Noel Gallagher's New DVD Is Still Number One On The UK's Music Video Chart

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds “International Magic Live At The O2” is still at number one on the Official Music Video Chart in the UK.

Disc 1 features Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds live at London’s O2 on Feb 26, 2012, the biggest Arena show Noel’s band have played to date.

Disc 2 features an acoustic set by Noel at The Mod Club Toronto, the “Ride The Tiger” video trilogy plus footage from the NME Awards.

The special edition package also includes an exclusive CD featuring all the demos of album tracks, B sides and previously unreleased live favourite – “Freaky Teeth”.

“Ride The Tiger” is a 20 minute film comprising three of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds videos – directed by Mike Bruce.

The trilogy sees “If I Had A Gun….”, “The Death Of You and Me” and “AKA…What A Life!” linked together to create one continuous film.

It also features snippets of “Shoot A Hole Into The Sun” - one of the tracks Noel recorded with The Amorphous Androgynous.

The NME Awards saw Noel win Godlike Genius where he also played the closing set of the night, bringing the star-studded crowd to their feet – all captured on disc 2 of the DVD.

The special edition package will also include an exclusive CD – “Faster Than The Speed Of Magic”.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have released International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records.

They will embark on a number European dates before they tour the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg.

For details on the above and more click here.

Noel Gallagher On Reforming Oasis, Beady Eye His Pet Cat 'Boots' And More

Victories in art are difficult to call, but in the wake of the break-up of Oasis three years ago, time has been kinder to Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds than it has been to brother Liam’s Beady Eye. It’s no surprise, really. Even within the Oasis lightshow—the sparks from the friction between the Gallagher siblings spanned almost two decades—it was clear that the band’s best songs belonged to Noel. The elder Gallagher is now back in the United States for another leg of a seemingly endless world tour, his first as a proper solo artist. While resting up for this current jaunt in a hotel suite near Lille, France, Noel Gallagher spoke with The A.V. Club about abandoning projects, feeding his cat, working with hippies, and looking like Keith Richards.

The A.V. Club: Listening to Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds now, without the distraction from the Oasis breakup, it sounds like it has joy in it, something that might have been missing from the last couple of Oasis records.

Noel Gallagher: Well, the real difference is that I’ve written the whole album. On Oasis records, there were always four songwriters, so you would never get a concise feel or flow. Liam would write a certain kind of song and Gem [Archer] would write a certain kind of song and Andy [Bell] would do the same. Then, you put them all together and try to make them fit as best as you can. This album has a very definite narrative. That’s just ’cause I’ve written it all and I put it all together. I guess it’s just more of a personal statement. But I agree with you. There is a lot of joy on it.

AVC: The trilogy of videos that was released when the album came out was filmed in and around Los Angeles. The album cover photo is of you in front of the iconic Jack Colker Union 76 gas station in Beverly Hills. Were you out to brand yourself anew as a Southern California singer-songwriter?

NG: [Laughs.] It just so happened that all of that took place because of economics. It’s cheaper! All of those things were done while I was mixing the record. I recorded it and mixed it in Los Angeles, so I just happened to be there. I guess things develop their own meanings to certain people. I wouldn’t have even been in the videos if it wasn’t for my management, who insisted I was in them in some way. I’m not too sure I was branding myself as anything. There seems to be a rule that one has to be on the album cover if you’re a solo artist. I don’t know when that rule came in. I certainly won’t be on the next one, that’s for sure. But yeah, there is kind of an American feel to it, visually. It’s a strange one. It’s an odd one. I don’t know what to make of it, because I couldn’t be less American. But everything was done in America. All of it. So, there you go. What does that say? I don’t fucking know. [Laughs.]

AVC: Well, with Thom Yorke moonlighting as a Los Angeles DJ and starting a new band there, Atoms For Peace, it seems like there might be a secret society of big British musicians hiding out together…

NG: Oh, fuck that. I don’t fucking mix with anybody—British or any other musicians. I tend not to hang out with musicians. You know why?

