Clint Boon On Noel Gallagher

Clint Boon speaking to the Crewe Guardian on Noel Gallagher read the full article here.

“When Stephen [Holt] left the band he wanted to be our singer, but we didn’t think his voice suited the band. So we took him on as our roadie and he was with us everyday.

We would party together, we would go to the football together, we were extremely close.

It was quite obvious that one day he would do his own thing, but not even Noel could have imagined how successful he would be.

I still have to pinch myself that he is the same lad from Burnage that we had to pick up and take everywhere with us because he couldn’t drive.”

Noel Gallagher Talks To Clint Boon About 'Who Built The Moon?', Oasis, Liam, Inspiral Carpets And More

Such a wonderful interview to have two old friends back together. Hear all about the new album and about the old days when Noel use to work for Clint.

Liam Gallagher On Wanting To Play At 'We Are Manchester' Charity Benefit

The former Oasis frontman has responded to further questions about whether he’ll join the bill in re-opening the Manchester venue next month.

Liam Gallagher has re-confirmed that he’s up for playing the We Are Manchester charity benefit next month… but that he thinks it will really be his brother Noel’s night.

We Love Manchester will re-open the Manchester Arena on Saturday 9 September with a special benefit concert featuring Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Courteeners, Blossoms and more. Also on the bill will be Rick Astley and poet Tony Walsh, with a DJ set from Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets.

It will be the first gig held there since the terrorist bomb attack in May, which killed 22 people following an Ariana Grande concert.

Speaking to Radio X’s Sunta Templeton backstage at Leeds Festival last night (25 August), the former Oasis frontman said: “I think this one’s going to be our Noel’s night. Not that it’s about Noel, but you know me, I’m just winding him up. But if someone asked me and they were sincere, I’d definitely be there, man. “But I don’t think it’s gonna happen.”

Liam made an appearance at Ariana Grande’s benefit show in June, where he performed an Oasis classic with Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

Source: www.radiox.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Becomes Newest Recruit Into Barrowlands Hall Of Fame

Noel Gallagher has been inducted into the hall of fame at a famous Glasgow concert venue.

The Oasis singer was added to the list of celebrities in the Barrowlands Hall of Fame on Thursday night after performing at the Hydro.

Noel was given a glass trophy, and his name will be carved on a plaque and hung on the stairs of the famous music venue.

He is one of a number of celebrities who have successfully been inducted so far, including David Bowie and Scots rockers Big Country.

Stagehand and Clutha Trust founder Billy Coyle, who presented Noel with his award, said: "We were sitting talking about why we had picked Noel to go into the hall of fame and we explained that there were qualifications you had to have to be inducted.

"Noel's qualifications are that he had been to the Barras three or four times previously, working for Inspiral Carpets, and he had performed a solo gig when Liam walked off stage [in 1994].

"He carried on playing so the fans wouldn't be disappointed, and the rest of the band joined him later, after about seven or eight songs.

"He said to all the fans at the Barras that there would be an Oasis concert or free for everyone who kept their stubs from the gig, and he came good - he had another concert within four weeks.

"Noel also did a TV interview about up and coming bands, and was asked what the best thing they could do to improve at playing live.

"He told them any band who wants to play live has to play the Barrowlands."

Billy said all the bands and artists who have been entered into the Hall of Fame have all made a positive contribution to the venue and to concert goers.

He also added that if it hadn't been for Noel's generosity in signing a guitar after his Hydro show in 2015, they may not have got the Clutha Trust project off the ground.

The project was set up following the helicopter tragedy, and aims to teach children across the city how to play musical instruments and give them opportunities to perform.

Billy said: "The funds we raised from the guitar meant we could organise events and teach people to play.

"That developed into the Clutha Next Generation.

"The initial push from Noel with his high profile meant we could stage an event for under 18s in the Barras as well, where 39 acts got to play.

"He was really impressed and has asked us to keep him informed."

Source: www.eveningtimes.co.uk

Alan McGee Insists He Won't Be Getting Involved With An Oasis Reunion

No one knows the inner workings of Liam and Noel Gallagher better than the Scot who discovered them.

Alan McGee, 54, unearthed Oasis at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, signed them to Creation Records and in 1994 the band launched the album that defined an era.

Definitely Maybe gave us tracks like Supersonic and Live Forever and the following year the band reached a pinnacle with What's the Story Morning Glory.

Now 20 years since the launch of the 22 million-selling album McGee is a still a mover and a shakermaker in the music business and has unsurprisingly been rumoured to be involved with an Oasis reunion.

