It’s time to celebrate this iconic act and the astonishing imprint they made on a music scene that didn’t know what hit it when they first emerged in the early ’90s. We don’t know about you, but we’re buzzing!
Getting the band together It’s funny when you realise, all these years later, that Oasis could have been just another failed local band. When bassist Paul McGuigan, guitarist Paul Arthurs, drummer Tony McCarroll and singer Chris Hutton first got together in 1991 and formed a band called the Rain, they neither looked nor sounded like a world-beating group. The first step towards standing out from the crowd came when Arthurs replaced Hutton with Liam Gallagher, who in turn suggested that the band change its name to Oasis, famously inspired by the leisure centre of the same name in Swindon. When the new line-up played a gig at the Boardwalk Club in Manchester, supporting now-forgotten acts the Catchmen and Sweet Jesus, Liam’s brother Noel was in attendance. He liked what he…