AVC: Why?

NG: Because they’re fucking idiots.

AVC: You’ve become quite a blogger. Your “Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere” diary is a regular feature on The Huffington Post, of all places.

NG: This came about on the last Oasis tour, when the people that ran our website said, “You have to have some personal involvement in this, because you’re like the last band in the world.” We never had any involvement in it whatsoever. We were like, “Fuck the Internet.” I didn’t even have a computer at the time. I thought, “Well, I’m not interested.” They said, “Well, look, can somebody do a tour diary?” I think one of the other band members started to do it and it was fucking awful. It was shocking. So, anyway, as I tend to have a lot to say for myself, it fell to me to do it. It just carried on from there, really. But let’s be under no illusions about what this actually means. It’s just a way of drawing people to the website so I can sell them some shit. That’s all it is.

AVC: Are you just warming up to pen a tell-all memoir? You could probably sell a lot of books.

NG: Everything I’ve got to say, I can say in my music. But I guess once you get into that [Internet] world, it’s very difficult to fucking get out. With the last Oasis album, I thought, “Well, that’s that.” But my management was like, “You can’t stop now. We’re selling these kids so much shit! If you stop, we can’t sell them more shit!” I was like, “Oh. I do like selling people shit…”

AVC: Britain got very nostalgic over the summer during the Olympics, even for its bands. With Blur performing and the Stone Roses reuniting right at the time Oasis has gone missing, does it make you think fondly about the “old days”?

NG: You have to speak to the individual members who get into these reunions. I’m sure they’ve all got valid reasons; it’s not for me to say. I know it’s a thing these days. And I know from experience now that the one way of stopping people from just asking about fucking reunions is to actually do it. And then people stop asking. But I’m afraid I won’t be getting involved in any of that. There’s no need for me. I’m not interested in that kind of a thing.

AVC: It comes up so quickly, too. It’s only been three years.

NG: Yeah! Honest to God, it was about six weeks after I left people were saying, “Do you think you’ll ever get back together?” I was like, “I haven’t even made a fucking record!” It’s like, fuck me! It cost me about a half a million fucking dollars to get out of that band, and then people were saying, “When are you going back on tour?” I was like, “What the fuck?”

AVC: Do you think if you got your record out before Beady Eye did, the appetite for an Oasis reunion might have been quelled for a bit longer?

NG: Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. The thing with Beady Eye is… their singer does them a great disservice. By pronouncing that they will eventually be bigger than Oasis? I was just like, “Oh, dear.” But I think they caught a lot of flak that was quite undeserved, really. It’s only their first album. I think they’ve got a great album in them next time. They need one. They fucking need one, that’s for sure.

AVC: Are you resigned to being asked about Liam for the rest of your life? It’s not like he’s Art Garfunkel and you’re Paul Simon.

NG: [Laughs.] Wow.

AVC: You’re blood. You’re brothers. It’s not like he’ll just disappear and no one will ever ask you about him again.

NG: Yeah, maybe. It’s just one of those things, you know? I don’t mind. It depends what the question is, really. The reunion thing is a bit of a pain in the ass. It’s like, “For fuck’s sake.” What else do people want to know about you? I don’t know. I don’t mind. Ask me a question. I don’t tell any lies.

AVC: Well, apparently your mother and your wife are both practicing Catholics. Do they ever encourage forgiveness, even if it’s for the sake of having Christmas dinner together?

NG: Yeah, I’m sure she’d be thrilled if we did. But really, I’ve got one true failing as a human being and that is, I find it very difficult to forgive people. I accept that, but that is the one flaw in my character that keeps me from being pretty much the ultimate human being. It’s just something I have to live with. I find it very difficult. Particularly if I’ve been sued. I don’t do forgiveness.

AVC: Do you hold grudges? Because forgiveness and holding a grudge are.

NG: Oh fuck yes I do! Oh yeah. I have some grudges that go back to the ’80s.

AVC: Any you’d care to share?

NG: Oh, they know. They know.

