How oasis changed direction from microdot still baffles me. What a mistake that was. The logo is poor and all the sleeves. Microdot smashed it 🤜🏼🤛🏼

@tcaudiobooks737

Жыл бұрын

At least there's some visual differentiation between Oasis' hit years (94-99), and Oasis' shit years (00-09), I'm glad Microdot defined the look of the bands stuff for the former.

@syberian18

Жыл бұрын

After Microdot, artwork was very poor indeed...

@paninovevo1162

Жыл бұрын

I really can't stand the font they used from Standing on the Shoulder

@peterwalsh5068

Жыл бұрын

Not just your point (though I thoroughly agree) but it all changed when Bonehead and Guigsy left. I was so gutted when Blur 🤮 beat Roll with it to number 1! I think the only ( and there were many) single that beat this was whatever in terms of B- Sides but the album sleeve to Roll with it was bloody marvellous as was all Brian’s work. What a time! ❤️❤️❤️🎸🎸🎸🎸🌞

@WHITEYBHOY2

Жыл бұрын

I quite like some of Simon Halfon’s work.

Love the meaningful easter eggs Brian added to his work. Such depth, such care. Brilliant

Noel was my neighbour back in 1994/1995 he lived in a basement flat on Albert street.. I found those shades he's wearing on this cover at the market and put him on to them after we met in the Delhi on Delancy Street one Saturday morning. He was well chuffed with them. Happy days!

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

I moved into that flat 83A? if I remember rightly, when he moved out and bought Supernova Heights!!

@BB.halo_heir

Жыл бұрын

Love these stories! So jealous of you both haha! ♡

@BB.halo_heir

Жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is, every time I watch the Cigarettes and Alcohol video, I always think "Noel likes himself in those shades". Now I feel I was right!! Love Noel ❤ 😎

Noel wanted himself, brilliant. I absolutely love these videos, true creativity. As a teenager I used to stare at these sleeves and drift away into oblivion with my headphones on. Thank you

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@BB.halo_heir

Жыл бұрын

I caught that too, ha Noel! When he said it, i instantly thought probably from cigarettes and alcohol, looked at the screen and there it was, I knew it! Love Noel, love these videos! ♡♡

@richardwhittle2721

Жыл бұрын

Sandwiches 🥪

@richardwhittle2721

Жыл бұрын

Sanderch

@richardwhittle2721

Жыл бұрын

I'm really glad 😊. 😊 I don't want you played with!

Can't believe it's been 27 years. Wish a could go back.

@GT380man

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I’d like to stay there!

Really liking your videos. People have no idea all the work involved in covers back then. True art.

This is awesome. My best mate (we were 17 at the time and from Weston) walked past on the promenade and told me about it that night. I didn’t believe him, until the album came out. Great recount, thank you.

I went to the gig at Bath Pavillion on the day of this shoot (aged 14). First time they played Morning Glory, Roll With It and Hello live. It was a secret gig and I still feel incredibly thankful to the friend who tipped me off about it. Still got the ticket.

Great stories as always! Of course the Chief wanted himself on the screen :D

I enjoyed learning about Owen’s appearances on Oasis sleeves.

Fascinating stuff from a golden time - but one request is to hear about how you used to create the washes of colour etc as this is such an essential part of the sleeve x

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

That wasn't done in post production - it was in the processing of the film, it was 'cross processed' that is to say, negative film was sent through the chemicals used for transparencies - this then distorted the colours.

@RobLawson1982

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I was going to ask the same thing. I also hoped you’d mention on Some Might Say that it was a black and white photo that was hand coloured. Again an essential point in a great cover. I love hearing these tales.

@richardpblaikie

Жыл бұрын

@@Microdot Was that what was also done for the 'Whatever' sleeve? That one looked particularly saturated/luminescant?

@8:40 that story about getting hold of 5 TVs by renting them and Sony not lending you them is truly 'radio rental'!

Love your posts Brian and all the stories and detail you go into. Can’t wait for the next one

The great thing was with the cd single cover was it always stood out in cd rack because of the colours, so always really easy to find, that makes me feel old writing that.