This month The Sun newspaper claimed that "Alan McGee, met Paul "Bigun" Ashbee — who was Liam’s boss when he worked as a car valet and knew members of the band in the early days — in London’s Soho on Monday night to discuss reforming the Britpop icons."

They didn't.

Alan our sister newspaper, the Daily Mirror: "Liam and Noel are the happiest I've seen them in years so for that reason I can't see a reunion happening.

"I've met Noel on numerous occasions recently and bumped into Liam a few times and we've had lengthy conversations and a reunion has never been discussed."

Despite "bumping into" the Gallaghers this has mostly been when DJing and not because he is courting the band.

McGee says he doesn't move in the same circles as Liam and Noel anymore and wouldn't want anything to do with a reunion.

He said: "I haven't even got Liam's mobile phone number anymore - I have Noel's - but not Liam's. That's not because I don't like him, because I do. It's just because I don't have anything in common with him anymore.

McGee has DJed for Liam including in Japan but says because he doesn't drink - and has avoided drugs for more than 20 years - he and Liam have very separate lives.

He added: "Liam is lovely. He's actually a real gentleman. But we have separate lives.

"I live in a small town in Wales where nobody gives a f*** who you are. If I wanted to be involved in the showbiz world I'd be in London."

Could it be that the whole Liam-Noel fallout was stage managed and planned exactly so they could have a dream reunion, taking fans along for the ride?

"No. It's as real as it gets. They are not showbizzy people like that. When they say something, they mean it. When Liam's calling Noel 'Katie Hopkins' he really means it."

Alan admits that while he can't see an Oasis reunion happening "any time soon" it wouldn't shock him to see one "at some point in the next 20 years."

Isn't that pushing it a bit. Will people still want to see Liam snarl when we're all flying round on hoverboards in 2035?

"I saw The Who a few years ago at the Royal Albert Hall and they were every bit as good as when I saw them in 1972. That taught me something about comebacks.

"And who knows what goes on in the heads of the Gallaghers?"

But if that reunion does happen he insists he won't be involved.

"They've already got a manager and I like things the way they are. I certainly wouldn't have any interest in reforming the band.

"I wouldn't even go to see them. I suppose if they toured and somebody told me their gigs were incredible I might go but only if I knew it was going to be great."

But while he may not have any interest in sharing a Brat Awards stage with the Gallaghers any more, he hasn't lost his touch for discovering working class heroes.

His new protégés Alias Kid have already drawn comparisons with the band from Burnage.

Clint Boon of Inspiral Carpets said they "have the potential to be one of the great Manchester bands."

The indy group may be influenced by Oasis, the Stone Roses, Kasabian and McGee's other discovery Primal Scream, but he says it is their work ethic that sets them apart from today's manufactured acts.
McGee said: "If someone wins The Voice the first thing I think is 'poor f***er' because that's the last we'll hear of them."

The Manchester fourpiece are, he says a real working class band.

McGee said: "They are supporting Shaun Ryder and Black Grape at the moment and if they're told they have to climb in the van with him and go to a gig for a hundred quid they'll do it. They are up for any task.

"They don't give a f***."

Now who does that remind you of?

Source: www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Oasis Were Confident Of Fame And Fortune

Britpop band Oasis were always going to make it big, says radio presenter Pete Mitchell in the run up to 'Definitely Maybe' being revamped for its 20th anniversary

One of the greatest British albums of all time ‘Definitely Maybe’, the debut by Oasis released in 1994, is to be reissued to mark its 20th anniversary on the 19th of May. A re-mastered version of the album will be released, which will include rare and unreleased recordings, all presented in a rather impressive deluxe box.

This album is a perfect generational rock record that retains the raw energetic attitude and sound of a band out of the north, who oozed total self-belief.

Oasis were going to make it big no matter what and nobody would have the courage or audacity to stop them.

I knew Noel and Liam in the early days, Noel was a quiet unassuming individual, who worked for the Inspiral Carpets, until he joined Liam's group the Rain. I remember him telling me he had joined the group and was writing and recording with them. When I asked if I could hear something he said “No, you will hear it, when I want you to hear it”.

His total self-belief even back then set him apart. Liam gave me a demo of the group and told me “it is the best thing you will hear this year”. The hyperbole fell short, if my memory serves me well, it sounded a little like U2. I lost one of the two studio copies they had paid for. Noel was working to pay for the studio time. They rehearsed at a venue called the Boardwalk and they played a number of early shows there to less than enthusiastic crowds. They were raw and unpolished, Liam back then lacked the swagger and grit of his future self, but these things needed to gestate.