AVC: Unlike Oasis, the High Flying Birds is a project you’ve financed yourself. Are you coming out ahead in the deal? Are you done with the old way of doing business?

NG: Oh, yeah! I’m coming out ahead. It’s all gone very much according to plan. The second album [with Amorphous Androgynous] ended up having to be scrapped. That cost me a fortune. I made a tour film, which cost me a fortune, which I also scrapped. But all that being said, I’ve come out ahead. My wife is thrilled about that. She gets a new kitchen. My children are thrilled. They get to go to schools without metal detectors. My cat. He’s thrilled. It means he’s not gonna get thrown in the canal anytime soon.

AVC: What’s the cat’s name?

NG: Boots. Don’t ask. A 4-year-old named him. I would have called him Mr. Whiskers. But there you go. What do I know?

AVC: You just said the album you made with Amorphous Androgynous is scrapped. Is that official, or are you still considering releasing it? 

NG: No, I don’t think it will come out. I’m pleased with the songs. The songs that I did when I was in the studio—I’ll probably re-record them. But the moment has passed, I think. Do you know what I mean? When you have records, there’s a window before their moment passes. I’ve already moved on from that Amorphous Androgynous thing. I’ve written a bunch more songs since then, so I’m afraid—unfortunately—the success of this album killed that one. I wasn’t planning on being on tour for 15 months.

AVC: What’s wrong with it? What don’t you like about it?

NG: Well, it was a record that contains songs that weren’t conventional songs. It wasn’t verse-chorus-verse-chorus. They’re a bit trippy and a bit floaty. My songs, in general, they don’t really rely on the mix. They’re all written on acoustic guitar. They’re as good with me just singing them into the microphone in the style of Bob Dylan as they are with a full band. The High Flying Birds album didn’t rely on the mixes. The songs were there. This was a record that—absolutely, 100 percent—relied on the mixes, because they weren’t songs, so to speak. They were grooves and, you know, there weren’t many chords in them. And the mixes weren’t fucking right. And unfortunately, I didn’t have time to go back in and remix it. And now I’m too fucked. I’m fucked. I’ve been on the road for 15 months. I am fucked.

AVC: Have you considered having someone else mix it?

NG: No. I’m a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately. I need a holiday. I’ve suddenly started to look like Keith Richards. That’s not good.

AVC: And he’s older than you are.

NG: He’s a hundred years older than I am!

AVC: One could imagine this project fading into obscurity, or lingering in the minds of your fans, like the Beach Boys’ Smile, until you relent and finally release it.

NG: Maybe. I guess there’s lots of things that one could revisit down the years. I don’t know. I don’t even know when I’m going to make another record. Right now, I’m in the middle of touring and it’s taken quite a lot out of me. It depends. If I got in the studio next time and somebody says, “What about that track you did with those fucking hippies?” I might go and listen to it and think, “Hmm. Well, okay.” I don’t know, but I don’t think so.

AVC: What’s it like to come over to the United States now, on your own, without being in “the big band” with “the big tour”?

NG: I’m resigned. No, resigned is not the right word. I’m not going to have another hit in America. I’m not bothered about that. I don’t think anything would stop me from going back and playing and releasing records there. I’ve got a lot of love for that country. I don’t fly across the Atlantic Ocean and wish I was in the top fucking 100, you know? I don’t wish for things like that. All I know is that when I go there, a lot of people turn up, they seem to like what I do, and therefore when it comes to the next time around, I’ll insist on going back there. I’ve grown to love America. In my 20s, I fucking hated it. There were just so many ludicrous fucking rules. But the older that I’ve got, I kind of fell in tune with it. I enjoy going there now. It’s a great place to sit on a tour bus and stare out the fucking window and just think, “Fuck me. You could get a lot more people in here!” Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We’re all squashed up on top of each other in London. What the fuck?

AVC: You’re looking forward to it.

NG: I am going to be very good. I’m going to look tired. I’m going to look like Keith Richards. But I am going to be fucking good.

Source: www.avclub.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have released International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records.

