Cast will support Oasis on their UK and Ireland tour later this year
'This young lad came up to me and asked me for a ciggy; it was 16-year-old Liam'. That's John Power, recalling meeting Liam Gallagher for the first time. Cast, the Britpop band which Allerton-raised Power founded after leaving The La's in 1991, will join Oasis on their UK and Ireland reunion tour this year, having famously supported Oasis at their record-breaking Knebworth show in 1996 .
That’s when I first met Liam. This young lad came up to me and asked me for a ciggy; it was a 16-year-old Liam. “Then later, me and Cast were recording some demos. ‘Supersonic’ was really happening and Oasis were on this little club tour. I blagged my way into this little venue in Liverpool and I was talking to this NME journalist at the bar who recognised me from The La’s.
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