{"id":61627,"date":"2025-08-12T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:54:04","slug":"i-became-the-lead-singer-in-the-worlds-biggest-oasis-tribute-band-after-winning-a-karaoke-competition-down-at-my-local-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61627\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I became the lead singer in the world\u2019s biggest Oasis tribute band after winning a karaoke competition down at my local pub\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFor his day job, Irish dad-of-two Gavin Fleming (42) is a site engineer for electrical company Davenham Switchgear. However, his passion is performing as Liam Gallagher in Live Forever\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755003244_328_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gavin Fleming of the Live Forever Oasis tribute band<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since I was a young lad I have been obsessed with Oasis, and in particular Liam Gallagher. I remember my cousin coming back from a trip to the UK with a CD of Definitely Maybe and just listening to it in the family home over and over and being blown away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was the lyrics, how catchy the songs were and hearing about their Irish backgrounds. It was everything they stood for: I remember watching MTV and thinking \u2018Who are these brash, arrogant, confident young men from a council estate in Manchester?\u2019 I loved the message they were sending out \u2013 where they came from, and what they are achieving. It was something you could aspire to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For his day job, Irish dad-of-two Gavin Fleming (42) is a site engineer for electrical company Davenham Switchgear.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,1769,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-61627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-oasis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}