They are currently playing the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg.

For details on the above and more click here.

Noel Gallagher On Beady Eye, Oasis, The Stone Roses And More

Noel Gallagher talks to Alan Corr about touring solo, Oasis, The Stone Roses and why he's due a very long break.

Upstairs in Marlay House, located suitably enough in south Dublin's expansive Marlay Park, it looks like Noel Thomas David Gallagher has just gotten out of bed.

It is the early evening of hiss gig last August in support of Kasabian and sunlight streams through tall, leaded windows while outside, we can hear The Cribs up on stage playing another one of their energetic shows.

Lying on the table in front of Noel is his set list for tonight's gig with his new band, High Flying Birds. Don't Look Back in Anger, Talk Tonight, Supersonic . . . that's a lot of songs by your old band, I remark.

"Well, they are my songs," he says without raising a famous eyebrow.

This is Noel Gallagher 2012, three years after finally, and with great relief, walking out of Oasis and one year after releasing a debut solo album which has pretty much reaffirmed him as one of the most successful and possibly important British rock stars of the past twenty years.

"Apart from Robbie Williams after Take That, I can't think of any other bloke who's been in a big band and gone solo and had this kind of success," he says without any degree of smugness because smugness is not a natural condition for a working class lad.

"It's phenomenal. The album is back in the top ten at the moment. I guess setting out to do this I didn't have any preconceptions of what I was going to do. It's just going to make my life very difficult the next time - how do I top this?

"Then again," Gallagher adds, and this time the famous eyebrow does do an imperious arch, "I was also thinking, the more successful it is the more time off I'm going to have. Hahaha."

You may have heard it before, but Noel Gallagher is very good company and not even a power cut later that evening during his set can dampen his spirits. The Marlay gig is his fourth visit to Ireland this year. "Yeah, four. I don't know why I came back for the fourth time. Somebody thinks it's a good idea," he says. "The Olympia, The o2, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Belfast and now this - actually, five times. Someone's obviously buying it. Hahahaha."

It must be good to have no one to answer to and no one to answer him back. Noel may perform Oasis songs as a solo act now but does he have a favourite song by Beady Eye? "The Roller. I think their album is pretty good to be honest. They're fantastic musicians. They're only one hit single away from outselling The Arctic Monkeys, do you know what I mean?

"They've sold 10,000 less, so I'm told, but I think they've done alright but it's evident that I'm the one who wrote all the singles in Oasis before we split so it's evident that somebody in that group has got to step up and write some singles. But it's good for a first album. it's not as good as my first album though."

Quite. It's far too soon to discuss a possible Oasis reunion but there is another Manchester band who defied all expectations and reformed this year and Gallagher would have seen The Stone Roses' reunion at very close quarters. Given that Oasis took the Roses' look and attitude and achieved what they never did, it puts him an interesting position to comment but was it all just about the money with The Roses' reunion?

"I don't know," he says. "Money plans a big part in those things but I will say this - I've never seen them so happy, individually or as a group and I've known them for the best part of twenty years. My dressing room was beside them and I was hanging out with them a bit and I've never seen John Squire, ever, so animated. Mani and Ian are the two most animated in the band but John and Reni I've never seen so happy. If they make another record, great. I know they've signed a deal but whether they do, I don't know.

"As for money, you have to be take an interest in the business side of things when you're in this industry. All the records and the videos for my solo stuff cost about two and a bit million and then you have to pay everybody on the tour so that's a couple of million out of my kids' inheritance . . . don't tell them that hahahahaha."

So when he's a man of leisure at home, what does he do? "I write . . . well when I say I write, I don't have a special room where I go. I don't go to write anywhere. I get up with the kids in the morning, see them off to school, I've got a gym in the house so I might go to the gym, appease the wife and then . . . I really enjoy doing nothing. I'll read the papers on the internet.

"I don't watch TV but if I've taped anything I might watch it. Whatever's going on, I'll just deal with it and if not, I just do nothing. When I get off this tour, I'm having a massive party in London so I will be out of the game for a couple of days and then I'll look at football fixtures and plan the rest of the season. I won't be working for a long time after this tour."

