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One of my least favourite bands, Oasis, are playing some gigs just down the road from my ‘up north’ flat this week….thankfully though I’ll hopefully be heading down south at some point…Living by the beach in Brighton I’m used to the noise especially with Fatboy Slims frequent gigs….but as I try to chill in my flat I can hear a distant sound/system check happening…and it’s beginning to annoy me, as someone who has done thousands, of these myself I understand the importance but…..ahhhhhh…..oh well, perhaps I’ll get to some music for free tomorrow before heading away….that is if I can get home through the masses…..doing their best Manchester Struts despite coming from Ilford.

Oasis, for me, are no more than a pub rock act, if they’d been around 10 or so years earlier they would have made a small living playing small venues, luckily for them they appeared on the scene at a time when they had little or no competition (as everyone else was trying to be a DJ, or sing like their favourite boy band member) and as such easily cleaned up…..The success of arrogant front man Liam Gallagher, who is in reality just a poor mans David Johansen and his brother Noel, who’s no more than a guitar tech who struck lucky, is a total mystery to me, and I’m someone who has been around and in love with music all of my life. But I suppose millions of record buyers can’t be fooled…sorry, I mean wrong…As for the other band members, well, they seem to come and go and come and go….I think it was the record producer Pete Waterman who once said, as a reply to a question about why he changes his studio engineers so often, that – after a while, if they’re good, they’ll start forming an opinion and once that happens then they’re of no use  to me…..I think that also probably offers some explanation to ever changing Oasis line ups…..

So here I am, in my flat, smoking silk cut, typing, drinking tea and feeling a little bit hay fevery whilst listening to all the normal Wednesday evening things with the addition, today, of an engineer, a mile down the road, discovering just how much he can get out of those damn subs…..

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