Steve White

If I did it as double gatefold, populate the pages with photographs and memories of everybody involved, which was obviously...

Paul Weller, Steve White, Mike Joyce, Andy Rourke, Manny, Talvin Singh, Mercury Prize winner, Inder Goldfinger, obviously myself.

And I just thought I could tell this story.

Why should it be hidden? It was hidden away at the time by 9-11, really.

You mentioned you'd kind of forgotten about this album previously and some of the Manchester legends that appear on it, friends as well, Denise Johnson, Manny, Andy Rourke, you reeled off a load.

How did it feel going back into this album and kind of rediscovering these tracks almost with the knowledge that these people were no longer with us?

it was kind of strange it was surreal you know I mean the memories were flooding back the recording sessions I mean there were sessions when I mean because the budget was limited shall we say it was off my own label Indus Records but Things like recording with Paul Weller and Steve White.

What I did was when he was recording Illuminations, that was down at Jacob Studios in Surrey.

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Former- formerly of the band Starclub, and the brother of the percussionist Steve White, who was recommended to Noel by Paul Weller.

Uh, White made his debut with Oasis on a Top of the Pops performance of Some Might Say.

They began recording material for the second album that May.

Like, there's some really great stuff in there.

There's a clip that I've used when I interviewed Steve White, you know, sorry, name drop, but you know, there's a bit where Steve White's talking about the different drumming.

Yeah.

Like Noel's asking him like, "Well, why does it, why is it that Mitch Mitchell plays like with the, the sort of the drum inside his hand, whereas other people play..." And he explains this whole thing.

So, so you've got all that like really fun stuff with, with Steve White.

There's like, um, they're trying to play Revolution on the CD player, and it's like keep skipping, you know? And it's like, you know-

Yeah

But, uh-

And, you know, you've got, there's a lot of incredible drummers around, but there's not that many who have their unique thumbprint when it comes to playing.

you're one of them, you know, there's, there's probably a handful I can think of, you know, Stuart Copeland, Roger Taylor, lots of drummers out there, but you, I hear you and Steve White is another one over in the UK here straight away.

I know who that is.

So was that something you intended to do, or was it just the way it kind of worked kind of, you know?

I think that's one of the scariest drummers.

Him and Steve White.

Him, Steve White, Richard Spaven and Robert Sparcy, right, are probably four people I do not want seeing me do anything on a drum kit.

No.

Terrifying.

I mean, I still like Life at the Top People's Health Farm from 88, but even on that album for the Style Council, half of it was pop and a little bit of sequencing, but the other half was orchestral.

So I don't think he ever would say fully embrace that, but when he did it and then went back to real instruments, and sometimes he would be in the studio And maybe he and Steve White would just start playing.

And there's a there's a really good video online of Steve White describing like like Sunflower and then drumming on that song.

And so it was way more organic.

I'm going to say fewer overdubs.

or most of the time.

So there was mixing and stuff, but you're right.

It is much more he and Steve White and whoever at the time was the bassist, Damon, or in that case, Nelson, Marco Nelson.