Music Appreciation

It was the beginning of a beautiful, if high-decibel, working relationship. ‘I fitted in well with Noel, certainly for the first two records,’ says Owen, ‘because I filled in the gaps of his knowledge of how to make records, like how to record Liam and make a fucking lead vocal and I could arrange his guitars before he knew about arranging guitars. Oasis were never fucking difficult in the studio. They were professional with me. The band was good. This is the thing that people don’t think about them. Next, I went to London to Matrix Studios in Fulham. I was in my element. After years of cleaner music I was unleashed to make a big noisy record!’

The album was finally mixed and readied at Johnny Marr’s studio by April 1994.

‘I also mastered it there. There was no A&R from the record company. Marcus ran nearly everything. So I said to Marcus I want to master it myself, which is unusual because you normally need different ears.

‘A year before, we’d remastered the first Electronic album, and there was a new box, the Apogee box A/D, where you could shove it up loud adding another 60db to the mix before distortion. We got the Oasis tapes in and I just did it really loud and really good. I remember Johnny was almost offended at how loud it was, saying to me, “You can’t be that loud!”’