Noel - Somebody, who was in a band in Glasgow, knew us through somebody else and said: "do you know any bands that would come up and play a gig, so they said "well I know this band called Oasis" so he said, well will you ask them "will they come up", so we said yeah, "we'll come up".
We hired a van, put loads of people in it, we charged them money for the petrol. I said "you're paying money towards the petrol, we'll get you into the gig for free, we'll have a good night" and they said fine.
So we got to the gig after driving all day, and the promoter said "I've never heard of you, you not supposed to be playing here tonight, so you know, we not gonna let you play", so we sort of pointed out the fact to him that he had two security guards on the door and there were seventeen of us. I sorta stood there and said "so what you gonna do about that then?", and he said "ummmmm, well if you put it like that, I suppose I can give you sorta half an hour."
So we went on. When the doors opened, it was about half seven, started playing and unbeknown to us Alan McGee just missed his train back to London round the corner and he had an hour to kill for the next train and he just decided that he was going for drink in the club, walked in the door as we were going on stage, and someone said, he said "who's this band" and they said "oh there a bunch of guys who just threatened to smash the place if we didn't let them play" and he went "all right, they any good?"
They said "never heard of them, they're from Manchester aren't they, some lippy mancs. Bought a drink, watched us do the gig, came off stage, give us a six album deal.
—OASIS - Interview Excerpts compiled by Keith Cameron & Owen Morris | archived at oasis_5 tripod site
