Kerry B sent a link to this video on our Facebook page – & I had to put it here for today’s post. The past couple of days we’ve been playing through a few songs from the first, and classic, Oasis album ‘What’s The Story Morning Glory’. It’s an amazing record, there must have been 6 or 7 top selling singles released from it including ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Roll With It’, ‘Morning Glory’ & ‘Some Might Say’. That said, Kerry reminds us with the video below, that there are striking similarities between many of the tracks on this fine album…

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Right after the Strawberry festival show (last month in Beijing) Q Magazine staff escorted us through the crowd to their marquis for a photo-shoot. Q Mag are just starting up in China – I think Max is holding the first edition in the shot below.

Strawberry turned into a pretty wild day. The show was amazing fun & we spent the rest of the day wandering around the festival, posing in photos & signing stuff. Check the videos in the previous posts below for live Strawberry footage.

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We’ve now play-listed all the China Festival footage from last month’s tour. Hit Go below & watch the video series from Chang Jiang Festival Zhenjiang and Strawberry Festival Beijing – 11 videos (55 minutes) in total including footage from Shanghai Foreign Languages University. Songs featured include Without, Orbital Pull, Hangin’ With The Living, Sky Caves In, Coming Home, Next To You & Perfect Day.

Or click the pic below & watch the full play-list on YouTube

Click here to view the China Tour playlist on YouTube.

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New song, Next To You, live at Chang Jiang Festival Zhenjiang (near Shanghai), China 29th April this year.

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Without, live at Chang Jiang Festival, near Shanghai China 29th April this year.

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Another live festival video from China. Strawberry Festival in Beijing – Hangin’ With The Living from the Betrayer album (2010). This song has really been a surprise for us in China. Across both tours, it’s been an unexpected crowd favourite. The song hasn’t worked so well for live audiences in the US, Europe or Australia –  so we nearly dropped it altogether. For some reason, we decided to keep it in the set-list for the China tour last year, where it found it’s feet as a must-have crowd-pleaser.

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Highlights of ‘Without’ – the final song in the set at Beijing’s Strawberry Festival earlier this month. What’s really cool is the footage after we finish. Check out the bit where Kent gives his drum sticks away.

This show was, as mentioned, our favourite for the China tour. It wasn’t our biggest crowd, but the energy they threw back at us was intense. Definitely the most fun we’d had on stage for the tour.

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Live festival video from our favourite show of the China tour – Strawberry Festival, Beijing. Sky Caves In (title track from our first album, released 2004).

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Live video from Chang Jiang Festival, April this year. The song featured, Sky Caves In, was the title track on our first album (released 2004). Awesome fun playing our old stuff to a new crowd…

Thanks to YuYang who filmed this footage from side of stage throughout the whole show.

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Live video from Chang Jiang festival, near Shanghai, 29th April this year. The song – Orbital Pull from our first EP, released 2006. Chang Jiang is a massive festival in a huge open field, not far from the Yangtze River. We came on stage about 7pm, just after sunset.

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