Oasis Live Concerts, Radio Sessions, Soundchecks, Demos, Promos and Interviews

Performance Date:	December 7, 1999
Broadcast #1:	February 26, 2000
Title:	Radiosonic Acoustic Session
Venue:	Studio 211, CBC Broadcasting Centre, Toronto, Canada
Quality:	A+
Length:	23m
Source(s):	Audio CD/CDR Sources Keepers of Their Destiny (Bayswater, bw-131/132) The Day The Earth Stood Still The Toronto CBC Session U.S & Canadian Radio Sessions - 1999 & 2000 Digital Sources FLAC (crowflies) FM FLAC RealMedia

RealMedia Source
1. Interview [10:13]
2. Rock n Roll Star [5:30]

Full 10 minute interview and "Rock n Roll Star" was originally streamed from the cbc.ca webpage "INTERVIEW: Oasis: Standing on the shoulder of giants: Oasis' Noel Gallagher speaks with RadioSonic about the new band members and the new album"

Toronto CBC Session CD Tracks #1-7
1. Who Feels Love (Acoustic) + Interview (Part 1) [10:45]
2. Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) + Interview (Part 2) [5:30]
3. Talk Tonight (Acoustic) + Interview (Part 3) + DJ Outro [8:12]
4. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Acoustic) [4:45] » from separate broadcast
5. Who Feels Love (Acoustic) [5:46]
6. Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) [3:39]
7. Talk Tonight (Acoustic) [4:45]

The Day The Earth Stood Still CD2 Tracks #4-11 [0:28:52]
1. Intro [2:24]
2. Who Feels Love (Acoustic) [5:48]
3. Interview (Part 1) [4:59]
4. Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) [3:39]
5. Interview (Part 2) [1:52]
6. Talk Tonight (Acoustic) [4:46]
7. Interview (Part 3) [3:24]
8. Outro [2:00]

U.S & Canadian Radio Sessions - 1999 & 2000 CD Tracks #3 + 4
1. Who Feels Love (Acoustic) [5:48]
2. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Acoustic) [4:44]

FM FLAC source: [27:43]
1. Who Feels Love? (Acoustic) [5:39] » (end cut slightly short)
2. Interview [4:57]
3. Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) [3:36]
4. Interview [1:51]
5. Talk Tonight [4:42]
6. Interview [2:17]
7. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Acoustic) [4:41] » crossfaded from Interview

"crowflies" source: [25:08]
1. DJ Intro [2:30]
2. Who Feels Love? (Acoustic) [6:03]
3. Interview [5:10]
4. Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) [3:49]
5. Interview [1:57]
6. Interview [3:32]
7. DJ Outro [2:04]

Release Notes:
Broadcast on CBC Radio2 - CBU-FM 105.7 Vancouver - Broadcast date unknown
** 16 BIT **
Source: FM Broadcast > Technics Receiver SA 212 > Yamaha K-520 Cassette Deck > Master cassette (Maxell XLII)
Transfer: Master cassette > Akai GXC-730D (azimuth adjusted) > Focusrite Scarlett 4I4 3rd Generation USB Audio Interface >
Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) (Dell PRECISION M6800 laptop) > .WAV
Mastering: .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 Build 299 (minor edits, normalize, & fades) > CDWav (tracking) > iZotope MBIT+
(dithered and downsampled to 16 bit/44.1 kHz) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.35 (tagging)
Taped by: "crowflies"
Transferred & mastered by: Dennis Orr
The official version of "Talk Tonight" was played between Tracks 05 and 06, but has not been included here

The Keepers of Their Destiny CD2 Tracks #3-6 [0:19:00]
1. Who Feels Love (Acoustic) [5:48]
2. Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) [3:42]
3. Talk Tonight (Acoustic) [4:45]
4. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Acoustic) [4:44]

Jon Siddall: "So thanks to Noel Gallagher, to Gem and Mike Rowe for coming into the good ol CBC, I'm Jon Siddall for Radio Sonic."
DJ Announcer: "Well there you go, OASIS and Jon Siddall..."

You don't know till you try. So thought Jon Siddall, a Vancouver-based CBC Radio producer, when he called Sony Music Canada in December to request some exclusive studio time with Oasis.

It seems the mega-selling British band was planning a semi-secret promotional visit to Canada. After some transatlantic confab, Sony said that Noel Gallagher, the band's star songwriter, vocalist and lead guitarist, would play two songs, but only in Toronto.

No problem. Siddall flew east, got hold of Studio 211 at the CBC Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, and was waiting at the door when Gallagher blew in with new Oasis guitarist Gem Archer and touring pianist Mike Rowe.

"I'm fookin' bored to be here," said Gallagher, as he slouched into the studio with his mates, apparently expecting a quick-and-dirty session in a low-fi radio studio. But when they saw a fine grand piano, a load of distinctly non-shabby audio gear, and Siddall standing sharp in the control room, the trio loosened up for a cracking acoustic rendition of two songs from Oasis's forthcoming album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. (It's in record stores next week.)

"As soon as they'd finished, before anybody could move," Siddall said, "I went barrelling into the studio and said, 'Hey, this is great! Can we have an encore?' " Disarmed by this gambit, perhaps, and apparently enjoying himself, Gallagher said, "What would you like?" Siddall suggested Talk Tonight,released as the B-side to the Oasis hit single Some Might Say. So they played that, and followed it with two more tunes, including Rock 'n' Roll Star,all in acoustic versions such as had never been recorded before.

Back in Vancouver, and somewhere over the moon, Siddall mixed the tapes for Radio Sonic, which will air four of the songs tomorrow at 10 p.m. with an interview with Gallagher.

But this happy story has an even happier sequel: Just this week, Oasis's management requested and got licence from the CBC to use the tracks for promotional purposes in Europe, when the band's new album is released next week. The CBC won't make any money from the deal, but it got the stuff cheap to start with: Gallagher and Co. played for scale. Something to remember the next time you hear the honourable member from Windbag gassing on about waste at the CBC.

"RealMedia" Source originally from this webpage:

There were five songs recorded that day. The fifth never made it to air at Noel's request. It was a cover of The Beatles "Revolution". They got close, but not close enough. I understood why he'd prefer to put it aside.

Let's see, we're at 23 years ago....bit hard to remember the broadcast details, although the recording session is a vivid memory. It was done primarily for a show called Radiosonic who aired the entire interview and four songs. I believe Definitely Not the Opera aired one song and maybe some of the interview. And a local CBC Vancouver show interviewed me and played a track from the session - probably RocknRoll Star.

I can add a detail about the recording session - after playing the two songs they had intended to play, I did indeed, as the Globe article reports, go barreling into the live room to see if I could convince Noel to play a few more songs. I asked if they would be into playing something else. Noel asked, "What?" I replied, "I dunno, do you want to jam something out?" Noel kinda screwed up his face and said "Jam?" I quickly replied, "how about Talk Tonight?" And so they played it. And then went on from there without coaxing. He was generous and great to work with after overcoming his initial skepticism.

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