Liam Gallagher releases new album on Friday, thirty years after Oasis debut

Sad symbol for the thirty years of Oasis’ first album, “Definitely Maybe”: Liam Gallagher releases Friday March 1, 2024 an album with guitarist John Squire (ex-Stone Roses) and not with his brother Noel, to whom he does not speak no longer since 2009.

Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher is releasing a new album this Friday, March 1 alongside John Squire, guitarist of the Stone Roses, a Manchester group that was shining before the advent of Oasis. Soberly titled Liam Gallagher & John Squire, the album composed of ten tracks promises a pop rock mix with psychedelic sounds. “I can’t wait for people to hear this album. I think people who are into the Stone Roses and Oasis and all that kind of stuff are going to fucking love it. It’s spiritual, crucial,” boasts the inimitable Liam in a press release.

At the start of the year, the duo had already unveiled a first single from their collaboration, Just Another Rainbow.

Liam already confided in Manchester Music City his fascination with the Stone Roses, seen on stage. “I flashed, I caught it in the face and I said to myself, this is going to bother me.” “Ian Brown (singer) and John Squire came straight from the streets, they made incredible music and it spoke to me.”

Ian Brown, in the same work, philosophizes on the consecration of Oasis and the connection with his group. “We were supposed to be the masters and these kids who loved us showed up and stole everything from us while we were sleeping, that’s what music is and I think it’s awesome.”

Pillars of Britpop

The genesis of Oasis is like the two brothers, mocking. In 1991, Noel, then a roadie passing through Munich (he adjusted the guitars before the concert) of the Inspiral Carpets, called his mother. Asking about Liam, he learns that his younger brother is part of a group.“I didn’t even know Liam listened to music. At home, we shared the same room. When him and his friends hung out and fooled around, I stayed home and smoked weed and played guitar. guitar (…) he didn’t have any records”, confides Noel in the book Manchester Music City by John Robb.

Liam and his band later ask Noel to come over to rehearsals. “Since I wasn’t jacking off anything that day, I went.” And the name of the group ? Noel had an Inspiral Carpets poster with the names of the cities on a tour, including a stopover at the Oasis, a leisure center in Swindon (south of England). “I always told Liam not to choose that damn name.” Who didn’t listen to their elder. The first single Supersonic released on the 11th april 1994. It’s the explosion. Oasis becomes one of the pillars of Britpop.

An anniversary tour

It all ends with a storm in the dressing rooms, with a guitar smashed in passing, just before going on stage at the Rock en Seine festival, in 2009, on the outskirts of Paris. It’s one spat too many between the two brothers who haven’t spoken to each other since. Liam and Noel, each solo or accompanied, have never achieved this level of popularity with their music.

Fans of the authors of the tube Wonderwall (1995) fantasize at regular intervals about a reformation. And the perspective of the 30 years of Definitely Maybe has caused a lot of ink to flow. Especially when Liam announced a tour in June to cover this first album on stage with his brother Noel. “Fuck no, he’s not going to do it.” Liam said, without pronouncing his eldest’s first name, this month to the music magazine Mojoending a false suspense. “I called him, well, my entourage called him, we put an offer on the table for this Oasis thing and he said no,” developed the cadet. “It’s a big tour, a lot of money. He declined. I’ll do the Definitely Maybe and I will have a good time without him”, he concludes.