Watch Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds On Later... With Jools Holland

On the last show of this series, which began with Liam Gallagher's solo debut, we welcome back Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, who debut songs from their new long-player Who Built the Moon? This new album, inspired by French psychedelic pop, is the follow-up to 2015's Chasing Yesterday.

Click here to watch the show, he played 'Holy Mountain' and 'She Taught Me How To Fly'.

If you are outside the UK, I'm sure that the iPlayer doesn't work so I will make a separate post with YouTube links.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

GOGGLEBOX: This Friday, 9pm @standup2canceruk

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweets

Gotta address the shit that come out my former brothers mouth he's on a journey and needs to learns things 

Your your own boss you put your own records out you write your own shit you play every instrument you mange your self your the fucking man x 

Your fucking rude 

The only way you got to be in that position was from the beautiful people who put you there be careful I say this with love and concern LG x

Liam Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

"I am the bringer of good gifts...." Tune into @AbsoluteRadio every day for the chance to win tickets to an intimate live show on Nov 7th.

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Reviews And Pictures: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

Click here, here and here for a number of pictures and reviews of Liam Gallagher at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland earlier today. Gallery: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

Belfast once again you blew my fucking head off there are many things that i would like to say to you but I don't know how as you were LG x

Noel Gallagher Is On 'Later... With Jools Holland' Today

'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' will be on 'Later... With Jools Holland' on BBC 2 at 22:00 (UK Time) and November 4th.

Former Oasis songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher and his band High Flying Birds showcase new album Who Built the Moon?, and American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann performs tracks from her latest LP Mental Illness. Plus, appearances by British-Albanian singer Dua Lipa, Albanian folk collective Saz'iso, East London-based eight-piece band Superorganism and Mali duo Amadou & Mariam. Plus, Puerto Rican guitarist Jose Feliciano joins the host to perform a track from their new collaboration As You See Me Now. Last in the series.

Video: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

Below are a number of videos of Liam Gallagher at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland yesterday.



Thanks to Jonky

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

A platform to get mouthy I was asked to do something for charity with my fam not supermodels and squares get a grip as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher His Mum Peggy And Son Gene Are On 'Celebrity Gogglebox' Friday

Celebrity Gogglebox is on Channel 4 on Friday for Stand Up To Cancer and who’s going to be on it, only Liam Gallagher, his son Gene and his Mother Peggy!

Speaking about making his Gogglebox debut, Liam said: “ It’s an honour and privilege to be invited on one of my favourite TV shows, the mighty Gogglebox especially with my fam and for such a great cause as Stand Up To Cancer”.

Gallery: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

Click here for a number of pictures of Liam Gallagher at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland earlier today.

Setlist: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

Below is the setlist for Liam Gallagher at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland earlier today.

Rock N Roll Star
Morning Glory
Greedy Soul
Wall Of Glass
For What It's Worth
Bold
Paper  Crown
Some Might Say
Slide Away
I'm Outta Time
Come Back to Me
You Better Run
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Be Here Now
Supersonic
I've All I Need
Live Forever

Thanks to Aaron

Liam Gallagher On Playing Live With Coldplay's Chris Martin

Liam Gallagher has spoken about when he joined members of Coldplay to perform Oasis' ‘Live Forever’ at the One Love Manchester charity concert earlier this year.

Liam said that he was “fucking glad he did it”, and that he and Martin were “cool” now.

He told the NME “That was all right, man,” said Gallagher. “We were booked to do a gig in Germany. We were supposed to be on about seven. [Partner and manager] Debbie was going ‘you’ll never guess who keeps fucking emailing me’. I’m like, ‘who? It’s not fucking Noel is it? Tell him to fuck off’. ‘No, fucking Chris Martin’. I’m like ‘what the fuck does he want?’ ‘I dunno what he wants, he just wants to have a word with you’. I’m like ‘does he want a fucking scrap? I’m not in the fucking mood right now, man’.”

