Who do you rely on as a voice of calm and sage advice in a time of crisis? Probably not Liam Gallagher. But that hasn’t stopped the former Oasis frontperson tweeting out his version of remedial comforts as the severity of COVID-19 sinks in.
“Drink through it,” Gallagher wrote on March 14. In a similarly-themed tweet a day earlier Liam spoke of how COVID-19 was making him “wanna get on it”. The timing was inconvenient, however: “Truth be told I’m meant to be having a break from the almighty juice,” he said.
Seriously though all this corona talk is making me wanna get on it if truth be told I’m meant to be having a break from the almighty juice anyways as you were c’mon you know wash yer hands and scrub yer toes LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) March 12, 2020
But hidden among the stream of consciousness tweet sequence – which also included a link to John Lennon’s ‘Isolation’ – was one about Gallagher’s anticipated MTV Unplugged album. Gallagher and MTV have now both confirmed the album will be available in digital and physical formats on April 24.
Watch: Liam Gallagher – Once (MTV Unplugged)
Recorded at Hull City Hall in August 2019, the session saw Gallagher performing a selection of tracks from his two solo albums As You Were and Why Me? Why Not. In an unsurprising move, Gallagher also dedicated more than a third of the setlist to Oasis songs.
Liam’s never been quiet about his continuing affection for the Oasis catalogue and has generally regarded his solo career as a necessary compromise. On top of this, Liam famously didn’t show up when Oasis participated in the MTV Unplugged series back in 1996.
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Well, Liam did make an appearance, but in unplanned and rather antagonistic fashion. After withdrawing from the show due to a sore throat, he sat in the crowd and heckled his older brother Noel who’d taken on the role of lead vocalist.
Watch: Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger (MTV Unplugged)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWXaUJ78hZI
Liam Gallagher’s MTV Unplugged Live at Hull City Hull features a ten song track list including Oasis’ ‘Some Might Say’, ‘Cast No Shadow’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’. The track ‘Gone’ is now streaming.
