Hi, I'm Tabitha Soren with MTV News.
Things have been going pretty darned well lately for the British band Oasis.
Their second album, "What's 
The Story Morning Glory," which has sold over 2 million copies, climbs from
number 8 to number 6 on 
this week's "Billboard" pop chart. But just last week, things were turned a
bit dicey by illness, not to 
mention some abrupt and unexpected introductions to Canadian footwear. The
explanation from John 
Norris, who caught Oasis live in Denver to explain.
JOHN NORRIS: Oasis latest North American tour was not without it's share of
snags. It started out in 
Vancouver when the band cut short a performance after being hit by coins and
shoes thrown from the 
audience. Then they had to cancel dates in Arizona and Los Angles  because
guitarist Noel Gallagher was 
sick, but things finally got back on track here in Denver, which is where I
caught up with the band. 
(To Oasis) You still having a good time?
LIAM  GALLAGHER: Yeah, I'm rocking. Yeah. When I'm allowed to do the job,
things are good, I'm 
happy, yeah, but when I'm not allowed to do the job I'm not happy.
JOHN: Meaning like when you got....
LIAM GALLAGHER: Meaning like when you go on and do four songs and come off
with a shoe coming 
at me ear. 
NOEL: Someone said that with you Americans, you like taking your shoes off
and throwing them at 
people who are playing music for you. Now I can't understand it, I've been to
some concerts in my life,   
some that are really, really bad and some that are really, really good,   and
some that are average, but I 
never once bent down and untied me shoe and took it off and thrown it out
there at the singer. 
MTV: But tonight's show at Denver's Mammoth Event Center went off without a
hitch as lead vocalist 
Liam Gallagher belted out brother Noel's lyrics.
NOEL: It's relatively rare to have a vocalist not contribute lyrics.
JOHN: Is he interested in contributing lyrically, and would you want him to
if he was?
NOEL: You ask him this question when he comes down and this is one of the two
answers he'll give you. 
Number one will be, "Oh yeah,   why should I bother 'cuz I'm just too busy
singing and that," or the other 
answer will be, "Yeah I could do it if I wanted , and I write loads of
lyrics, but I'm not going to show 'em 
to him 'cuz he's just gonna say they're **it, aren't they? So I'm just not
bothered." I'll bet you a hundred 
dollars they'll be one of those two answers. 
LIAM: I write some lyrics down now and again, you won't understand my lyrics,
so leave 'em.
JOHN: Can I ask you about the mystery that everybody wants to know about, the
"Champagne Supernova" 
video, the help thing at the end? He probably improvised that?
NOEL: It probably took him 6 hours to work that out. Improvise, are you
kidding? Improvise no way. He's 
probably working at it for months. There was a lot of dominos lying about and
he said, "Shall I write 
something out?" and the director said yes so he wrote "Help",   which I
thought was quite touching 
because he does need help... sh**loads of it.
MTV: Oasis heads back to England, then to Australia before making up the
missed Los Angles and 
Phoenix dates sometime next fall. Then it's back in the studio early next
year to start the process all over 
again.
NOEL: We said that we were going to be the biggest band in the world and now
we've got to go out and 
prove it. And to do that I'm afraid you have to spend most of your life on
the road, so we shot our big 
mouths off and now we're going to have to pay the consequences, aren't we? 
TABITHA: Oasis plays its big homecoming gigs in Manchester this weekend, and
will return to the US 
for more dates in August.
And if you have a hard time making out what Oasis are saying in their
Mancunian accents, and you have 
access to America Online, check out a full transcript of the piece you just
saw, on MTV News Online. 
That's the news for now. More news later, here on MTV.