Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Baba-do-baah!..POW! That gig was pretty good. Considering we ain't played for 2 weeks it was really good.

Crowd was a bit weird. Very calm. Underwhelmed even. I'm assured that's good though.

What to tell...? Nothing really. Flying to Peru today. I've never been. Have you? What's it like? Are there Irish bars? Surely there must be?

Rest of the boys are leaving early. I'm staying here for the day. Got special permission to watch the Man-U-V-The-Arsenal. Can't wait.

Ain't got that pig flu yet, by the way. Give it time though.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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Hundreds Of Fans Welcome Oasis' Arrival In Lima

Hundreds of Oasis' Peruvian fans gathered at Lima's Airport, wearing t-shirts and carrying banners , to welcome the band, which arrived in Lima after performing in Caracas.

Many of the fans were wearing surgical masks, since the media had previously reported the first confirmed swine flu case in Lima (in an Argentinian traveller).

Most of the fans said that they were not afraid of becoming infected, and that welcoming their idols (and expressing their admiration for Oasis' music) was way more important.

It was Liam Gallagher the one who gave a quick wave hi to the fans. However, not any other member of the band declared to the media nor greeted anyone else.

Oasis will perform tonight at the National Stadium of Lima, in a concert that has reportedly sold 40,000 tickets up to now.

Source: www.livinginperu.com

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter

Just landed in Peru, my kinda people, see you all tomorrow...

It won't be a 5 year break if I've got anything to do with it, thanks for the support..

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Are Oasis The Real Deal For Argentinians?

After a ten year tight relationship with their local fans the Gallaghers are after the major prize: to fill River Plate stadium, Buenos Aires..

Are Oasis really a popular passion in Argentina or just one more band in the marketing gear of a global entertainment industry? Next Sunday, the Gallagher brothers will go for their biggest bragging act in this land: in their fourth visit to Buenos Aires in ten years, they will try to fill River Plate stadium and thus crown themselves with the title of "distinguished guests" as other long running artists did, including The Rolling Stones, Madonna, U2, The Police and The Ramones.

Did UK's largest British rock group of the last fifteen years finally manage to have their songs win over the Argentines on a massive scale as they did in the New World where they sold over 50 million copies of their albums? The posters around Buenos Aires announcing their concert at River appear to respond with a resounding yes to the question. Much more if one takes into account the special relationship that brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have built with the country for a decade, an ant's work (and strategic marketing) which took them on visit after visit to horizons beyond their own call: two Luna Park shows for a total of 10,000 people in 1998, a show at the Campo Argentino de Polo in 2001 to 20,000 young people, as part of a festival with international artists, and at the same place, but with Oasis as the sole headliner of the day, before 40,000 fans in 2006.

By then, the popularity of the band in Argentina drew Q magazine's special attention , one of the most important in British scene, and together they traveled with a reporter and a photographer to cover "the Oasis phenomenon" including a photo shoot in the neighborhood of La Boca .

"It is hard to explain the Oasis phenomenon unless you see it by yourself. I can't speak for the Q journalist who traveled with us to Buenos Aires, but I think he was pleasantly surprised by what he encountered in those days," Noel told La Nacion in October 2006. "Argentina is a special place for us and there are few cities in the world which are similar to Buenos Aires, maybe some Italian, not much more: the public is totally crazy and loves football as much as we do," he concluded.

Alarm or promotion?

When the band announced on their MySpace that they would perform in the country one month ago, this time, in their words, " at the iconic and largest football stadium in Argentina, where the 1978 World Cup took place", many thought the stakes were dealt to high in the Gallaghers' hands.

To make matters worse, last week's alarming : "Tickets for the concert are not being sold yet as we expected," was rumored to be heard in the corridors of local promoters. A day later, Mario Pergolini echoed information of dubious provenance in his radio program Cual Es? and fired with sensationalism: "The show in Buenos Aires will be Oasis' last."

The news wires followed with the brother's usual phrases: that they no longer speak; Liam never knew Noel's 19 months old son; the band will take a break; and more and more and more.

Up until yesterday about 40,000 tickets for the show on Sunday were sold and no one predicts anything but a success.

Promotional strategy involving rock band split ups is nothing new and has been around since the Rolling Stones , but the Gallaghers took it a step further with visceral fights which sometimes ended up in cuffs while still riding the marketing wave: "When the record company released the greatest hits album in 2006, the Sony people thought it might be a good idea to announce that we were splitting, but I swear we didn't have anything to do," said Noel a couple of years ago.

