[Manchester] Oasis bus tour!!
CityLife: Oasis tour - take a trip round our way
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SOME Might Say it’s been a long time coming…
But finally a music tour honouring and exploring the history of Manc
music stars Oasis has been launched.
For £10-a-head, fans can be guided around landmarks in the life of
Burnage’s most famous sons, Liam and Noel Gallagher. Sights on the
two-and-a-half-hour tour include where the brothers went to school,
where they first rehearsed together as a band and the record shop where
they bought singles from.
The bus tour was the masterplan of Inspiral Carpets drummer Craig Gill
who already runs a series of Manchester Music bus and walking tours
alongside music expert Phill Gatenby revealing famous locations in the
history of bands including Joy Division and The Smiths.
But Craig is more qualified than most to wax lyrical about Oasis – as
he knew Noel from the days when he was then just a budding musician who
ended up becoming the Inspirals’ roadie after failing to win a place
as the band’s new singer.
The band, originally called The Rain, even re-named themselves Oasis
after seeing the name on a poster of Inspiral Carpets’ tour venues.
Craig explains: “I first met Noel when he came up to me in the
Hacienda and told me he was a fan of the Inspirals and gave me a
cassette of him playing acoustic guitar. He was still working for the
gas board back then.
“When our singer at the time left the band in 1988, we asked him to
come for an audition but we were after something really specific at the
time, so to break it gently to him we asked him to come and be our
roadie, but he became more or less the sixth member of the band.
"But then he joined up with his brother Liam and formed Oasis and his
own career took off.”
Heaton Park
Craig gave us a sneak preview of the music tour yesterday, which will
launch to the public on June 6 ahead of the band’s huge Heaton Park
gigs, but is also available for private bookings before then.
The tour will take in sites including Cranwell Drive in Burnage, where
the Gallaghers grew up, Fog Lane Park where they used to play football
and shot early videos.
It also includes perhaps the most famous fan landmark – Sifters Record
Shop in Didsbury – where the lads used to buy singles, and credited in
Oasis’s 1994 song Shakermaker with: “Mister Sifter sold me songs, When
I was just 16.”
Shop owner Peter Howard says he still regularly gets Oasis fans from
across the world wanting a picture with the famous “Mr Sifter”.
He said: “I remember the Gallagher lads used to come in the shop quite
regularly. I read that they apparently pinched some singles from here,
but I don’t remember that myself.
“I still get fans coming in wanting a picture with me – only yesterday
a group of Japanese fans came in for photos.”
The tour bus also stops off at the former Boardwalk bar on Little Peter
Street in the city centre – where the fledging Oasis would rehearse
seven nights a week, and where now a blue plaque commemorates the venue
with the words: “Madchester venue, nightclub and rehearsal rooms”.
Craig tells me he’s been surprised by how much interest there has
already been in the tour.
He says: “I put up some details on our website about the Oasis tour
ahead of their Heaton Park gigs and there have been enquiries from across
the world.
"I guess if people are coming all this way to watch the band play, they
are interested to see where the lads grew up, where they played football,
where they bought their records from too.”
由 Inspiral Carpets 鼓手 Craig Gill 經營的曼徹斯特音樂之旅,繼 The
Smiths、Joy Division 後,六月初的希頓公園演唱會前,將推出 Oasis Tour!
兩小時半的巴士旅遊只需俗俗的£10,將帶領歌迷踏遍曼撤斯特所有和 Oasis
有關的景點,包括 Sifters 唱片店─ “Shakermaker”歌詞中提到的 Mr. Sifter
即為唱片行老闆。
http://www.manchestermusictours.com/
http://www.myspace.com/mancmusictour/
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喔喔喔真想回去曼城啊,來趟 Oasis Tour、坐摩天輪、去西提球場看球!
I miss Manchester!
fookeiji 板友到時參加這個就全部搞定了啊!:D
記得多拍照唷!
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