@benjaminguitarofficial

Жыл бұрын

Yeah same, I have a shelf for Oasis CD's from the 90's and 00's, I'm on the other side of the room and a can see the Roll With It spine from here

Cracking stuff as always. Absolutely loving these videos.

Could watch these videos all day. Will one day make the pilgrimage from Melbourne Australia to Kendal. Thank you

@Surv1ve_Thrive

Жыл бұрын

🇬🇧👍🇦🇺

Absolutely love these Videos, Thanks Brian keep them coming!

Love this channel! Hope you keep making these

Good to see/hear the rest of this story, I was lucky enough to get a couple of bits of this from you when I visited in July, was good to meet you. Keep the videos coming man, nice one.

Another fantastic video Brian, absolutely adore these, the insight. Thank you for doing them.

This series of videos are pure gold, thanks Brian for telling us these stories.

Many thanks Brian! Exceptional as usual!

another great video. keem them coming, fascinating stuff

Great video. I love hearing behind the scenes stories like this. Especially when they're so detailed! Want more like this :)

Always great Brian!

What a brilliant story and told so well - loved it, thanks.

I used to gaze at this cover and whatever’s cover more than any of the other ones. Love the summer colours and how the band looked. Thank you for this video!

This is brilliant! What a great video, so interesting to get the design approach and process right from the first person perspective. Awesome.

All done pre digital age - old school. The physical preparation and hard work put into your projects have allowed them to stand the test of time! I wonder if the same results would have been achieved with the convenience of doing it all on a computer.

@GT380man

Жыл бұрын

Regardless, I doubt we’d regard that stone aged art as so valuable!

@habeascorpus1

Жыл бұрын

@@GT380man 'stone age art"???? are you 10 years old?? I suppose you'd call The Beatles stone age artists that recorded on 'stone age equipment' that is highly sort after these days as well as their 'stone age' recording techniques and style that have been repeatedly copied for decades. Despite this 'stone age' style they are still the most influential band in the world. But if you personally prefer to use photoshop or Garageband when recording music because you can't draw or play an instrument then you are actually the unsophisticated primate living in the stone age. Not Microdot.

Found this all fascinating cheers for upload! X

This brings back so many memories.i miss the 90s so much ! Great video mate 👍

Great stuff Brian as always mate

Good God I love this!

Another great video microdot

Another great insight Brian!

really enjoyed this, cheers mate

Fascinating stuff! This is my favourite artwork from Oasis’ singles. Whenever I drive along the Weston Seafront I always give a nod to Oasis and The Beatles. Btw, the picture you showed of Weston Pier was of the new pier. The old grand pier, featured in the background of the Oasis shot, burnt down in 2008. The picture you showed of the Beatles on the beach was taken at Brean beach, but they also did a shoot on Weston beach where they rode on donkeys. 👍🏻

My 4th watch of this particular video now. Each one gets better and better. Amazingly informative mate

I love all the stories and the actual process of creating the sleeves, I hope to see a video on the verve sleeves.

Great work Brian!

Really enjoying this series of videos on the artwork for Oasis. I had all the CDs including the two cigarette packet cases so this brings back such fond memories. Would be keen to hear about the Be Here Now Cover, considering the detail on the image it looks like it will have an interesting backstory! Thanks Brian.

Great stuff Brian mate great video will look forward to be here now vid next week, love those sleeves, the whatever One was my favourite

Great video! Thanks. you don't ramble, you're concise and interesting. Appreciate it! I first got into the band around this single. I was 11. Did my homework, skipping back between As and Bs. Heroes!

Excellent Brian mate just catching this..

Haha the lad with the pound wanting to watch tele!

"Roll with it" My favourite Oasis song of all time for what it means to me. Great hearing about the fantastic early Oasis sleeve artwork. Magic.

This was brilliant 👍🏻

Brilliant Video!

Great video, Brian. Thank you. For your interest the pier that is behind the band burned down in the late noughties. The one that you show in the modern pictures was finished in 2010. I remember when it burnt down - I come from Somerset I’ve lived here all my life apart from a brief spell at Manchester University! - and was gutted to see a piece of Oasis history be lost like that. Keep up the good work and take care.

