Oasis May Cancel Tour

09/16/08 10:21am

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Oasis' Noel Gallagher can barely walk and is still recovering from being pushed by a stage invader at the Toronto Virgin Festival earlier this month, which has led him to ponder cancelling the band's North American tour.

"Waking up in NYC knowing you're pretty much spending the day in bed is a fucker, let me tell you," Gallagher wrote in his blog on Sept. 11. "It's too much. There's shit going on out there that I need to be getting involved in and instead I'm laid up watching BBC America...

"Best start thinking about packing up and going home, I guess. Yet another North American trip ends in chaos. If I believed in God, I'd begin to think he had it in for us."

Oasis' London, Ont. show, which had been slated to take place on Sept. 9, was cancelled and rescheduled last week. But Gallagher was still bedridden on Sept. 12, which led to the cancellation of the band's New York City show scheduled for that evening.

Earlier in the week, Gallagher blogged that he'd been watching a lot of Seinfeld in an effort to make himself feel better, but that wasn't working, so he went to the doctor. He's now trying acupuncture in an attempt to get back on his feet.

In the meantime, Gallagher is considering writing a television sitcom with British comedian and recent MTV Video Music Awards host Russell Brand. Gallagher says Brand has been trying to get Gallagher to write a sitcom with him and, though he can't currently do it because of his Oasis commitments, he says he might one day since he thinks it would work because the two are opposites.

"Russell's a big posh Essex boy former junkie who's been to the dark side and got into Hare Krishna," Gallagher said in a World Entertainment News Network story. "I'm a gruff northerner who drinks Red Stripe.

"He finds that fascinating. He's all, 'But Noel darling, don't you believe in a higher existence?' and I'm like, 'Not dressed in a sheet banging a tambourine, you big Jessie.'"

Although New York City residents didn't get an Oasis show on Sept. 12, they still had the opportunity to hear new tunes from Dig Out Your Soul, the band's new studio album that's out on Oct. 7. Street musicians played songs from the record at various locations in the city that were filmed by music video directors The Malloys.

Starting next Tuesday, fans will be able to download the sheet music and vocal melodies for four Oasis tracks from Dig Out Your Soul when the Oasis Songbook goes live. Fans can submit their versions of the songs to YouTube and can win a trip to see Oasis play anywhere in the world... when Noel can walk again, of course.