Noel Gallagher has opened up about Oasis‘ previously unheard early recordings from their ‘Definitely Maybe’ sessions – find out more below.
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The band – who are currently teasing something, which fans believe will be a reunion tour announcement – will release the early recordings as part of the ‘Definitely Maybe’ 30th anniversary reissue this Friday August 30.
The recordings – which went missing 30 years ago – come from Oasis’ first-ever studio session as a signed band. They had recorded eight songs at the Monnow Valley Studios in South Wales, before the tapes were lost – they were finally recovered recently.
Noel Gallagher said of the lost recordings, per the BBC: “I kept saying there’s no way they’ve gone missing, those tapes must be somewhere. The tapes went to our record label and never seen again. It was canned. Turns out it was mislabelled. So I’d never heard that Monnow Valley record until six months ago.”
After the original recordings were lost, Oasis re-recorded the songs and re-mixed them, eventually releasing them as ‘Definitely Maybe’.
The unheard “lost tracks” being released on Friday include early versions of ‘Live Forever’, ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’, ‘Shakermaker’ and ‘Columbia’.
The 30th anniversary reissue of ‘Definitely Maybe’ comes as Oasis are teasing an announcement later this week – fans believe it will be a reunion tour announcement. Last night at Reading Festival, Liam Gallagher teased a mysterious date on his screens towards the end of his set, with some news allegedly dropping at 8am on ‘27.08.24’. The same image cropped up in Manchester following Blossoms‘ homecoming gig in the city, and on Noel’s, Liam’s and Oasis’ official Twitter/X after the set.
At Reading, Liam played Oasis’ debut studio album in full ahead of its 30th-anniversary reissue dropping on August 30. And, in honour of the occasion, he took a moment to shout out his brother, dedicating ‘Half The World Away’ to “Noel fucking Gallagher”, and further stoked rumours of an Oasis reunion earlier this Friday (August 23) at his Leeds headline set: “It is very interesting init? It is a very interesting situation we’ve found ourselves in.”
Oasis are also rumoured to be potential headliners for next year’s edition of Glastonbury Festival. If true, the set would come 30 years after the release of their seminal 1995 LP ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’
The rumours also follow Noel’s recent praise of Liam in a conversation with John Robb, saying: “I can’t sing ‘Slide Away’ and ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’ and ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ and ‘Columbia’ and all that.
