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August 1997

Alongside pictures of Liam flicking the V's backstage; Liam on stage in his Sex Pistols shirt; and of Noel onstage playing guitar
Even in a summer jam-packed with choice festival line-ups, Los Angeles radio station KROQ's annual June Weenie Roast was really something to write home about. Oasis broke their nine-month live siesta with a 30-minute set rammed with golden oldies, before debuting "DYKWIM?" and album title track "Be Here Now" the next week as support to U2 in San Francisco. Liam wore a Sex Pistols "Anarchy" T-shirt and gobbed onstage, before mock-apologising to MTV-land.

"Teenage Fan Club On Oasis"

...they have been called "the best band in the world" by Creation labelmate Liam Gallagher.
"Aye, well," squirms Gerry, "he was off his head at the time."
Producing their LP at Air studios in London last winter, they were endlessly besieged by the spectre of the world's greatest grinsome yodeller, wandering away from his own "work" in the studio above.
"He was in there doing vocals," nods Norman, "and he'd come down for a listen. He's a good guy, we had a good laugh with him. They had a playback of the album. Liam got us in there and they had this massive PA set up, amazing sounding, I mean fuckin' enormous proper full-on PA. That's how they mix their records, really fuckin' LOUD."
The world's debut review of Oasis' new album, "Be Here Now", by the Fannies runs as follows: "really good", "fuckin' loud", "a couple of 'Live Forever's'", "really strong", "sounded brilliant to me...", "I think it's gonna be big...".
"We only heard about nine songs," confesses Gerry, finding a clearing in the relentless vocal chime, "and they were more raucous, more like the first album again. Sounded great...and they still put strings on it.
Liam was going: 'D'you think anyone'll like it?' guffaws Raymond. 'D'you think it'll get into the charts?' He likes what he is, y'know, he's not hung up about it."
"And he's really funny," nods Norman, "a really nice guy...a brilliant pop star."
If 'Be Here Now' was a cake?
"It'd be..." muses Raymond, "a Black Forest Gateau". "I was just thinkin' that, actually," beams Norman. "Yeah," concludes Raymond, "a big one".

"The one major thing about Oasis being successful," notes Norman ominously, "and therefore Creation being successful, is McGee gets the cakes in. You go out for a cup of tea, he walks up to get the tea, comes back, and says: 'Eh, d'you want a cake as well?'"
Nowhere in their appraisal of Oasis does the word "thick" appear, a word which, in most interviews conducted since The Great War of '95/96, Damon Albarn has made much sport of in connection with the Gallaghers.
"Liam's not thick," snorts Raymond, ruefully. "He's not bookish, but he never seemed thick to me. We did this IQ test for something to do and we did a competition and he won, didn't he? Got 164."
...they have been called "the best band in the world" by Creation labelmate Liam Gallagher.
"Aye, well," squirms Gerry, "he was off his head at the time."
Producing their LP at Air studios in London last winter, they were endlessly besieged by the spectre of the world's greatest grinsome yodeller, wandering away from his own "work" in the studio above.
"He was in there doing vocals," nods Norman, "and he'd come down for a listen. He's a good guy, we had a good laugh with him. They had a playback of the album. Liam got us in there and they had this massive PA set up, amazing sounding, I mean fuckin' enormous proper full-on PA. That's how they mix their records, really fuckin' LOUD."
The world's debut review of Oasis' new album, "Be Here Now", by the Fannies runs as follows: "really good", "fuckin' loud", "a couple of 'Live Forever's'", "really strong", "sounded brilliant to me...", "I think it's gonna be big...".
"We only heard about nine songs," confesses Gerry, finding a clearing in the relentless vocal chime, "and they were more raucous, more like the first album again. Sounded great...and they still put strings on it.
Liam was going: 'D'you think anyone'll like it?' guffaws Raymond. 'D'you think it'll get into the charts?' He likes what he is, y'know, he's not hung up about it."
"And he's really funny," nods Norman, "a really nice guy...a brilliant pop star."
If 'Be Here Now' was a cake?
"It'd be..." muses Raymond, "a Black Forest Gateau". "I was just thinkin' that, actually," beams Norman. "Yeah," concludes Raymond, "a big one".
"The one major thing about Oasis being successful," notes Norman ominously, "and therefore Creation being successful, is McGee gets the cakes in. You go out for a cup of tea, he walks up to get the tea, comes back, and says: 'Eh, d'you want a cake as well?'"
Nowhere in their appraisal of Oasis does the word "thick" appear, a word which, in most interviews conducted since The Great War of '95/96, Damon Albarn has made much sport of in connection with the Gallaghers.
"Liam's not thick," snorts Raymond, ruefully. "He's not bookish, but he never seemed thick to me. We did this IQ test for something to do and we did a competition and he won, didn't he? Got 164."

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