'WHY I LOVE...OASIS' BY EMILY EAVIS FROM GLASTONBURY
Inviato: mar gen 04, 2005 7:50 pmIn the eighth in our special Christmas series of 'Why I Love', Emily Eavis from Glastonbury explains Why She Loves Oasis...
"I have always loved Oasis. When I was 14 or 15 nothing else came into play. My whole perspective was bound by Oasis.
"The first time I heard them I was 14 and I was going to school and my dad had been sent a demo of 'Live Forever' by Alan McGee. He used to play demos on the way to school in the car - it was the only time he could hear them because he was so busy running around. He put the demo on and he got immediately excited. I always used to take the opposite view to him and I said you know it won't work, but then almost immediately I could tell it was something special. So then we used to listen to it all the time on the way to and from school. They were relatively unheard of at the time.
"We booked them for Glastonbury '94 and they were just brilliant. It was the Other Stage, Saturday afternoon and they came on exactly as they would do now - they had that amazing swagger, that stadium-filler attitude. It was one of the all-time great moments at the festival. It became quite a big point for us to have them headline the next year. Most people who do a good set in the afternoon usually have a year off, but Oasis went straight on to headline the Pyramid Stage. In 1995 I had just finished my GCSEs and that was the first year I was allowed to camp on the site, so the whole festival was a little bit of a blur. But I do remember them coming onstage, and Noel was wearing this duffel coat and they looked like they hated every minute of it. But it was just brilliant. They did everything. They are quite a monumental festival band.
"Liam tried to persuade my mum to let them take me around Europe when I was 15. My parents wouldn't let me get out of school and I was like, 'How can you not understand that this is the most important thing that has ever happened to me?' They wouldn't budge. I'm sure he didn't really mean it. He would have thought, 'Oh no, I'm landed.'
"Then, my parents used to take me out of school and take me up to London to watch their gigs and go to Knebworth and everywhere to see them. I was really young and I was so into them that we used to go around as a family - it was weird. I was constantly pushing my parents to take me to a lot of gigs. I have seen them more than any other band.
"It's impossible to name my favourite Oasis song, maybe 'Live Forever' because it was so reminiscent of that time when they were everything to me. But then I love 'Little By Little' which I think nobody else does. I like Noel's stuff. Some people turn off when Liam walks offstage and Noel goes solo but I think Noel is brilliant. It's a brilliant act they've got, that banter between them.
"Everyone always says they prefer Liam but I'd probably choose b. If you're talking about as a husband, I'd say Noel - but then Liam would be there every time for those genius bits of script he comes out with all the time. I think I'd need a slightly more down on the farm sort of type. This is going in a funny direction now…"
Emily Eavis was talking to Paul McNamee
fonte: nme.com
"I have always loved Oasis. When I was 14 or 15 nothing else came into play. My whole perspective was bound by Oasis.
"The first time I heard them I was 14 and I was going to school and my dad had been sent a demo of 'Live Forever' by Alan McGee. He used to play demos on the way to school in the car - it was the only time he could hear them because he was so busy running around. He put the demo on and he got immediately excited. I always used to take the opposite view to him and I said you know it won't work, but then almost immediately I could tell it was something special. So then we used to listen to it all the time on the way to and from school. They were relatively unheard of at the time.
"We booked them for Glastonbury '94 and they were just brilliant. It was the Other Stage, Saturday afternoon and they came on exactly as they would do now - they had that amazing swagger, that stadium-filler attitude. It was one of the all-time great moments at the festival. It became quite a big point for us to have them headline the next year. Most people who do a good set in the afternoon usually have a year off, but Oasis went straight on to headline the Pyramid Stage. In 1995 I had just finished my GCSEs and that was the first year I was allowed to camp on the site, so the whole festival was a little bit of a blur. But I do remember them coming onstage, and Noel was wearing this duffel coat and they looked like they hated every minute of it. But it was just brilliant. They did everything. They are quite a monumental festival band.
"Liam tried to persuade my mum to let them take me around Europe when I was 15. My parents wouldn't let me get out of school and I was like, 'How can you not understand that this is the most important thing that has ever happened to me?' They wouldn't budge. I'm sure he didn't really mean it. He would have thought, 'Oh no, I'm landed.'
"Then, my parents used to take me out of school and take me up to London to watch their gigs and go to Knebworth and everywhere to see them. I was really young and I was so into them that we used to go around as a family - it was weird. I was constantly pushing my parents to take me to a lot of gigs. I have seen them more than any other band.
"It's impossible to name my favourite Oasis song, maybe 'Live Forever' because it was so reminiscent of that time when they were everything to me. But then I love 'Little By Little' which I think nobody else does. I like Noel's stuff. Some people turn off when Liam walks offstage and Noel goes solo but I think Noel is brilliant. It's a brilliant act they've got, that banter between them.
"Everyone always says they prefer Liam but I'd probably choose b. If you're talking about as a husband, I'd say Noel - but then Liam would be there every time for those genius bits of script he comes out with all the time. I think I'd need a slightly more down on the farm sort of type. This is going in a funny direction now…"
Emily Eavis was talking to Paul McNamee
fonte: nme.com