Absolutely fantastic this video is. I live 40 mins away from Weston beach, been to Weston more times than I can remember. I took the roll with it cd with me and created a then and now shot going back in lock down. It was funny you should say about the weather, when I went there it was also hot and not a cloud in the sky when I took the picture. What I didn't know( now I do) is that you all stayed in the big hotel across from the beach how amazing is that. You learn something new everyday. The Beatles stayed in one of the hotels near the old berbeck pier unfortunately the hotel burned down many many many yrs ago. Love this channel

Happy Anniversary Roll With It! It's so funny because Weston-super-Mare is a regular stop for me and I didn't notice it was Weston for years..

I remember H P &Plumbs Wigan well from my younger days. Standishgate if I recall. You make your videos so interesting Brian. Cheers!

I'll be visiting Manchester in July and will definitely maybe go to Sifters and Microdot. Man these videos are getting me seriously excited!

One of the best sleeves and so simple. Great video, looking forward to the next one.

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

More to come!

Honestly a really interesting video. Love this content. Keep it up

Cheers!

Splendid Bri!

Cannon you're a damn legend.

Hiya,thanks for this. I watched this from start to finish with a smile on my face. Really nice hearing the story behind this.. thanks alot xx

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😊

Fuckin brilliant! Love hearing these tales! As a fan back the the cover if roll with it certainly meant something, especially Liams telly with the great Alex Higgins on it but hearing now at 47 how this was all put together is amazing! Love your videos mate thanks for doing this greatly appreciated 👍!

Brilliant insight, thanks!

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awesome. I remember when it came out and as a Weston resident, a lot of people dined out on it for a while. Not sure where I was, probably still studying in Manchester. I heard rumours that they spent a little time at the local and now defunct club Hobbits. Anyway, it's great to get a little insight into how these things come about.

Another captivating vid m8! Lovely stuff. Digging the Pistols/punk iconography in the background there

All the effort for a single cover. Pretty wild.

I only ever seen those type of proofs in a repo house in Birmingham called James Uptons back in 1993 when I did work experience @Rover group in the promotions dept.Christ takes me back man...Great video n love the sleeve now as I did then.

Love watching these videos! Oasis have been a huge part of my life and will continue to be 🫶🏻

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Rob - hope to see you soon!

@robtallentire1051

Жыл бұрын

@@Microdot I’ve got a week off in 2 weeks so hoping I can persuade the wife we come up 🤞🏻

You are a national treasure mate.

Thanks, Brian and Microdot! Would love to see photos of the guys eating ice cream in duffel coats.

I remember being about 14 and watching oasis on channel 4 in the UK headlining Glastonbury with Noel wearing that coat. And it was a scorching summer

As a 10 year old me and my friends mimed roll with it as a tribute oasis band in front of the whole school in 1996... I was liam and drew a beard on my face.. Oasis were my life even at that early age. They were huge and reached all ages.

Brilliant sleeve, my oasis shirt has that image screen printed on it.

This is great Brian...love all your work and your recollections of the shoots...met you at a bunnymen gig years ago here in lpool and I think I told you my favourite cover was the new fast automatic daffodils one you did

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Really interesting. Also the usual quality b side (Live Forever Glasto 95) my favourite version.

@jakehope6811

Жыл бұрын

Am back live forevaaaaa

@jimbryan2271

Жыл бұрын

And Noel wearing his Duffel for the gig 😂

I had this poster at the time and I even had the exact same make and model of portable TV in the bedroom. Panasonic if I remember rightly.

Thanks for another great video. They add so much to the collective history of Oasis. But would you please consider making a coffee table book with your stories 😅

Another great video, Brian. It's amazing learning about all the details that went into this shoot. I love all the choices each band member picked for what they were going to watch on the telly. Liam's choice is so telling about himself as well as Noel's. lol. My favorite detail, though, is that the shoot was actually done on June 22nd which is my birthday. Love it! Did you get any pictures of the band eating their ice creams? I would love to see that. I hope to make it to Microdot one day. Do you let fans try on Liam's duffel coat? Does it still smell like Liam after all these years? 🥰🥰🥰

With the 25th anniversary approaching, can we expect a Be Here Now video, Brian? Would love to hear how that sleeve came about?!

