"Martin Carr stayed up all night with the Gallagher brothers and couldn't understand what they were banging on about. It was April 1994, the dawn of the Britpop frenzy, and the nascent Oasis were opening for Carr's band, the Boo Radleys, at a festival in Glasgow. Carr had been enamored with the early demos from Oasis, with whom his band seemed to have everything in common-both young, hungry, crazy for the Beatles,"
"A 24-year-old rock visionary with a mop of curly hair, Carr, the Boos' guitarist and primary songwriter, enjoyed talking endlessly about music and hunting down bootleg Beatles videos. "The Gallaghers were just into drinking, shagging, and being in a band," Carr later told author David Cavanagh. "We stayed up all night talking about music, and we didn't agree on anything.""
Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys met Liam and Noel Gallagher in April 1994 when Oasis opened for his band at a Glasgow festival. Carr admired Oasis demos and shared surface similarities with them—youth, hunger, Beatles fandom, and a Creation Records connection—yet found the Gallaghers bewildering in person. Carr pursued Beatles obsession through progressive, exploratory angles and bootleg hunting, while the Gallaghers favored a more basic, visceral devotion. The Britpop moment centered partly on competing interpretations of Beatles influence, offering 1990s youth a reconstructed sensation of living through the mid-1960s pop rivalry between the Beatles and the Stones.
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