As if Noel Gallagher doesn’t have enough to worry about with the upcoming Oasis reunion tour, the guitarist and singer edited a book of Oasis photos, taken by Jill Furmanovsky, for release this fall. The volume, titled Oasis: Trying to Find a Way Out of Nowhere, contains more than 500 pictures, contact sheets, and film strips of the group in all the places you’d expect to find them (onstage, backstage, recording, touring, lolling about) arranged chronologically right up through rehearsals for the band’s upcoming reunion tour.
Gallagher also provided commentary for the book’s photos, while Furmanovsky contributed an intro explaining her working relationship with the band. “It’s been an honor to have been associated with Jill for 30 years,” Gallagher commented in a statement.
“From the first time I photographed Oasis in December 1994 until my last shoot with them in August 2009 when they split, I was permitted closeness and the gift of almost unlimited access,” Furmanovsky said. “I was just the right age and had just the right amount of experience to shoot the merry band of musicians (and they were wonderfully entertaining) fronted by the extraordinarily talented Gallagher brothers. I would say this is my best body of work as a photographer.” She added that a good chunk of the photos in the book have never previously been published.
The Brothers Gallagher will play their first Oasis reunion show in Wales on July 4, with dates continuing through the U.K. and Ireland into August. The North American leg of the tour will kick off in Toronto on Aug. 24 before traveling down to Mexico for a final date, at least on this continent for now, in September.
Earlier this week, Noel commented on how surprised he was at the demand for tickets to see the band in quotes taken from another upcoming book, Oasis: The Masterplan, by another photographer, Kevin Cummins. “I thought it’d be a big deal, but I was a bit taken aback by just how much of a big deal it was,” he said, according to NME. He also listed his four favorite Oasis songs: “Supersonic,” “Some Might Say,” “Live Forever,” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.”
