THIS PAGE IS FOR ALL DIE-HARD OASIS FANS.

THE START
In 1990 oasis was just a dream of every young rock musician. Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Chris Hutton formed a band called "The Rain". Tony McCarroll soon replaced the drum machine which was originally used. They sacked Hutton, and brought in the Tazmanian Devil known as Liam Gallagher. Guigsy said: "Me and Bonehead had this band. It wasn't really a band, actually: it was just 3 geezers and a drum machine, trying to fucking do something. The geezer we had as a singer was a twat, basically - so we sacked him. He was a twat. Swung his microphone round and all that. His favourite ever bands were New Order and Joy Division but he didn't have any of their records." At that stage they were singing cover versions of songs like "Wild Thing." Although Liam had never done any serious singing before he said that he was able to shout. And if he could shout, well then he could sing.

One of the first things they did was change their name to "oasis". The true story about where the name came from is: Noel had been working as a roadie for the "Inspiral Carpets" and they had played a gig at a leisure centre in Swindon called "The Swindon Oasis". Liam saw a poster advertising this gig on Noels bedroom wall and thought "oasis" was a good name for his group and so the legend of oasis was born.

They played their first gig in the Boardwalk in Manchester on 18 August 1991. Liams older brother Noel, heard his brother was in a band, so he just had to go and see for himself. The next Sunday, Noel went along to the bands rehersals. Guigsy said: "after about half an hour he said 'I'll go and get my guitar.' Then he came down and said 'Your tunes are shit. I'll show you some tunes.' After hearing Noels songs the rest of the band knew they could make it big if they practised enough. From then on they reheared up to seven days a week. Their first gig together with Noel, Liam, Bonehead, Guigs and Tony was at the Boardwalk in Manchester on 15 January 1992.

Noel had also previously been working on a building site. According to himself he injured himself on the building site and went to work in the hut where they give out the nuts, bolts and screws to the other builders. Luckily for him no one ever came in to him and he just sat down with his acoustic guitar and started writing songs. It was on this building site that many of the songs on definitely maybe were written. Tracks such as "See The Sun" and "Strange Thing" were part of the bands original material along with more familiar songs like "Columbia" and "Bring It On Down."

THE RECORD DEAL
From early 1992 onwards they played gigs around Manchester and Liverpool in venues such as the Boardwalk in Manchester and the Krazy House in Liverpool. On Monday 31 May 1993 the band whose practice room thay shared (The Sister Lovers), were playing a gig in Scotland and asked oasis to come up with them. The band got a bus and charged their mates to come along to pay for the trip and oasis would guarantee them a good night out in return for their money. When they got there the management in King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (272a St. Vincent Street) in Glasgow wouldn't give them any time on stage. Noel says that he pointed out that there were only two men on the door and about twenty of his mates willing to smash the place up if they didn't get on stage. For some reason the management agreed to let them play.

Alan McGee the boss of Creation Records was in Glasgow that night but according to Noel had missed his train home to London. Journalist Paulo Hewitt says he was there to see another of his bands, 18 Wheeler who were playing in King Tuts. He was amused to hear that a band had threatened to smash the place up if they didn't get on the stage. As soon as he heard them play he was instantly impressed with the singers voice and the "outrageous guitar solo" played by the lead guitarist. By the time they finished their set with "I Am The Walrus" Alan had made up his mind to sign up the band. As soon as they came off stage he went up to the band and asked them the name of their band. They said it was Oasis. Alan then asked if they had a record deal. They said no and then Alan McGee of Creation Records gave Oasis their big break. He was drunk at the time but he claims that he knew oasis were really good and when he played back the demo the next day he knew he was totally correct