Oasis: Chaos In Australia (The Be Here Now Tour '97-'98) 

I still think “I’d rather walk” is one of the best replies in history, honestly it’s brilliant

I was there…1998 Sydney Australia, greatest gig of my life I was 17, nothing else ever felt quite like it✌🏼💙 “I’ll tell you kids…I’d rather walk” 🤣🤣

Honestly, supersonic needs a sequal where they look at oasis during 1997 to 1999. From be here now to the fall of classic oasis. It would be 10 times more chaotic

We met the lads after their Be Here Now Adelaide concert & had a few bevies with them. Was actually surprised how quiet they were- no argy bargy at all, just dead nice. Really down to earth. I've got a great photo of me & Liam, holds special memories! Thanks for the doco!

Liam on that harmonica and annoying Noel is the best bit by far 😂

I was at both the SECC shows in Glasgow & I have told people a million times, it was NOT a half bottle, it was a full size 750ml bottle of Grant’s vodka. I was at the front. Liam held it up high & said who flung it & nobody admitted it. He sat it down on the stage and they all walked off. Noel said goodnight and threw his guitar pick at us. We had just watched Travis open for them for an hour. The next night there were pat downs at security & the band played the most epic show ever. Absolutely legendary.

the fact that they actually thought liam was gonna stab the pilot is hysterical

1997 looked like a crazy year for the band. Even Liam, who looked practically identical from '94-'96, looked like he had lived hard by the end of the year. Be Here Now is where the raspiness of his voice began growing. I can't imagine all the substances they partook in that year!!!

I was listening to Be Here Now for the first time in ages the other day, and my my it's a fantastic album. It's chaotic rock 'n' roll, but with plenty of melody to go with it and Noel's songwriting is immense. If it had been mixed better it would be unanimously considered a classic today.

If there's one situation where I won't blame a band for ending a gig, it's if people are throwing things. Nobody should have to put up with that.

I don’t blame them for walking off stage after having stuff thrown at them. Especially something like a vodka bottle. Supposing it hit someone on the head?? Or in the face?? It could have blinded someone. I never know why people in the crowd did that. Watch the gig, get drunk, have an E, speed whatever and have a good time. Not throwing stuff at the band on stage. Idiots.

The insanity of scheduling Oasis to leave England in January and tour the US, Japan, Australia & NZ, South America and Mexico in a 3 month period and expecting it to go smoothly!

Liam's harmonica playing is the highlight of the show.

1998 australia tour. Mad. Probably one of the most mad memories of my life. The nineties were crazy. Live forever 🌸

I didn't know how fascinated Noel was with the pyramids of Teotihuacan. Great video as always! Greetings from Mexico.

I love how, at the height of Gallagher debauchery, Maradona still looks the highest. Legend.

Yeah lol Liam definitely didn’t hit on that girl

Liam getting blamed for Noel's comments was the funniest part.

Great video! Thank you so much👍

Wasn’t gonna click until I saw it was done by you. Your stuff is quality. You should have your own series in Sky Arts or something

Really great video, I've never seen any of these Australian news clips etc. before - very entertaining, and as ever I love your analysis. Nice work, James.

As an Australian, the best thing about this video is all the nostalgic footage: channel 7's old logo, Today Tonight, and a bunch of old journos (some who are still around today). The content was interesting, but the nostalgia was excellent

Hey, I just want to say that you’re doing a great job at these videos. I don’t even like Oasis that much, but the storytelling is excellent.

Have been looking for this 9:59 footage for ages, being Perth born that was a moment in history, great channel mate, brilliant work

Great doc, loved that era, brings the chaos of those days back to mind!

I never knew any of this information before, really informative, interesting and funny, keep it coming mate

Excellent video, love the analysis in your videos! 😃

I saw them in Adelaide on this tour. It was my first gig (I was 10). The circus around the tour only made it more exciting. Seeing them in person was like watching God descend from the heavens. That was a long time ago, I’ve moved on but this brought back some amazing memories. Thank you!

