"Gone And Let It Out"

UK debut for Oasis line-up

Oasis played live in front of a UK audience for the first time on Friday night at the BBC TV studios in White City, London. The band, now featuring Andy Bell, ex of Ride and Hurricane#1, and Gem Archer, formerly of Heavy Stereo, were recording a live set for BBC's Later With Jools Holland. The show will air on BBC2 on April 1. Oasis performed 14 songs to a 400-strong studio audience which included the winners of an nme.com competition.

They played five songs from their forthcoming LP 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants', including their new Number One single "Go Let It Out", which had sold 114,000 copies by midweek last week to go straight in at the top of the charts, knocking off Gabrielle who sold 34,000 copies of her single 'Rise' during the same period.

The single, the first from the band's forthcoming album, was followed by next single "Who Feels Love", "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", "Sunday Morning Call" and "Gas Panic!", a song written about Noel Gallagher's cocaine problem and introduced by Liam as a song "about sleepless nights". After the band had finished playing the song, Noel told the crowd: "That'll sound a bit more familiar in a couple of weeks' time."

Liam left the stage for Noel to take to a stool and sing "Where Did It All Go Wrong?" and "Sunday Morning Call" where he was backed by Archer on guitar. After he had finished playing the two acoustic numbers, Noel asked the crowd: "How out of tune was that?" When a member of the audience replied, Noel joked: "There's always some twat, isn't there?"

The band mixed the new material with old songs including "Supersonic", their first Number One single "Some Might Say", "Cigarettes And Alcohol", "Acquiesce", "Rock'N'Roll Star", "Wonderwall", "Don't Look Back In Anger" (performed without Liam), "Live Forever" and a raucous encore of The Who's classic 'My Generation' - introduced by Noel as, "for all the old bastards in the audience."

Songs from the band's third studio album, 'Be Here Now', were notable by their absence. Celebrity guests at the show included Goldie, Kate Moss and ex-Creation boss Alan McGee. McGee told NME the UK debut public performance of the new Oasis line-up was "as good as you could wish for."

He said: "it's always difficult to judge a performance with these TV things. I can't wait to see them in a proper venue. Andy Bell's a phenomenal musician. I'd love to see them play a small club or something again."

Oasis made a prerecording of "Go Let It Out" at Top Of The Tops last Thursday, which was broadcast last Friday, which our pictures show.

Meanwhile, Oasis fans can download an exclusive acoustic version of new album track "Sunday Morning Call" on a special Oasis 'microsite' accessed via NME's website nme.com. You can find the microsite under 'specials' on nme.com's front page marked 'Oasis module'.

Noel Gallagher has also just answered your questions for NME's Fan-ish Inquisition feature, due to appear in next week's paper. In a typically frank outburst, Noel revealed his dislike for the Conservative Party and the royal family, calling for them to be shot.

Asked by NME readers: "if you were the Prime Minister, what would be the first thing you'd do?", Noel replied: "I would outlaw the Conservative Party and make it a criminal offence to be in the Conservative Party. I would make it a criminal offence to vote Conservative and a criminal offence to have relatives in the Conservative Party and to be part of any royal family, or to be a fucking lord or a lady, and I'd have the lot of the bastards shot. Or if that's a bit too extreme then at least have them maimed...fuck'em." The first part of the Oasis Fan-ish Inquisition featuring Liam and drummer Alan White appears in this issue of NME, starting on page I8.

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