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Departed guitarist speaks about band’s legacy

Former Oasis guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs has said that he believes the band should have quit after they played their two shows at Knebworth in 1996.

The Manchester band played in front of a combined audience of 250,000 at the two huge outdoor shows on August 10 and 11 that year – with Bonehead (who was still in the band at the time) saying it would have been a suitable point to end their career.

“I always thought we should have bowed out at Knebworth,” he told the Guardian G2. “Walking out on that stage is a feeling I can’t explain: a sea of people. Big!”

Speaking about why he left the band in 1999, he added: “It was the best job in the world but by the time we recorded [1999 album] ‘Standing On The Shoulder of Giants’ it wasn’t enjoyable. My daughter was two days old and I was jumping on a flight. We’d made our money. We had big cars. We were renting out Christian Dior‘s mansion in France. That should have been fun, but it wasn’t. Liam [Gallagher, singer] was on a drinking ban and I wasn’t helping by not sticking to it. [Liam's brother, guitarist] Noel had his own problems.”

Arthurs said he would not re-join the band, but would be interested in playing with them live.

“I’d never rejoin them,” he asserted. “Not that I’d be asked. But for one gig? Absolutely. I still know the chords to ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’.”

Oasis are set to kick off a series of three gigs at Manchester‘s Heaton Park on Thursday (June 4), with Liam Gallagher recently saying he hoped they would surpass Knebworth in terms of quality.

Quelle: nme.com

ROBBIE WILLIAMS has told how he took revenge on NOEL GALLAGHER for branding him “the fat dancer from Take That.”

Before his historic three-night Knebworth residency last year, which smashed Oasis’ two-night record, Robbie sent Noel a taunting letter with some pies and dancing shoes.

They were delivered just before Oasis opened their UK tour in Cardiff.

A leak from Robbie’s new autobiography Feel, in this week’s NME, says: The letter read: “Dear Mr N Gallagher, you said two nights at Knebworth is history. Well, I guess three is just greedy. Yours, Rob. PS: Finding it difficult to find adequate support for my show. What are you doing on the 1st and 2nd? Oh, and the 3rd?”

Robbie’s book also says of Noel’s brother LIAM: “We used to do sh*tloads of charlie and sing ‘Sgt Pepper’ to each other.”

Quelle: thesun.co.uk

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Rache ist süss

LONDON - Niemand, auch nicht Oasis-Sänger Noel Gallagher, nennt Robbie Williams ungestraft “fett”.

Mr. “Schandmaul” Gallagher schimpfte Robbie Williams (30) einmal “den fetten Tänzer von Take That”. Doch Frauenschwarm Robbie weiss sich zu wehren. Das beweist eine Anekdote, die gemäss “New Music Express” ab 1. September in seiner Biografie “Feel” nachzulesen sein wird.

Im Jahr 2003 bescherte Robbie Grossbritannien den grössten Live-Auftritt, den das Königreich jemals gesehen hatte. 375’000 Menschen kamen, ihren Helden in drei Konzerten an drei Abenden zu sehen. Doch bevor sich Robbie zu seinem Triumph von Knebworth augemacht hatte, schickte er seinem Erzfein Noel Gallagher noch einen Brief mit folgendem Inhalt: “Lieber Mr. Gallagher, sie sagten einmal, ihre zwei Nächte in Knebworth seien in die Geschichte eingegangen. Ich glaube, dann sind drei Nächte wohl ein bisschen gierig. Ihr Rob. PS: Es ist schwierig eine angemessene Vorgruppe für meine Show zu finden. Was machen Sie am 1. und am 2.? Oh ja, und am 3.?” Folter-Robbie wie er leibt und lebt.

Quelle: blick.ch

Q Magazine

In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Q Magazines ist die Auswertung einer Umfrage nach den 100 besten Konzerten aller Zeiten.
Radiohead’s Auftritt beim Glastonbury Festival 1997 kam dabei auf den ersten Rang.

Weitere Gigs, die in die Top 10 gevotet wurden waren Nirvanas Auftritt 1992 beim Reading Festival, Oasis’ Knebworth Gig 1996 und der Queen-Gig, 1985 beim Live Aid.

Quelle: Q Magazine