@20:30 - the cocaine dealers of Buenos Aires must have cried tears of joy when they found out that the Gallaghers were going to meet Maradonna.

Yes James, please do more interesting videos on the BHN era. Great video as always

Superb material mate, love your page

these are great videos mate, thanks so much

So glad I found this channel 🙌

Great video, I loved that! While objectively their behaviour was terrible, I loved it at the time and laughed my arse off all the way through watching this video. It was exactly the kind of behaviour a teenager wants from his rock stars. Thanks James. your work is much appreciated!

This is hilarious, great video! Well done.

Always learning something with your videos!

Saw them in November 1997 in Oberhausen, Germany. I was eighteen years old at the time and looking back it was the most epic gig I've ever been to.

Mate your content is just superb THANK YOU!!!! OASIS was the biggest thing to hit planet earth period 💙

I bet half of the boomers complaining about Oasis in this video were old enough to have actually loved it when The Who came to Australia in the 1960s and unleashed hell.

I was going to say that Noel wrote an instrumental track about his trip to the pyramids in Mexico. It’s bloody good as well.

Bro this was so much fun! Great storytelling

We were following U2 and Oasis on tour in Japan and Australia. Noel was right. It was the best time ever. We flew from Sydney up to Brisbane for U2 on the morning after Oasis had flown in to Perth and the shitstorm kicked off. Triple J radio did a brilliant piss take of Liam coming up to the flight deck😂. Met up with them in Melbourne a few days later. They were sound.

"I'm off to buy a ship!" 😂97-98 Noel was the best Noel, and that was some the best memories of my life.

Great video and brilliant research, well done! That's me subscribed. Amazing how off the rails they were in that time period, really can't imagine any other band today behaving like that. I mean a lot of it was horrible behaviour but what drama.

"These are crazy days but they make me shine, time keeps rolling by... All around the world, you've gotta spread the word, tell'em what you've heard, you know it's gonna be OK. 👍👌

I really like your Oasis content, subscribed!

Someone threw a bottle at Blur back in the early nineties at The Barowlands Glasgow, Damon just said "it shows you`ve got spirit" and the band played on. Respect.

Just look at her!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣Noel/Liam hat a crush on me!!!!!Yeah dream on love!!!!😂😂😂

Noel and Liam's natural comedic turn of phrase is gold. Lol

They were INSANE on drugs back then, here in America too! They finished the tour, but they were wildly inconsistent, too. They were playing mid-sized to full-sized arenas here. But they weren't selling out some roughly 6,000 seat arenas, & that was because the word was out that sometimes, Liam couldn't even do the encore, or sing certain songs, like Fade In/Out, or Some Might Say, but then they sold out the legendary Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, 18,500 ppl, & played really well that night, w/Noel playing a now-legendary performance of Slide Away, too... So there is that, I suppose.🤷

Was there in Brisbane. Few gaps here in the story: we were outside the ‘planned’ hotel which was a diversion so we all scarpered up the road to the real hotel across the road from the park near my uni at the time in 1998 QUT. Band arrived in vans and I had all my vinyl signed with Liam chucking my pen across the road at the end after signing a leaf at the lobby. The band were well oiled. Noel went shopping in town early and the band drank at the bar with some of the local talent invited inside. I buggered off home and return the next morning enroute to university with TV cameras and a throng of media outside the entrance of the hotel. The headbutt. We asked someone what was going on and they said Liam was arrested and we said ‘yeah we were here last night’ then we ended up on the news… remember the train ride to the entertainment centre at Boondal for the show and getting chucked off the train by police cause we didn’t have train tickets and getting walked down to the head ticket office to buy them by a smug copper laughing, saying ‘he (Liam) isn’t showing up tonight’. Gig was a disaster: some idiot had a ‘La’s Rip-off’ sign and it was general chaos. You Am I were the support but you can’t blame liam, he’d been in the joint and court all day. Long the the 1990’s.

Perth ‘98 was there then! First gig at the age of 14 loved every minute of it.

Saw them in Auckland on this tour. They were incredibly loud. A great night.

