Noel and Liam Gallagher reflect on their massive debut album “Definitely Maybe” just as news breaks of Oasis’ surprise reunion tour.
t was one of the best kept secrets in the music industry. Over a year ago, I first started to hear rumblings that Noel and Liam Gallagher would be getting their band back together for a long-awaited reunion tour. Then, on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. UK time, the newsin 2013, after nearly a decade of creative silence, has a major artist kept such massive news a secret. Keenly orchestrated, the timing could not have been more perfect.
That mix was actually from the second batch of recordings the band had made, at Sawmills Studio in Cornwall, with their live engineer and longtime friend Mark Coyle at the helm.
“I wouldn’t say there was any problem with the way we recorded it, but then, when we were playing everything back, Dave said, ‘We’ve lost something here,’” says original Oasis drummer Tony MacCarroll. “It was real crisp and clean, and not the dirty sound we had in Oasis. We were used to eyeballing each other in a small rehearsal room, and in that first serious recording session, we were all in separate rooms. I was surrounded by 20, 30 mics.
Still, he reflects now, “You’re only in that position once. You’ve had your whole life to get to that point, and the only expectation people have is that you’re going to have a good time and maybe make a single. But by the time I’d written ‘Live Forever’ and ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’ and ‘Supersonic,’ I did feel a bit unstoppable.”
In the 15 years since, the pair have regularly traded barbs in public, while reportedly not speaking until a recent phone call put the reunion in motion.
As the outtakes from those sessions—and, of course, the finished album itself—prove, in a world where rock and roll heroes were increasingly hard to find , Oasis were now ready to pick up the mantle of their heroes.
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