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speak easy

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Sun Oct 5, 2025, 01:46 PM Oct 5

Liam Gallagher 1994 Interview

talking about Noel's songwriting before Oasis were famous.



(not wearing a parka)

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highplainsdem

(58,601 posts)
3. See reply 2 for another part of that interview that the YT channel had uploaded a week earlier.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 04:15 PM
Oct 5

highplainsdem

(58,601 posts)
2. Thanks, speak easy! And LOL at the "not wearing a parka" aside. No, he's wearing double denim
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 04:13 PM
Oct 5

there, as his brother Noel often does as well. And if anyone wonders what this is about, see the subthread here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182230272 - where you thought Liam might've been a glam rocker if born a couple decades earlier. Not a chance IMO, as I've already explained in email.

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that another part of that interview had been posted on that YouTube channel a week earlier in July, and as with the one you just posted, the original source of the interview is misidentified.

Here's the earlier clip:




Whoever has that YouTube channel says the interview was originally broadcast on the Music Box TV channel. Not unless Liam was interviewed by a time traveler, because although there once was a pan-European music channel called Music Box, it no longer existed by the time of this interview. And though a production company of the same name continued to exist and create some programming for various shows and channels for a while, and I searched for a Liam interview on those other channels/shows, I haven't found the source yet.

What I can tell you is that since Liam refers (in one of these videos) to the band already having an album and three singles out, that would be the period between the end of August and early October of 1994. Their first single, Supersonic, had been released in April and done well. The second single, released in June, had done even better, peaking at #11. The third single, Live Forever, released in early August, reached the Top 10. And that album, Definitely Maybe, released 8/29/94, went straight to #1 in the UK and was the fastest selling debut album ever there, to that point. This interview was done soon after that explosive debut on the album charts. Anyway, this interview was most likely done in September. They were in London in mid-August (in case Liam had been talking about the album in future tense), then the Netherlands for a few days, Wales on 8/31, Stockholm on 9/2, then Dublin, Belfast and Manchester on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, then tour dates in Europe, Japan and the US through the end of October. I'd think Manchester might be the most likely location for this interview, and the interviewer does talk about the Manchester music scene - but she refers to it as "there" and not as "here" as she likely would if they were in Manchester.

Anyway, in early November of 1994, Oasis were in France, and Liam was wearing a parka, and a bit more attitude, for an interview and a concert on the 4th.

This first video has the date wrong, probably a typo with 12 when they meant 11.




highplainsdem

(58,601 posts)
4. Yaaaaay! Figured out just when and where this interview was done. I have always been so good at
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 03:48 PM
Monday

research, lol, though the internet sure makes it easier than it once was...

See the Granada TV documentary I just posted at https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034152987 which I would have found sooner if Wikipedia's article on Music Box - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_(TV_channel) - had included ANY mention of Granada TV among the channels Music Box productions had created shows for in the 1990s - but it didn't.

That documentary includes footage of Oasis at London's Virgin Megastore - August 30, 1994 - for the release of Definitely Maybe, and in Wales the next day for a gig at the Tivoli in Buckley, a small but famous venue. Liam and Noel were both interviewed at the Tivoli before the gig.

Article on the Tivoli from last year, with some info on what went wrong during the gig: https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/24547914.oasis-reunion-marks-30-years-since-wild-gig-tivoli/

I wonder if Liam - whom Noel once played a prank on to convince him someplace they stayed while recording an album was haunted (days of moving furniture and fishing line rigged to move smaller items were involved) - had any idea the venue was famous not just for rock bands who'd appeared there, but paranormal activity? https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/17189442.iconic-buckley-nightclub-tivoli-haunted-ghost-sinister-old-man/

See the interior of the Tivoli in the second article.

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