Bring back those fucking days. The world's crying out for a proper band now and a proper rock star

5:32 a good shovel up 👃 Noel's bodyguard laughing when he says that

You made it out that they left Glasgow after they walked off the stage, they played a great night on the 18th, I was there. They came out the massive phone box with towels over their heads and laughing saying "don't throw anything at us" They were brilliant. Fran Healy from Travis, who supported them, joked that it was his mum that threw it.

Be Here Now is still the fastest selling album of all time in the UK 😎🙌🇬🇧❤️🎶

The guy Liam headbutted got 60 grand! And that's 1998 money. If anyone wants to headbutt me for 60k they'd be more than welcome. I'd even throw in a free chinese burn.

Hi James great content again 🙌, would you ever do a video on Beady eye ?

Hi j new to your channel but brilliant videos. I was born in 79 and am now 42 they were my beatles. My teen years were made all the better by Liam's antics and the music in pubs with jukeboces and snookertsbles with smoking in the good old days. Life now is so shit plz post more stuff mate

“Fuck trees.” - Noel Gallagher

Only thing wrong with Be Here Now is that Urban Hymns and OK Computer came out the same year. Oasis veered bigger, louder, more raucous, and those other two records from Verve and Radiohead felt more introspective and intellectual, complete statements as almost concept albums, so the Oasis critical backlash in America slowly began. Blur's Beetlebum and Song 2 hit college radio and MTV in early ''97 also and felt edgier and more intense than Oasis, too. So there was a lot of British talent capturing young American's attention then. That coupled with Liam's continued antics (missing the MTV Unplugged show and yelling at the press) kept Oasis from getting as huge in America as they could have after Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova were played absolutely endlessly in 1995 and 1996.

I was 97 in Frankfurt. Just turned 18. Absolute madness!

I am Australian, and heard heard a story recently from my mum. My dad is an Irish Musician that plays in pubs around Perth, and Oasis where in Perth at the time (most likely this exact tour). My dad does his gigs late into the night, and my mum would be with him at the pub. After one of their shows Noel rocked up to the pub! Mind you my dad was petrified to play as he is a massive fan, and played Oasis songs live. One of the bartenders handed mum a coaster and told her to get him to sign it. My mum then went up to him, and apparently he was off his mind, like couldn't say anything coherent and face was puffed and red. My mum hands him the coaster and he just scribbled on it, he was too out of it. Wish she knew where the coaster was.

The show in Lille, France is here on RU-vid, before Barcelona. Liam's drunken antics are very entertaining during that one. It must have been a very special night, to see Oasis in a relatively small venue for them at that point (7000 capacity). Quite intimate. Obviously, British fans knew about it and travelled to the north of France for the gig. I wish I could have been there.

Oasis in Aberdeen 1997 was one of the greatest gigs I’ve ever seen. Fucking pandemonium in the crowd.

Great video! I was at the Wellington NZ show and I got to meet a very drunk Liam before the show...wild times! Lots of fun. GREAT BAND!!!

I was at the Melbourne gig of this tour. They played great. It was a fortnight where Oasis, Pearl Jam, Ozzy, and Green Day that I saw in 10 days. The one thing I really remember about the Melbourne gig was how red ALL their eyes were when they came on stage....

I have a friend who absolutely despises both LG and NG because of their past crass behavior, the boasting and just being absolute jerks back in the day. But he just doesn’t get how funny it all was. I mean God bless Maggie the tour manager and all who had to deal with the day-to-day stuff that went on. I couldn’t have done it. But Liam telling that reporter that he’s going to do something unpleasant to the pilot and then says “I got a tattoo”Absolute comedy gold! The absurdity of the whole situation is pure genius. Long live Oasis!

Those Austrialian news clips are absolute gold! Reminds me a bit of the UK coverage the Sex Pistols got during their brief existence. The negative publicity only makes the band seem cooler.

I wish I could remember who it was, but someone once wrote that ‘Paolo Hewitt is the Paolo Hewitt of music journalism’.

