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Burnage Oasis Bar set to ‘Roll with it’ for Band’s homecoming gigs

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:44:52 +0000

The newly refurbished Farmers Arms in Burnage is launching a new bar in honour of local supergroup ‘Oasis.’ The aptly named ‘Oasis Music lounge’ will be staging a four day Oasis festival to coincide with the bands homecoming open air gigs at Heaton Park.

The Festival features an exhibition of ‘Oasis’ photographs by rock photographer Karen McBride taken at their last open air gigs at the City Of Manchester stadium. It also features a collection of Oasis memorabilia in the newly opened lounge dedicated to the band. The festival kicks off on Thursday 4 June and runs until Sunday 7 June.

Lawrence Hennigan the owner of the bar said “We are really looking forward to opening up the new music lounge in time for the return of Burnage’s Prodigal sons. The response from the general public has been overwhelming since we first decided to create the special lounge. Fans have been emailing us from all over the UK asking for details and offering to donate items. After we have the music lounge finished we are looking into the possibility of an Oasis Museum in the stables at the rear of the property.”

“One of the items we had donated was a photograph of Liam’s former football team at St Bernard’s Primary School. It would be great if we could trace his former team mates for a possible charity match. We are still looking for a photograph of Liam when he played for the Farmer’s.”

The bar is hoping to start a monthly new music night to support local bands and solo acts who want to be the next supergroup to come out of Burnage. For further details about the bar or the new music night email rockfest24@hotmail.com

EVENT DETAILS

Oasis Festival featuring Oasis exhibition by Karen McBride

Thursday 4 June to Sunday 7 June in the Oasis Music Lounge at The Farmers Arms

8pm-late

FREE ENTRY

Oasis Music Lounge at The Farmers Arms , 254 Burnage Lane, Burnage, Manchester M19 1NA

Dig Out Your Soul (2008)

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:22:10 +0000

For their seventh studio album, Brit-pop stalwarts and general rock ‘n’ roll survivors Oasis have stuck mostly to theirguns, releasing a collection of bracing, swaggering rock songs with the odd moment of bluster throw into the mix. Though the hallmarks of the Oasis sound remain (Beatles-influenced pop with a classic rock edge), ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ is notable for the more riff-based songwriting style and the mix ofauthors. Vocalist Liam Gallagher contributes three songs, while his brother and guitarist Noel contributes the majority. Features the single ‘The Shock Of The Lightning’.

1. Bag It Up
2. Turning
3. Waiting For The Rapture
4. Shock Of The Lightning
5. I’m Outta Time
6. Get Off Your High Horse Lady
7. Falling Down
8. To Be Where There’s Life
9. Ain’t Got Nothin’
10. Nature Of Reality
11. Soldier On

Oasis Gig at the Eden Project, Cornwall

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Don’t Believe The Truth (2005)

admin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:37:37 +0000

Oasis albums have always prompted flashbacks– Is that chorus on loan from T. Rex? Wait, wasn’t that a Crowded House song once? Was that a Beatles melody? But the gobby British rock band’s latest sounds like a pop artifact. In both production and execution, Don’t Believe The Truth sounds like an album better released 1965 than 2005. From the tambourines and jangling guitars that chime in opening track “Turn Up To The Sun” to the tinny pre-hippie philosophizing of “Keep The Dream Alive,” it’s an album that thinks looking backward is the way forward. Its first single “Lyla” borrows its opening swagger from the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man,” while “The Meaning of Soul” lifts the Small Faces’ mod jitters wholesale. But hack through the clichéd lyrics and worn riffs and the most important element on the follow up to 2002’s Heathen Chemistry remains distinctly Oasis’ own:

1. Turn Up the Sun
2. Muckey Fingers
3. Lyla
4. Love Like a Bomb
5. The Importance of Being Idle
6. The Meaning Of Soul
7. Guess God Things I’m Abel
8. Part Of The Queue
9. Keep The Dream Alive
10. A Bell Will Ring
11. Let There Be Love

