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Beady Eye: Standing on the shoulders of giants
STEVE GULLICK
Beady Eye plays a sold-out show this Thursday at Webster Hall (125 E. 11th St.). For details, visit www.websterhall.com.
Beady Eye sees the former members of Oasis, including frontman Liam Gallagher, but minus brother Noel, downsizing tours and playing smaller venues. However, forging ahead with this new band has upped their game.
“It’s weird, man,” says guitarist Gem Archer, “because I think a lot more bands should split up.”
Known for the sibling rivalry of the brothers Gallagher as much as their melodic Brit-pop hits, Oasis suddenly, though not too surprisingly, split in 2009.
As Archer considers the quote he just provided, he laughs at how it could be taken as typically acerbic for these Brit-pop vets.
“I mean as an exercise,” he adds. “Imagine if every band said, ‘Look, for the next tour we’re going to do all the new songs and only stick in three or four [old ones].’”
That is exactly what Beady Eye’s challenge is. Though they look and sound familiar, they don’t want to lazily rest on old laurels and play Oasis hits on this first world tour — which includes only a handful of U.S. dates and a promise, says Gem, to return for more before the end of the year.
“It was a bit of a mindf— to sort of go, ‘This is all we’ve got,’” Gem says of the band’s debut album, “Different Gear, Still Speeding,” which was released in February. “It raises your game.”
“It’s weird, man,” says guitarist Gem Archer, “because I think a lot more bands should split up.”
Known for the sibling rivalry of the brothers Gallagher as much as their melodic Brit-pop hits, Oasis suddenly, though not too surprisingly, split in 2009.
As Archer considers the quote he just provided, he laughs at how it could be taken as typically acerbic for these Brit-pop vets.
“I mean as an exercise,” he adds. “Imagine if every band said, ‘Look, for the next tour we’re going to do all the new songs and only stick in three or four [old ones].’”
That is exactly what Beady Eye’s challenge is. Though they look and sound familiar, they don’t want to lazily rest on old laurels and play Oasis hits on this first world tour — which includes only a handful of U.S. dates and a promise, says Gem, to return for more before the end of the year.
“It was a bit of a mindf— to sort of go, ‘This is all we’ve got,’” Gem says of the band’s debut album, “Different Gear, Still Speeding,” which was released in February. “It raises your game.”
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