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INDIE fable John Power looks unrecognisable successful caller pictures arsenic helium and his set cogwheel up to enactment Oasis connected their upcoming reunion tour.
The frontman, present 56, looks worlds distant from his 90s heyday, wherever helium was the starring prima of 1 of Britain’s biggest bands, Cast.
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Many Cast fans volition retrieve the band's show with Oasis successful Knebworth backmost successful 1996.
Now, 29 years later, they’ll beryllium returning to enactment Liam and Noel Gallagher this August for the hugely anticipated Oasis tour.
John accompanied Liam connected the Definitely Maybe 30th Anniversary Tour past twelvemonth but admits helium didn’t person immoderate thought the set were getting backmost unneurotic astatine the time.
Discussing the infinitesimal helium got the telephone from Liam, helium said: “Me and the set were successful the dressing country erstwhile I got the telephone and it was thing retired of the movies.
“Like, the cops are determination and the fishy rings up and they enactment a hint connected the call. It was similar the bat telephone had conscionable gone off. We are conscionable implicit the moon. It took a portion to descend in."
Cast was made up of John and Peter Wilkinson and they had an aboriginal line-up of antithetic guitarists and drummers.
The set divided successful August 2001 conscionable 1 period aft they released Desert Drought, which sat astatine No. 45 successful the charts.
They past cancelled a planned UK autumn circuit owed to "internal set circumstances" and yet went abstracted ways.
However, they reunited successful 2023 and their 3rd medium since reforming successful 2010 dropped past year, called Love Is The Call.
Cast were 1 of galore acts from the 90s who were successful the moving to unfastened for Oasis connected their tour.
Before they were selected arsenic the supporting band, John told Virgin Radio backmost successful September: “I’d similar to deliberation our name’s successful the hat, but arsenic a omniscient idiosyncratic erstwhile said, ‘Don’t enactment your dreams successful the hands of a stone and rotation band’.”
“It would beryllium large to beryllium involved.”
John grew up successful Allerton, successful Liverpool, and attended Quarry Bank Comprehensive School, which is the aforesaid schoolhouse The Beatles members attended. He besides played John Lennon successful Bob Eaton's philharmonic Lennon astatine the Royal Court Theatre successful London.
Back successful their 90s heyday, Cast enjoyed hits specified arsenic Fine Time and Walkaway, portion John was besides the bassist and backing vocalist for The La's, an English stone set from Liverpool betwixt 1983 to 1992.
Former The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft has besides been confirmed arsenic a supporting enactment for the Oasis tour.
Oasis - The Gallagher Feud Timeline
Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher person a agelong past of ongoing fights - some carnal and verbal - here's the afloat past of the set and what they've said to each other.
1991 - Liam Gallagher forms Oasis with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, aboriginal asking Noel to join.
1993 - The set motion to Creation Records and commencement enactment connected their debut album.
August 1994 - Oasis sprout to fame with their debut album, Definitely Maybe, with tracks including Rock n Roll Star, Live Forever and Supersonic. It's 1 of the fastest selling debuts ever for a British band.
September 1994 - Noel temporarily leaves the band's circuit aft Liam smacks him successful the look with a tambourine connected signifier successful Los Angeles.
1995 - The set merchandise their 2nd album, (What's The Story) Morning Glory? which features Wonderwall, Don't Look Back successful Anger, and Champagne Supernova.
1996 - Liam is forced to beryllium retired a limb of circuit shows owed to laryngitis, but causes chaos erstwhile helium was filmed heckling his member from a balcony portion a taping of MTV Unplugged.
2000 - Noel quits the set temporarily for a 2nd clip when, portion partying successful Barcelona, Liam riles Noel by questioning if his daughter, Anais, is really his. The brace get into a fist fight.
2005 - Noel tells Q Magazine that he's 'never forgiven' Liam for his comments astir Anais and he's 'never apologised. He tells the mag: "He's my brother. I anticipation he's speechmaking this and realises that. He's my member but he's astatine arm's magnitude until helium apologises for what he's done."
2009 - Noel admits successful an interrogation with Q that helium 'doesn't similar Liam', branding him "rude, arrogant, intimidating, and lazy". "He’s the angriest antheral you’ll ever meet," helium added. "He’s similar a antheral with a fork successful a satellite of soup.”
Liam aboriginal retaliates and tells NME: “It takes more than humor to beryllium my brother. He doesn’t similar maine and I don’t similar him.”
August 23, 2009 - Oasis propulsion retired of a header slot astatine V Festival successful the UK owed to Liam having laryngitis.
August 28, 2009 - Ahead of the Rock en Seine festival, Noel and Liam get into different fight, during which clip Liam breaks 1 of Noel's guitars aft "waving it similar an axe" according to Noel.
August 28, 2009 - Noel quits the set for the 3rd and last time, saying successful a statement: "It's with immoderate sadness and large alleviation to archer you that I discontinue Oasis tonight. I simply could not spell connected moving with Liam a time longer."
2010 - Oasis triumph 'best medium of the past 30 years' astatine the Brit Awards for (What's the Story) Morning Glory. Liam picks up the gong, and acknowledgment everyone but Noel. He aboriginal says this was misinterpreted arsenic a dig.
2011 - Liam tries to writer Noel aft helium claims successful the interrogation they cancelled their V Festival show owed to Liam being hungover. Liam disputed it said the remark "questioned my professionalism". He aboriginal apologised and the suit was dropped.
2011 - Noel admits regrets astatine quitting earlier the Paris gig, telling Absolute Radio and admits if helium did "we whitethorn ne'er person divided up."
2011 - 2014 - Liam and the different bandmates proceed nether caller name, Beady Eye, portion Noel forms caller band, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
2015 - After years of jabs online, particularly done media and Twitter, Liam teases he's buried the hatchet with Noel by sharing an All Areas walk from a High Flying Birds gig. However, the combat would recommence 2 months aboriginal aft Noel publically dismissed proposition Oasis would reunite for Glastonbury 2016.
2017 - Liam performs astatine Manchester's One Love performance aft the bombing astatine Ariana Grande's show, with Don't Look Back In Anger becoming a unifying anthem for the incident. He past slams Noel for not attending. Noel aboriginal tells Sunday Times: "Young euphony instrumentality were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it determination to beryllium astir him. He needs to spot somebody.”
2018 - Liam suggests a reunion for the 2018 World Cup connected Twitter, writing: “let’s get the large O backmost unneurotic and halt f***ing astir the drinks are connected me”. When it fell connected deaf ears, helium added: "I’ll instrumentality that arsenic a NO then."
2019 - Noel speaks retired aft Liam sends 'threatening messages' to Anais aft a remark made astir past woman Sara McDonald. Liam aboriginal apologises publically to Anais.
2020 - Liam urges Noel to reunite for a one-off foundation gig.
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