Not a chance any Knebworth material surfaces on a Be Here Now reissue. They have nothing to do with BHN outside MBM or IGBM.

We need the Mystique tape. It's literally the coolest part of this project potentially.

If we get the Mustique tape it will be Angel Child, Don't Go Away, D'You Know What I Mean? And Stand by Me, songs that you already heard with Noel on vocals. I'm sure some random gigs like Chicago or Manchester. I think MBM and IGBM live at Knebworth too

I totally agree that the Mustique demoes are the coolest part of the BHN reissue. Doesn't mean we're getting them all though!

There'll definitely be a bunch of live tracks from random gigs as bonuses like on the previous reissues. Maybe not from Knebworth, but I wouldn't rule it out 100%.

On Twitter Brian Cannon recently said he hasn't worked on BHN since the 90s:



He also thinks Boney M are better than Oasis :-)

Does that make Milli Vanilli the missing link between Boney M's miming male vocalist and the Noel/Liam role swap miming for Roll With It on TOTP? 

I also don't expect Brian Cannon to be truthful. I'm sure Noel and his management don't want the fucking photographer leaking news. Brian can just politely say he hasn't done anything. We see this happen all the time with bands and movies. They say one thing but then boom, another thing happens.

This is never coming out. It's DIV and AA all over again.

Since he allegedly destroyed the AA work and the DIV sessions have never seen the light of day I have to wonder were they really that bad? Or is it just that for all his progressive talk he always was a firm musical Luddite and could never reconcile the attempts to move forward with his idea of how Oasis should sound?

On the subject of BHN it's looking less likely as time goes on, and although a few people have mentioned it coming out with the Knebworth releases I can't see the connection. It looks to me like Noel is doing his usual historical revision whereby we celebrate the spectacular debut, the mega selling follow up and the live shows up until the record breaking Knebworth gigs before quietly dismissing everything that came after that period as 'not of the same standard', or words to that effect. 

I can think of a few artists who are dismissive of periods of their work, but none so determined as Noel to destroy evidence of or so vehemently attempt to rewrite history and his band's legacy to suit whatever agenda or viewpoint he is pursuing.


Jimmy Page as an example is similarly protective over Led Zeppelin's legacy and some critics argued that he is entitled to ignore two or three LP's in their catalogue (Song Remains The Same, Presence, In Through The Out Door I have seen mentioned) yet has delivered deluxe, reissued and remastered versions of all of the catalogue. You could argue Page being Page money played a big part in that decision, and the vault cleaning had questionable artistic merit material wise, but at least fans had the choice of buying & listening to it or not, and making their own minds up as to it's worth.

I know an artist is entitled to decide what is and what isn't worthy of release, be it a book, painting, recording or whatever, but the main gripe I have with Noel is if you don't want to issue it why bother announcing it in the first place? Also, stop trying to rewrite history, for better or worse you had three big selling albums in the 90's and some decent if flawed follow ups.

As a different perspective try Warner Music Group's assessment of the band from 2009 for distributing the Oasis catalogue on behalf of Big Brother Recordings- Interestingly they claim SOTSOG outsold HC, as opposed to the oft claim that SOTSOG was the low seller- WMG PDF (WTSMG & DOYS are not given sections as the former had already sold as well as they hoped & this was intended to bump up other LP sales, and at the time DOYS was in the middle of it's own initial promotion push)

Only going on official record company quotes- It did outsell it in the UK but elsewhere it's harder to get accurate figures, so it's entirely possible it is the way WMG have said it is.

For the record the British Phonographic Industry certified SOTSOG at double platinum for 600,000 plus, and Heathen Chemistry at triple platinum for 900,000 plus, which is UK sales figures only.

EDIT- RIAA has USA sales of 201,000 for SOTSOG and 154,000 for HC, which makes me believe that SOTSOG probably was the bigger seller worldwide. They actually played more shows on the HC tour than the SOTSOG tour if memory serves, so the critical reaction may have reflected in sales regardless of live dates.

Love that tune 


Given the threads on the board, maybe Howlin' Pelle Almqvist should have produced HC? Might have had some more life in the back to basics rock n' roll approach at any rate.