Oliveiro first discovered the band in 1995 through a music show on Mediacorp’s Channel Five hosted by presenters Vernetta Lopez, Emmanuel Bungaro and Glenn Ong.
“They kept playing the television commercial for (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? on rotation, which is the second album by Oasis and that’s when I heard it,” she said.
“I saw Liam and I said ‘Who is that beautiful man singing?’,” Oliveiro said, with a laugh. “And then it went beyond that, the music took over.”
Three years later, in 1998, luck was on her side when she managed to meet, and even have a conversation with the Gallagher brothers when she went to Australia for their concert.
“I met Noel after I landed in Perth and booked a hotel in Fremantle. I heard a lot of cheering because they were singing Oasis songs at the bar downstairs,” she explained.
“So I came downstairs, walked around and he was there, walking up and down the street, and no one was bothering him, only me,” she said. “I came up to him and I said ‘Noel, what are you doing here?’, he said ‘I’m just walking up and down getting to know this place’. So I took a picture with him and got him to sign the vinyls and tour program.”
“And then I’ll never forget this – he said ‘hey, don’t drink so much’,” Oliveiro said, adding that that left her confused.
“A guy who at the time drank so much and had alcohol in his veins all the time said ‘hey, don’t drink so much’,” she quipped.
