Beady eye should've carried on like Noel did. A good healthy size of Oasis material in they early setlists. It made no sense not playing oasis songs DGSS tour when they had little material, then playing Oasis tunes during BE tour when they had a good deal of material. If they carried on like Noel in terms of Oasis sings they wouldv'e definetly packed out the SECC at the time in Scotland and possibly bigger arenas across uk.

They shouldn't have played any Noel penned songs. But I explained why about 3 times recently so I won't do it again. I always find it a bit strange when people don't understand why though.

I couldn't agree more. Playing Noel written Oasis songs was a mistake. Did it help contribute to the band eventually falling apart? Probably not but it certainly didn't do them any favors. I get bashed a lot for my stance on this but people fail to realize is that I'm paying Liam, Andy and Gem the highest of compliments by saying they don't need any Oasis material or Noel Oasis material for their setlists. Between the 3 of them they were in good shape.

My preference for them was always no Oasis songs. If pushed, I could see them doing LAG Oasis songs. Never ever ever Noel written Oasis songs. That just completely cheapens the Beady Eye product by leaps and bounds.

so good. i vividly remember the night this came on, waiting for the show to begin... i was so excited!

Beady Eye should have done more acoustic sessions. The later ones they did for BE with Back After the Break and Off at the Next Exit were just incredible. Cry Baby Cry was a nice cover choice too.

Needed more psychadelia and mellotrons. Much more mellotrons.

Mellotrons on acid...

In space.

Thanks for reminding me of that cover, and also for reminding me to have another listen to a genuine favourite album of mine by World of Twist- Quality Street   It might just be me but IMO they sounded like Roxy Music if Bryan Ferry & Co had come from Acid House instead of the 1970s.

I have the vinyl version and whilst it could be described as flat I think the main problem for World of Twist was they couldn't be pigeonholed in an era that was very much about the Madchester, Grunge and Rave 'scenes'. Also their label Circa Records was acquired around the same time by EMI and merged into the Virgin label by 1992 with job losses including World of Twist supporters, meaning they had no real label backing and were subsequently dropped. The fact that Quality Street cost in the region of £250,000 to produce without commercial success didn't help their chances under a new label either.

It was a tumultuous time for the record industry in the UK in general, with Rough Trade, Siren and Factory all going under in the early 1990s, whilst Creation, Food and Mute all were either brought in part or wholly or licensed exclusively by majors to provide international distribution as well as financial stability. The last two pre-punk independents, A&M and Island, were sold around this time to Polygram. This upheavel saw a lot of cult or low selling artists dropped as budgets were slashed, many of whom either stayed on the periphery of the music scenes or simply dropped out of music altogether.

Creation Records did attempt to sign World of Twist after their dropping by Circa, but the deal fell through which is a shame as I think Alan McGee and Dick Green may have given the band the freedom to create the kind of record they had always promised. Ironically at this time in late 1992 and early 1993 McGee's attention was diverted from World of Twist during the failed negotiations to another South Manchester band called Oasis.

I'm sucker for Liam singing a ballad so I love Kill For A Dream and Don't Brother Me, the lyrics are questionable I completely agree but the bloody melodies! It's all about the melodies man, so good.

I have worked in various financial capacities as an accountant, mostly for independents, as well as bass guitar duties on the odd recording session where a bassist was required on the cheap, usually an independent recording   I must be a Jonah as those records did nothing commercially for the artists though...

Nothing wrong with praising Damon Albarn's work, even Noel does these days! That copy of There's No Other Way unless it's a repro will be from Food's independent days- Dave Balfe sold his shares to EMI on the eve of Parklife being released- a case of bad timing as he felt guitar based indies were over due to dance led independent releases taking over the independent charts.

As to World of Twist the Gallaghers were both in attendence at the Ritz show on 23rd Dec 1990 Pretty Green and I presume working for The Inspirals Noel also may have meet Tony Ogden & co that way. I leave it to artist Jeremy Deller's Manchester International Festival "Parade" exhibition float to say it best though 

I was skimming through the page and I thought that said something else at a glance...