Does he get sentimental? "No." he says anf then thinks again. "Well I get sentimental about the Hacienda and the days of Acid House and the days of being anonymous, just a punter going to see The Smiths and New Order and being at The Hacienda when nobody knew who I was, just f***ing doing pills and dancing all night.

"I get nostalgic for those days, they were great and being able to go to a football match and stand with the fans instead of going to a football match now and having to stand behind a glass f***ing screen with the savages but I don't get nostalgic for . . .

"Well ok, it would be great to be transported back in time to see The Smiths but would it be great to see The Smiths knowing what we all know now - that they weren't having a good time on stage? Probably not but that's what YouTube's for right? Click and there you are. It was great to see The Stone Roses - the more you have to drink, the younger you become."

Gallagher's plans for a more electronic album with Amorphous Androgynous have been scrapped ("It didn't sound great.") but he has just released a double DVD set called International Magic Live at The o2 featuring a live set at London's o2 from earlier this year. Disc two features an acoustic set by at The Mod Club Toronto, the Ride The Tiger video trilog, and footage from the NME Awards.

Gallagher's own stage time at Marlay is due and as it picks up that set list, I ask him what's it like playing Oasis songs without Liam or anyone from the "old band"? "It's great. I only do the ones that suit me. I wouldn't do Rock `n' Roll Star or any of those," he says. "They belong to a different era. I don't really think about it.

"When I started out touring solo I thought I'm not going to get out of the building without doing Don't Look Back in Anger so I gotta do that and then my whole entire repertoire thus far, including b-sides, clocks in at about an hour and I'm contracted to play for an hour and forty minutes so I have to thrown some Oasis songs in.

"The next time I go out on tour, whenever that is, I won't be doing that many Oasis songs because I'll have all this album to play and all the next album so this is only for now. I have no problem playing Oasis songs - they're my songs and I'm proud of `em."

International Magic Live at the O2 is out now

Source: www.rte.ie

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have released International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records.

They will embark on a number European dates before they tour the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg.

For details on the above and more click here.

Noel Gallagher: I Nearly Killed Amorphous Androgynous

Noel Gallagher has revealed why his album with psychedelic group Amorphus Androgynous has never appeared – he rowed with the band and hated the final product.

The High Flying Birds frontman said: “I nearly killed them. I remember saying, ‘The last time I played a guitar this long was over three nights at Wembley.’

When I got the record off them I was like, ‘OK, I don’t like it’.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September and will tour the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg later this year.

More details on the above dates and more can be found by clicking here.

Noel Gallagher Reveals His Album With Psychedelic Producers Amorphous Androgynous Has Been Scrapped

Noel Gallagher has revealed that his collaboration album with psychedelic producers Amorphous Androgynous has been scrapped.

Speaking to entertainment.ie when asked about the album he said: "I have scraped it now, because I'd recorded it these guys were mixing it. I'd yet to take delivery of it the night before the press conference. And I thought well f*ck it I will just announce it how shit can it be? The famous last words. I kind of got it and I didn't like it. So they tried to remix it while I was on the road, and that was not working".

He continued: "So during my time off I got back to England got into a studio, and I didn't like it. And with this album still being in the top ten in England, I couldn't have brought it out now anyway as it would kill this one stone dead. By the time I get of this tour, I'm going to not be in the mood for going back into the studio. It's still there, it isn't finished and even if was finished it is no were near as good as this so everything has to match up to this one".

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September. He will also play the iTunes Festival on September 12 at London's Roundhouse and will tour the US alongside Snow Patrol later this year.

Noel Gallagher's Album With Amorphous Androgynous May Never Be Released

Noel Gallagher has admitted his “far out” album with the psychedelic Amorphous Androgynous might not see the light of day.

Last year, when Noel announced details of his solo High Flying Birds record he also revealed he’d made another, experimental album.