Gallagher continued: “Anyway, so then we get on Skype, and he says ‘the Manchester thing, are you up for doing it?’ I think he wanted to do like, ‘Imagine’, and I’m like ‘look, I’m not doing ‘Imagine’, it ain’t happening’. He went ‘oh go on, it’ll be great’. I was like ‘I’m sure it fucking will be great. I’m fucking great and you’re fucking great, but it ain’t happening’. So he goes, ‘oh, would you do an Oasis tune?’ and I said ‘yeah, of course, man’. So then it was ‘Live Forever’.”

Live Updates: Liam Gallagher In Belfast

I will add all updates and videos here during the set.

Belfast has shown out for @liamgallagher

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Setlist confirmed by @AChambers10

Rock N Roll Star
Morning Glory
Greedy Soul
Wall of Glass
For What it's Worth
Bold
Paper  Crown
Some Might Say
Slide Away
I'm Outta Time
Come Back to Me
You Better Run
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Be Here Now
Supersonic
I've All I Need
Live Forever


Videos.

Rock 'N' Roll Star https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925111488615976960
Wall Of Glass https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925114653604241408
Greedy Soul https://twitter.com/Lynn_Doyle/status/925115790617178112
For What It's Worth https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925116423176966149
Some Might Say https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925119359198072832
Slide Away https://twitter.com/jmpfe/status/925121849343782912
Cigarettes & Alcohol https://twitter.com/BelfastLive/status/925124092025622533

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

What about ye Belfast as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher To Play An Exclusive Tiny Gig Next Week For Absolute Radio

Liam Gallagher has announced he will play a tiny exclusive gig next Tuesday in London for Absolute Radio listeners.

Listen every day to the station for your chance to be there!

Review And Pictures: Liam Gallagher In Dublin

Click here, here and here for reviews and pictures of Liam Gallagher at the Samhain Festival in Dublin, Ireland yesterday.

Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

I hereby do declare that from this day forward (until I get bored)every Monday shall be known as McConaughey Monday. “..let’s roll the dice buddy” #2good2btrue

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'Scouting For Girls' Roy Stride Wants to Write A Song For Liam Gallagher

Roy Stride from 'Scouting For Girls' has said he wants to write a song for Liam Gallagher.

He has been an ardent fan of Gallagher since his Oasis days and it would be a dream come true to write lyrics for him.

He said "I would love to write Liam a song, he was one of my childhood heroes, he was one of the reasons I wanted to be in a band as a kid. I loved Oasis, I went to one of their shows when I was 14 and they were touring 'Definitely Maybe', I was at Knebworth, I was at Earl's Court Exhibition Centre.

"The first time I ever busked I did a terrible version of 'Half The World Away'. I was obsessed with all the bands of that generation but especially Oasis," said Stride.

Another On This Day In Oasis History...

The video below is from October 30th 1994, when Oasis appeared on MTV 120 Minutes in New York, USA.

On This Day In Oasis History...

Wonderwall is a song by English rock band Oasis, written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Released as the third single from (What's the Story) Morning Glory? on October 30th 1995.

Wonderwall peaked at number two in the UK Singles Charts and proved to be their American breakthrough, reaching number eight on the Hot 100 and giving them their only top-ten hit in the US thus far.

Wonderwall is perhaps their most popular song, despite the fact that British TV stars Robson & Jerome's "I Believe"/"Up on the Roof" kept it out of the top slot. Wonderwall continues to have enduring popularity in Oasis's canon; as of 2008, it was 76th in the UK's list of best-selling singles, and has now sold over a million copies in single and download sales in the UK, where it went platinum.

The song is included on Oasis's compilation album Stop the Clocks.

Background

The song takes its name from the 1968 album Wonderwall Music by George Harrison, at the time still a member of the Beatles.[3] Harrison's album was in fact a soundtrack to the film Wonderwall, but the film has remained unknown by the general public. The original title of the track was "Wishing Stone".

It is often claimed that "Wonderwall" was written for Gallagher's then-girlfriend, Meg Mathews. Noel married Mathews in 1997, but the couple divorced four years later. Gallagher now claims that the song was not about Mathews at all, but he felt he had to go along with the rumour, saying "The meaning of that song was taken away from me by the media who jumped on it. How do you tell your Mrs it's not about her once she's read it is? It's a song about an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself."