Stop The Clocks (2006)

admin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:34:22 +0000

Even the great Noel and Liam Gallagher would admit that their band has not released a mega hit album since their 1994 debut, Definitely Maybe, and its world famous, charting topping 1995 follow-up, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?. But that does not mean the Manchester band has been in short supply of great singles. With just Liam and Noel sticking it out through the whole thing, this generous double album picks the best riffs, choruses, and sneers from the group’s decade-plus career, offering fans a chance to rediscover early pub classics (”Slide Away,” “Some Might Say”), latter-day retro-rock gems (”The Importance of Being Idle,” “Lyla”), and some surprisingly decent B-sides that could have otherwise easily been obscured by the eyebrows (”The Masterplan”).

1. Rock n Roll Star
2. Some Might Say
3. Talk Tonight
4. Lyla
5. The Importance Of Being Idle
6. Wonderwall
7. Slide Away
8. Cigarettes & Alcohol
9. The Masterplan
10. Live Forever
11. Acquiesce
12. Supersonic
13. Half The World Away
14. Go Let It Out
15. Songbird
16. Morning Glory
17. Champagne Supernova
18. Don’t Look Back In Anger

Definitely Maybe (1994)

admin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:22:39 +0000

With the swaggering chords of the opening “Rock’N'Roll Star,” Oasis announced that big, brash Brit rock was here to stay–at least for a few years. They wore their rock & roll with an angry young sneer, a Mancunian petulance wedded to a vision of cathartic release. Their supersonic two-guitar attack took them “Up in the Sky,” where they would “Live Forever” or burn out in a blaze of alcoholic glory. Noel Gallagher’s songs weren’t subtle–or shy of overt plagiarism–but, spat out in the Lennonesque snarl of little brother Liam, they took on a venomous power that had millions of young Brits taking them at their own arrogant word. In the U.S., meanwhile, the response was more Maybe than Definitely.

1. Rock ‘N’ Roll Sta
2. Shakermaker
3. Live Forever
4. Up In The Sky
5. Columbia
6. Supersonic (Live at The Metro)
7. Bring It On Down
8. Cigarettes & Alcohol
9. Digsy’s Dinner
10. Slide Away
11. Married With Children

Heathen Chemistry (2002)

admin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:52:28 +0000

At their career peak, Oasis were branded as the best band on the globe. They were actually never the greatest rock & roll band, but for a few years they were the biggest. While they offered the ’90s two of its most defining albums, and a resurgence of ’60s-influenced Manchester rock, Oasis tumbled off the top of the mountain in the last half of the decade. Heathen Chemistry is route back to the top, albeit a small step. The album opens with the track “The Hindu Times,” which will most likely be considered amongst Oasis’s best anthems, and it closes with “Better Man,” a distorted-guitar-driven thrill that revs up to 60 mph in second gear. But between the strongest songs on the disc, Noel and Liam Gallagher exploit the Beatles references almost to the breaking point. It’s not a secret that the Gallaghers worship the Beatles (who doesn’t?), but here they’ve gone beyond obvious influences and stepped right into infringement grounds. On “Born on a Different Cloud,” Noel’s guitar weeps a little too gently, and Liam’s signature rasp now sounds like a deliberate imitation of Lennon with a sore throat. Further, Liam shares the mic with Noel, who sings lead on several tracks, the best being “Force of Nature.” Unlike on Beatles albums, however, the switch back and forth is jarring (Liam might be the biggest troublemaker, but he is also the better singer). Nonetheless, if a band is going to unapologetically rip off what was unquestionably the best band in the world, no one does it better than Oasis

1. The Hindu Times
2. Force Of Nature
3. Hung In A Bad Place
4. Stop Crying Your Heart Out
5. Songbird
6. Little By Little
7. A Quick Peep
8. (Probably) All In The Mind
9. She Is Love
10. Born On A Different Cloud
11. Better Man