Rare Prints Autographed By Noel Gallagher On Sale Now

We have a very limited availability of rare photographic prints signed by Noel and photographer Lawrence Watson.

The images are 10"x10" and just 10 of each were created for the Indie Label Market in Bristol. The prints costs £50 (+P&P) and are available on a first come first served basis on request via prints@ignition.co.uk.

Make sure to state in the subject line which print you are interested.

Win A Pair Of Tickets To A Private View Of The Oasis Manchester Exhibition!

We are offering fans the chance to win a pair of tickets to a private view of the exhibition at Old Granada Studios on Friday 14th October from 7.30pm to 9.30pm which includes a Q&A with original Oasis artwork designer Brian Cannon. Winners will receive a place for themselves and a guest and an exhibition poster and badges.

Curated by renowned photographer Lawrence Watson, Chasing The Sun 1993-1997 debuted in London in 2014, attracting over 40,000 visitors in 10 days and receiving plaudits from both press and fans. The exhibition then toured to Tokyo, and now, with the Manchester edition, the show comes home to where the story of Oasis began.

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Oasis, The Smiths, Ian Brown Feature In New Exhibition

The show was put together by the photographer and curator behind the Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993-1997 exhibition in London in 2014.

The photographer behind immersive Oasis exhibition Chasing The Sun - which included a recreation of Bonehead’s living room from the cover of Definitely Maybe - is opening a new show in Manchester next week.

Lawrence Watson is transforming a brand new Salford art space for his Manchester, So Much To Answer For show, with 40 pictures of the likes of The Smiths, Oasis, Ian Brown, The Charlatans, and New Order - some very famous, others never seen before.

He’s also turning the basement in a ‘dark room’ full of photographer’s contact sheets and a cinema screen. And upstairs, there’ll be an interactive 1980s teenager’s bedroom with authentic decorations and technology from the period - and a stack of records to play.

The idea is to give context to the way Lawrence works and to the era in which many of the Manchester bands he captured were growing up and writing music.

Among the stand out images are a shot of Liam Gallagher sitting on an empty stage in Birmingham with his beer (“After I’d taken that, he said to me, ‘It’s great this touring, everywhere I go they build me a bar’,” Lawrence laughs), and Ian Brown backdropped by a Barbie pink street in Moss Side, which was painted up for an advert in 1993.

Other highlights are shots of The Smiths hanging around outside the old Albert Finney shop on Oldham Road, and Noel Gallagher waiting for a train at Union Station.

Lawrence, who left school at 16 and took an apprenticeship in a dark room on Old Street, says it was a love of music - and specifically, not being very good at playing bass - that made him want to be a photographer.

But he tried different styles first. “I was really into people like Don McCullen, and it was the time of the National Front and Britain First so I’d been taking pictures of that,” Lawrence recalls. “I was still learning, and it was a bit intimidating having 300 skinheads coming towards you.”

From photographing gigs he earned commissions with the NME, where he met The Smiths and Morrissey - who he would continue to work with as a solo artist and says had “the clearest ideas” when it came to photo shoot locations.

But he has also gone on to work extensively with Paul Weller - who pulled the cover for his final Style Council sleeve in order to get one of Lawrence’s shots on there instead.

The new gallery, Future Artists Studios at 81 Chapel Street, has been made possible by a Kickstarter campaign and the art group’s not for profit cafe space next door, Home Of Honest Coffee.

The exhibition opens for a free private view on June 9, at 6.30pm, then runs until July 18. Tickets are essential and cost £6 via the Future Artists website.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk.

Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993 - 1997 Exhibition To Open In Japan Next Month

Chasing The Sun: Oasis 1993 - 1997 is an exhibition of rare and iconic photographs, artefacts and memorabilia from the early years of Oasis, the most significant band to emerge from the UK in the past two decades.

Chasing The Sun takes us on the band’s supercharged journey from a Manchester rehearsal studio to international rock stardom, via three landmark albums - Definitely Maybe, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, and Be Here Now - and many legendary gigs, from London’s 100 Club to Glastonbury Festival to their era-defining two night stand at Knebworth House.

