Not keen on the togs in this one - very much on the Casual end of the spectrum which I'm not big on. It looks a bit too much like teenagers of today's garb and I'd rather look like some sophisticated American kid from the 60s. That sentence was mostly true.

Anyway, unusual track as Oasis recorded it with strings. Obviously, none of them can play strings but they do in the video anyway for a laugh.

Regardless, great track with that traditional Oasis - and I would say Mod - attitude throughout the lyrics.

As the time swings around to Spring again, it's going to be all about this kind of music I'm afraid. There's just something Oasisy about summer sun.

A nice Oasis Christmas special for you all.

I'm joking obviously. It's in case you get tired of the relentless Christmas songs.

Actually there's a double joke here - I suspect many of you will probably be sloshed enough to enjoy this song as the makers intended.

Effortless cool.

This is such a rare song to hear played live.

I think this is one of those cult Oasis fan favourites - actually a b-side to the Shakermaker single release. I personally can't understand why it never made it into The Masterplan (The B-side Album)!

Probably ditch Stay Young or something.

I know it's unfashionable to say so, but Oasis did do a few decent songs after the year 2000 and I reckon this is one of them.

It's a bit trippy (like the rest of the album) and, thinking about it, you can sense the different musical direction NG was going to take when the band broke up not long after. It doesn't really sound like an Oasis song at all.

Since Oasis broke up and Liam and the other guy went their very separate ways, some of you have been in mourning.
 
It’s been nearly a decade, so most of us have made it through.
 
However if you’re one of the ones who hasn’t, there is a (kind of) answer to your woes:
 
The Oasis Podcast.
 
Okay, so since the band broke up, it’s quite nostalgic, but there is some interesting goss on some of the runners and riders in the post-Oasis world (both related to the band, the personalities, their history and the culture of this kind of music in general).
 
Click here to visit their audioboom page or you can dive straight into the first intro episode here.
 
I’ll leave it to you to judge, but I think you'll enjoy it!

There is a certain member of the four families of Mod (as I like to call them) that the others probably refer to as the scruff of the litter.

They've got the tunes and they've got the attitudes.

They even have the style, but even you hardcore fans would have to admit it's distinctive from the other "strands" of Mod.

It drops the uptight, buttoned-up neatness of, say, the Small Faces or even Paul Weller and adopts a slightly more mainstream attitude to style.

The suits and chelsea boots are turned down.

But the parkas and desert boots are turned WAY up.

Don't get me wrong, the swagger is there and its identifiably part of the Mod family.

It even attracts way more followers, inducting thousands of kids into the fold. And some of these go on to discover the Jam and the full caboodle.

It's the side of Mod I show to new acquaintances so as not to scare them off. Then I gradually slide the Small Faces into the mix as time goes on.

Who's in this family? Well Oasis for one, of course. Perhaps we could extend it to some others? Libertines? Kasabian? Arctic Monkeys?

There is something about the way that these guys deal with style that makes you think they know something we do.

So Liam Gallagher has announced the release date of his new album (titled "As You Were") - well, sort of. It will be available from October, although when specifically is not revealed. You can also pre-order it from tonight. 
 
I imagine you probably have mixed thoughts about this, as I do. 
 
Admittedly, I am quite stoked for it. I think it has the potential to be pretty decent and he seems pretty proud of it, so I probably will have a listen to it at some point. 
 
To be honest the whole announcement actually took me a bit by surprise. I thought he was still soldiering on with Beady Eye, although I’m not sure when they last released anything. Beady Eye were alright - they had one or two storming songs actually (including the likes of The Roller and Four Letter Word and a couple of others) but I could never listen to an album all the way through. These fiery anthems were unfortunately held together in the LP by what felt like filler tunes and I actually thought the second album was even more sparse. 
 
I’m just listening back to it now to make sure, but I’m afraid my opinion stays the same. What is that bit at the end of Flick of the FInger all about? Talk about cliche.

To be honest I think he's had far greater success with his fashion label than his music since Oasis split.
 
Basically, the problem with the Gallaghers’ albums now is that Liam has all the spunk and attitude (and highly distinctive voice) of Oasis but lacks the emotion for the lower tempo tunes. By contrast Noel is all about the rhythms and the groove, but seems to be a bit damp on the attitude. Oasis obviously blended the two in a messy, Manchester-type way to create genius, but we have yet to see the brothers go it alone with anything like the same success. I suppose there is a sense that we never will get over that break-up but still - let's see if LG has nailed it this time!

Great shoes, great glasses, great song.

Great, underrated track.

One for bringing on the summer weather...

I constantly bang on about this album, but this is a funny one - BBC coverage of the Be Here Now's release.

"At times they appeared outnumbered by the media" - oops. Also Pete Doherty.

This is an unrivalled gem. Everybody consistently says they hate this album and I have consistently said it's one of the best, simply because of its own arrogance. 

I'm putting it in here simply because of how Liam is dressed - the Parka and shades look.