Discography
Edit- All releases (67)
- Studio albums (7)
- EPs (6)
- Singles (29)
- Live albums (3)
- Compilations (7)
- Bootlegs (2)
- Unknowns (13)
Members
EditLiam Gallagher
current & founder member-
vocals:
- 1991-
Andy Bell
current member-
bass guitar:
- 1999-
Gem Archer
current member-
guitar:
- 1999-
Chris Sharrock
current member-
drums:
- 2008-
Noel Gallagher
founder member-
lead guitar, vocals:
- 1991-2009
Zak Starkey
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drums:
- 2005-2008
Alan White
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drums:
- 1995-2003
Paul Arthurs
founder member-
guitar:
- 1991-1999
Paul McGuigan
founder member-
bass guitar:
- 1991-1999
Tony McCarroll
founder member-
drums:
- 1991-1995
In the News
(7 stories between 1st October 2008 and 17th November 2009)Oasis Members Stick With Liam
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 17 November 2009Liam Gallagher says he and his former Oasis bandmates – everyone apart from brother and lead songwriter Noel – are carrying on as normal, and will tour and record under a new name. "Not Oasis, Oasis is done. Everyone except for Noel," singer Liam told an Italian radio station. “I’ll be back doing that, playing live, within a couple of months,” Liam said. “I’ve just done a tour, I always miss singing songs. I miss the people.” Noel quit Oasis in August after another major argument between the siblings, but this is the first time either has talked about future plans. “To be quite honest, I think Noel wanted out,” Liam said. “We had an argument, but we’ve had bigger ones, about more important people.” Most Oasis songs were written by Noel, who is now widely expected to launch a solo career. Of the 18 tracks on hits compilation Stop The Clocks, only one -- “Songbird” – was written by Liam.
Permalink29th August 2009
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 29 August 2009Oasis have apparently broken up, after Noel Gallagher said he could no longer bear working with his brother Liam. "It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight" he announced on the band's official website. "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer." The announcement came just hours after the band had been due to play at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris. Thousands of fans were left disappointed when a message appeared on screens just before the show saying: "As a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been canceled." They also failed to perform at the V festival in Essex, England last weekend, though at the time they cited Liam's laryngitis as an excuse. "Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan" Noel added, referring to the forthcoming concerts on Oasis' world tour which will now not go ahead.
Permalink22nd June 2009
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 22 June 2009Oasis guitarist and singer Noel Gallagher has branded 20,000 of his own fans as "cheeky" after they sought to take him up on his offer of a refund during one hitch-afflicted concert earlier this month. The Britpop band, currently on a stadium tour of the UK and Ireland, suffered repeated technical problems during their sold-out hometown show at Heaton Park, Manchester. Twice they had to leave the stage, leading Gallagher to quip "this is a free gig from now on," and then "anybody who has kept their ticket will get a full refund." But later, when the problems seemed to be solved, he admitted "I'm regretting offering you your money back now." It was too late - 20,000 fans, almost a third of the crowd, have made claims for a £45 ($75) refund since. "So you were genuinely disappointed?" he wrote on his blog, "there wasn't a 20,000 gap in the crowd. Tsk ... some people."
Permalink22nd April 2009
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 22 April 2009The inter-sibling tensions between Oasis's Gallagher brothers have never been far from the surface, and there is a school of thought which suggests that a tense dynamic keeps their senses keen and the creative juices flowing. Then again, perhaps not: Noel Gallagher recently described his gruff brother Liam as “rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.” Later, during the same interview -- for British music magazine Q -- Noel put the skids under any hopes of a new Oasis release in the next five years. It seems he’s suffering music fatigue: "Even before the end of making each Oasis album, I've always started writing the next one, and I haven't this time," he said. "I don't want to force it." In the meantime he plans to release a solo album, saying “I’ve got a lot of songs lying around and some of them are really great, but they’re not Oasis songs.” You can see the logic in Noel's five year plan: in 2014 Liam will be 41 years old; perhaps by then the passage of time will have softened the angry young man, and the brothers will find it easier to work together again.
Permalink4th March 2009
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 4 March 2009You might never have thought of English pub rockers Oasis as a group who might get into trouble with a government because of their political opinions; a reasonable presumption because they rarely express any. But Oasis have had to shelve plans to perform in China for the first (and second) time after concert promoters intervened to cancel gigs in Beijing and Shanghai. According to the BBC, the stadium concerts were canceled because the Chinese government found out that Noel Gallagher had performed a solo acoustic set at a Free Tibet event in 1997. One of the promoters, a Mr Luo, denied that story, explaining instead "I have no money. It's normal in an environment of economic crisis... It has nothing to do at all with the Tibet problem." Chinese officials have been seeking to crack down on Western musicians expressing support for Tibet since Icelandic singer Björk yelled "Tibet!" during a performance of her song "Declare Independence" in Shanghai last year. The remaining 20+ legs of Oasis' world tour remain intact, including one performance in the self-governing Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
Permalink14th October 2008
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 14 October 2008In what is fast becoming a British tradition as established as losing at Wimbledon, English rockers Oasis have gone straight to No.1 in the UK charts for the seventh successive time with new album Dig Out Your Soul. Since debuting with 1994's Definitely Maybe, the Manchester band have topped the UK charts every time, despite critical opinion becoming less favorable in recent years. But with an army of dedicated fans that hails each new album as "their best since What's The Story?...", their chart coronation was never in doubt. Dig… sold just over 200,000 copies in its first week, knocking Kings of Leon's Only By The Night down to second after two weeks at the summit. But every silver lining has its cloud, and first single "The Shock of the Lightning" took a hit from all the new album sales, falling from No.4 to No.16 in the singles chart.
Permalink1st October 2008
by Ed @ SoundUnwound 1 October 2008Things have been a bit rocky for Oasis recently. Last month Noel was attacked on stage, and though the band finished their set, subsequent gigs were hampered by his recovery process. More recently, tracks from their new album Dig Out Your Soul were leaked to the internet, which could have diluted its appeal. However, unlike the long, long awaited Guns N’ Roses follow-up Chinese Democracy which also leaked recently, the Oasis release has been well received by fans and critics. Buoyed by this news, the band have resisted efforts to bring the release date forward and look forward to seeing how the album performs when it hits the US stores officially on Oct 7.
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