We’re going to be perfectly frank with you, dear reader.
When we heard that Liam Gallagher would be performing at Cornwall’s Eden Project, we couldn’t help but be a little taken aback.
After all, we’ve always been lead to believe that The Eden Project is a place of serenity and peace; a home for countless delicate plants and flowers, and an environment whose fragile ecosystem could be shattered by something as flippant as a misplaced sneeze.
We have also, at times, had reason to believe that former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher – a man who allegedly once set off a fire extinguisher in Paul Gascoigne’s face – is not an individual who’s best suited to a fragile ecosystem.
We were, therefore, slightly concerned that all hell would break loose when one of British rock’s most notorious gobshites landed in Cornwall for a show at The Eden Project.
We were right, of course: all hell did break loose. However, there were no twenty-minute arguments, and no BRIT Awards were thrown into the crowd. His brother – a songwriter, too, apparently – wasn’t even mentioned.
Instead, the kind of hell that broke loose was solely caused by the collective efforts of a tight-as-hell live band, some of the finest stadium rock songs that this fair land has ever produced, and the most iconic British frontman of all time.
Yes, make no bones about it – Liam Gallagher‘s set at Cornwall’s glorious Eden Project was a seismic run-through of some of the most important rock songs in British musical history.
That may sound like an overstatement, but allow us to explain.
You see, Liam Gallagher used to be the frontman of a little band called Oasis. That band can lay claim to having produced a couple of songs that you may well know. Wonderwall, maybe? Champagne Supernova, too? Or, if those don’t ring a bell, perhaps you’ll recognise Don’t Look Back In Anger, Morning Glory, or Lyla?
They’ve had eight UK number one singles and eight UK number one albums. They won seventeen NME Awards, nine Q Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards, and six BRIT Awards. Their second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory, is the third best-selling studio album in UK chart history and was the UK’s biggest-selling album of the 1990s.
And, on a sunny Wednesday evening in Cornwall, he brought that career’s worth of bangers, bravado, and all-out rock ‘n’ roll bombast to The Eden Project.
When he kicked off with a one-two of Rock ‘N Roll Star and Morning Glory, the audience began to lose their shit; and, by the time he marked the midpoint of the set with a run-through of Colombia, every single person in attendance had been reduced to a sweaty, croaky mess.
More than anything, though, Liam Gallagher‘s set at The Eden Sessions reminded us that he’s an icon for a reason. After all, not only does he have the raw charisma that’s necessary to pull off even the most questionable of parkas, but he’s also able to lay claim to one of the most storied back catalogues of bonafide rock bangers in British musical history. He came, he saw, and he blew the roof off the biomes of Eden: that, dear reader, is what we call a rock ‘n’ roll show.