By mere brutal honesty or precisely calculated plan, the fact is that Oasis did a good job in the south of America during the last decade. They first came to the country in 1998 at one of the highest points of their career (just published their third album, Be Here Now, the successor of super successful Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story) Morning Glory?)

They repeated the experience three years later, when they shared the bill with their idol Neil Young to promote their album "Don't Believe The Truth" (sic); in their last visit not only did they put on a show for 40,000 fans, but they also devoted an entire day to signing autographs in Musimundo (something unthinkable for a couple of grumpy folks like the Gallaghers) and in these ten years granted dozens of interviews for Argentine media every time they released a new album or announced a return visit.

This time Noel promised to speak with La Nacion face to face hours before the show on Sunday.

So, are the Gallaghers popular in Argentine or just pretend to be? Most likely, on Sunday, there will be a new name to add to the exclusive list of artists who filled the Nuñez's stadium's to capacity and Oasis will have won over one more country in that game they vowed to win when they first stepped on stage to conquer the world.

Translated from Lanacion :Thanks to Eva

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Liam Gallagher Interview From Venezuela

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Oasis To Put On Light Show Never Seen Before In Peru

Peruvians are excitedly preparing for yet another concert to be held by international stars in Lima.

This time, the Andean country will receive the Gallagher brothers and the English rock bank Oasis.

Local media has reported that everything at the National Stadium is almost ready to receive the renowned band and provide a concert that will rock fans for hours.

It is expected that Oasis will arrive to Peru on Wednesday with nearly ten tons of equipment to host "a light show that has never been seen in Peru before," reported Peruvian dailies.

"Over 125 lights will be set up. The show will be very visual, they have four screens so fans won't miss a beat of the performance," said concert representatives to América Televisión.

It has been estimated that approximately 30,000 people will head to the National Stadium to enjoy the concert, which is scheduled to be held at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Source: www.livinginperu.com

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Twitter

In Caracas, top gig, sat in me room in silence as my tv doesn't work, not allowed to leave the hotel for fear of being tickled to death.

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Noel Gallagher CD Helped Boost Sunday Times Circulation

LONDON - The Sunday Times Rich List, published last weekend, prompted a circulation spike of 140,000 copies, according to newspaper estimates.

The annual supplement free with The Sunday Times on 26 April is believed to have helped the market-leading quality title achieve a circulation in excess of 1.3 million.

Though the figure is not officially audited, sources claim it topped the previous week's issue that recorded an estimated circulation of 1,175,000 copies.

However, it is believed The Sunday Times' biggest circulation spike this year came courtesy of the Noel Gallagher CD giveaway, in March, which added 170,000 to its circulation.

The personal fortunes of the UK's wealthiest media moguls have been slashed by more than £3bn, according to the Rich List.

In recent years, The Sunday Times has switched emphasis away from promotions to retaining loyal readers, promoting its subscription services, although it still uses giveaways as a marketing tool.

Source: Sunday Times

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Noel Gallagher On Age, Lyrics And More

In this month’s Q cover feature, Oasis’s Noel Gallagher holds forth on subjects many and varied. So much did the great man say, we didn’t have room for it all in the magazine. Here, then, are further words of wisdom – and inevitable Liam abuse – from The Chief.

Noel on .... the cancellation of Oasis's planned first visit to China …
“I got a phone call saying we couldn’t go because I’d done that New York thing in 1997. For a good 15 minutes, I had no idea what they were talking about… I had no recollection of doing it. It was U2, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, a Tibetan concert in America. Sounds like a good gig! Anyway, I’d done some interviews on the day and the People’s Ministry Of Cultural Affairs had got hold of it… And they think now that I’m some kind of Tibetan trouble causer. F***ing outrageous. It’s a f***er for all the people who’ve bought tickets for the gigs, because how are they gonna their money back? It’s staggering, though. Those Communists have got long memories. You don’t f*** with ’em.”

Noel on ... being a rock star
“I do enjoy it, yeah, it’s good. It’s important that the rock star thing, whatever that is, it gives kids that are starting off… It still gives them that, That’s what I wanna do. When you’re 13, you don’t want to be playing your guitar and looking at Sid Vicious. Who wants to be Sid Vicious? Who the fuck wants to be that fucked up on smack. Even the Stone Roses, they were a bit intense about it. They never really looked like they were having a laugh.

Now, the Mondays looked like they were having a good time. I’m glad we made it look like the best gig in the world, because it is. The guys from Kasabian… They told me that all that really kept them going at school was reading the papers, and seeing that Liam had been arrested or I’d said this or that. They said, We used to see you falling out of nightclubs and it was like, That’s it – that’s where we’ve got to be. It’s amazing to think, when we did those gigs in 1997 at Earl’s Court with The Verve, Tom and Serge were in the crowd. Their Mom and Dad had driven them to London and dropped them off. It blew my mind – it happened for them.”

