Man Who Assaulted Noel Gallagher To Appear In Court In October

Oasis band member Noel Gallagher was allegedly assaulted while performing on stage at the Virgin Festival on Toronto Island on Sunday night.

Toronto Police Const. Wendy Drummond told CTV.ca a 47-year-old man from Pickering has been charged with assault in connection with the incident.

A fan captured the incident on video and posted the footage on YouTube.

In the clip, a man appears from the side or the rear of the stage as Noel and Liam Gallagher perform their hit "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"

The man runs behind Liam towards Noel, who is playing guitar and singing at the right side of the stage, and appears to push him from behind, knocking him to the floor.

The attacker then appears to try and jump into the crowd, but is caught by security guards who drag him back onto stage and towards the rear.

Liam then tries to jump into the fray, cocking his fist as if in readiness to punch the attacker as he is being dragged away, but doesn't deliver the blow.

The rest of the band immediately put down their instruments and leave the stage as the house lights come on.

After about five minutes passed, Noel returned to the stage and played a song for the 25,000 fans. Liam also later returned to join in a performance of "Wonderwall."

The band then closed the show with a cover of The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus."

Drummond said the accused, whose name has not been released, will appear in Toronto's Old City Hall courthouse, room 111, at 3 p.m. on Oct. 24.

Source: www.toronto.ctv.ca
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Photos From Toronto Virgin Festival

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Oasis Attacked In Toronto: Interview With Nathan Rosenburg, Chief Marketing Officer Of Virgin Mobile Canada

After a man snuck onstage and hit Noel Gallagher, TheAmpersand.ca spoke to Virgin about the incident.

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Noel Gallagher Update

Oasis', Noel Gallagher was attacked by an unidentified man during the band's show in Toronto last night. While Noel and the band were performing 'Morning Glory', the assailant ran on from the back of the stage and pushed Noel from behind, who fell heavily on to his monitor speakers.

Despite his injuries, Noel returned to the stage a few minutes later to complete the band's set but was taken to hospital after the show to be examined for a suspected fractured rib and ligament damage. The assailant was detained in police custody and will be charged with assault.

No decision has been made regarding Tuesday's concert in London, Ontario, but fans are urged to keep checking the band's web site Oasisinet.com and local media for updates.

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Oasis Terminal 5 New York Show Reminder

Fans who successfully applied for tickets to Oasis' show at Terminal 5 in New York this Friday are reminded that they only have until midnight tonight (Monday 8th September) New York time to purchase tickets.

Successful applicants will have received an email from oasisinet.com with instructions on how to purchase tickets. If you are one of those who applied you should check the email account you registered with, including the junk mail folder and if you've received the email follow the instructions promptly to avoid disappointment.

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'I'm Outta Time' Clip

Oasisinet is pleased to give you another insight into the band's recording and writing process with a clip about 'I'm Outta Time' from the forthcoming 'Dig Out Your Soul' album.

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Oasis Setlist And Information From Toronto

Nathan Rosenberg, chief marketing officer for Virgin, just came out to give us the details of the attack on Noel Gallagher earlier this evening.

Apparently, the assailant came from underneath the stage before pushing the guitarist.

No motive was given.

In a statement, Rosenberg said: "(Oasis) understand sometimes these things happen."

Security is looking into how the breach happened to ensure it doesn't occur at future events.

Even though the band cut their set short, fans left in an orderly fashion.

Coo coo ca choo.

'Fucking in the Bushes'
'Rock 'N' Roll Star'
'Lyla'
'The Shock Of The Lightning'
'Cigarettes And Alcohol'
'The Meaning Of Soul'
'To Be Where There's Life'
'The Masterplan'
'Songbird'
'Slide Away'
'Morning Glory' (This is the song during which Noel got pushed, so it ended early)
'The Importance of Being Idle'
'Wonderwall'
'Supersonic'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'
'Falling Down'
'I Am The Walrus'

9:10pm - Oasis is running a bit late thanks to a delay that started back with Silversun Pickups ~5pm.