Recording

The song was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, during a two-week recording of the 'Morning Glory' album in May 1995. According to producer Owen Morris, the song was completed in 6-8 hours.

Morris claimed that Gallagher had presented an alternative arrangement of the song "which had some extra complicated pre-bridge bits that didn't have singing or melody - but just had some chord changes - which seemed completely unnecessary", the night before it was recorded. This idea was quickly shelved.

Noel initially wanted to sing this song on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, but he gave his brother Liam Gallagher the choice, and Noel ended up singing "Don't Look Back in Anger".




















Live performances

Noel debuted the song on UK TV, backstage at Glastonbury and broadcast on Channel 4 on June 24, 1995. The song wasn't performed by the band during their headline performance the night before.

In August 2002, Noel changed the arrangement of his live performances of the song to a style admittedly heavily-influenced by Ryan Adams' cover version of the song. This arrangement has continued to his most recent live performances of the song. When the full band performs the song live, with electric guitars, it's still in the original style as presented on the record. During the 2008 tour, however the band have return to performing the song in a semi acoustic form.

A live version of the song, recorded at Wembley Stadium in 2000, is featured on the band's live album Familiar To Millions.

In an interview with Q magazine in August 2008, Liam said that he hates performing the song: "I can't stand that fucking song, every time I have to sing it, I want to gag. Problem is 'Wonderwall' was a big big tune for us and so you go to America and they're like, 'Are you Mr Wonderwall?', and you want to chin someone."

Video

The music video to the song was filmed in the relatively brief period when bassist Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan quit the band due to nervous exhaustion; Scott McLeod came in to replace him.



Cover art

The sleeve artwork was inspired by the paintings of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, and was shot on Primrose Hill in north London. The hand holding the frame is that of art director Brian Cannon; the woman is Anita Heryet, a Creation Records employee. The original idea was to have Liam in the frame before Noel vetoed that idea whilst the shoot was taking place.

Chart history

It reached No.2 in the UK charts.

In the US it also peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for an unprecedented ten weeks (this amount was later eclipsed in 1998 by Marcy Playground), and reached #8 on the Hot 100.

Awards and accolades

In 1995, "Wonderwall" came in at number one in the national Australian music poll, the Triple J Hottest 100.

The promo video for "Wonderwall", directed by Nigel Dick, won the Best British Video award at the 1996 BRIT Awards.

In the Grammy Awards of 1997 the band received a nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group and Noel Gallagher picked another nomination for Best Rock Song, winning none.

In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at number 95 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs Of The Past 25 Years."

In May 2005, "Wonderwall" was voted the best British song of all time, in a poll of over 8,500 listeners conducted by Virgin Radio.

The song "Wonderwall" placed 105 of the 3000 top songs of all time on the website acclaimedmusic.net.

In August 2006, "Wonderwall" was named the second-greatest song of all time in a poll conducted by Q Magazine, finishing behind another Oasis song, "Live Forever".

In 2006, U2's guitarist The Edge named "Wonderwall" one of the songs he most wishes he'd written.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Wonderwall" at number 27 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

In December 2007, it came in number 35 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's countdown.

In early 2007, "Wonderwall"'s drumming, provided by Alan White, was voted 90th best drumming track ever in Modern Drummer magazine.

Video: Liam Gallagher In Dublin

Below are a number of videos of Liam Gallagher at Samhain Festival in Dublin, yesterday.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweets

Yo Dublin top o the afternoon to ya as you were LG x 

That was 1 of the best crowds ever lastnight in Dublin thankyou for your support as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher Rolls Into Belfast

Liam Gallagher will play at The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland later today.

Setlist: Liam Gallagher In Dublin

Below is the setlist for Liam Gallagher at Samhain Festival in Dublin, Ireland earlier today.

Rock 'n' Roll Star
Morning Glory
Greedy Soul
Wall Of Glass
Paper Crown
Bold
For What It's Worth
Slide Away
Some Might Say
Come Back To Me
You Better Run You Better Hide
Be Here Now
Cigarettes And Alcohol
Wonderwall

Noel Gallagher Thought His New Album 'Who Bulit The Moon?' Would End Up Getting Scrapped

Noel Gallagher has said he thought that his new High Flying Birds album with producer David Holmes would never see the light of day, and thought it would end up being scrapped like the planned album with Amorphous Androgynous or Oasis’s abandoned sessions with Death In Vegas.