Now the former Oasis man says he’s unsure it will get a full release.

He said: “It was supposed to be delivered the night I did that press conference and I hadn’t been involved in any of the mixing at that point due to being busy with other things.

“Anyway, it was a toss-up whether to announce it in the first place, but I just thought f*** it, I’ve done it, let’s announce it.

“But since then I’ve been on the road and because of that I’ve not been in the mixing, and I’m not happy with any of the mixes.

“They’re going backward and forward so then the plan was to get mixing done after the tour, but this tour has gone on so long that there’s been no time, and that means looking at it next year.

“But by then I fear the moment may have passed.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: 'Everybody's On The Run' Single Is Available Now

'Everybody's On The Run' is released today digitally and in stores from tomorrow as the fifth single to be released from the debut album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.



The single features a 15 minute Amorphous Androgynous remix of single 'AKA… What A Life!'. The mix follows the band's previous reworking of 'If I Had A Gun' which was retitled 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun' and appeared on previous single 'Dream On'.

The video to the new single features Noel as an LA taxi driver and a guest appearance by Hollywood based British actress Mischa Barton. In scenes in the video, Ms Barton ends up running through the streets of Downtown LA in her leopard print underwear.



Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds' world tour continues through the summer with festivals in the UK and abroad. As well as appearances at a number of British festivals, the second leg of the UK Arena Tour continues in September with six more shows including London’s Wembley Arena.

For more details click here.

Details of an exclusive strictly limited 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' CD or vinyl singles collectors box can be found here.

Win An Exclusive 12" Vinyl Of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds New Single

Click here for a chance to exclusive 12" vinyl of Noel Gallagher's new single 'Everybody's On The Run' up for grabs, which includes the amazing Amorphous Androgynous remix of AKA... What A Life!

To be in with a chance of winning, simply write 'Shimmer Trap' on the event wall! Competition closes 9pm Saturday night, winner announced Sunday evening.

Details of an exclusive strictly limited 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' CD or vinyl singles collectors box can be found here.

Preview AKA... What A Life! Remix By The Amorphous Androgynous

Click here to listen to a short sample of the AKA... What A Life! by the Amorphous Androgynous.

The track is taken from the Everybody's On The Run single that is available to pre-order here.

Details of an exclusive strictly limited 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' CD or vinyl singles collectors box can be found here.

Artwork For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Everybody's On The Run' Single

Below is the artwork for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Everybody's On The Run' single.

The single is being released on July 30th. The B side will be The Amorphous Androgynous 15 minute remix of the previous hit “AKA… What A Life!”.



















More details can be found here.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Everybody's On The Run' 12" & CD Single Pre-order!

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will release a new single, "Everybody's On The Run" taken from the eponymous double platinum album, on July 30th. The B side will be The Amorphous Androgynous 15 minute remix of the previous hit "AKA... What A Life!".

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds To Release New Single In August

Amorphous Androgynous remix will also feature as a b-side

Noel Gallagher has announced plans to release new single 'Everbody's On The Run' ahead of his UK tour.

The track, which opens his debut album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', will also feature a 15 minute Amorphous Androgynous remix of hit single 'AKA… What A Life!'. The mix follows the band's previous reworking of 'If I Had A Gun' which was retitled 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun' and appeared on previous single 'Dream On'. Gallagher is currently working on an album with the band which he recently revealed to NME, will come out some time next year.

'Everybody's On The Run' is released on CD, 12 inch and in a digital format on August 6.

The former Oasis man has also made a video for the track, which is expected to surface in the coming weeks, featuring Noel as an LA taxi driver and a guest appearance by Hollywood based British actress Mischa Barton.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are due to perform at the Isle Of Wight festival this weekend alongside Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Pearl Jam before embarking on a UK tour in September.

Noel Gallagher will play:

Bournemouth BIC (September 4)
Liverpool Echo Arena (6)
London Wembley Arena (7)
Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (9)
Nottingham Capital FM Arena (10)

He will also play the iTunes Festival on September 12 at London's Roundhouse.