9:20pm - They start off their set with Rock 'N Roll Star and then bust out their new single Shock Of The Lightning as well as The Masterplan, Lyla and Slide Away.

9:55pm - Halfway through What's The Story Morning Glory, someone climbs up from backstage (which must have been quite the feat, considering that even "all access" wristbands were banned from the area during Oasis' set) and pushes Noel Gallagher from behind. He faceplants into one of the monitors and the rest of the band walks off stage. WTF. Concert over??

10:08pm - The band returns, seemingly unfazed by what just happened - absolutely no comment from Noel, who just busts out my favourite song that's got him on vocals, The Importance Of Being Idle. No plans to finish up What's The Story Morning Glory I guess. Next is Wonderwall, immediately followed by Supersonic.

10:20pm - Noel's now back on vocal duties, singing Don't Look Back In Anger with the help of about 10,000 fans.

10:27pm - Noel's singing again, and this time it's a new song, the one that's on Dig Out Your Soul called Falling Down and appears as a remix by The Chemical Brothers. F**k I love this song as a 'rock' version!!!!!

10:32pm - Wow, Liam just announced that this is the end of their set, which worries me cause it's 30 minutes earlier than anticipated (110 minute set was the plan). They're playing The Walrus (The Beatles cover), which is a known encore song of theirs. Maybe this is really it?

10:38pm - Oh boy, this may really be the end of the set. It wouldn't surprise me if a band that's already as temperamental as Oasis would end early because of the earlier accident. I guess this will be this year's "Flaming Lips Incident", except this time it was entirely a fan's fault. I'm gonna bet this is on YouTube later tonight!

Source: canoe.ca

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Man Attacks Oasis On Stage At Virgin Festival In Toronto

In what a Virgin spokesperson called a "security breach", a man ran onstage during Oasis's show at Virgin Festival in Toronto Sunday night and crashed into guitarist Noel Gallagher, knocking him hard to the ground. The man, who entered from backstage, then appeared to clash with other Gallagher brother, Liam, before security rushed in and escorted him off stage in front of the shocked festival crowd.

The security spokesperson for Virgin, called Nathan, said that unnamed man evaded both Virgin and Oasis security personnel in his dash onstage. No reason was given for the rush, but Nathan pointed out that both brothers were fine, and Noel was joking backstage after the incident about how exciting things always happens when Oasis plays.

After a 15 minute pause, the band returned to the stage and finished the show, which included crowd-pleasers such as Don't Look Back in Anger, Wonderwall, new single The Shock Of The Lightning and the closer, a cover of The Beatles' I Am The Walrus.

Watch the incident here

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Noel and Liam Gallagher Attacked On Stage In Toronto

Webby from Live4ever was at last nights Toronto Gig and he emailed me this.

Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher were both attacked on stage by a fan last night, Noel fell flat on his guitar and seemed to be hurt.

The concert was stopped and they continued five minutes later, the band made no comment about the attack and cut the set list short by two songs.

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Oasis Aren’t Done Just Yet

The biggest rock stars of the nineties want to keep on playing. Will anyone listen?

The word rehearsal doesn't really convey what happens when the members of Oasis get together to run through some songs. They are not, by temperament, men of moderation. While you can imagine Sting, for instance, shushing his session cats and suggesting that it might sound delightful to garland "Message in a Bottle" with a tin whistle, the Manchester quintet that utterly dominated the British rock scene in the nineties have a much less subtle approach to the concept of practice: They just get up onstage and clobber you. Even though Noel and Liam Gallagher, along with their bandmates and their touring crew, are alone this July afternoon in a cavernous, black-curtained studio in a strip-mally area of West London that looks more like Phoenix, they perform one heaving anthem after another—"Champagne Supernova," "Supersonic," "Wonderwall," "Cigarettes & Alcohol," "Morning Glory"—as if they're staring down a million drunken followers on a fog-shrouded moor as the sun rises over a mythical rock festival.

