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Beady Eye will perform a one-off UK gig next month as they warm up for their Stone Roses support and a Japanese festival appearance.

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The Stone Roses have today confirmed the support acts for their much anticipated homecoming reunion shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park, with Beady Eye and Primal Scream the most notable names on the list.

Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell played their own three headline shows at Heaton Park back in the summer of 2009 with their former band Oasis, but will now return on the undercard to the Roses with their new venture Beady Eye on Saturday, 30th June, along with The Wailers, Professor Green and Hollie Cook.

Primal Scream will play immediately before The Stone Roses on the first night, June 29th, when The Vaccines are also due to perform. Providing chief support on the final night, July 1st, will be Plan B.

When the Heaton Park gigs went on-sale last year, demand made the shows become the fastest selling in British history according to reports.

Stone Roses support, Heaton Park 2012:

FRIDAY 29TH JUNE
Primal Scream
The Wailers
The Vaccines
Kid British

SATURDAY 30TH JUNE
Beady Eye
The Wailers
Professor Green
Hollie Cook

SUNDAY 1ST JULY
Plan B
The Wailers
The Justice Tonight Band (feat. Mick Jones, Pete Wylie & The Farm)
Dirty North

“We’re sort of doing things at the moment. Not Oasis, Oasis is done.”

It’s fair to say Liam Gallagher has been back and forth on how he should deal with the past. Just a few months after the demise of the group he had led for almost twenty years he was adamant. Oasis was over. “No, it’s not Oasis, that was a **** name anyway, I’m glad to see the back of it,” he would later tell XFM in February 2010.

However, the idea of carrying the Oasis torch minus their enigmatic leader and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher had been very much a distinct possibility even as tracks were being recorded for what would eventually make up Beady Eye‘s debut album ‘Different Gear, Still Speeding‘.

“We’re not using the Oasis name at the moment,” Liam told the Evening Standard in December 2009. “But if we don’t come up with something else by the time we’re ready to release the album it’ll be Oasis. I’m not going to call myself something ridiculous just for the sake of it.”

In the end, the decision to emerge as Beady Eye, clean slate, fresh start and all that, was both an admirable and correct one. For better or worse, the attention was on the music, and on the here and now. For the first time in years, Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell could look forward to being judged on the merits of their current material, rather than the legacy of a distinguished past.

Liam Gallagher has confirmed Beady Eye will play Oasis songs when the band perform at the Fuji Rock festival in Japan this July.

Records released in the past year by the likes of Miles Kane, Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher have been nominated for XFM’s New Music Award 2012 which aims to find the best British debut album of the past twelve months.

Beady Eye, the band formed by Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock following the break up of Oasis in 2009, have been named as one of the hardest working bands of 2011 by PRS.

Well, it’s that time of year again when we here at the Live4ever Ezine begin to trail back through 12 months worth of musical delights in a vain attempt to group our favourites of 2011 into some sort of coherent list we like to call Live4ever’s Essential Listening.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be presenting our most cherished gigs, tracks and albums of the year, in the hope that our highlights from 52 weeks worth of sonic adventure will inspire you to investigate our essential picks of 2011, as well as sharing your own favourites with us.

Check back next week for Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2011 – The Tracks, and when you’ve been through our stand-out gigs of the year, don’t forget to leave a comment below to tell the world of your memorable gig-going experiences of 2011.

Liam Gallagher has said Beady Eye will ‘definitely’ perform Oasis tracks when they embark on their next tour.

Debut albums from UK guitar-led acts Noel Gallagher, The Vaccines and Beady Eye are amongst the top selling of 2011, according to figures released by the Official Chart Company.