#pre oasis

[strengththroughwounding]

it's roadie noel. there he is.

[thisishistoreh]

Noel Gallagher's jobs as roadie for Inspiral Carpets:

Mic testing

Slagging off the headline band while mic testing

Drum tech

Being a better drummer than the drummer

Not carrying instruments

Wearing tshirts of bands cooler than the Inspirals

Getting told off for wearing rival band shirts

Doing interviews on behalf of the band when they were unavailable

Offering fellatio and cunnilingus services in said interviews

Making his little brother do the actual roadying work

Drugs

Clint Boon's personal pillow

Prop on stage (sucked a prop cow's udder?)

Band 'social media manager' but the social media is just receiving and sending back a nasty fax

Writing hate letters to fellow rival bands

Add on

[oasisyearner]

Baby Gem……… He’s so cute…….. contenders era gem i am so in love w u

[kindofplastic]

Pre-Oasis Gem Archer

Gem was in four bands before he joined Oasis

The Edge ➝ mid 80s Contenders ➝ late 80s Whirlpool ➝ early 90s Heavy Stereo ➝ mid to late 90s

so this is almost everything i’ve found of him from those years. i’ll keep posting and updating this as i find more stuff

The Edge

The Edge. Location and date unknown.

Songs (all vocals by gem) - Something that I said - Just Fine - Far Away - Shine On

Kid Sister and Doggy Song. 1986. (live)

Contenders

Contenders. Location and date unknown. Contenders at the Marquee. 1988 Contenders at HYPE All-Dayer (Bull and Gate). 1988 Gem makes a small appearence in a Soho music video. 1988 Contenders at the Powerhouse. 1989 Contenders at HYPE All-Dayer (Bull and Gate). 1989

Contenders at Dingwalls. 1989 (1) Conterders at Dingwalls. 1989 (2)

Random pics. 1988-1990 (1)

Whirlpool

Whirlpool at the Boderline. 1991 (1) Whirlpool at the Boderline. 1991 (2)

Whirlpool at the Falcon. 1991 (1) Whirlpool at the Falcon. 1991 (2) Whirlpool at the Falcon. 1991 (3)

Songs - Live It Up

Heavy Stereo

Heavy Stereo. Location and date unknown. Heavy Stereo at the Africa Centre, Covent Garden. 1995. Radio 1 One Roadshow from Weston-super-Mare. 22 August 1996. Radio 1 One Roadshow St Ives 19 August 1996. Heavy Stereo. Article for the Japanese magazine CROSSBEAT

Music Videos - Sleep Freak - Mouse in a Hole - Smiler - Chinese Burn

Live - Mouse in a Hole - Smiler

and of course the full Dèjá Voodoo album + The Gift

[will-you-take-me-with-you]

Noel Gallagher's first-known recordings  a 30-minute, eight-song cassette from 1988  is to be auctioned at Christies in April; NME has hea

TAPE 2 - "NOEL'S SONGS" (1989)

The second tape, which contained five tracks, was believed to been recorded by Noel in 1989. Only one track, 'But What If...', was unheard, with the other four songs being on the 1988 tape, although it's unknown if the recordings are exactly the same.

1. What's It Got To Do With You?

2. Hey You (aka No Cause For Alarm!) / 02:00​

3. What's Been Happenin' (aka I Didn't Think So!) / 05:30​

4. But What If... / 08:31​

5. Gotta Have Fun / 13:22​

Even though Noel (later) said that while he was a roadie he never had any desire or ambition for anything beyond his job, these demos prove otherwise.

[idigyoursoul]

Clint Boon telling the story of Noel nicking a cooling fan out of the back of a van on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

[thisishistoreh]

I’m fucking crying, Noel in his roadie days was once wearing a Stone Roses tshirt sidestage at an Inspirals gig and Clint told him to takes it off 💀

[thisishistoreh]

Being in a band with your brother? It's better than working on a building site with your dad and cousins.

We used to work for our dad, he had his own business doing concrete floors.

“People ask what it's like being in a band with your brother and I think, ‘What about being on a building site in January when it's hailstoning— with your dad and your two brothers and two of our cousins and two of your uncles and you fuckin' hate the lot of them?’

We'd turn up at work in this yellow transit van, all sat in the back like this (elbows on knees, head down, looking surly). Because we were always arguing we'd still be working at nine o'clock every night. Then we'd argue about whose fault it was we were late and then, when we got home, mam'd had the dinner in the oven for hours and she'd start kicking off. Years of just rowing. We were the Clampetts, the Burnage Hillbillies.

I quit and got a job with a building firm who sub-contracted to British Gas. And the pivotal moment of my entire life was this: a big steel cap off an enormous gas pipe we were laying fell on my right foot and smashed it to bits. When I came back from the sick, they gave me a cushy job in stores handing out bolts and wellies. Nobody would turn up for days on end.

After about six weeks I started bringing me guitars in and I wrote four of the songs from the first album in that storeroom. I look at this foot sometimes in the winter when I get chills in it because of the cracked bones, and I go (thumbs up and big grin at his foot).”

Noel Gallagher Q Magazine, February 1996