Liam Gallagher teased Richard Ashcroft joining Oasis on tour next year.
Just spoke to the CHEF here it is OASIS RICHARD ASHCROFT CAST you are welcome see you nxt year I’m of to to identify as a massive cunt LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) October 4, 2024
Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher recently made a surprise appearance at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards on October 3rd to honor Oasis photographer Jill Furmanovsky.
Noel Gallagher surprises Oasis photographer
Furmanovsky has shot some of music’s biggest names, including Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Debbie Harry, Joy Division, Amy Winehouse and more. Her work with the Gallagher brothers over the years culminated in the release of both Oasis – Was There Then: A Photographic Journey (1997) and Oasis at Knebworth (2021).
On October 3rd Noel Gallagher paid tribute to her 53-year career by presenting her with the ICON award. “She’s a very, very dear friend of mine,” he said at the event, which also saw Nile Rodgers, Debbie Harry, David Gilmour, Siouxsie Sioux and Sting send in video tributes.
“It’s been an honour to have been associated with her for 30 years. I can only say that she is as lovely as she seems, she’s one of my best friends, and I adore her.” He went on to call her the “best photographer ever”.
In 2009, Furmanovsky shared exclusive behind-the-scene pictures of the band with NME, and said “the air was crackling with tension” when she shot them in Paris in 1995.
“Liam had been in the hotel bar all night and was still drunk in the morning,” she recalled. “Noel became furious with him as he lurched about shouting obscenities at French people on bicycles and then returned to pose.”
Before their surprise reunion for the OASIS LIVE 25 world tour, Furmanovsky made light of the recent ticket controversies. Fans who waited in long queues were dismayed to find that ticket prices had been inflated due to “dynamic” pricing.
While Oasis have said they “at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used”, the ensuing backlash brought the practice into the political sphere, with Keir Starmer saying the issue was “depressing” at Prime Minister’s Questions, and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy calling for a review into dynamic pricing and secondary ticket sites.