Noel on ... the rest of the band
“Gem and Andy came late, but fuck me, it was like the cavalry riding over the hill. Gem’s like me, he works backwards from the band. Me and him, I guess more than Liam and Andy, would drive it along at all costs because we know how to do it; we know how to find drummers when we need one, we know how to rehearse the band. Liam… He’s constantly thinking about what shoes to buy. Or developing new techniques of how to balance that f***ing tambourine on his head. Great, off you go.

“Andy? Don’t know. I think he sees himself as a bit of a Bill Wyman character. Sometimes I look at him onstage and think, He’s actually doing less than Duffy does. If I didn’t actually hear a sound coming out of the bass, I’d think that one of Kraftwerk had put one of their robots there. Is he actually moving? I’ll walk across the stage to him and he’ll go, What a gig! F***ing hell, man, you need a rocket up your arse.”

Noel on ... popular culture now
Do you know when people say you’re a product of your parents? I think that’s true to a certain extent, but you’re also a product of the times. The times shape so much. The times now are a bit weird because of the internet and all that – there doesn’t seem to be one prevailing thing. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, there were three channels on the telly, so you had all these shared experiences. There was a massive shared experience of Fawlty Towers, or Are You Being Served?, and everything was available to everbody else. There was no Sky, no laptops or any of that shit. There was radio, TV and the news.

“Who watches the news now? I do, I watch it a lot. But kids don’t, because there’s other things to be doing – like trying to f*** that goblin up the arse with a laser beam on that game your Mam bought you. You can switch off now and become so desensitised to everything. You can choose to put the TV on and escape into Jamie Oliver’s f***ing kitchen, where he skins a midget chicken and makes the best risotto that has ever been. So f***ing what?

“On the face of it, it’s probably for the best, because now everybody seems to live a better life – they can afford a plasma screen, an iPod, a car on credit, which is why we’ve got into the mess we’re in now.”

Noel on ... his fondness for Speaker's Corner
“I only live round the corner from it, go there all the time. It’s f***ing mental. It’s almost like a freakshow. When I first came to London, it was one of the first places I went to, because I’d read about it at school. It was where they denounced communism and fascism, f***ing brilliant. Now, it’s idiots up there talking about… And this is true, there was a guy trying to stop people birdwatching because it’s infringing on birds’ rights. Birds rights! And there was a group of people of stood round giving this guy the time of day.”

Noel on ... his lyrics
“I’d love to be like Morrissey… But who wants to listen to a song about how sad you are? Who wants to listen to a song about how much you love your girlfriend? I look at the big picture. If I can write great lyrics, brilliant, but it’s not something that I ever worry about.

“The words are just part of the ingredients. They don’t fall out of the sky easily for me, I must say. They’re a real pain in the arse for me. If I were a lyric writer, like Elliott Smith, f*** me, I’d have had 28 albums out by now. I can write music and melody and arrangements for fun, but the words always slow everything down.”

Noel on ... what he still wants to achieve
“We’re not a band that sets ourselves goals, or I’m not. In hindsight, it would have been nice to have had a Number One in America, so people would stop f***ing going on about us not cracking America. I’d still like to be here in five years' time. Stay vaguely slim.”

Noel on ... getting older
“When you have your photograph taken as much as one does, and you see… Like, there was a picture of me on The Sunday Times cover recently that was taken five years ago, and you just look older. It is a cliché and all that, but I’m 42 this year, my bones already feel like they’re 52, but upstairs I’m at ease. I can’t really wait to get to the f***ing end of it. I don’t mean dead, I’m in it for the long run… But I look at Neil Young and think, I can’t f***ing wait to be you. That f***er blows me away every time I see him.

“But I’m lucky in a way. Even if it was all to end in a bizarre gardening accident tomorrow, I’ve lived. So I’m not getting older thinking that my time is slipping away. I will look back on my life at some point, I’ll be forced to, and fucking hell man, what a gig. So I’m really cool with it… I’m not here cos of my startling good looks, d’you know what I mean? That kind of thing doesn’t mean anything to me.

“Saying that, I’m the oldest person I know who’s yet to start dyeing his hair. Virtually everybody that I know gets the old Grecian 2000 out. So I’m doing alright. And anyway, I think of it in these terms – I’ll never be as old as Paul Weller. As long as he’s going, you can’t touch me.”

