Oasis Leisure Centre
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The Oasis Leisure Centre (commonly Swindon Oasis) is an entertainment and sports complex, situated outside Swindon
town centre. It has many facilities available, such lagoon swimming pool, gym, bar and concert hall.
Over the last few years, the concert hall has become a major venue for touring acts and can hold approximately 3,000 people.
The Britpop
band Oasis
took their name after singer Liam Gallagher
saw the name as a venue from a poster. In 2011, twenty years after naming his first band after the centre, he will perform there for the first time with new band Beady Eye
.
Swindon
Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...
town centre. It has many facilities available, such lagoon swimming pool, gym, bar and concert hall.
Over the last few years, the concert hall has become a major venue for touring acts and can hold approximately 3,000 people.
The Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
band Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
took their name after singer Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, the former frontman of the English rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and abrasive attitude have been the subject of commentary in the press...
saw the name as a venue from a poster. In 2011, twenty years after naming his first band after the centre, he will perform there for the first time with new band Beady Eye
Beady Eye
Beady Eye are an English rock band formed in 2009. The band consists of vocalist Liam Gallagher, guitarist Gem Archer and guitarist Andy Bell, all former members of Oasis, rounded by drummer and percussionist Chris Sharrock who substituted for Oasis during their last tour in 2008/2009, before Oasis...
.