They are ridiculously loud. When Noel, who at 41 still sports a George Harrison mop top, picks up and starts to noodle away on his cherry-red 1960 Gibson 355—a six-string that he mentions is worth about $20,000—the first few notes actually stab you in the face. There have been rehearsals in the past where the sound level was so high it affected not only the band members' hearing but their vision. "I nearly wept with the volume," Noel says, grinning. "It was like standing in an onion shop." Liam, who at 36 has abandoned neither his famous Brian Jones bowl cut nor that alpha-orangutan habit of swaying his arms when he walks, doesn't evince any difference between singing in a stadium and singing in an empty room. He still wraps his hands behind his back as though he's been handcuffed, leans toward the mike with a glare that suggests a familiarity with the etiquette of pub brawls, and unleashes a sound that's somewhere between an Italian aria and a sneer. When he's done, he steps down from the stage, swaggers over to the catering table for a banana, and says, "Told ya."

Even the Gallaghers' mistakes are huge. Not long after they've thundered through the self-fulfilling prophecy of "Rock 'n' Roll Star," a dinosaur-size, distortion-drizzled pop blasts across the room and makes everyone duck and wince. It's not a nice noise. It sounds as though a Marshall stack just lost a game of Russian roulette, and a roadie sets out to repair what looks like a minor power outage. "Well, there's no point in our soldiering on until he's got it fixed," Noel murmurs. "Bet this doesn't fuckin' happen to U2."

The wisecrack is revealing. If any British band of the past 15 years intended to follow the Dublin foursome into the glorious pantheon of rock gods it was Oasis, but along the way glitches in the internal wiring left the group stuck in the wings. Everything happened supersonically fast. Within months of releasing 1994's Definitely Maybe, a mix of churning psychedelia and stomping arena-rock riffage, the Gallagher brothers were selling out the same Manchester football stadium whose floodlights had once illuminated their childhood bedroom. The next year brought global domination: (What's the Story) Morning Glory sold 18 million copies around the world and "Wonderwall" became one of the decade's essence-capturing singles. Liam has come to despise it. "Everyone goes, 'You're the "Wonderwall" guy!'" he says. "Well, fuck off. I fuckin' hate it and your taste is shit." Noel has a special place in his heart for the sparkly morning when his accountant called with some good news. "He said, 'You've got a million pounds in the bank,'" Noel says. "And I was on drugs at the time"—Ecstasy and cocaine—"it was 11 o'clock in the morning, there was about 10 people in my room, and we'd been partying all night. I put the phone down and I said, 'I'm a millionaire! Let's fucking re-party!'"

Nobody stopped to notice that the third album, Be Here Now, was a bloated mess. Pausing to take stock was inconceivable for a gang that roared through each day in an impulsive, intoxicated blur. The Gallaghers got married—Liam to starlet Patsy Kensit, Noel to party girl Meg Matthews—but the settling-down phase never quite took hold. "I've got to tell you, being on tour as the biggest band in the world was fuckin' incredible," Noel remembers. "Whatever you needed you got two of. Some ridiculous instrument that you'd fucking seen some guy playin' in a market. I'd phone my manager from Hong Kong at six in the morning. 'What do you want?' 'I want a fucking glockenschplocken.'"

Just as quickly, the days of express-mailed glockenschplockens came to a close. With the release of 2000's weirdly titled Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, it was clear the band had derailed. Two of the founding members, bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs, resigned. Divorces drained the band of emotional energy. "That was a rough time," Noel says. "The backlash had started. I was really, really uninspired to write anything. The tour was already sold out—but we haven't got a fucking band. The album wasn't very good. The reviews were appalling." If they were at all sensible, the Gallaghers would've packed up the amps.

