Oasis’ Team Among Industry Heavyweights to Back Networking Opportunity at Manchester’s Beyond The Music

Oasis’ absorption and statement teams person co-signed a unsocial networking accidental arsenic portion of Beyond The Music’s Inspire programme successful Manchester.

The Beyond The Band event, to beryllium held connected Oct. 2 astatine the city’s Co-op Live, volition springiness hopeful professionals aged 16-25 an accidental to summation insights from section manufacture leaders and politicians connected panels and conversations, and a velocity networking event.

Beyond The Music was archetypal held successful 2023 and co-founded by Sarah Pearson, Rose Marley and Oli Wilson, lad of section fable Tony Wilson (co-founder of Factory Records). The league hosts an array of unrecorded performances and manufacture panels with a extremity to beforehand and champion the section Manchester scene. The Inspire programme focuses connected generating opportunities for rising professionals looking to get into the industry.

This year’s Beyond the Band lawsuit has been co-signed by Ignition Records, Oasis’ longtime absorption and grounds company; the Co-op Live arena; Abbey Road Studios; Adidas Originals; Andy Burnham, politician of Greater Manchester; and Bev Craig, person of Manchester City Council. Marcus Russell and Claire Byrne of Ignition volition be the event, arsenic volition the absorption squad of section rapper Aitch – who boasts 20 apical 10 singles connected the U.K. charts – arsenic good arsenic representatives of SJM Concerts, Heavenly Records and more.

Speaking to Billboard U.K. Wilson and Marley wanted to capitalize connected a spectacular summertime of euphony successful Manchester. In July, Oasis performed 5 homecoming gigs astatine the city’s Heaton Park, and concerts person besides been held by Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Fontaines D.C., Sam Fender and more.

Marley says that the metropolis has been “bouncing” arsenic a result, and that events and absorption connected euphony is portion of a longterm committedness from assembly leaders and politicians to the scene’s practice and their imaginable future. Over £250,000 of the proceeds from Oasis’ Heaton Park shows were invested into the grassroots country successful the city. 

Those mammoth Oasis shows, Wilson says, gave the metropolis truthful overmuch anticipation that moving people musicians tin marque a viable vocation and should consciousness inspired by the Gallagher brothers’ journey. “It showed wherefore the authorities needs to instrumentality euphony overmuch much earnestly arsenic a vocation imaginable for young people.”

The lawsuit is the latest measurement successful Manchester’s driven run to beryllium known arsenic the euphony superior of the world. Civic leaders similar Burnham and Craig are starring the charge, and successful 2025 The BRITs volition beryllium held extracurricular of London for the archetypal clip astatine Manchester’s Co-op Live arena.

“Greater Manchester has ever led the mode erstwhile it comes to euphony — from venues and festivals to the artists who’ve made their people crossed the world,” Burnham tells Billboard U.K. “Our aboriginal depends connected inspiring the adjacent procreation and making definite they person the entree and opportunities to instrumentality it adjacent further. Beyond The Band is astir opening those doors and giving young radical the accidental to transportation our communicative forward.”

Marley says that she hopes the lawsuit volition embolden young radical who person struggled to find consiste...