Source: q4music.com

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Noel Gallagher Mini-Site At Q4music.com

As he prepares for a string of massive summer Oasis shows, Noel Gallagher is the cover star on the new edition of Q, on sale now.

In the magazine you can read him holding court on all manner of things, but he can't help but bringing the subject round to brother - and nemesis - Liam again and again.

His appearance is part of an 'Icons' themed issue which also features such stars as Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull and the Manic Street Preachers (for more about the latest issue, click here).

For the online version this month we have a Noel mini-site with a video from the cover -shoot, outtakes from his magazine interview, a gallery of behind-the-scenes photos from the studio session and a quiz to test your mastery of Noel.

Video

For the cover shoot we teamed Noel up with top photographer John Wright. You can watch a video of the session here

Gallery

You can view a selection of behind the scenes shots taken by Q's Ian Whent here

Magazine Feature

Want more of Noel's wit and wisdom?

You can read extra material which Q's editor in chief Paul Rees was unable to squeeze into his rather sizeable feature for the magazine here

QuizAnd finally, you can try our Noel Gallagher quiz here. Not too hard, couple of toughies; no prizes, it's just for fun. Head to the quiz here...

Source: q4music.com

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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

It's all got a bit mad over here. This swine flu malarky is freaking people out. Landed at Crack'arse airport yesterday. All the ground staff are wearing those little white face masks! ALL OF THEM. It was like something out of another Stephen King novel. I suddenly feel quite naked without one.

Then if that wasn't bad enough my mam called me at that very moment and tells me to be "careful" or I WILL die of pig flu. I swear at that point I did a massive sneeze and the entire airport fell silent and started to stare!! I WANT A MASK!!!

Crack'arse, it must be said, is not the most glamourous of destinations, despite what we were led to believe as kids from that film "Gregory's Girl".

I currently have an armed guard outside my room! What does that say? Am I vulnerable to a robbery from room service? Anyway, could be worse, at least the sun's out and I have a balcony and it's 86*. Mind you, what about snipers (as Bobby Gillespie once said to me as we were getting pissed in my back garden)??

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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Oasis' Liam Gallagher Offers NME.COM Users First Fruits Of His Clothes Label

Singer offering Pretty Green T-shirts to competition winners

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is offering the first fruits of his clothes label, Pretty Green, to five lucky readers of NME and NME.COM.

You can win one of five Pretty Green T-shirts (pictured, as worn by the Oasis man) signed by the man himself. The shirts will officially be the first clothes produced for Gallagher's label, which is set to launch next month.

To be in with a chance of winning answer the following question (the answer may lie in the video above)

What item of clothing does Liam disparagingly describe as "snooker cues"?

Email your answers to letters@nme.com with 'Liam T-shirt' as the subject. Remember to include your name, age and T-shirt size.

The first five correct entries chosen at midnight (BST) on May 8 win.

Source: www.nme.com

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What Are Oasis' Backstage Requirements?

The backstage requirements for Oasis in South America.

The dressing room should be clean and tidy and have a wide range of glasses for beer,larger, wine, spirits and champagne and various dishes and a number of bottle openers.

The band will require 30 white towels and 20 Marine Blue or Black towels to be used on stage and the dressing room and a large arrangement of flowers for the dressing room. With 1 large table with table cloth, chair or a seat cushion and a large mirror.

Note Case = 24 bottles/cans

3 cases of 500ml mineral water (IE Evian, Volic ETC)
5 bottles of quality wine
5 bottles of Pinot Grigio white wine
5 cases of good quality imported beer (Heineken, Corona & Becks local beer or 1 case)
1 case (24) cans of Guinness - must be in cans.
6 cans of Red Bull
1 bottle of quality Irish whiskey
3 bottles of vodka (IE Absolute, Smirnoff etc)
1 case of soft drinks (IE Coke, Sprite etc)
6 bottles of Gatorade or Lucozade - (room temperature)
2 large bottles of tonic water
3 litres of club soda
2 litres of Cranberry juice
1 litre of orange juice
1 x 200 pack of Marlboro Lights cigarettes
5 Cigarette Lighters
1 litre of milk
1 large jar of coffee of good quality (no taste )!!!!
Tea - variations, English, traditional herbs, green
5 instant hot chocolate
1 x Mr. Coffee coffee or similar
1 x kettle (for hot water for tea)
9 cups
Selection of sugar (packages, organic, granular)
1 jar of Honey
6 lemons and knives
2 large boxes of tissues
5 packs of gum (peppermint or spearmint flavors only)
1 x large cooler with ice
Various bags of potato chips (at least 1 x organic)
A mixture of organic nuts (especially almonds)
Various bars of Cadbury chocolates
A large bowl of organic fruit (apple, strawberry, blueberry, grapefruit, peaches, pears & bananas ...)
2 litres of water room temperature
1 jar of organic honey
9 teaspoons
2 packets of mint gum or packets of mints

Thanks to Maria

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Oasis In Venezuela

Last night's setlist from the Campo de Futbol, Caracas, Venezuela.

