Oasis And Smiths To Play Nines Gig

If you were told that former Oasis guitarist Bonehead and Mike Joyce, the drummer out of The Smiths, were set to play Barrow, you could be forgiven for thinking it was April 1st.

But that is the scoop pulled off by Barrow live music venue The Nines next month.

The pair have joined the band of highly-rated Mancunian singer/songwriter Vinny Peculiar and are set to play a one-off date at the Dalkeith Street club on Thursday November 8.

Alongside the Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, Bonehead was a founder member of Oasis in the early 1990s.

He played on both of the classic first two albums Definitely Maybe and (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, and then travelled the world as their success went global following a string of hits, including Live Forever, Some Might Say and Wonderwall.

He was still playing rhythm guitar in the band when Oasis played to 250,000 people over two nights at Knebworth at the height of their fame in 1996 – gigs seen by many as their finest hour.

Bonehead has switched to bass in the Vinny Peculiar band and is one half of the rhythm section with Joyce, who played with Morrissey and Johnny Marr for the whole duration of The Smiths’ stellar and hugely influential 1980s career.

Joyce was behind the kit on all the classic Smiths albums, including Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways Here We Come, and played drums on all the iconic singles such as This Charming Man, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now and Bigmouth Strikes Again.

Now the pair are continuing their music career with Vinny Peculiar, whose satirical pop and observations have seen him dubbed as ‘The Tony Hancock of the North’.

The music press have long championed the much underrated Peculiar, who is promoting his new album on this tour of the UK. Joining Vinny and his all-star band is Ben Knott on keyboards, who enjoyed success in Britain with his band Jeep.

Tickets for the gig, which is promoted by A Different Friction, are now on sale at The Nines, in Bar Five, £8, and also at www.ticketline.co.uk

Support on the night comes from Barrow’s brilliant songwriter Jon Byrne, and all the way from Chicago, the very talented comedic singer/songwriter Nice Peter.

Source: www.nwemail.co.uk