Source: www.nme.com

Win A Signed Exclusive Vinyl By Noel Gallagher

To celebrate Record Store Day this Saturday, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release, “Songs From The Great White North…”, an exclusive 12” pressed on opaque white heavyweight vinyl, individually numbered and limited to 2000 copies for the UK.

Noel says of Record Store Day – "Record shops are as important as the records themselves."

The tracklisting is as follows:

A1. The Good Rebel
A2. Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me
B1. I'd Pick You Every Time
B2. Shoot A Hole Into The Sun

Noel has signed 5 of these exclusive limited 12"s! For your chance to win a copy, just answer this simple question:

The exclusive Record Store Day 12" features the B-sides from the four Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds singles to date. Which B-side is the first track to be released from the work Noel has recorded with Amorphous Androgynous?

Please email the answer with your name, age and address to info@rkid.co.uk before 12pm on Sunday 22nd April. (Please use the subject line: RSD Comp)

The winners will be notified by email. Please note entry is limited to one per email address and management's decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher Working And Performing At His Own Pace

Noel Gallagher quit Oasis in 2009, and he probably did so knowing that whatever he did next would be compared with everything he had left behind. However, he has also found that going solo has its pleasures as well as its pains.

"The main thing is that I can work at my own pace," he said during a phone interview the weekend before he and his band, the High Flying Birds, were set to play Milwaukee on Tuesday night. "I'm not beholden to anybody's timetable."

Gallagher didn't refer directly to his younger brother, Liam, or the remains of Oasis, who re-formed under the name Beady Eye, but the contentiousness between the siblings was never a secret. And with the preponderance of tabloid reporting in his native England, Noel was certainly aware that the press shifted its focus from any music Oasis made to the fraternal disputes that roiled the band.

"You're at the mercy of what people write," he said. "I don't really take any of it seriously when they're talking about your haircut or who you happen to be sleeping with. I know it's really about the music because I get up onstage every night and I do it."

He also did it in the studio with "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds," the debut album that came out in October. He grabbed a couple of songs he'd written for Oasis that the band "had never got around to finishing" and wrote eight more.

"I took out my notebook and said, 'Let's try that, and if it doesn't work, we'll try another one,' " he said of the process. "I liked the freedom to play as many instruments as I like, to work with as many session musicians as I like. I could do whatever I wanted to do."

Mostly, Gallagher wanted to keep creating the classically minded, tastefully crafted rock songs with which he not only dominated the early Oasis albums, like 1994's hugely popular "Definitely Maybe," but also influenced one muscular wing of the 1990s Britpop quasi-movement.

"I tried to make this record as intimate and as human as possible, and the lyrics as direct as possible," he said. "They're vague enough for you to be able to think those songs are about you, but they're personal enough for me to know who all the protagonists are."

Gallagher's main concern in choosing sidekicks to help him tell the stories was simply that he knew them.

"These are just my friends," he said of his musicians. "I wasn't really picking these guys for any particular statement, and it was a new venture, so I thought I should surround myself with as many friendly faces as I could in case I (messed) it up."

Apparently satisfied that he didn't mess up, Gallagher will be on tour until November, and after that he might finish mixing his second solo album, a collaboration with psychedelic collective Amorphous Androgynous that he said was "a bit of a mess" at the moment.

On the other hand, he might just take a break.

"I can go straight back into the studio, or I can take three years off," he said. "The road lies open, so it's all good, but I'm not going to chase it. I'm just going to go wherever it takes me."

Source: www.jsonline.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Release 'Dream On' In Stores Today

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds single 'Dream On' is available to buy in stores and digitally now!



The single includes Shoot A Hole Into The Sun, the first track from Noel's collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous, click here to listen to it.

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Noel Gallagher On The X-Factor, Amorphous Androgynous And More

James Merritt from BRMB caught up with Noel Gallagher ahead of his gig at the NIA in Birmingham earlier this week.

Click here to listen to the interview.

