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Performance Date:	Sept 1989
Title:	4-Track Demos
Venue:	Peacock Grove, Gorton, Manchester
Quality:	B
Length:	19m
Source(s):	Audio CD/CDR Sources The Burnage Years Dreams is a Record Machine Transfer from ORIGINAL Chrome Type II cassette Digital Sources Speed Corrected Version

Original Transfer:

1. What's It Got to Do With You [2:05]
2. Hey You (aka No Cause for Alarm) [3:37]
3. What's Been Happenin' (aka I Didn't Think So) [3:08]
4. But What If... [5:03]
5. Gotta Have Fun [5:16]

Speed Corrected Version (4% faster):

1. What's It Got to Do With You [2:00]
2. Hey You (aka No Cause for Alarm) [3:29]
3. What's Been Happenin' (aka I Didn't Think So) [3:01]
4. But What If... [4:50]
5. Gotta Have Fun [5:02]

Dreams is a Record Machine: CD Tracks #14-18

1. What's It Got to Do With You [1:58]
2. Hey You (aka No Cause for Alarm) [3:28]
3. What's Been Happenin' (aka I Didn't Think So) [3:02]
4. But What If... [4:52]
5. Gotta Have Fun [5:04]

The Burnage Years: CD1 Tracks #02-06 [0:18:22]

1. What's It Got to Do With You [2:00]
2. Hey You (aka No Cause for Alarm) [3:29]
3. What's Been Happenin' (aka I Didn't Think So) [3:01]
4. But What If... [4:50]
5. Gotta Have Fun [5:02]

In early June 2006, this tape appeared on eBay but was eventually sold privately.

Eventually the tape was purchased by a crowdfunded consortium of Oasis fans om various fan forums with the explicit agreement that the contents of the tape would be made publicly available for free and that the tape would later be returned to Noel as a gesture of goodwill. The fans weren't sure if an original copy of these songs were held in his archives and did not want to profit from his unreleased material. The tape was sent to his management company, Ignition.

What's It Got To Do With You?
The song was also included on Noel's 1988 demo tape although it's unknown if both tapes contain the same exact recording. Read an NME review of this track here and a review taken from Record Collector magazine here. Both reviews are of the version from the 1988 demo tape.

Hey You (aka No Cause For Alarm)
The song was also included on Noel's 1988 demo tape (under the title of "No Cause For Alarm") although it's unknown if both tapes contain the same exact recording. Read an NME review of this track here and a review taken from Record Collector magazine here. Both reviews are of the version from the 1988 demo tape. It's possible the previous demo tape was a different or longer version of the song, as the NME reported that Noel says "Phenomenal!" and "Awesome" at the end of the song, which isn't present on this tape. View a snippet of handwriten lyrics to this song here

What's Been Happenin' (aka "I Didn't Think So")
The song was also included on Noel's 1988 demo tape (under the title of "I Didn't Think So") although it's unknown if both tapes contain the same exact recording. Read an NME review of this track here and a review taken from Record Collector magazine here. Both reviews are of the version from the 1988 demo tape.

But What If...
The first clip emerged online on August 1st, 2001 when three short clips (of the intro, verse and chorus) were made available from a couple of friends of the seller of the tape. The audio clips were posted to alt.binaries.music.oasis as evidence of the tapes authenticity. See the announce thread on alt.music.oasis here.

Gotta Have Fun
The song was also included on Noel's 1988 demo tape (under the title of "Have Fun!!") although it's unknown if both tapes contain the same exact recording. The first clip available of this track was taken from Noel's first, 1988 demo tape and comes from a report on the auction made by Reuters Television on the 30th April 1998, and which was broadcast on Channel 4's "The Big Breakfast" and possibly other channels on the same date, the date of the auction. The second clip was from the 1989 tape.

You can view Noel's original handwritten lyrics to this song here. Read an NME review of this track here and a review taken from Record Collector magazine here. Both reviews are of the version from the 1988 demo tape.



A huge thanks to Mr. Monobrows Oasis Demos Information Site for this summary.

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