Noel Gallagher‘s Excessive Flying Birds have introduced former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan because the help act for his or her 2023 UK enviornment tour.
Gallagher and his band will hit the street later this 12 months for a sequence of gigs behind new album ‘Council Skies’.
Now, it’s been confirmed that Meighan will help the band on the December dates, which start in London at Wembley Area. It comes after he performed with Gallagher at an Essex present this weekend (August 5).
Meighan was convicted of abusing his accomplice, Vikki Ager, in 2020 and sentenced at Leicester Magistrates Court docket to hold out 200 hours of unpaid work after pleading responsible.
Across the time of the conviction, he parted methods with Kasabian – the chart-topping band he co-founded in 1997 – and defined that he had struggled “for a few years with alcohol habit” in addition to seeing the occasions as a “wake-up name”. He and Ager went on to be married, with Meighan identified with ADHD and saying that he was “deeply ashamed” of his abusive actions.
He went on to launch a solo profession on the finish of 2021, and play a lot of headline reveals and pageant dates. His debut solo album ‘The Reckoning’ got here out in Might. Final 12 months noticed Kasabian launch their seventh album ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria‘ – their first with out Meighan as frontman.
Earlier this 12 months, organisers of Sheffield’s Be Reyt Competition defended their resolution to ebook Meighan because the headline act for the Might occasion.
In an announcement, they deemed the reserving a “second probability”. The shop and venue Report Junkee together with pageant organisers Community issued an announcement, explaining why they booked Meighan as a headline act, and inspired followers to help the artist as he’s “working exhausting to higher himself”.
See Meighan’s UK enviornment tour dates with Noel Gallagher under.
DECEMBER
14 – OVO Area Wembley, London
15 – Utilita Area Birmingham, Birmingham
17 – Cardiff Worldwide Area, Cardiff
18 – First Direct Area, Leeds
20 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
21 – M&S Financial institution Area, Liverpool
Reviewing Gallagher’s current outside London gig, NME wrote: “Whether or not Oasis get again collectively over the following 12 months stays to be seen. For now, Gallagher senior nonetheless makes a fairly good substitute. Plus he’s a rattling sight higher than any AI replication of the band.”
