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Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
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Description: The Gallagher brothers and their anthemic rock band promote their album Dig Out Your Soul, with a show including a choir.
Phone: 0844482 8008
Website: www.roundhouse.org.uk
Email: info@roundhouse.org.uk
Trains: Tube: Chalk Farm 
, Tube / Bus: 24, 27, 29, 31, 134, 135, 168, 214, 253, 274, C2 
Extra info: Food, Pub
Liam and Noel Gallagher made classics such as Wonderwall and newer songs like I’m Outta Time fit perfectly into the Roundhouse venu
The Crouch End Festival Chorus providing a choral backdrop for Oasis
Talking about this Electric Proms show recently, Noel Gallagher said he couldn’t ever recall playing Camden.
Oasis have simply been too big for the gig circuit since the mid-Nineties — they play two dates at Wembley Stadium next summer — so this finale for the five-day BBC music series was undoubtedly a major event.
As if to prove its importance, there was an onerous security presence, which involved me being given the once over five times before I was allowed to take my seat.
Perhaps Daniel Craig had less trouble, as the biggest star among celebrities including Russell Brand and the grumpy woman from Dragons’ Den.
Always popular with a rowdy sort of crowd, the Oasis fans gave BBC presenter Edith Bowman an ungallant reception as she introduced the band.
But when Rock ’n’ Roll Star kicked in, the audience’s boisterous energy was immediately directed towards the music.
Despite Liam Gallagher’s baleful presence, Oasis seemed rather less lively than their fans.
But at least new album Dig Out Your Soul has some of their best songs of recent years: The Shock Of The Lightning was a driving rock tune with some ropy lyrics, but its propulsive rhythm lifted the performance.
Liam departed, allowing Noel to introduce the Crouch End Festival Chorus, who provided a subtle choral backdrop to The Masterplan.
Liam, incidentally, clearly had little clue about this element to their performance, or an oblique sense of humour as he dedicated Cigarettes & Alcohol to “all the violin players”.
The intimate nature of the gig was most apparent when Noel singled out Daniel Craig in the seats upstairs and suggested he might try and “get me the next James Bond theme tune, instead of dopey Americans”, a reference to Jack White and Alicia Keys’s current song.
Cue chanting and mobile phone cameras aimed at James Bond, who probably wished he’d stayed in and watched Little Dorrit.
Still, the second half was well worth sticking around for as Oasis, more used to arenas, made classics such as Wonderwall and potential future number one I’m Outta Time fit perfectly in the impressive Roundhouse venue.
Perhaps the choir collaboration didn’t really come off — Liam kept a steely grip on his songs.
But the presence of 50 extra vocalists for I Am The Walrus was a fine ending to the Electric Proms.
Whatever their faults, Oasis do come up with special moments — and there aren’t many bands who can publicly embarrass James Bond.
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Oasis are a great band and Noel has written some of the the most memorable songs of the last 15 years however i was at last nights show and the band were really looking at time's that they were going through the motions not Noel so much but Gem and Andy bell and having seen Noel perform an acoustic set last year which was full of passion and soul and in which Gem Archer was fantastic i didn't think while this was still a really good show it reached the heights of Noel on his own.
- David Williams, North London
Oasis are actually playing 3 nights at Wembley next July.
- Paul From Chelmsford, Chelmsford,England
