00:00Something about those Definitely Maybe shows, I was like,
00:02it's Mourning Gory anniversary next year.
00:05If ever they were going to do it,
00:06surely it would make sense to be next year,
00:08and then, lo and behold, it is.
00:11This Is King Tut's and Upstairs Is The Wah-Wah Hut,
00:13that's what was in the original press release.
00:15And yeah, like three years into its existence,
00:19there was a three-band bill one night,
00:22Boyfriend, Sister Lovers, 18 Wheeler.
00:25That particular night, a band had rocked up from Manchester
00:29in a van that they'd chipped in their last money,
00:31apparently, to get that van to come up,
00:34because they'd heard that Sister Lovers,
00:36who they shared a rehearsal space with in Manchester,
00:38were playing here.
00:39They were like, well, we want to play King Tut's in Glasgow.
00:42We are going to play King Tut's.
00:43So they come up, and then the equivalent of me
00:47repping the show goes to the back door,
00:50and there's a band in a van called Oasis,
00:53and they're asking to play.
00:55And then I think a phone call was made
00:56to the higher haegens, and they were said
01:01that if they can figure it out between themselves,
01:03then they can play.
01:04So they ended up playing, I think, a 20-minute set here,
01:07but McGee was here, importantly,
01:09and he'd come to noise up his ex-girlfriend,
01:12who was in one of the bands,
01:13just to be a nuisance and be at the gig.
01:16So he saw Oasis, said, he's got a record deal,
01:19and Noel was like, no, and he went, do you want one?
01:22And he was like, yeah, all right.
01:23And then I think Noel then went
01:26and did some reconnaissance on McGee,
01:28just to find out who Creation were,
01:29who the label were, who he was as a person.
01:32Got a lot of good feedback, you know,
01:34the fact that he'd put out Primal Scream,
01:35Jesus and Mary Chain, Teenage Fan Club, many others.
01:40They've never, ever played here as a band.
01:43Since then, the only real things that have happened are
01:46they have both been here
01:48for the 20th anniversary birthday party,
01:51and they were given the original King Tut's
01:55wooden sign from out front,
01:57and they have it in the lockup,
01:59because Brian Cannon, when he was taking pictures
02:02for the 30th anniversary, definitely, maybe,
02:05Noel took him to the lockup,
02:06and he said, oh, here's the King Tut's sign,
02:09and he was like, I'd really like that included.
02:11It was Noel that pushed for that
02:12to be included on the sleeve.
02:14And then obviously Liam came to shoot a video here,
02:16which I was the rep for that day,
02:19so he was supposed to come in the back door,
02:21and then a few minutes before he was due to arrive,
02:24we got word on our radios,
02:26I mean, it was like loads of security,
02:27and just, it was all hands on deck,
02:29and there was obviously a film crew,
02:31Shane Meadows with his film crew and all that,
02:33and the next thing we got, he's coming in the front door,
02:35and then I like run down the stairs,
02:37just as Liam's like walking up those stairs
02:40and walking into the venue,
02:41so I see him just walking in like that,
02:44looking around, and then he walks into the room,
02:47and he's just standing, looking at the stage,
02:49and it was, and I was from a distance
02:52just seeing this happen,
02:53and it was a complete out-of-body experience for me,
02:56because I was like,
02:57I can't believe Liam Gallagher's in Tut's.
02:59Like, of all the places he could have shot a video,
03:02he chose Tut's, because it meant something to him.
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