Fuckin’ In The Bushes
Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There’s Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain’t Got Nothin’
The Importance Of Being Idle
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Don’t Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus

The band's next stop is Estadio Nacional in Peru on Thursday.



Gem Archer & Andy Bell talk before the show in Venezuela yesterday.

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Liam Gallagher Looks Mad Fur It

Liam Gallagher looks very Miami Vice as he sets off on tour with Oasis.

The rocker looked like Don Johnson from the Eighties cop show as he teamed a cream suit with his favourite animal-print slippers.

But brother Noel was nowhere to be seen as the band left Heathrow for an eight-day tour of South America. He’d flown out earlier so as not to share cabin space with lippy Liam.

I reckon the possibility of swine flu is the least of their problems.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Photo Credit: MAVRIXONLINE.COM

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Exclusive Noel Gallagher Performance Available With (Red)Wire From Today

When Oasis played their sold-out Madison Square Gardens gig last December, photographer Josh Cheuse filmed Noel performing an exclusive acoustic version of 'Waiting For The Rapture' in an unusual backstage location.

This performance will be available from today (29th April) exclusively through (RED)WIRE.

(RED)WIRE is a new digital magazine from Bono's (RED) organization that not only gives you great music, but also provides medicine for people who need it in Africa. For every five people that sign up, enough money is generated to keep one person living with HIV in Africa, so why not get your friends to sign up too.

TO SIGN-UP FOR THE (RED)WIRE MAGAZINE, VISIT www.redwire.com

Other artists involved with the charity include U2, Coldplay, Jay-Z, The Killers, Bob Dylan and REM. A preview of Noel's performance can be seen above.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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Oasis Touch Down In Venezuela

A short interview with Liam Gallagher as he touches down in Venezuela ahead of the band's concert tonight.

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Noel Gallagher's Attacker New Court Date

December 4th has been set as the preliminary hearing court date for Daniel Sullivan, the 47-year-old Pickering man charged in the assault on Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher during the Virgin Festival in Toronto, Canada last September.

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Win The Shirt Off Liam Gallagher's Back

Check out this week's NME magazine for their latest Oasis contest.

Liam is giving away five limited edition signed T shirts to celebrate the start of his new fashion line Pretty Green. Look out for the new issue with the contest's question. Good Luck !

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Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel's tour diary for oasisinet.com

Yes, brothers and sisters. I trust things are well and all is good? Good.

Now.. that wasn't nearly enough time off for me. Didn't even really have a chance to get on Irie Nancy's tits! Caught up with Coronation St. though and I'm all up to speed with the football AND managed not to see a single second of that Britain's (not) Got (any) Talent. It's not allowed in our house. Weather was nice'n'all, eh? Was in London anyway.

Now, a frightening thing happened to me last week. I went into the HMV in Selfridges - I could spend 2 hours in there just looking at records - only to be told by one of the staff that they don't sell CDs anymore!! A fuckin' outrage.

"It's the future", said the kid.
"Fuck the future", said I.

IT. IS. THE. END. OF. THE. WORLD.

So what happens now then? Do I actually have to buy a bastard computer to buy music? Where is it all gonna end? In all serious though, it's very sad. I may have to move to Japan!

Q Magazine? Have you seen the pictures? Have they got it in for me, or summat? I mean, admittedly, I did say to the person responsible for such things on the day that I demanded to be air-brushed to within an inch of my life, a bit like the Lily Allen / Green Day covers etc. What I don't remember is asking to look like something from a Tenacious D. video!! I don't have grey/blue skin!!! Not anymore anyway.

Today I am mostly in Miami. Just stopping off on the way to Venezuela. Crack'arse, to be exact. Only away for 2 and a bit weeks and this bit of the tour is usually good fun. But I'm actually not looking forward to it. Weird, eh? Mind you, we are rehearsing different songs for the set-list at the UK gigs. I won't tell you which ones in case they don't work out. Should be at least 2-3 though. Hopefully 4-5. But probably only 1! Such is the level of commitment to these kind of things in certain quarters. We shall see.

In a bit.

GD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

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