But they're not, so they didn't. In spite of the drugs, in spite of the notorious fraternal friction between Liam and Noel, in spite of the fact that your average American rock fan probably isn't even aware of recent albums like Don't Believe the Truth, Oasis have become unlikely evangelists for the art of persistence. They're no longer part of the Sony empire, but this October the band is releasing an album, Dig Out Your Soul, on its own label, Big Brother. They've hired a new drummer, Chris Sharrock; the other two "new" members, guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell, have been with the band for nearly a decade.

More crucially, there's been a chemical-philosophical shift: Noel and Liam, two of the high priests of rock-and-roll excess, are experimenting with—dare we say it—moderation. Over the years Liam has developed a reputation for being wildly confrontational—with the press, with photographers, with almost anyone. "I am a cunt," he says. "I can be the biggest cunt in the world, but I can also be the most spectacular person ever made. Depends." These days he's working at being the latter. At the time of the rehearsals, Liam has not had a drink in three weeks. "This is a new me, man," he says. He's getting up at six every morning at the cottage on Hampstead Heath that he shares with his second wife, Nicole Appleton, going for a strenuous run, and then spending the day taking his two sons, Gene and Lennon, to and from school and playdates. "Top kids, both of them," he says. "I prefer going out with them than to hang out with fucking rock stars and celebrities. They're all dicks, man." Twice a day he eats grilled or steamed salmon with spinach and "loads of fucking garlic," and it must be noted that years of hard living seem to have done no damage to the celebrated grandeur of his cheekbones. "Well, I've got good skin," he says. "I get it from Mrs. Gallagher."

Noel—who also has two children, 8-year-old daughter Anais and 1-year-old son Donovan—gave up drugs 10 years ago after one too many panic attacks. "The one drug I was heavily addicted to was cocaine, and there comes a point where you're just like, Man, this can't go on any longer, because it'll fucking fry your head," he says. He's sold his house in Ibiza, figuring it makes no sense to have an outpost in the dance-club Sodom of Spain. "You get to a certain age where you just look ridiculous being fuckin' out of it all the time, you know what I mean?" he says. "I used to go to nightclubs like the Hacienda in Manchester in the eighties, when the rave scene was kicking off, and you'd see people who were like 40 there and you'd just think, You look fucking stupid. I guess we've had our go at being the epicenter of youth culture, and it's now time to leave it to the kids."

He refuses to give Dig Out Your Soul the hard sell. "Listen," he says, "before you've heard our new record, I could make it sound like some fucking rock opera. I could make you believe that each song is about a schoolboy that wakes up in the morning and this is the story of his life and blah blah blah. And you would fuckin' buy it. But if you ask me about my record, I just go, 'I don't fuckin' know. It's the same as the last one.'" Besides, millions of fans want to hear the old hits, and that's fine. Noel doesn't have much patience for contemporaries like Radiohead who evolve from one clangy experimental phase to the next. "Yeah, well, they went to university," he says. "We're just working-class boys trying to make a living. They're middle-class boys worrying about pushing an envelope somewhere, and all that carbon footprint and all that bollocks. Every time there's a polar bear on his tiptoes on an ice cube in the middle of the Antarctic, you know whose fault that is? Rock stars'. That's their fault. Any time there's food running out somewhere— 'Let's do a gig. That'll sort it out. Let's do a big fucking gig. Let's fly everybody in from all over the world and pontificate to poor people about how they should be saving the planet.' Go fucking kiss my ass. It's very easy to just say, 'We're going to become difficult now and challenge our audience.' I like my audience. They paid for my swimming pool. I'm not fucking challenging anybody."

If that makes him a mossback, he doesn't care. "I'm into rock and roll," he says. "That's what I listen to. I like a certain period of dance music and hip-hop, the early stuff, when I feel—and this is my opinion—that hip-hop had more of a social conscience. Now it's all about the bling and who's got the biggest car and all that fucking shit. And that doesn't speak to me. I'm pretty much into everything from the blues to the Sex Pistols, with the Jam and the Stone Roses and the Smiths thrown in. If music doesn't speak to you, what are you supposed to do? Pretend to like it? Fuck that. I like the Beatles, the Kinks, the Who, and the Stones. Bite me."

