Travis bassist Dougie Payne is delighted that Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs is an element Oasis reunion tour as a result of is “the center and soul of the entire thing”.
Travis turned good mates with Oasis from supporting the band on tour
Bonehead is the rhythm guitarist for the Oasis Stay ’25 concert events, becoming a member of reunited brothers Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher as the one authentic members within the band – which additionally consists of bassist Andy Bell, third guitarist Gem Archer and drummer Joey Waronker.
Dougie believes the return of Bonehead – who stop Oasis in 1999 in the course of the recording classes for fourth studio album Standing On The Shoulder of Giants to spend extra time together with his household – is simply as vital to the success of the reunion as having Liam and Noel again collectively as a result of he created the band earlier than Noel even joined.
In an interview with web site Contact Music, he stated: “They’ve been dominating not solely the summer time however everyone’s Instagram feeds, from what I’ve seen it sounds nice.
“I’m delighted that Bonehead is again, I believe that’s nice and offers all of it a stunning really feel to it. Bonehead is sort of the center and soul of the entire thing.
“Liam is singing nice, his voice sounds again to its greatest. It appears to be a really blissful factor. It’s good to have them again.”
Travis supported Oasis on the Be Right here Now tour again in 1997 after which toured throughout America with the Wonderwall hitmakers in 2000 after Bonehead and authentic bass participant Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan stop and had been changed by Andy and Gem within the band.
Dougie, 52, admits Travis would have cherished to be have been one of many assist acts on the Oasis Stay ’25 tour however there have been by no means any conversations earlier than Solid and Richard Ashcroft had been confirmed.
He stated: “I believe each different band was making an attempt to get on that tour! But it surely was all set in place. The entire thing is such an enormous behemoth that it’s all set in place. Earlier than they introduced something it was that is what’s going to be occurring.
“Fran [Healy] was texting with Noel a short time in the past and it was all very pleasant they usually had been having a little bit of fun within the texts.”
“We did the Be Right here Now tour after which we did the American tour. We toured with these guys throughout the States in 2000, which was when Gem and Andy had simply joined the band. That was an awesome tour. That was quite a lot of enjoyable. On the primary tour we had been barely overawed, they had been the largest pop stars on the planet then and we had been sort of like, ‘Wow.’ We had been completely model new, we had simply launched one file. It was all spectacular. On the American tour we frolicked correctly and it was only a good snicker.”
Dougie has nothing however love for Liam, 52, and Noel, 58, and remembers them being so form to him and his bandmates – singer-and-guitarist Fran Healy, guitarist Andy Dunlop and drummer Neil Primrose – after they supported Oasis.
He stated: “They’re the funniest folks, tremendous candy, so humorous. They had been so beneficiant and so form to us. I really like these guys.”
Travis will probably be reuniting with one other outdated pal this weekend, Blur’s Alex James.
The Why Does It At all times Rain On Me? hitmakers with be acting at Alex’s Massive Feastival music pageant held at his farm within the Cotswolds and in addition to enjoying their very own set they are going to be doing one thing particular with the Blur bassist on stage, too.
Dougie teased: “There’s Alex’s Britpop Classical and me and Fran are going to leap in for one thing. So I believe we’ve received to exit and hand around in his huge barn, that must be fairly enjoyable.
“We’ve received just a little run of festivals and Massive Feastival is in the course of that run.
“Hopefully they’ll be plenty of music, plenty of enjoyable and hopefully some cheese and wine as nicely.”
The Massive Feastival takes place between 22 August and 24 August.
The road-up additionally consists of Nelly Furtado, Mabel, The Wombats, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Caity Baser and Suave Dodger amongst others.
Go to Bigfeastival.com for extra data and tickets.