Listen To Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Shoot A Hole' Now

Shoot A Hole Into The Sun, the first track from Noel's collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous, was given its exclusive debut on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show this evening. Listen to the new track below!



The song is the B side to new single Dream On which is available in the UK on digital from 11th March and on limited edition, numbered 12" vinyl and CD.

The vinyl and CD can be pre-ordered from the official UK store HERE.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher: 'Amorphous Androgynous Collaboration Unlikely To Be Out Until Next Year'

High Flying Birds man says he wants LP to reach same heights as his solo debut.

Noel Gallagher has revealed that his collaboration album with Amorphous Androgynous may not be released until next year.

Speaking in the new issue of NME, the former Oasis chief said that he wanted to wait until he had finished touring his debut solo album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' before finishing work on the new LP.

He said: "I've got a break in the middle of this tour in July, so now the plan is to do something then, and then to finish it off after the tour in October. So it might come out at the end of the year, but it's more likely to be next year now".

The guitarist also said he was keen to make sure the album matched his high-standards, adding: "I set the benchmark pretty high with this record ['Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'], and I'm not just putting a record for the fucking sake of it. At the moment it's not a great record – so it won't come out until it is."

To read the full interview with Noel Gallagher, in which he explains why he'd rather collaborate with Damon Albarn than Thom Yorke and gives his views on everything from ROFLcopter to Manchester City footballer Mario Balotelli, pick up the new issue of NME, which is on UK newsstands now or available digitally.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Competition

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds new single 'Dream On' is released in the UK through Sour Mash on 12th March (11th march on download). The B-side to the single will be 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun', the first track to be released from the sessions Noel has recorded with Amorphous Androgynous.

The single will be available to pre-order from next week and will be available on limited edition 12" on heavyweight vinyl, CD and download. All orders until the 18th March of the CD and the 12" via the official store will receive a free set of badges. The 12" is individually numbered exclusively to the store and limited to no more than 3,000 copies. The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video. Both Noel and Director Mike Bruce rate this video as the best yet, as well as being the most fun to make.

To celebrate the release of the video www.NoelGallagher.com have a very special competition prize for one lucky winner. Mike produced storyboard books for those working on the video shoot which outline the video shot-by-shot. To win a signed copy of the booklet head on over to the Competition section of the website HERE!



On Monday Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds head out on a tour of the UK and Ireland taking in the following dates:

13/02/12 – MANCHESTER, MEN Arena - SOLD OUT
14/02/12 – ABERDEEN, P&J Arena - SOLD OUT
16/02/12 – BELFAST, Odyssey Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
17/02/12 – DUBLIN, The O2 - SOLD OUT
19/02/12 – SHEFFIELD, Motorpoint Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
23/02/12 – NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena - SOLD OUT
24/02/12 – GLASGOW, SECC Hall 4 - SOLD OUT
26/02/12 – LONDON,The O2 - TICKETS AVAILABLE
01/03/12 – BIRMINGHAM, NIA - SOLD OUT

Other dates confirmed for the UK this year:

17/07/12 – EDINBURGH, Edinburgh Castle - SOLD OUT
04/09/12 – BOURNEMOUTH, BIC - TICKETS AVAILABLE
06/09/12 – LIVERPOOL, Echo Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
09/09/12 – CARDIFF, Motorpoint Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
10/09/12 – NOTTINGHAM, Capital FM Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE

For ticket details visit www.noelgallagher.com

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Artwork For Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 'Dream On' Promo Single

Below is a picture of the 'Dream On' CD 1 track promo from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's, no word yet if this is the official artwork but I will keep you updated.

EDIT THIS IS THE ARTWORK FOR THE PROMO THE OFFICIAL ONE HAS JUST BEEN POSTED.



















Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release new single 'Dream On' on March 12th through Sour Mash Records. The B-side will be 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun', the first track to be released from the sessions Noel has recorded with the Amorphous Androgynous.

The single will be available to buy on 7", CD and download. The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video, which both Noel and director Mike Bruce consider the best and most fun yet they have ever worked on filming together.