{"id":616436,"date":"2026-09-30T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616436\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:36:12","slug":"oasis-unheard-recordings-pulled-from-auction-after-band-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616436\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis unheard recordings pulled from auction after band &#8216;sue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A set of unheard Oasis recordings valued at between \u00a31.2m and \u00a31.6m have been pulled from an auction after the band filed an injunction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, it was announced that Littleton Auctions, in Evesham, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6e30gxjwxv1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selling a set of recordings which included 63 live shows<\/a>, as well as soundchecks and more than 100 hours of Noel and Liam Gallagher in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were collected by Oasis sound engineer Huw Richards, who worked with the band from the release of their debut album Definitely, Maybe in 1994, until 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the auction house said the sale of the recordings had been suspended after the band intervened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing director Ben Homer said: &#8220;Littleton Auctions confirms that the Oasis recordings known as The Desk Tapes have been withdrawn from our October 3 auction in light of legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very disappointed that we cannot offer this significant archive as planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A set of unheard Oasis recordings valued at between \u00a31.2m and \u00a31.6m have been pulled from an auction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-616436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}