I was the DJ at one of their small gigs at the venue when they were on the same bill as ‘That Uncertain Feeling’, a local band who were managed by writer and actor Craig Cash of ‘Royle Family’ fame. He had hired extra lighting to show off his band, but Oasis looked more the part swathed in blue and red and Craig's band disappeared.

I know time warps your memory and it’s like looking back through a prism, but they had that certain je ne sais quoi. They were far from the finished article and we both went away thinking about them. Craig would use ‘Half the World Away’ by Oasis, as the theme to the Royle Family, one of the most successful TV shows in decades.

Their rise came as no surprise but how quickly it happened caught most of us off guard. It seemed like no time had elapsed between those early gigs and their triumphant two nighter at their beloved Maine Road - the former ground of premier league winners Manchester City. I was stood with Slade frontman Noddy Holder as the group performed his song ‘C'mon Feel the Noize’, to an ecstatic stadium filled to the brim with grown men holding their plastic pint pots aloft, full of warm lager, arm in arm singing every word. They are one of the few bands who have this extraordinary connection with their audience. It is one love.

No matter what you think about this band, they connected with their football crowd audience like no other, it was undoubtedly rock for the terraces. These days the sibling rivalry and the shenanigans of Liam Gallagher occupy the front pages but if we could turn back the clocks to a time in British music when everything seemed possible, we probably would. There was an air of expectation and energy of positivity. The everyman could wrap his arms around his mate once again and kiss him on the cheek, while lovingly singing Wonderwall at the top of his voice. Just look at the comeback of the Stone Roses for instance and you can imagine the eventual return of Oasis. It will be like nothing you have witnessed before.

We all knew where we stood, who we listened to and what we were all about. Oasis were the band of the hard man, the working class kid, they were the group from the streets who knew their audience like no other. Oasis gave them a voice and a sense of belonging. They were more than music.

The rallying call has changed but the attitude has not as Liam Gallagher has called on fans to boycott the 20th anniversary reissue of one of the best albums of all time. He took to twitter stating “how can you re-master something that's already been mastered. Don't buy it. Let it be”. He has a point, it was a moment in time that will never be replicated and the album will go down in history as one of the defining records of the nineties.

Liam finished off his comical rant with “the Oasis years. They forgot to mention that Bonehead used to stick fig rolls up his arse. Ha ha X”.

Do we really need to know what went on behind closed doors? Of course we do!

The deluxe box set of Definitely Maybe is reissued on the 19th of May

Source: www.express.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher Says “Don’t Buy Into ‘Definitely Maybe’ Reissue”

Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher has beseeched fans not to buy the upcoming reissues of the legendary UK group’s first three albums, a project dubbed ‘Chase The Sun’ revealed last week after mysterious Instagram video teased a major announcement set for 9:00am GMT 26th February.

Taking to Twitter to vent his distaste for the newly announced project, to be released via Sony’s Oasis-affiliated Big Brother imprint, the younger of the two Gallaghers wrote, “HOW CAN YOU REMASTER SOMETHING THATS ALREADY BEING MASTERED.DONT BUY INTO IT.LET IT BE.”

Big Brother Recordings was established in 2000 to release Oasis’ music in the UK, reissuing the singles from the band’s first three albums that year. The reissue of Definitely Maybe, slated for 16th May, will include several discs worth of rare and unreleased material, including early demos.

Gallagher also addressed his current band’s recent split with their management company and manager, while taking a stab at brother Noel. The Beady Eye frontman tweeted, “EYE AS IN ME LIAM GALLAGHER IS NO LONGER REPRESENTED BY SCOTT RODGER OR QUEST THE END.”

“IT’LL BE ME AS IN LG THAT THROWS IN THE TOWEL NOT SOME ROADIE FROM THE 80s,” Gallagher subsequently tweeted, referencing his brother’s time spent as a roadie for UK alternative outfit Inspiral Carpets, prior to joining Oasis. Meanwhile, Scott Rodger has told NME:

“Beady Eye are one of the last great British rock bands. It has been a pleasure to have worked with them on this album campaign. They are in complete control of their future as a band with many exciting new projects on the horizon.

“We’ve just about reached the end of the ‘BE’ album cycle and it’s the right time for the band to make a change. Our paths will cross again in the future I’m sure. I wish them continued success in everything they do.”