Speaking to the the current issue of Q he said he only told producer David Holmes this much later.

He said “He was flabbergasted. He said that he never doubted from the first night that the record was going to be the way it was. That’s a proper producer. If you’d asked me that night if I thought I was capable of doing it, I’d have said no. I’ve got to take my hat off to David because he’s seen something in me that probably wasn’t even there.”

'Who Built The Moon? is released on November 24th.

Video: Metallica Cover Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger' In Manchester

Below is a video of Metallica covering Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger' at the Manchester Arena in Manchester yesterday.

Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

So it would seem EVERYONE’S doing my thing these days! Big up The Metal Lickers..🤘🏽🤘🏽

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Watch Liam Gallagher Perform 'For What It's Worth' And 'Wonderwall' On French TV

Liam Gallagher played two songs on French TV show Taratata that were broadcast yesterday, click here to watch 'For What It's Worth' click here for 'Wonderwall'.

Noel Gallagher Is Happy He Has The Freedom To Make Whatever Music He Wants

Noel Galagher has told the latest issue Q that he is happy he has the freedom to make whatever music he wants to on a "whim".

He said: "I'm not in a band any more so I don't have to sell it to anyone. I run my own record label, I pay for my records, I promote them, I market them, I do everything myself. If I have a whim, I'm going to do it.

"When you're solo, you can move quicker. Big rock bands are like huge tankers but I'm like a f***ing speedboat."

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

Dublin top o the morning to ya as you were LG x

Liam Gallagher Rolls Into Dublin

Liam Gallagher will play at Samhain Festival in Dublin, Ireland later today.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

Ticket giveaway: for the chance to see Liam Gallagher live in concert for @bbcradio2 at the BBC Radio Theatre, just leave a comment below tagging tag the friend you’d like to attend with.

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Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

Yes AJ brutal respect to the takam pair of lunatics mega as you were LG xx

Liam Gallagher On 'As You Were', Beady Eye, Oasis And More

Click here to read an interview with Liam Gallagher who talks about 'As You Were', Beady Eye, Oasis and more.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - ‘Fort Knox’ (Behind The Scenes)

'Liam Gallagher: In Concert' To Be Broadcast On The BBC Next Week

Liam Gallagher: In Concert
Thursday 2nd November 
20:00 (UK Time)
BBC Radio 2 & BBC Red Button

Listen live here.

Jo Whiley hosts an In Concert with one of the men who helped define the nineties, Liam Gallagher. Having just celebrated a number 1 debut solo album with 'As You Were' he is raring to go. He'll be playing some of his new material plus some Oasis classics that helped shape a generation and an era.

Liam Gallagher says: "Looking forward to taking over the airwaves and bringing you some super sounds on Radio 2. As you were LG x"

This run of special In Concerts celebrates BBC Radio 2's 50th birthday, with a legendary line-up from the last five decades.

There are performances from Tears For Fears (26 October), Chic feat. Nile Rodgers (30 October), Liam Gallagher (2 November), Paloma Faith (9 November) and Deep Purple (16 November), with each concert marking a different decade of music in the fifty years of Radio 2.

Taking place in the BBC Radio Theatre, London, the series of intimate performances will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 as well as in vision via the BBC Red Button.

All performances will be available on BBC iPlayer for thirty days after.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Liam Gallagher On Oasis, Bonehead Driving The Van, Drinking, Weed, Security Guards And More

Liam Gallagher has spoken about the rise of Oasis from the times Bonehead drove the Oasis tour van, sharing hotel rooms with band members to playing arenas and stadiums.

He told NME Gold "I cant remember anything about journalists being on the early tours. But those were the fucking days, man: when you don't really know if anyone gives a fuck or not. Bonehead driving the van, sharing rooms and shit, lots of drinking, lots of weed smoking, not so much of the other at that point. Just never-ending nights, d'you know what I mean? Just feeling invincible never really worrying about singing or any of that. I don't think I ever warmed up once. I'd just be sat backstage stoned and someone goes, 'Right you're on', and that would be it. Not that professional to be fair, which was good at that time. It's when you go into arenas that you start thinking, 'Fucking Hell. I've got to hold it down a bit.' it's a bit of an occasion then, when it's not just in a pub, and it seems like a lot of people have dressed up for it or whatever. It's like 'Fuck I better put this spliff out.' In them early days, didn't have any security guards either so it was just us lot in a van and the road crew."

He added "I remember getting the first security guard and thinking 'Fuck this. What's this all about?' I remember he came on because Noel got a whack at some gig, and then all of a sudden there they are. But he's stood by my side! I'm like 'Here y'are mate it wasn't me who got the dig! Go stand with him.' So then I had this big daft cunt who was always hanging about with me. Our kid would have a bit of freedom running off down the road, and I'd be stuck with the big idiot, just wherever I went. I'd be going 'I'm just to the shop', and he'd go 'I've been told I've got to come with you'. So that pissed me off a bit. I found that adjustment a bit weird. We'd have a little aftershow, and then just bowl out and have a laugh with the fans and all that. But when it got to arenas, I just stayed backstage because it got a bit intense. It was like everyone was in your face and it got a bit rabid. Early days, you could kind of sit about and have a beer with all the fans, and it was chilled. Then when it went massive, everyone was just on soon as you came offstage. I kind of stopped doing that stuff."

NME Gold: Liam Gallagher is on sale now.

Liam Gallagher On Following Up 'As You Were', Rock 'N' Roll Angels And More

Liam Gallagher has said he hasn't got one song written to follow up on his debut album 'As You Were' , he told NME Gold that he's "fucking songless, which is beautiful".

He said "I haven't got one fucking song written, ready to go. Nish. They're all done, everything's laid out on the table, man. I am fucking songless, which is beautiful. I'm not going to sit there, think about it and go, (does worried voice) 'Fucking hell,' because I was songless two years ago, then all of a sudden they just fucking came."

He added "I'm not one of them, like, that is going to sit there and drive myself mad. Fuck the next album. This is the one album., see how it fucking goes and just fucking believe in the universe. Believe in rock 'n' roll angels man - be good to them and they'll be good to you and that hippy bollocks.  I believe in it. Songs are little miracles, man. I don't care what anyone fucking says. And it happened, so I truly believe it might happen again. And if it doesn't it doesn't."

NME Gold: Liam Gallagher is on sale now.

Liam Gallagher On How He Was "Gutted" When George Michael Died

Liam Gallagher has spoken to 'NME: Gold Liam Gallagher' about George Michael.

He said "I met him a few times, and every time I met him he was a top gent. He stared coming to a few Oasis gigs early on, and then I met him at the Olympics, went back to his house for a party a few times. I'd just done a thing about him - they got this documentary coming out on 'Listen Without Prejudice' - and there's that song 'Praying For Time' and I always used to go up to him and go 'that tune man...'So they wanted me to go round his house and chat about it. So I go round, and he's not there, and there filming me going on about that song, and what I liked about it. And then two weeks later he's fucking dead. I weren't his best mate or anything, but I was gutted when he died."

Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

No words necessary.

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Noel Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

So the suffering has ended. We are back home safe and sound. To EVERYBODY connected to The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 (band and fans included)on behalf of NGHFB I will say fucking nice one. Yiz are some of the best people known to man. Go Safe next year. See you somewhere down the road. NG.

A post shared by Noel Gallagher (@themightyi) on Oct 27, 2017 at 7:26am PDT

Liam Gallagher's Latest Instagram Post

FINSBURY PARK SOLD OUT WOW massive THANKYOU seriously blown away by all your support this is gonna be BIBLICAL as you were LG x

A post shared by Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) on Oct 27, 2017 at 3:22am PDT

Tickets For Liam Gallagher's HUGE Finsbury Park Sell Out in Minutes

Tickets for Liam Gallagher at Finsbury Park sold out in minutes when they went on sale earlier today.

Liam Gallagher's Latest Tweet

WOW massive THANKYOU seriously blown away by all your support this is gonna be BIBLICAL as you were LG x