We spoke to John Paul Mason, rep for King Tut’s the venue in Glasgow where Oasis were discovered in 1993. JP attended their 2001 gig at the Barrowlands Ballroom where he queued over night for tickets.
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00:00Ten years of Noise & Confusion Tour in 2001.
00:03I mean, bearing in mind at that point, they're still a huge, huge band.
00:07But they wanted to do a sort of tour where they just went back and hit the venues that they'd played on the way up.
00:14But they did Two Nights at the Barrowland, and obviously Oasis announcing Two Nights at the Barrowland is probably the biggest underplay ever at that time.
00:23And me and my mates were like, well, we need to try and get tickets.
00:26The word came out, or I found out somehow, possibly through a magazine or whatever, that they were going to be selling some physical tickets at the SECC, which seems bizarre.
00:38So there was tickets that you could phone up and buy, but I didn't want to take the chance on that.
00:44I said to my mates, I was like, look, if we go through and we just sit outside the SECC, we'll just join a queue and then hopefully we'll get them.
00:52We arrive and I remember the security guy, we walked up just to ask him where to queue.
00:56And he was like, are you here for Oasis tickets?
00:58And we were like, yeah.
00:59And he went, right, well, you get inside, you get a wristband, but you can't get back out.
01:03Guaranteed tickets.
01:04So we go in, we get our wristbands.
01:07And as soon as we get those wristbands, that means we've got two tickets.
01:10So we're all buzzing, going to Hall 4.
01:13And there's people all around the outside of Hall 4.
01:17There's a burger van.
01:18There's people with carriots, guitars, like, it's a really good atmosphere.
01:23And then basically didn't sleep the whole night, just buzzing.
01:27And then in the morning, it was quite weird.
01:29There was two guys came, they were like banging the fire exit doors down the bottom corner of the room.
01:35I'll never forget this because I looked down and I was like, what's going on there?
01:38And they came in and they were going up to you and saying, let's see your wristbands, let's see your wristbands.
01:42And they'd broken in and they were trying to like, I don't know if they were touts or what,
01:46but they were trying to get tickets for the gig.
01:48And the next thing they got huckled out by security.
01:52And we were all like, that was a bit weird.
01:54And then as we all queued up to get our tickets, security were telling everybody to be careful
02:00because there'd been people there overnight outside the venue trying to break in
02:05because they knew the tickets were on sale inside the venue.
02:09You know, people coming out of clubs and pubs and stuff on the Saturday night
02:12and the word had spread that if you wanted to get Oasis tickets, you'd get them at the SECC.
02:17So there's people just coming down and outside the SECC trying to like break in and stuff.
02:22So the guy was like, be really careful when you come out just in case there's anybody going to mug you or whatever.
02:28And we were like, pfft.
02:29So we came out and we just ran straight to the car that we were in, got in, locked the doors,
02:34all looked at our tickets and we were all just like buzzing Oasis straight on the stereo
02:39and then drove back to Bathgate and we were all just completely hyper that we were going to get to see Oasis in the bar.
02:45And then the gig comes round and it's surreal.
02:47When they walked on, I was like, I can't believe I'm seeing Oasis.
02:50And it was filmed for Sky as well.
02:52Sky box office filmed it.
02:55Johnny Marr came out and played Champagne Supernova with them.
02:59And it was just, the atmosphere was unbelievable from start to end.