Liam Gallagher announces huge new Definitely Maybe tour – and tickets go on sale this week
LIAM Gallagher has announced a huge arena tour to celebrate Oasis’ seminal Definitely Maybe album.
The rocker will play the legendary Britpop band’s first record in full for the first time to mark its 30th anniversary.
Liam, 51, is definitely mad for it, saying: “I’m bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe Tour. The most important album of the ‘90s bar none.
“I wouldn’t be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together LG x”
The 12-date tour visiting six cities includes three nights at London’s O2 Arena and three night’s at Manchester’s Co-Op Live which, when it is finished, will be the country’s biggest indoor music venue holding 23,500 fans.
Those lucky enough to get tickets will see Liam belt out classics Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, Live Forever, Supersonic and Cigarettes & Alcohol as well as deeper cuts like Up In The Sky and Digsy’s Dinner.
There will be B sides from the era and Liam could well throw in some other hits, too.
The tour – tickets for which go on sale 9am on Friday – is the next best thing to a full-blown Oasis reunion in light of Liam and brother Noel’s ongoing feud.
Last month Noel, who is currently invested in his band High Flying Birds, joked any comeback would feature “fit birds”.
Seemingly thawing on the idea of getting the band back together, Noel reminisced fondly about the group’s 90s heyday.
Noel said: “If you didn’t see Oasis live right up until the end, you haven’t really seen a band live. The thing that started on a council estate in a tiny bedroom went around the world. The songs speak for themselves. There is a new generation now that have taken ownership of it. Crack on, have a great time.”
Alongside Liam in the Nineties and Noughties, Noel clocked up eight No1 albums and 23 Top Ten singles, eight of which were chart-toppers.
But Noel, 56, has now revealed the secret of their huge success was not having had a penny to rub together at the start of their career.
He explained: “The sound we are known for comes from the fact it was the only sound we could get out of the equipment we had at the time.
“Bonehead (Oasis guitarist Paul Arthurs) had one amp, it was s**t and it only had one sound, and it was good when you turned it up full.
“I had a Vox AC30 (guitar amplifier) that belonged to Mani from The Stone Roses and that only sounded good if you turned it right up.
“Our equipment was s**t. We masked it all with volume. So I wrote Liam’s vocal parts in a higher register to sing over the racket.
“Everyone goes on about the f***ing sound. It was because the equipment we had was s**t. We masked it all with volume.
“That made me write Liam’s vocal parts in a higher register to sing over the racket.
“If anything, we struggled trying to keep it once we became bigger and had better equipment. I’d be on stage thinking, ‘This sounds too good’.”