LIVERPOOL band The Real People have fond memories of play Buckley's famous Tivoli venue.

Formed in 1989, they've been regular visitors to Flintshire for 30 years, but one night stands out in particular, according to guitarist and vocalist Chris Griffiths.

"I've had some absolutely fantastic gigs at the Buckley Tivoli and some fantastic times," says Chris. "One of the most memorable was when Oasis played there in 1994. There we were with them and Evan Dando from The Lemonheads, and I'm telling you we were in some state that night! We weren't even playing with them that night and I was just hanging around on the tour but it was a good laugh and a night I'll never forget."

A few years earlier, the quartet started playing local pub gigs in the Bootle area of Merseyside and soon found themselves part of a growing Liverpool scene that included Rain, Top, The Stairs and The La's.

Although the band signed to CBS Records within a year, they soon became embroiled in record company politics which delayed the release of their debut album and stalled the momentum they'd gathered from constant touring.

It was on one of their tours that the band met Noel Gallagher, then a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets, who in 1992 contacted Chris to ask him for help in recording Oasis' first demo. The result was eight songs recorded in Liverpool in 1993 that got Oasis their first record deal and eventually featured on the band's first album Definitely Maybe. Chris and his brother Tony even got involved with the writing and recording, with Chris co-writing Rockin' Chair with Noel and Columbia with Liam, although the elder Gallagher has refuted the band's songwriting credits and influence in recent years.

"Liam is always going on about us on Twitter," laughs Chris. "There's a song we do called Dream On which was on the album Marshmallow Lane which we released in 2012, but was actually supposed to be our second album . We'd only just finished it when we started producing Oasis and he'd obviously been listening to it and was going on about that song and this song and calling them 'belters'. He was saying if we were out there to get in touch - things got a bit complicated with Noel because of the songwriting, but we never fell out with Liam and he's never been a problem. I never had a problem with Noel until he started messing around with the songwriting credits but it's by the by now. I'm definitely 'Team Liam' though and I think everyone is slowly going off Noel now anyway!"

While Oasis went on to worldwide glory, The Real People became a cult band, performing and recording, and writing a number of hits for other artists including Cher, who took one of Tony's songs, One By One, to the top of the charts worldwide and afforded the brothers the opportunity to build their own studio in Birkenhead.

"I've got one local band who are just a gang of young kids at the moment," says Chris, who is always willing to help out local musicians with advice and a leg up. "They only started playing instruments about 18 months and sent me a few songs and kept on at me, so I rehearsed with them and now they're sounding really good."

Chris is currently spending lots of time in the studio where he is trawling through the band's huge back catalogue of songs and remastering them ready for release through the band's website.

"We've been writing a new album but we've also got about four of five albums of unreleased material which we've been remastering and re-recording," he explains. "There's about 60-odd tracks which I've been re-working and some of the ones I've found are absolutely brilliant. I've been putting backing vocals and more guitar on them and they are sounding amazing, and even though some it was recorded in 1990, stands up to today's songs.

"I've got loads of new ideas and this was just supposed to be a quick 'meanwhile' thing but it was sounding so good I got a bit carried away with it and now I want the songs to sound as good as they possibly can rather than just like unreleased demos.

"We've all got kids now, so we're not at the studio as much as we used to be when we even used to sleep there, but we were always recording and working with different producers, and between 1996 and 2008 we were recording songs every week, so there are hundreds of songs there, which is why I'm putting together and I'm thinking about putting them out on download only and then maybe a box set later on."

Back in 1990, The Real People's early singles, Open Up your Mind, Window Pane and The Truth were all released to critical acclaim, and Chris is keen to revisit them at the band's show in Buckley.

"I haven't played stuff from our first album for years because I went off it ages ago," adds Chris. "It all got a bit 'baggy' because when we started off and we were signed it was the time when the Happy Mondays were popular and we got put with different producers who tried to make the songs sound like they were up-to-date for those times and they were the ones chosen as singles.

"But if you look at that first album there are still some classic songs - there's one called For You which really stands up as a beautiful song, so we'll be playing a few songs off each album and we're really looking forward to it."

The Real People play Buckley Tivoli on Saturday, April 27. Support comes from Luke Gallagher, 50 Hertz, and Souljacker. For more information and tickets go to www.tivolivenue.com