Episode #78 | 4.13.21

Oasis (Part 2): The Biggest Band on the Planet, Fu*king Britop Students, Private Islands, A Drowning Rolls, Liam and Noel Off Their T*ts and at Each Other’s Throats

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Oasis were the biggest band on the planet for a moment. They famously warred with Britpop rivals, Blur, and the Brothers Gallagher spat with each other in public and came to blows numerous times behind closed doors. The success of their massively popular second album skyrocketed the band to international fame and brought unwanted, intense pressure from the British tabloids, causing frontman Liam Gallagher to slide into a drunken stupor that would threaten to break up the band and distract Noel Gallagher from doing what he did best; write songs. All of the dysfunction, humor, hedonism and hooliganism that is Oasis comes to a head in this, the second part of the Oasis saga.

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Sources

Supersonic, Netflix

Oasis Definitely Maybe

Oasis What’s The Story MTV 

Damon Albarn on Oasis

Noel Gallagher Noisey Stories 

20 Chants Every True Manchester City Fan Should Know, by Phil Keidel

Masters of destruction and Sultans of Shittalking, Here’s 7 Times Oasis Took Rowdiness to the Next Level, by Liz Nash

30 Mad Moments from Oasis’ Craziest Year, by Zoe Capstick

10 Mindblowing Stories About Oasis’ Cocaine-Fueled ‘Be Here Now’ by Nicolas Henderson

Liam Gallagher vs. Noel Gallagher: Oasis Brothers’ Beef History Explained by Amy Plitt

Noel Gallagher Says He Blames Liam for Oasis’ Failure to Break America, by Tom Goodwyn

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Oasis’ “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” by Dan Hyman

I Spent a Weird Night Getting Trashed with Oasis, by Travis Keller

A Ranking of Noel and Liam Gallagher’s Most Egocentric Moments, by Christian Long

Liam Gallagher: ‘the German police pulled my teeth out with pliers’ by Alexis Petridis

Gallagher may face 2 years over brawl, by Colin Blackstock

Oasis Update: Noel Hospitalized, Assailant Arrested, by Matthew Solarski

Oasis Recall Drunken Ferry Fight in New ‘Supersonic’ Clip, by Nick Levine

Oasis arrested after a brawl, by Daily Mail

Oasis Singer Arrested for Head-Butting Fan, by Brian Wise

Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

 

Music

Score by Jake Brennan. 

Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.

Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak