Warner, Knebworth week, Grohl on the single
On 27 May 2022, Liam Gallagher released C’MON YOU KNOW through Warner Records, his third solo studio album. Andrew Wyatt was the primary producer and co-writer. The same day Gallagher also issued the live set Down by the River Thames. The studio album arrived in the run-up to his sold-out Knebworth Park shows on 3–4 June 2022, so the campaign mixed new songs with a stadium-scale live moment.
The standard edition runs twelve tracks, about forty-five minutes. Opener “More Power” builds on choir and slow-burn dynamics. “Diamond in the Dark” and “Don’t Go Halfway” keep a mid-tempo rock push. The title track stretches past five minutes. “Everything’s Electric,” co-written with Dave Grohl and produced by Greg Kurstin, became the lead single and Gallagher’s first solo Top 20 hit in the UK, peaking at No. 18. Charlie Lightening directed the official video, blending new performance footage with live clips.
Other producers and writers rotate through the tracklist. Ezra Koenig appears on “Moscow Rules.” Greg Kurstin, Ariel Rechtshaid, Adam Noble, Emile Haynie, Simon Aldred, and Danny L Harle also take credits on selected songs. Live-band associates Michael Tighe, Dan McDougall, and Mike Moore feed into the writing. “Better Days,” “Too Good for Giving Up,” and “Oh Sweet Children” widen the emotional range without dropping Gallagher’s nasal lead vocal as the center of gravity.
Gallagher’s best and most experimental solo album yet.
(NME on C’MON YOU KNOW, 2022)
C’MON YOU KNOW debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and in Scotland. It reached No. 2 in Ireland and Hungary, No. 5 in Australia, No. 8 in Switzerland, No. 10 in Germany, and Top 20 placements across much of Europe. The deluxe edition adds “The Joker” and “Wave,” extending the set for streaming and CD buyers without rewriting the core twelve.
The cover art, drawn from Reading Festival crowd photography, matches the album’s live-first pitch: hands in the air, black-and-white flash, and the singer as part of a crowd ritual rather than a studio hermit. On stage that summer, the new songs sat beside Oasis-era favorites without apology. The record’s mix keeps guitars forward, drums solid, and the vocal dry enough to cut through festival PA systems.
As a third solo album, C’MON YOU KNOW confirmed Gallagher could still open at No. 1 with new material, not only with nostalgia packages. Wyatt’s production opens the arrangement palette; Grohl and Kurstin deliver the radio spike; the rest of the tracklist keeps the Mancunian bark intact. For anyone tracking his post-Oasis catalog, this is the 2022 chapter: twelve songs, a UK chart summit, and a Knebworth weekend attached.
