By rate Beady Eye, I mean rate them as a collective project taking into account all aspects: Album quality, touring, promoting, Liam's singing, gigs, attitude, spirit, purpose, etc.

I'm going to give them a very mediocre 6/10.

Losing the talented song-writer was obviously a massive blow to the quality that LAG as a collective unit would be able to produce. But you can't fault the spirit and purpose - which is where I draw most of the accolades from.

Different Gear, Still Speeding was what you'd expect from LAG. And upon release, it sounded rather decent. Seven years later, and the album just feels dated. Some tunes on their are okay, but it's aged poorly in my opinion.

As for BE, that album had the right idea but very poorly executed. Again, some decent tunes on there but I rarely go out of my way to listen to BE (or anything else from Beady Eye, really). The marketing and promoting of BE was shambolic as well.

The best thing they ever did was covering Sons of the Stage. It's such a good cover that I wish Oasis themselves covered it. Hell, I actually wish Oasis wrote it - it's that good of a song. The music video to it was good, and the Blackpool performance (pro-shot) was top. That being said, when the best thing a band has done is a cover, you know there are problems.

Liam's singing was a bit hit and miss at the time, never necessarily reaching the lows of the 2005/06 tour with Oasis, but also not really hitting the highs that Liam would go onto achieve in 2017/18.

Ultimately, Beady Eye had good intentions, the effort was there, and they showed some pride after the implosion of Oasis. It was the right thing to try at the time, and Beady Eye helped keep the lads together so when almost a decade after Oasis split, both Gem and Chris are now fully involved with NGHFB.

tl;dr Decent project, but very mediocre as far as quality and longevity is concerned. 6/10