It's still in their normal "own gig" set.

Adding 'Boy With The Blues' in the encore would be epic. I'd be down for that and maybe 'Songbird' thrown into the middle of the main setlist.

Let's be honest, the majority of people that go to these Beady Eye concerts are former Oasis fans. We all know this.

Turn up the Sun and Songbird aside, I'd rather hear Beady Eye songs than the collective bag of shite they amassed in Oasis.

Little James? Really?

i didn't mean LJ in literal terms, i meant liek rotate the ones the 3 of them wrote... just switch them out lol

Why does everyone forget about 'Guess God Thinks I'm Abel'? Easily the best thing Liam ever wrote, so much so that I don't believe he even wrote it on his own.

Got nothing to do with the main topic of this thread BUT, I really think that one of the main reasons why DBTT was regarded as being one of their best albums since the mid 90s (if its not now then it will be in years to come), was MAINLY due to Liam, Gem and Andy's songs being so strong on it. Turn Up The Sun, Guess God Thinks I'm Abel and A Bell Will Ring are all equally as strong as Noels efforts from that period as well (with the exception of maybe The Importance Of Being Idle of course)

Okay. Yeah. Here's one Oasis song I really wouldn't say no to.

What a gesture that'd be

Here's a thing.

Beady Eye go on and on about how "it's a whole new band" "we're like a brand new band" "people need to get to know us all over again, like it was in the early days of Oasis".

Well, what do new bands do? They play support slots to raise their profile. New bands do not go on a headline tour for a good, long while. And when they do, they flesh out the set with covers.

They should either go out on tour as special guests to someone like Paul Weller, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, whoever, or just charge less for gigs if you're not gonna get a full gig's worth of music. Or embark on a package tour - something more common in hard rock and heavy metal, but I'm sure they could put one togethere. In the US right now Motley Crue are touring with special guests Poison and New York Dolls. Journey recently toured the UK with special guests Foreigner, and support from Styx. I know Liam's burned a lot of bridges in his time but if the band's meant to use being a "whole knew band" "proving themselves as a fresh new thing" and whatever - don't play a headline tour unless you've got a headline tour's worth of material. It's just bullshit, and it's a rip-off.

If anything, fans are MORE likely to expect Oasis covers in a headline set, since they'll be scratching their head going "how are they gonna fill a set that long?".

So I think the band should either do the above, or do some Oasis songs.

With regards to the discussion over which Oasis songs they could play, duly note that Beady Eye's album in the UK (which is their largest market for concerts, so we can use as an example) has sold somewhere in the region of 120, 000 copies. Dig Out Your Soul, the lowest selling of the three Liam/Andy/Gem/Noel-written albums has sold over 610, 000 copies. I think it's safe to say that given most people who like Beady Eye were probably Oasis fans first (the band is not so drastically different as to conver many new listeners), most Oasis album-tracks they could pull out will be at least somewhat familiar (b-sides not so much, of course).

For those saying none of their Oasis material was nearly as big as the Noel-written stuff, that's true but...."Songbird" would get a big pop from the crowd....Heathen Chemistry has sold 1.07 million copies, Stop the Clocks is at 1.1 million, Time Flies has sold 305, 000, and it was present on all three and presented as one of the "key" tracks on them. Even the single had a fairly good chart run (3 -> 6 -> 17 -> 27 -> 33 -> 44 -> 53 -> 45 -> 44 -> 73) with sales of around 120, 000 copies (for a comparison, "The Roller" went 31 -> 68, re-entry, 51 -> 72). There's no way that anyone can claim the song would would go down less than impressively.

"I'm Outta Time" was less of a success, but still - I've given you the sales for Time Flies and Dig Out Your Soul, and the single's run of 12 -> 46 -> 83 is still sizeably better than that of "The Roller" considering far less hype was attached to just-another-Oasis-single in the middle of an album campaign, than thet debut Beady Eye single.

Since they aren't really very well-loved albums, my guess would be most people don't listen to Chemistry or Soul in full very often...."Hung in a Bad Place" was quite early on the album it came from though, so that could work. As "Turn up the Sun" was album-opener on an album that really seeped into the public conciousness (far more than the other two, despite being the middle of the three for sales), so that'd be a fair shout too. If they added those 4 songs that'd probably be a set sorted...or they could just cover some songs by other artists (perhaps the same covers Oasis had been known to do, as some sort of compromise?).

At a commercial level, yes. I am speaking more of what's fair to fans.

It would also no doubt get them more positive reviews from gig critics - who have complained about the songs not being 100% up to scratch (not every song on an album works as well live, fact of life), and the set being too short.

Those gigs they're headlining are very small, in contrast to their vast, expensive promotional campaign. This whole thing is a loss-leader, aiming to break even at best, with the idea of the band making some money once established, and they're not doing their best to ensure they play larger venues on future tours.

I like the fact they're playing small venues.
I've seen Oasis at least 20 times in the past 11 years from Finsbury Park,Wembley,ManchesterApollo N@C tour and finally Brid spa hall not much bigger than your front room! The stadium gigs can be amazing but it has been great to be able to get to the front and actually see him sing in person and not just on a big screen. The atmosphere is more intimate between the band and the crowd.
I don't think they should play Oasis material, a few good cover versions wouldn't go amiss tho' IMO.
Paul Weller didn't play The Jam stuff for that reason when he went solo, then a few years later he stuck the odd one in when his solo stuff stood by itself and they then complimented the new stuff not take away from it.

Yeah. It's like they made a new signing who they new was shit but played him to get some experience at the expense of a the superstar who was resigned to the bench. A decision which ultimately contributed to losing the game (to take the analogy further).