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Liam Gallagher John Squire review – chippy hauteur meets six-string pyrotechnics


On this textbook collaboration that’s anything but, the Oasis singer and Stone Roses guitarist rearrange the DNA of their former bands to intriguing effect

And here is Squire, so long absent from the fray, electric guitar ringing out with affirmative curlicues in between the seemingly random items of clothing, or the times of day, with which Gallagher is bored. Raise Your Hands is seemingly written to reassure ageing big gig audiences that they are not a faceless mass – ‘I can see you, we’re alive!’ At this collaboration’s heights, Squire doses Gallagher with luxuriant psychedelia. More entertaining is the verbal detail on I’m a Wheel, where Gallagher sings “this isn’t happening, lock all the doors, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” – an ancient Star Wars reference wrapped inside a timelessly fruity blues strut.

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