Liam Gallagher did a thrilling job of recreating songs from Oasis’s early era on a recent tour celebrating 30 years of their classic debut Definitely Maybe but one thing he sought not to revisit on the jaunt was the time, 30 years ago this week, that Gallagher and his bandmates trashed London’s Columbia Hotel and got a lifetime ban for their efforts.
The hotel, situated in west London, is no stranger to rock’n’roll behaviour and was long a go-to venue for any musicians looking to get up to some late night shenanigans. Oasis, as Oasis did, took it too far. Their antics, manager Michael Rose told The Independent, were “more than a tolerant hotel can cope with.”
