A sale featuring a guitar from Noel Gallagher, along with an Oasis exhibition have been launched to help save Salford Lads Club.
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The club, famous for being the location of the inside sleeve for The Smiths album ‘The Queen Is Dead’, first hosted a giant Oasis exhibition in June – it featured rare and exclusive memorabilia from the band, along with a selection of Gallagher‘s six-figure guitar collection, in what was touted as the “largest ever” exhibition of the band.
Now, per Manchester Evening News, a new Oasis exhibition will take place on November 23 & 24 as part of a charity effort to raise funds for the club.
It will follow an auction of an autographed Cherry Hofner Verythin, which was used by Gallagher on Oasis studio recordings, estimated between £4,000 to £8,000. Bidding will end on Friday (November 15). View and participate in the auction here.
On November 24, the club will also host a Q&A session with Oasis drummer and founding member Tony McCarroll, who is not currently planned to join the band’s upcoming reunion tour.
McCarroll joined the band in the ‘80s, performing first with the band when they were called ‘The Rain’, before Noel joined. Once they formed Oasis, McCarroll drummed on their first two albums, ‘Definitely Maybe’ and ‘(What’s The Story?) Morning Glory’.
The drummer told MailOnline that he held no grudges and isn’t upset about potentially missing out on the tours, which are expected to pull in an estimated £400 million next year.
Salford Lads Club – which was opened in 1904 by Robert Baden-Powell in Ordsall as a club for boys but is now open to all young people – is under threat of closure due to rising costs and a drop in grant funding. To remain open, it must raise £250,000 by mid-November.
In October, Graham Nash made a donation of £10,000 to save the historic site, later followed by Morrissey and a £50,000 donation of his own.
The fundraiser has been backed by Salford-born Tim Burgess, frontman of The Charlatans, and has raised more than £28,000 at time of writing. You can find out more and donate here.
Last weekend (November 11), Noel released a six-hour-long, ambient version of ‘Champagne Supernova’ he created for an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Liam and Noel Gallagher will play their first live shows together since 2009 next summer, kicking off with huge stadium gigs in the UK and Ireland. From there, the Britpop band are due to head to North America before returning for two extra dates at London’s Wembley Stadium in late September. Then, they’ll head to Australia for shows in Melbourne and Sydney before a trip to South America.
