Concert review: Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye in Wolverhampton
Monday 25th April 2011, 11:29AM BST.
Beady Eye
Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Concert review by Shaun Jepson
Liam Gallagher’s step towards the creation of a new band without his songwriter brother Noel was labelled a risk by many music critics.
His ability to turn on the creative flow and produce records that post-Oasis masses would buy into were doubted by many in the music industry. But sometimes, just sometimes, risks can pay off.
And for the younger Gallagher brother and the remaining members of Oasis that make up Beady Eye, life must feel pretty good at the moment.
Their debut album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, reached number three in the UK charts and they’re playing to sell-out crowds on a month-long UK tour.
Security was stepped-up for the gig, with Corporation Street being completely cordoned off in the hours before Liam arrived in a Mercedes with blacked out windows. The band opened with Four Letter Word, with Liam using a few himself in the build-up to the song.
Highlights that got the crowd going included the melodic For Anyone, while The Roller and Standing On The Edge Of The Noise sound like anthems that could rival some of the old Oasis classics.
It begs the question whether he actually believed he was taking a risk when started his new venture. Noel who, anyone?
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It amazes me that people buy into this anthemic nonsense. Kaiser Chiefs, Oasis, Kasabian and now Beady Eye. What a load of homoerogenous neanderthal dirge.
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oooooooooooooooooooooooow
put ya nails away
bitchy bitchy
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It amazes me that people purposely read things they know they don’t like just so they can have a whinge about it.
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I take it you weren’t there last night Millhouse? Well you don’t know what you missed, a fantastic gig with one of the last charismatic front men left in the business.
Stick to X Factor mate it looks like that’s your thing.
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I went only as a freebie thou. So glad I didnt pay, what a load of rubbish. It proves Noel was Oasis. Rool over and get back under your stone Liam. Pathetic excuse for a singer.
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I went last night and it was so much better than i expected. I saw Oasis a few years back but Beady Eye were better. Interested to see what Noel has in store because he certainly has some competition from the brother nobody expected to succeed!
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man i seen oasis 8 times and they were bang on… i was there last night and Liam was proper up for it and so were the crowd. this man is a legend and lets remind ourselves who was voted the best front man in a band of the last decade.thats right Liam was. so take your boy bands who have no talent and get other people to right there songs for them and there fizzy vimtos away. Long live Beady Eye !!!!!
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Rob, Liam is pure dross. Can’t sing never a good front man either. You need to step outside ya bubble.
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if youve never seen liam live you have missed out. liams singing with beady eye is ten times better than it was with some of the latter oasis concerts. the new songs have more depth than a lot of oasis’s songs, dont get me wrong i love oasis but if you were at the civic last night you were witness to the start of something really big
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liam is like marmite you either love him or hate him…
me personally i think he rates along the great frontmen of the last 40 years…
i saw oasis through out the 90s and up to the year they split.
i saw them finally at cardiff the year they split and he seemed toatlly lost and cheesed off with the
lot of it.
i personally thought that that particular time kasabian and the enemy blew them clean out of the water.
however in the emergence of beady eye he seems more fired up more on track and as eager as he did in the early 90s…
tell me any frontman that has more presence about him than liam…
so all you critics..jog on!!
long live rock n roll!!!
and long live liam gallagher!!
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I was at this gig and ive got to say it was one of the best nights of my life. You cant describe the atmosphere and the sound at the civic.
The only way I can describe the crowd is… ‘LOVE’
Liam was amazing! long live Beady Eye!
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