Amid the hullabaloo of Oasis’s comeback, it’s important not to overlook the man without whom their story might not have been written. Alan McGee, the boss of Creation Records, was the man who discovered Noel and Liam Gallagher’s band. He’d been at King Tuts, in Glasgow, to hang out with a friend, Debbie, from the band Sister Lovers.
Oasis had blagged their way onto the bill. McGee says: “People don’t like to believe in luck – they assume it’s too much of a coincidence, that Sony sent me to the gig on a tip, but I really thought I was just going to surprise my mate. “The gig was 18 Wheeler, Boyfriend, and Sister Lovers.
I went up to see Debbie, who was my friend from Manchester, and she was part of Sister Lovers. Me and my sister had planned to go out to the Sub Club after. The band that Debbie brought up in this mad splitter van was Oasis.
So it was all really weird. They came up and the King Tut’s people weren’t going to let them on because they weren’t billed to play. “When we ran into Oasis they were, you know, threatening the bar staff, threatening the security.
The guy in the venue didn’t want to let them play but I said to the guy at the venue it was easier to just let them play otherwise he’d have a load of angry people running around, being moody. “Eventually, they were given four songs. Because Glasgow had weird licensing laws and kept the pubs open, the band started at half past ten.
I showed up at half eight because it was extended h.