With their debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding, Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye seems to have proved the naysayers wrong.

“Our Kid” may have been denied a top spot in the album charts by Adele after her record-breaking 11-week run at number one but Liam and his band – featuring members of latter-day Oasis including Andy Bell, Gem Archer and tour-drummer Chris Sharrock – have received some positive reviews, including four stars from Q Magazine, which famously lambasted the Oasis’s second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory back in 1995.

Since the album release, Beady Eye has shown its caring side too. The band played a charity gig at London’s Brixton Academy earlier this month in aid of the Japanese Tsunami victims alongside Primal Scream, Paul Weller and The Coral.

And they have recorded a version of The Beatles’ classic track Across The Universe in aid of the relief effort.

The single is currently available digitally from their website for 99p, with 69p going to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.

In the two years since Oasis split Liam has launched his own clothing range, Pretty Green, as well as setting up the new band.

Meanwhile his brother Noel, the Oasis songwriter whose departure caused the break-up in 2009, has yet to bring out any new music, having initially said he was going to concentrate on his family.

Judging by early reviews, don’t expect Beady Eye to perform any Oasis classics but the Gallaghers’ love of the 1960s, and The Beatles in particular, seems to have remained intact on the new album.

Support from Steve Cradock.

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