WHEN Liam Gallagher swaggered on to the makeshift stage underneath a battered circus tent in a Preston Park, Blackburn singer Ian D Fleming knew his rock and roll dream was over.

“Noel Gallagher wore a white Arran sweater and a pair of natty Slazenger trainers, and they all looked so incredibly cool,” recalled Fleming, who fronted popular local band the Miracle Birds in the early 1990s.

“Then they played Live Forever, Slide Away and Supersonic and I was gobsmacked.

“The atmosphere was unreal — I’d been to hundreds of gigs and had never experienced anything like it.

“When Oasis did I Am The Walrus it was like the perfect rock and roll moment and I just left.

“Oasis was everything that we’d been trying to be, yet I knew at that moment that we were never going to be that.”

Driving home after the gig , he made the decision to quit music — and two months later Oasis’ anthem-filled album Definitely Maybe changed the face of Brit Pop.

“I thought’s ‘Well, that’s it.’ — I never got involved in music for 20 years.”

These days, Fleming owns his own television production company, based in Surrey. In that time, he has produced and written screenplays and TV shows — including 70 episodes of Hollyoaks.

“Still, I had this dream to make a record with a certain type of sound, and I think we’ve come up with that with the Cottontown Sound Corporation,” said Fleming, who leads the new collective with Stiffs guitarist Strang, Steve Horsefield of Accrington modsters The Itch and Paul Chester, ex-drummer with the Miracle Birds. Their debut EP — Please, Please, Please — is a bass and brass-fired vintage footstomper, with Blackburn’s Boulevard and The Hake Boat Chip Shop both landing name checks.

The cover features Fleming’s nine-year-old son Ethan Saul, while various sons and daughters, including Strang’s son George, who plays the trumpet, contribute on the record.

Another catchy tune, On the Streets That Made Me, reveals Fleming’s strong connection with Haslingden, where he was born and raised.

“Haslingden was somewhere I was always looking to escape from as a teenager, but the other week I climbed to the top of Musbury Tor in Helmshore, something I did often then, and realised that view of my home was something that stirs me still,” he added.

“We lived at 22 Holly Avenue and when I was a nipper my dad planted a sycamore twig in the back garden.

“He died when I was 14 and now the tree is gigantic.

“Singing with me on the record are my grown-up daughter Lacei, who is 28, and Ethan, who is still at primary school.

“So the song connects three generations . . . and they are singing with their dad, about the grandfather they never met.

The EP made a TV debut as an accompaniment on an episode of Hollyoaks and Cottontown Sound Corporation are planning to play live next year.

Cottontown Sound Corporation EP available via I Tunes.