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

Be Here Now video out next wek.

Hope to see one for the Be Here Now cover

Bring back the 90’s where life was so much easier.

Bloody hell Brian, that intro music nearly blew my ears off! 😅 Really enjoyed the video, feels like yesterday when I bought the single in 95, always wondered why they had Alex Higgins and the rest on there. Great cover, and to echo what a lot of people have said already on here, your logo was(is) way better than the Oasis phase 2 logo.👍

God, I miss those days.

Typical noel !! Love it !! Didn't know liam was Higgins fan , thought he would of had lennon !!

I bought one of those magazines a bit ago they're good

The 16th June was my Father's bday n start the coarse fishing season starts ...How mads that man

Absolutely amzing do u have any bootleg from the bath gig wud be nice to hear Alan whites debut

Hey Brian. Great video! Looking at the outtake shots it looks like the final sleeve was given an orange coloured wash in post production. Could you give us some information on why you did this? Just wondered it it was to give it even more of a 'Beatles for sale' vibe?

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

That wasn't done in post production - it was in the processing of the film, it was 'cross processed' that is to say, negative film was sent through the chemicals used for transparencies - this then distorted the colours.

So Noel hadn’t any ideas and said you could run with it…..or you could say he let you roll with it…..🤦😂…I’ll get my coat

@hislatestflame7861

Жыл бұрын

Is it a duffel coat?😉

Nice video, Roll with it is my favourite sleeve. Is that the same coat Noel wore during the glasto’95 show?

You should do some concept designs for liams new sleeves for a bit of fun. I'd love to see what you would do with diamond in the dark or everything's electric

Would have been interesting if it had of rained, sat in deck chairs on the beach in the rain, coudn't be more like a British seaside resort

Are you not the geezer who did all the sleeve designs for The Verve? If so would be great if you did a video covering this.

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

I am and I will be doing Verve videos soon!

@maratonlegendelenemirei3352

Жыл бұрын

@@Microdot I can not wait, I enjoy your work, subscribed!!!

@UnrealGamer099

Жыл бұрын

@@Microdot I’m so excited for this!!

Great video, enjoying all of them. Just curious, where members of the public are visible (like presumably on the back cover?) Do you need their permission to be included? Or if it is in a public place like a beach is it not required?

Another great video, keep it going please! One question - why the orange filter? (Not against it, you just didn’t use this effect in other sleeves)?

@sambutton

Жыл бұрын

Ok I’ve seen your reply about this below

Was it a crowded Beach in Spain??

Better than country H sleevewise. Just looking up penny morris whom was transferred to Pontypandy in between Series 4 and 5 of Fireman Sam.

These album covers are pure genius. I've always loved them. I didn't know why, but always knew there was something more to them. Sadly, the art of the album cover is lost in this age of digital music. Honestly, I'd enjoy building up a record collection for home listening and have my digital albums to-go for driving and whatnot.

Tf the bumper sound!

Superb video Brian as always. I'd never spotted that water bottle either! I think the warmth of the orange sand and sky is the memorable part of this sleeve, in 95 were you using Photoshop or was it done with a more formative DTP bit of kit? (I'll buy that printer's proof if you ever come to sell :) As a side note, the set they played at Glastonbury was off-the-scale but had heard the MG songs yet so the crowd were a little flat and the gig never gets the credit it deserves. When you watch it back now, the sheer force of the transition from It's Good To Be Free into the opening drums of Morning Glory and the absolute treat it must have been to hear DLBIA for the first time is spellbinding.

@Microdot

Жыл бұрын

The colour was a result of 'cross processing' that is to say sending the negative film through chemicals used to develop transparencies - that distorted the colours to the effect you see. So nothing digital - a totally analogue process!

It was a shoot before the battle of the bands nonsense and the release of Morning Glory. So Oasis weren't as huge at that time. If the photo shoot took place a year later, it would have been very different!!

Gotta love Bonehead's pick for the TV screen 😄