CityLife: Oasis tour - take a trip round our way http://tinyurl.com/dmnc39 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 经营的曼彻斯特音乐之旅，继 The Smiths、Joy Division 後，六月初的希顿公园演唱会前，将推出 Oasis Tour！ 两小时半的巴士旅游只需俗俗的￡10，将带领歌迷踏遍曼撤斯特所有和 Oasis 有关的景点，包括 Sifters 唱片店─ “Shakermaker”歌词中提到的 Mr. Sifter 即为唱片行老板。 http://www.manchestermusictours.com/ http://www.myspace.com/mancmusictour/ -- 喔喔喔真想回去曼城啊，来趟 Oasis Tour、坐摩天轮、去西提球场看球！ I miss Manchester！ fookeiji 板友到时参加这个就全部搞定了啊！:D 记得多拍照唷！ --

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