At the end of a rehearsal, Noel pulls out a collector's edition of Dig Out Your Soul and shows it to the band. It's 12 inches tall and wide, like the turntable classics of yesteryear, and it's stuffed with lyric sheets and psychedelic art and all the other eye candy that's vanished in the age of the download. Noel's an unstoppable joker, but here on a ratty couch he holds the artifact in his hands and gazes at it, silently touching the cover with the tips of his fingers. He might be a 13-year-old kid in Manchester, or he might be an aging rock star who's content with his place in the universe. Oasis will always be prone to the grand gaffe, but he doesn't worry about that. "I don't know how much money I've got, but I said to the girl who runs the accountant's office, 'Give me a call when it's time to fuckin' curb my enthusiasm,'" he says. "Or as we say in England, 'Give me a call when I'm down to my last four million.'"

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David Bowie & Friends 'Beautiful Day'

For a friend of Stevie's fighting a hard battle to get well.

This is from all your mates with Love.

Were all with you Col.

Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere

Taken from Noel Gallagher's Tour Diary on www.oasisinet.com

Fuck!! The heat. It's oppressive. We've got a photo-shoot today AND it's outside. HORRIFIC. The sky-lord is arriving tonight from England via New York. Should make for a good solid drink-up.

Ryan got up with us at the soundcheck. He's been bugging us to play "Roll With It" for him and as r-kid doesn't do soundchecks Ryan stood in on vocals.

Gig was good. The crowd were really good. An amazing thing happened on stage (and if you were there you would've witnessed this). Our bass player vanished into thin air!

One of the girls from our office in London arrives with the news that there's no news from back home.

The drink-up is good and solid.

7 hours on the bus to Toronto. Get to the hotel and who's in reception? Jimmy Page! I fuckin' love Jimmy Page. We hugged it out for breakfast.

It's raining. I'm off to my bed.

In a bit.

GD.

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Photo Gallery: Oasis In Montreal

Click here for a online gallery from the Oasis show Montreal, Friday September 5, 2008.

Picture Credit: Graham Hughes

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Oasis At The Eden Project...See You There!!!

Congratulations to the visitors to the site, who have sent in emails saying they were lucky to enough to purchase up to two tickets for the concert at the Eden Project in Cornwall later this month.

This show comes before the band embark on a 18 date UK Tour and just before the release of their new album 'Dig Out Your Soul'.

Oasis’s first ever gig in Cornwall will take place on Saturday the 27th September and will be filmed for global broadcast by MTV and broadcast at a later date.

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Noel Gallagher On Russell Brand's Show Last Night

Noel Gallagher joined Russell Brand on his weekly BBC Radio 2 by phone for around twenty minutes on last nights show for the usual shenanigans.

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Song Of The Year 1995: Oasis Wonderwall

The year belonged to Oasis. Their supposed arch rivals, Blur, might have won the set-piece Britpop skirmish, beating Roll with It to No 1 with Country House, but their fourth album, The Great Escape, was at the time considered a lacklustre follow-up to Parklife. Oasis, on the other hand, were on fire. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? bristled with hooks and hit singles. Some Might Say, Roll with It and Don’t Look Back in Anger all made the Top 10, but it was Wonderwall, the third single from the album, that came to epitomise the band’s creative peak, their obsession with the Beatles (the song title comes from a George Harrison album, while Liam’s vocal is pure Lennon) and the extraordinary critical and commercial glory they enjoyed during the 12-month period from August 1995 to their two sold-out shows at Knebworth the following summer.

