Plenty Of Oasis On Sky Arts 'Britpop Night' Tomorrow

Below are a number of shows that will be broadcast on 'Sky Arts' tomorrow as part of it's 'Britpop Night'.

Music Videos That Defined The 90s
20:00 to 21:00 (UK Time)

A look at the most iconic music videos of the 90s, including Oasis, Blur, The Prodigy and the Spice Girls, which pushed boundaries unlike anything we'd ever seen before.

Blur/Oasis: The Britpop Years
21:00 to 22:15 (UK Time)

During the 90s Britpop dominated the airwaves and an epic pop rivalry sparked into life when Blur's single Country House went up against Oasis's Roll With It in the charts.

Liam Gallagher: Live in New York
22:15 to 23:30 (UK Time)

Front and Center presents Liam Gallagher performing old Oasis favourites and brand new material in the intimate confines of Manhattan's McKittrick Hotel.

Video Killed The Radio Star
23:30 to 00:00 (UK Time)

Director Nigel Dick discusses the iconic music videos he has made with Oasis and reflects on his fractious relationship with the Gallagher brothers.

Oasis Live at Barrowlands
00:00 to 01:15 (UK Time)

Filmed live at Glasgow's famous Barrowland Ballroom in 2001, Oasis perform a sensational set of classic hits. (UK Time)

Arctic Monkeys: 'We Pretended To Be Oasis In School'

Alex Turner has revealed that he and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders once dressed up and pretended to be Oasis during school assembly.

In a new interview with US website Pitchfork, Turner reveals that he and Helders performed in front of his primary school, using a tennis racket in place of a guitar.

"So me and Matt and some of our friends put on 'Morning Glory' – we 'played' some tennis racquets and pretended to be Oasis," says Turner. "Matt was Liam Gallagher, he had the bucket hat on. I was the bass player."

He also adds that the performance wasn't as well received as a rival performance by a group of girls pretending to be the Spice Girls, adding: "We were just standing there, doing what Oasis did onstage," he said. "Which was not a great deal. I don't think we got as good a reaction as the Spice Girls."

Alex Turner also names Oasis's 1995 album '(What's The Story) Morning Glory' as one of the records that influenced him as a teenager to pursue a career in music.

"With Oasis, it's just that attitude, like it's resistant against everything else that's going on in music," he says. "I don't know if you can fully understand that - it's like an impulse, innit? Especially at that age, you don't rationalize, you're just like, 'That looks cool.'

"And I feel like that's the ****ing way it should be now, in a way. Guitar music or rock'n'roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive."

Source: www.gigwise.com