A Sound So Very Loud is the definitive book on the music of Oasis-witty, enlightening, surprising and opinionated, it brings the songs and the story of the band into glorious colour.
The book gives a chronological history of all the songs, drawing on the authors' access to Liam and Noel to give the background to the lyrics and the recordings. Music journalists Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain have interviewed both Gallaghers several dozen times between 1994 and 2024. No other journalists have had more encounters with Liam and Noel, from the band's earliest days playing tiny venues in 1994 all the way to the end. The book will also revisit each meeting in the first person chronologically throughout, to add unique perspective to the wider story.
The perfect guide to the songs of Oasis and a celebration of what they mean for their fans old and new. A riotously entertaining and authoritative look at the music of Oasis, by two journalists who have have interviewed Noel and Liam dozens of times.
Ted Kessler was on the staff at NME between 1993 and 2003, before joining Q magazine's staff, working there for sixteen years, four of them as editor. He first interviewed Oasis around their debut single 'Supersonic' in 1994, for NME; his final Oasis interview was on the road in Amsterdam with them in 2009 for Q, a few months before they spilt. Since then, he has written five Liam Gallagher cover interviews. He is the author of the memoir Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed The British Music Press and Other Misdemeanours, and To Ease My Troubled Mind: the Authorised Unauthorised Biography of Billy Childish. He devised and edited My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers.
Hamish MacBain worked at NME from 2004 to 2010, where he had a front row seat to the breakup of Oasis. He wrote the words in the band's last ever official tour programme and was sitting on the train on his way to review what would have been their final UK show when it was cancelled at the last minute. With Noel Gallagher, he co-authored the 2018 book Any Road Will Get Us There (If We Don't Know Where We're Going). His sleevenotes for the reissue of Be Here Now were blown up to 8"" x 8"" size to form part of the 'Chasing The Sun 1993-1997' Oasis exhibition.
