Cigarettes & Alcohol.

So, Oasis finally broke up.
I have a very mixed feeling about Oasis. I have seen them on most tours and I have seen them good, bad, amazing and awful. I have seem them with the original line-up, without Noel (horrible show), without Liam (slightly better show) and tired, rich and uninterested. But I have always read all their interviews. Oasis have always made better quotes than albums and they have always delivered in interviews. I talked to Liam earlier this year and that is a tape that I will keep forever. He was very nice, very Liam, full of bragging and pretty damn hilarious. Liam was a journalists dream, he spoke in headlines and delivered a show-stopping answer on most questions. He also spoke a completely unintelligible Manchester accent filled with "you know's", "fuck" and more "fucks". It took me 2-3 listens to transcribe it properly.
I also saw Oasis at the Hultsfredfestival in 1994 when they were as good as they ever got. The show was loud, cocky and really damn good. That is also the same festival were someone really bright put Oasis in a small hotel in Hultsfred with a bar that closed at midnight together with Primal Scream, The Verve and The Wildhearts. Earlier that day Primal Scream had heated up their heroin in the tourbus microwave during a interview with a big Swedish newspaper and Bobby later in the evening fell of the stage. The Verves singer Richard Ashcroft sat on the edge of the stage druling during The Verve's show and did not really manage to sing many words. Ginger in The Wildhearts was just off heroin but had got a pretty bad coke-habit and Oasis, well, Oasis was Oasis. You can imagine what happened to the hotel when the bar closed at midnight. Big Swedish headlines.

Listening to: Kinky Friedman - Sold Amercian