No song intro can conjure up 1995 as instantly and devastatingly as the opening chords of Wonderwall. With the simplest of acoustic-guitar figures, Noel Gallagher strummed his way into our memory banks, as the drum beat shuffled and Liam slurred and sneered through the opening verse: “Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you.” Lyrically, it is one of Noel’s best, with none of his clunky versifying. Indeed, the line “I don’t believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now” is, in its directness and economy, a key part of the song’s success. Wonderwall was assumed to have been inspired by Noel’s bride-to-be, Meg Mathews. In 2002, shortly after the couple’s divorce, the guitarist fessed up, saying: “How do you tell your Mrs it’s not about her once she’s read it is? It’s a song about an imaginary friend who’s gonna come and save you from yourself.”

Notable cover versions have included the Mike Flowers Pops interpretation, which reached the same position (No 2) as the original. Oasis were kept off the top spot in Britain by Robson and Jerome. In America, Wonderwall remains their biggest hit. With exquisite timing, shortly before fans start weighing the band’s new album, Dig Your Own Soul (released on October 6), against hits like Wonderwall, Liam has said that he isn’t terribly partial to the track: “I can’t f***ing stand that f***ing song. Every time I have to sing it, I want to gag. Problem is, it was a big, big tune for us. You go to America and they’re like, ‘Are you Mr Wonderwall?’ You want to chin someone.” Bless.

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

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Oasis Setlist From Québec

Setlist from last nights show at the Bell Center Quebec.

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

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A New Plea By Liam & Noel Coming Soon

Last year the very talented Mr Stevie Riks helped us out with a promotional videos for voting at the BT Music Awards.

I'm pleased to announce that he will be back with a "Liccle Belter of a video" early next week...

Click here to view Stevie's large collection of hilarious videos...

Stay Tuned....

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Oasis 'Dig Out Your Soul Tour' Photo Archive Update

I have added all the photographs that I have been sent this week to the Tour Archive (here).

A few shows are missing but hopefully a few of you reading this can send in your own photos, to fill in the blanks.

Just send your photos from the gigs to scyhodotcom@gmail.com to be entered into the draw to win a prize, that will take place on September 12th, more details can be found here.

You can include pictures of the band onstage, meeting the band, the venue or even you and your friends at the gigs.

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Oasis: Québec Concert Review

There were no fistfights, and very little foul language. Seminal Britpop act Oasis played the Bell Centre Friday night, and the notorious Gallagher brothers kept it clean. Heck, they even seemed sober.

The 8,500 fans were on their feet from the guitar intro of opener Rock 'n' Roll Star – the perfect song to start a show by a band that has always been as much about infectious hits as the escapades of the iconic duo at its core.

Liam Gallagher stood centre-stage in his trademark pose, leaning into the microphone, one hand behind his back. His brother Noel was on guitar. Together they got down to business, delivering an array of favourites, mostly from their '90s heyday. They slipped in a few new ones along the way, unveiling the psychedelic tones of new album Dig Out Your Soul, due Oct. 6.

Lyla was rowdy and insistent; Cigarettes & Alcohol had hip-shaking riffs; The Masterplan proved a crowd-pleaser; Morning Glory elicited a boisterous singalong; and the Importance of Being Idle (sung by Noel) was good fun.

But there was no match for THE song. It came two before the encore, and Liam announced it unceremoniously, mumbling "Wonderwall," out of the corner of his mouth. It is the band's best-known track, a wistful, irresistible ballad. Everyone in the arena joined in, with joyful abandon, Liam's whine leading the way. Cheers erupted as the group broke into the instrumental coda.

They weren't done. The last song before the encore, Supersonic carried anthemic weight of its own. Don't Look Back in Anger (again by Noel) and Champagne Supernova brought out lighters and more big singalongs; while the night-ending cover of I Am the Walrus sealed the deal.

Oasis may not be as dangerous, exciting or as popular as it once was, but the band can still engender an impressive amount of good will.

Ryan Adams warmed up the room, ranging from bluesy spirituals to expansive rockscapes and heartland ballads with the help of his band the Cardinals. Matt Costa opened the evening.

Source: Montreal Gazette

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