£150.00
Oasis – The First Band Session, Castlefield, Manchester (1992)
Photographed by Peter J Walsh
Peter J Walsh’s early portrait of the original Oasis line-up, made in Castlefield while the band were still unsigned. Released by British Culture Archive as a limited edition of 100.
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Oasis photographed by Peter J Walsh in Castlefield, Manchester, in 1992, during the band’s first formal photographic session.
Noel Gallagher had recently joined Liam Gallagher, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, completing the original five-piece line-up. Still unsigned and largely unknown beyond Manchester, the group were more than a year away from signing to Creation Records and two years from the release of Definitely Maybe.
Photographed from below as the band lean over the camera, the image already carries much of the confidence and attitude that would define Oasis. It is an early record of the original line-up before their commercial breakthrough and subsequent rise to become one of the most significant British bands of the 1990s.
Peter J Walsh photographed Manchester’s music and club culture throughout the late 1980s and 1990s while working for City Life magazine and the NME. A regular at The Haçienda, he documented the club’s dancefloor, crowds and changing styles as acid house and rave transformed the city.
He also photographed many of the bands and artists associated with the period, including Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Primal Scream and The Chemical Brothers. His archive is an important record of Manchester’s late twentieth-century music culture. Selected photographs will feature in Tate Britain’s The 90s: Art and Fashion.
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