Oasis in Japan: ❤️😇❤️😇❤️😇 Oasis in Australia: 😈👹😈👹😈👹

I'm from Perth ..Rottnest island is a great place. *also Liams 2019 gig at Freo art centre was brilliant

I remember when they went to Rottnest island off Perth. Everyone was like how dare they behave like this. They were young and having a ball. People were jealous

Went to concert in 1998 wellington in New Zealand it was great 👍 👌 oasis at there best I was young 17 yrld kid love it. The sound was wall to wall loud everything was turn up mics amps drums guitars wall to wall sound by the way the sound wasn't shit in the crowd LG was walking around queens worf got drunk at the bar outside the gig LG legend got to love him then and now

Great video. Any chance of a look at “who put the weight of the world on my shoulders?” Always felt that song was a book end of 90s oasis

My best memories of the QWEC (Wellington) gig was after the Liam/sound bullshit Noel came back on alone and played... that was what made me a (proper) Oasis fan. And here we are 20-odd years later and I'm still hooked! and yes - the sound was pretty shit... the second worst sounding gig I've been to - behind Jamiroquai in Brisbane several years later, that was a whole new level!

This is a top channel

James do you know where I can bootlegs of the London gigs they played in December of 97 please? thanks

Witnessed an epic show at the gone 'ent cent' aka Perth Entertainment Centre... After a life time in music and FOH it remains the most powerful and loudest gig ever for me. Was up in the bleachers with trousers flapping and the place was rattling like it was going to come down. Needless to say Liam did chuck a sad half way though - hahaha

Those days were crazy times, Oasis were ruling the airwaves.

Cheers mate, saw them in NYC on that tour, was my first concert and first time getting laid!

There’s no way Liam hit on that blok- sorry girl.

Was at the Wellington gig and Liam walked off past us via the front of the stage and everyone was pushing him and trying to get to him through security it was a messed up gig for sure. I managed to get a little shove in and it felt good, we felt we were getting ripped off. In the end it was a great night.

😂 Haha I love the Be Here Now tour, so much chaos and some of their best live gigs with in my opinion their best set list also. Noel and Liam also looked their coolest then too.

I was at that Birmingham gig but it was the NIA. I was 8 years old. First gig. Boom

I remember this well best days of my life too

Fun fact: the very first time Noel saw someone attending an Oasis gig on a horse, was the gig in Santiago, Chile in '98

I remember when they came out to tour for 'Heathen Chemistry' Noel made mention of them wanting to make up for what had happened during this first tour.

This is class.

Be here now is my favorite album… and the peak of their madness… love it.

Excelent as always, but I think the drunk gig in Lille deserved a mention…

Great times. Liam was, and remains, the real deal!

James, have you considered doing a video on the Munich incident?

10:40 Liam's response when asked who told him to shut his mouth... I love how he goes back to smoking his cigarette at the end too XD

11:59 - I love how Noel shows off his American Express Platinum card, as if that was some amazing achievement in the 90's. After the 80's economic boom, anyone with a credit score of 760+, who made 75K+ in the 90's, who paid off their card in full each month could get that card, and yes, could charge high priced merch on it. - I bet his accountants blew major smoke up his ass, telling him how "rare" that card was, knowing Noel had no idea how common that card actually was.. LOL

I have thrown a TV old cathay Ray tube box aswell 4 floors up in Edinburgh.

superb channel this

I saw them in Melbourne on this tour. As a huge fan, it was a strange time. Oasis were massive in early 96 here, yet they cancelled two straight tours which pissed a lot of people off, and Be Here Now was an opportunity to slag them off. When they arrived they had targets on their backs, the circus ensued and the public perception viewed them as wankers and seem as uncool. They toured 4 years later and played much smaller gigs which was great for fans such as me, yet the reputation lingered. Most people here have forgotten about the circus, Liam will be playing large venues here later this year and I doubt many are aware of the circus of 1998. I managed to meet the band in 2002 and they were nothing but great with the fans.

Was at the brisbane concert. the concert lasted under an hour and was absolute chaos.