Following the release of the Instagram video to the band’s official social media channels, many were convinced of an imminent reunion tour announcement. The nostalgia-tinged clip featured a series of images depicting the Gallagher brothers’ rise to fame and fortune in the early ’90s.

Source: www.musicfeeds.com.au

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Noel Gallagher's First Fan

Tom Hingley reads a passage from his book 'Carpet Burns - My Life With Inspiral Carpets' in which the band goad roadie Noel Gallagher to grab a standing fan from the back of a van in moving traffic.

 

Noel Gallagher: The Best-Dressed Roadie In The History Of Music

Noel Gallagher would still be a roadie if his music career hadn’t worked out.

The former Oasis star went on the road with indie band the Inspiral Carpets back in the late Eighties.

And he believes that would have been his job for life if success hadn’t come his way.
He said: “I would have been out there now, probably in an ill-fitting black T-shirt with a tattoo and some scruffy Converse trainers. Because that is what they all wear.

“But I was maybe the best-dressed roadie in the history of music. I used to wear white jeans and never got them dirty. I was too quick for the dirt.”
He must have saved a fortune on Daz...

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher's Interview With Street Date Continues

Our interview continues with Noel Gallagher for Street Date. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds just released the debut album last week and just wrapped up a 9-date North American tour. A few years before Oasis got started, Noel was a roadie and tech for Inspiral Carpets. Today, I ask him a “what if” question…….



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Oasis Split 'Sad But Inevitable,' Says Inspiral Carpets Front Man

While the Strabane faithful who made the trip to Slane Castle in June to see Oasis were still taking in the news of Noel Gallagher's acrimonious split from the group on Friday, one of Noel's former employers was in Strabane on Sunday for a very special gig of his own.

Tom Hingley, front man of nineties 'Madchester' favourites, The Inspiral Carpets, for whom Noel worked as a 'roadie' for a number of years before joining his brother Liam's band in 1991, wowed the Sunday Comedown Club' in Dicey Riley's on Sunday night with a dazzling acoustic set, and the Chronicle spoke to the singer afterwards to get his take on the most talked about story in the music world over the weekend.

"It was inevitable really," he told us. "Obviously it's sad that Oasis are finishing but I think it's probably a good thing. They were very much associated with 'Brit-Pop', the end of the Conservatives and the rise of 'New Labour', so it's probably quite a smart move to quit now before the Conservatives get back into Government again. I'm by no means saying that they did this deliberately but maybe now it means that they will be defined by that period of change.

"Very few bands will ever be as big or as successful or as significant as Oasis. In one way it's sad and in another sense it's not. All things have a certain life-span, then it ends. Brothers in bands will fight. Ray and Dave Davis of The Kinks used to punch each other's lights out, too. At the end of the day, it's only music. Family is much more important. I think, as brothers, Noel and Liam should try to get on a bit better and if that means not seeing each other for a couple of years then that might not be a bad thing," Tom suggested.

As everyone speculates as to what Noel will do next, Tom has his own opinion on what the singer-songwriter behind numerous anthems like 'Live Forever', 'Wonderwall' and 'Don't Look Back In Anger' should do.

"Noel will probably do that solo album he should've done about ten years ago," predicted Tom. "I do think that if he gets a load of famous musicians like Paul Weller to join him that would be very boring, though. I have no doubt that Oasis will play again somewhere down the line. I think it's possible in the future that they will get back with the original line-up of Liam, Noel, Tony McCarroll, 'Bonehead' and 'Guigsy'. I think a lot of people would love to see that and, to be honest, I've never really regarded any other of the later line-ups as being Oasis," Tom confessed.

Finally, it was put to Tom if Noel could have his old job back when The Inspiral Carpets tour again. "That's a question indeed! You'll have to ask Noel that one," he laughed.

Source: www.nwipp-newspapers.com

Oasis Noel 'Amp Shy' With Inspirals

Noel Gallagher may work flat out as the backbone of Oasis, but his time with the Inspiral Carpets was another story.

Punk pioneer and music journalist John Robb, who charts the Manchester music scene in his book The North Will Rise Again, told festival-goers at The Green Man Festival in Wales about Noel's stint working as a roadie with the psychedelic rockers.

"Everyone knew that Noel hung out with Inspiral Carpets but it was only later we found out he worked for them - I didn't see him carry an amp the whole time," John joked.

Source: The Press Association