were in Oasis,” Liam tells Matt. “The day I joined it was Oasis! That was the first time I sang into a mic – it was interesting, I had the confidence... I felt comfortable up there without a doubt. It was like, ‘Right, you brought me the microphone, now bring me the people!’”

Listen to The First Time With Liam Gallagher on BBC Radio 6 from 1pm (UK Time) Sunday 24th December.

Liam Gallagher On Joining The Rain And Getting Noel To Join Them

Liam Gallagher has spoken about joining The Rain as the singer with original Oasis members Guigsy and Bonehead and getting Noel to join them.

He told the current issue of GQ “I kind of just knew I could do it. I went to see The Rain in Yates’s Wine Bar in Didsbury; it left me buzzing. I knew Guigsy [Paul McGuigan, bass] and Bonehead [Paul Arthurs, guitar]. They lived up the road. I mean, the music wasn’t any good, but they asked me to audition. I was like, ’Audition?’ Like they were the f***ing Rolling Stones or something. So I went and had a little singsong. I guess I was nervous, but you have to deal with it. I had f*** all else. I saw it as a stepping stone. In the back of my head that day I knew that if I could get in here, I could go back to our kid [Noel], who’d been writing a shit load of songs and he could join as well and then we'd be a top band.”

When asked by the interviewer "How did he know Noel’s songs were any good?"

He replied “I’d been sharing a room with him for God knows how many years so I’d heard what he was writing. I knew how good he was, how good we could be. And we were. It happened. It began.”

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Early Footage Of Liam And Noel Gallagher Wanted

The production team behind the Senna and Amy feature documentaries have turned their attention to one of Manchester's iconic bands and will look back on their early years - and they're asking friends and family of the Gallagher brothers for help.

Makers of an Oasis documentary that features new interviews with both Noel and Liam Gallagher, are reaching out to friends and fans of the band for rare archive material to help tell the group’s story.

Oasis - The Rock ’N’ Roll Band That Defined A Generation will chart the band’s history from their childhood in Burnage and through their early gigs up to the shows that defined them: Knebworth, in 1996, in front of quarter of a million fans over two nights.

The producers - the team behind acclaimed documentaries Senna and Amy - are not only keen to paint a picture of the band’s lives together but also of the community they grew up in.

And in particular they’re asking people to poke around in their attics and cupboards for any home movies of the boys in a school nativity play, which mum Peggy Gallagher fondly recalls.

The Mat Whitecross feature documentary, which will be released to cinemas in 2016, is produced by James Gay Rees (Senna/Amy), Fiona Neilson (Spike Island), and Simon Halfon (Sleuth), with executive producer Asif Kapadia (Senna/Amy).

It is entirely made up of archive material and though the band do not appear on screen they and their former management have been interviewed about this formative period.

After Knebworth, Oasis became international superstars, but the film hopes to paint the Gallaghers as lads shaped by the Irish community and the city they grew up in.

Researchers are now on the look out for personal photographs and film footage of the band’s childhood and back stage at early Manchester gigs, as well as pictures and memorabilia from their Maine Road shows just months before Knebworth.

They are also calling out to the Manchester Irish community for home movies that show what life was like for young people in Burnage when the Gallaghers were children - including christenings and school plays.

They need submissions in by early January and will return all items, as well as pay to use rare footage. All material can be sent to researcher Hannah Green on hannah.oasisfilm@gmail.com.

Hannah said: “The film will be about those early years, about the foundations of the band up to them hitting the big time in 1996.

“We want to set the whole scene of where the Gallaghers come from: their Irish background, the football games they played, the bands they were in.

“We don’t have much from their period as The Rain (before Noel joined Oasis), so we would particularly like to have photos or tickets from that time.”

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Paul 'Bonehead’ Arthurs On Oasis’s First American Tour

This was our first trip to America on tour with Oasis and, apart from Noel, none of us had been to New York before. We were there to play at the Wetlands Preserve, a festival in New York, and we were just starting to get known. We had an incredible time, playing gigs and filming videos. This particular morning I remember we were all very hung-over, which might explain the glasses. But you can see from the smiles on our faces [Arthurs, centre] that we all think it’s brilliant.

Growing up I’d been in bands on and off; it was something to do on a Friday night. Every kid in Manchester at that time wanted to be in a band. In 1991 I was in a band called Rain with Tony McCarrol (far left) and Paul McGuigan (second left). We were looking for a singer and someone happened to mention in passing that Liam Gallagher, this kid that everyone knew, wanted to be in a band. No one knew he was a singer, I don’t think he knew he wanted to be a singer, but we got him down to my house and auditioned him. We renamed ourselves Oasis and then Noel heard about us through Liam and wanted to join. He came along to meet us armed with songs – the whole of Definitely Maybe and more – and played them to us. We were witnessing our own private Oasis gig before anyone – it was amazing.

People make a huge thing that Oasis had all this tension between brothers. There were a few fisticuffs, but it wasn’t as bad as everyone made out. I always joked that I was the tour psychiatrist, the man in the white coat. Maybe because I was a bit older – I was 29 here, Liam was about 21 – I’d be the one to jump in and pull them apart if anything happened. I left the band in 1999. My daughter, Lucy, was little and that was part of the reason. But also we’d had such an amazing rise and achieved such a lot – like playing to quarter of a million people at Knebworth in 1996 – that when it came to making the fifth album, and I felt like the spark had gone, I just knew I had to get out. I didn’t want to be in the band and not give 100 per cent. It was strange afterwards – it took me about two years to readjust to normal life and be me again. You think you don’t change, but of course you do. We weren’t divas but I’d started to think that having my own minder and being driven around in separate Mercedes cars was normal life. Getting back to being able to walk down my own street on my own was cool by me.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Bonehead Talks About Parlour Flames, Oasis And More

Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs was a founding member of Oasis. He, Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan, Tony McCarroll, Liam Gallagher and a dude named Chris Hutton formed The Rain in 1991. Soon after, Hutton was replaced by Noel, and Oasis was born. The eight years to follow were the most chaotic in Bonehead’s life; three incredible records, tens of millions of albums sold, some of the biggest gigs in UK rock history, fame/fortune etc. In 1999, he chose to leave the band.

In 2012 Bonehead hooked up with Salford based songsmith Vinny Peculiar to form Parlour Flames.  Their upcoming LP is the first record Bone will have put his name to since Oasis’ LP Be Here Now (1997).

To read the interview in full click here.