Curated by renowned photographer Lawrence Watson, who has photographed Oasis several times and worked on Noel Gallagher’s solo album, the exhibition includes previously unseen images from the photographers who had fly-on-the-wall access to the band, including Jill Furminovsky, Paul Slattery, Tom Sheehan, Kevin Cummins, and Jamie Fry.

The exhibition will also display some of the iconic instruments played on the early albums (lent by the band members themselves), vintage merchandise, artefacts from the album sleeves, plus rarely seen early audio-visual content.

For more details and ticket information click here.

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Noel Gallagher To Open Oasis Exhibition In Manchester Next Month

Noel Gallagher, the driving force behind the biggest UK band of the 90s and the Gallagher brother least likely to punch you, is set to open a new free Oasis exhibition at Great Northern this July.

To mark two decades since the release of Supersonic, the debut release from Oasis, and the twentieth anniversary re-release of debut album, Definitely Maybe, Chasing the Sun: Oasis 1993-1997 will open at the former Dwell unit on Deansgate from Friday 18 July to Sunday 17 August.

Following the exhibition’s previous April showcase in Shoreditch, London, Chasing the Sun documents the band’s journey from unsigned Burnage band, through their first three albums: Definitely Maybe (1994), (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) and Be Here Now (1997).

The exhibit also documents live shows at London’s 100 Club, Glastonbury and their momentous two nights at Knebworth in August 1996, which saw over quarter of a million fans in attendance (2.5 million people applied for tickets – still the largest ever demand for tickets in British history).

Liam Gallagher, the more rambunctious Gallagher brother, recently said of Knebworth: "At Knebworth I thought we were doing one night and we were doing two. I got that mashed on the first I woke up to a knock on the door and thought I was at home. I forgot all about it. But I had to go and do it again. That was heavy."

The exhibition includes rare early footage of the band, previously unseen images from photographers such as Jamie Fry, Paul Slattery, Johnny Hopkins and the show’s curator, Lawrence Watson.

There's rare memorabilia, artefacts and even a selection of the band’s instruments too, including the original Union Jack Epiphone Sheraton guitar and a Gibson Les Paul Sunburst given to Noel by The Smiths’ Johnny Marr.

Fans will also be able to have their photo taken in a recreated scene from the album cover of Definitely Maybe. Fingers crossed that Noel likes the new Oasis exhibition more than he likes bookish types: "I don’t get it. Book sellers, book readers, book writers, book owners – fuck all of them.”  Right on brother.

Hold on... Chasing the Sun: Oasis 1993-1997 will launch the opening of the new ‘Home of Future Artists’ at the former Dwell unit at Great Northern, Deansgate.

The event is FREE and tickets can be booked here.

Source: www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk

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Lawrence Watson Photographs Noel Gallagher Exhibition Starts In January In Japan

Lawrence Watson's photographs of Noel Gallagher will be on display in January at an exhibition at the Super Deluxe in Tokyo.

The exhibition runs from 12th January to the 15th January 2012.

During the exhibition, there will be special screenings of the Creation Records documentary 'Upside Down' and live performance by Australian band The Novocaines.

Documenting 18 months in the recording of Noel Gallagher’s hugely anticipated first solo album High Flying Birds, Lawrence Watson was given unlimited access to capture the thoughts and processes behind the creation of the songs.

Moody black-and-white shots are dispersed with upbeat colour photography taken in various locations from London to Los Angeles. The reportage-style imagery is supported by a short film lacing together super-eight, video and still images.

“I have been working with Noel for the past six years,” says Lawrence. “As an artist I have great respect for his song writing talent and the new album is a testament to his skill. Working so closely and for such a consistently long time with him, has given me a great opportunity to experience his creative process at first hand.

Details in Japanese can be found here.

Thanks to Mari

Lawrence Watson On Working With Noel Gallagher

Lawrence Watson spent an 18 month period working and documenting Noel Gallagher's journey creating his debut solo album. Much of the time was spent in the USA and this body of work captures the intimacy. The Londonewcastle Project Space in Shoreditch, London hosts this exhibition.