Ongoing History Daily: The legendary Oasis threat

July 25, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

With the Oasis reunion tour now underway, it’s fun to remember how this all started.

In late 1992, the band hitchhiked from Manchester up to Glasgow with another now-forgotten band to a club called King Tut’s Wah-Wah Hut. The legend goes that they told the manager that they wouldn’t leave until they were given a chance to play onstage. The legend also says there were threats of violence and arson, but whatever.

Wanting to go home at some point that night and not feeling like fighting with these yobs, he sighed and said, “Okay.”

Talk about luck. In the audience was Alan McGee, the head of Creation Records, who accidentally showed up early and caught the band’s set by mistake.

Within days of that unbilled, spontaneous gig in Glasgow, Oasis had an agent, a manager, and were on their way to a major record deal.

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