Be it a bloke with a guitar in the pub, countless buskers on the street or even big names touring in Manchester, we’ve come across a lot of Oasis covers in our time and plenty of takes on ‘Champagne Supernova’ too – but this one by Middle Kids is up there with the best we’ve ever heard.
Alternative Australian band Middle Kids have been going since 2015 and we hear at Audio North have been enjoying the Sydney export for a good long while now.
Released back in 2019, their debut album Lost Friends had us hooked from the off, as have their two follow-up records, Today We’re The Greatest (2021) and Faith Crisis Pt 1, which dropped earlier this year.
The latter was recorded right here in England by Jonathan Gilmore, who has famously worked with The 1975 and other artists on the Dirty Hit label, so there’s no surprise you can hear some of those UK influences in their sound – but we weren’t expecting them to nail such an iconic Britpop song so easily.
Middle Kids perform a very different kind of cover of ‘Champagne Supernova’ by Oasis.
What do you reckon – pretty bloody good, right?
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Now, imitating a song well is one thing but reimagining it in a totally different way is another and, in our opinion, often what makes a really good cover stand out.
Plenty of music fans tend to agree too as the comments underneath the video speak for themselves. One person wrote, “Her voice is entrancing, this sounds great”, while another added: “Classy cover, brings new meaning to the track for me. Melancholy magic.” High praise indeed.
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To be honest, most of the comments are just various different ways of saying, “We must have this on Spotify immediately” – and if you enjoyed it too, you’ll be glad to know they listened and added it to the streaming platform right off the bat, where it’s already boasted countless plays in less than a fortnight.
By the way, this isn’t their first ‘Like A Version’ cover for the national radio station and popular online channel that has impressed, having previously done their own takes on everything from Crowded House and even Olivia Rodrigo.
A good triple j cover – which often go viral on social media – can do wonders for a band’s profile.
The Aussie indie rockers clearly have a real penchant for covers and not just trying to recreate what’s gone before but actually put their own twist on stuff.
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As for Middle Kids’ version of ‘Champagne Supernova’, we’ve had it on repeat for the past week; we’re not sure whether it’s lead singer Hannah Joy’s soft and soothing vocal take on the classic Manc hit or the cleverly vocoded keys creating those harmonica sounds underneath everything, all we know is we love it.
It’s more pared-down and stripped back than the original as you can often expect from the likes of triple j and Live Lounge sessions but it turns out a lo-fi version of the legendary song is something we never knew we needed.
More importantly, if you’ve never given the talented trio a listen before then we urge you to give their own discography a go when you come up for air from all the Oasis excitement of late.
It’s not the only cover involving a Greater Manchester band we’ve enjoyed recently either…
Featured Images — triple j (screenshot via YouTube)
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Clubland Live is returning to Manchester with an arena show that will be ‘the biggest night of your life’
Daisy Jackson
Clubland will be back with a live arena show in Manchester next year, following massive success and feel-good parties for the last few years.
There’ll be five cities on the newly announced tour, which will fill arenas with classic dance tunes and the full Clubland experience.
As well as Manchester, the tour will visit Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle and Aberdeen in May next year.
The three-hour action-packed show will bring together some big names from as far back as the 90s in the dance music world, along with some of the biggest new names on the scene.
Each city will have a slightly different line-up, but for Manchester it includes Cascada, Ultrabeat, and Ben Nicky.
The new Clubland show at the AO Arena will be reliving the times where dance music produced the best tunes, energy and feel-good factor from throughout the generations.
Clubland started life as a series of compilation albums in 2002, and become the umbrella brand for an entire movement of commercial dance music, spawning countless classic hits over the years.
That’s included artists like Cascada, Scooter, BassHunter and Ultrabeat amongst many, many more – selling 30 million albums.
And Clubland TV remains one of the most popular music channels on UK music TV, bringing a mix of the both the classics and new tunes to thousands of people every day.
Clubland Live launched in 2008 and played to tens of thousands of people across the UK, in a landmark moment for the dance music industry.
And now it’s back again for a live show at the AO Arena.
Clubland Live will be at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday 2 May 2026, with tickets on sale from 10am on Friday 7 November HERE.
Outbreak Festival announces hard-hitting lineup for 15th anniversary in Manchester
Danny Jones
Outbreak Fest is celebrating 15 years in 2026, and they’re toasting the milestone with a hefty lineup full of trash, metal, punk, hardcore and more.
The cult favourite alternative and annual music festival that takes place at the Bowlers Exhibition Centre, a.k.a. BEC Arena, every year has only gotten bigger over the past few years, and their landmark 15th anniversary is set to be another rager.
Approaching a decade and a half of delighting alt-kids and Manc rocks next summer, the Outbreak lineup down in London was always going to be impressive, but we just weren’t quite expecting so many big hitters in just the first wave alone up here.
Here’s the Outbreak Fest Manchester lineup for 2026 so far:
Promising plenty more to come and soon, the festival organisers have already confirmed that there will be a standalone Friday show to kick off the carnage come June 2026.
As explained in the social media post, which has been met with an incredible reaction from fans, “you will be able to upgrade your weekend ticket to include this show once the line-up is announced, if you would like.” Bang for your buck.
They went on to write: “This festival is nothing without the community of people around it. It doesn’t exist without your support, and we are grateful to still be doing this all these years later.”
This devil-horned, weekend-long celebration has always given off a great style and aesthetic, too; we particularly enjoyed their cinematic preview released on Halloween.
Put together by Charles Fitzgerald, a digital content creator who has worked with the likes of Bring Me The Horizon and their frontman Oli Sykes’ Drop Dead clothing range, these are the kinds of teasers we want to see more of…
With names like the resurgent Alexisonfire (set to play their seminal third album Crisis in its entirety), Ipswich rockers Basement, as well as post-hardcore heroes, Touché Amoré, topping the bill, we cannot wait to see what comes next.
Safe to say you should keep your eyes peeled on their social media for more announcements and information on Outbreak 2026.
Following up to the reaction online, they added: “Two-day passes on sale now. That was a crazy reaction to the first announcement and we are grateful.
“Truthfully, we were 60% sold before we announced yesterday! This is us giving you a heads up. If you can, and you f*** with this lineup – get your ticket soon! Thank you.”
General admission went live on their official website on Monday morning, and you really don’t want to wait around with this one; grab your tickets HERE.
Danny Jones -
30th October 2024 
