Blog ≫ 1994 ≫ Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

I was there 1 at The Wedge 2, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...

Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about their stay at the Holiday Inn North Harbour (now the Marriott).

"It's a stupid place to put a pool, innit?" frowns Liam. "It was just asking for trouble putting us in this hotel." "It's true," nods Noel, wisely. "Those plate glass windows are just saying, 'THROW A CHAIR THROUGH ME!'" In fact, were it not for a bar bill totalling 150, the odd bruised band member and some suspicious chinking noises emanating from a large black bag being heaved through the foyer out to the van, you could almost convince yourself that nothing had happened. Really.

I seem to remember East 17 were at the same hotel on the same night, having played Portsmouth Guildhall.

  1. Looks like this is where I was doing some "back blogging", before I added my full gig history to the site in its own section. I have added this in in the same way as if I'd done a regular blog post on this day in 1994, but I actually would have written it way later. There is a sequential number to all these posts and I can see the following number is dated 16th September 2003, so it must have been about then. There is significantly more time between be adding this note (2024) and the time of this post being added than there would have been between the post being added and the actual gig. I wish I had more contemporary content and didn't have to add stuff later with a failing memory.
  2. Removed old wedgewood-rooms.co.uk link here.

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