Absolute Radio 90s Reveals Oasis As The Greatest Band Of The 1990’s

The UK’s only 90s radio station Absolute Radio 90s has enlisted the help of its listeners to find the best song, album and year of the decade and with more than 50,000 votes cast, Oasis have been officially crowned number one.

Liam and Noel topped the polls, scooping title of best album and best song. Their second album What’s the Story (Morning Glory) beat Nirvana, Blur and REM to take the top spot, while Don’t Look Back in Anger pipped Common People, Bittersweet Symphony and Creep to win best track.

Absolute Radio’s Breakfast Show host Christian O’Connell said “Absolute Radio 90s listeners have spoken and Oasis have won the lot. Surely they have to get back together now?”

By voting for their favourites across different categories, listeners also chose 1996 as the definitive year of the decade - a very memorable year for the Oasis boys.

1996 was the year that 2.5 million people fought over 250,000 tickets for two Oasis shows at Knebworth, but for the Mancunians it's their two gigs at Maine Road - on April 27 and April 28 - that meant the most.

Not only did it see them raised from a theatre to a stadium band, but it also put them on stage in the football stadium that meant most to them - the home of the team they'd spent a lifetime supporting, Manchester City Football Club.

The infamous Maine Road gigs saw Liam re-join the band after one of many definitive arguments with brother Noel.

Vote For Oasis At The NME Awards

You can vote for Oasis at the NME Awards, the band are nominated in two categories.

Best Music Film

Oasis: Supersonic
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ One More Time With Feeling
Sing Street
Gimme Danger
The Rolling Stones Havana Moon
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years

Best Reissue

REM – ‘Out Of Time’
Pink Floyd – ‘Meddle’
Oasis – ‘Be Here Now’
Michael Jackson – ‘Off The Wall’
DJ Shadow – ‘Endtroducing’
Blur – ‘Leisure’

To vote click here.

Oasis Slane Material Sought By Documentary Makers

A documentary team is looking for footage from the appearance of band Oasis at Slane in 1995.

The authorised feature documentary will chart the rise of Oasis from their beginnings in the basement of the Boardwalk to their landmark concerts at Knebworth in 1996.

Archive researcher Hannah Green says: "We are currently looking for any footage or photographs of the band's 1995 concert at Slane Castle where REM were also on the bill. We are ideally after shots taken backstage or whilst the band were trying to exit the venue - their van got caught in the crowd.

"Equally as helpful would be any articles covering the gig. The team behind this film includes the producers of Amy, Senna, Spike Island and is being directed by Mat Whitecross (Spike Island and Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll). My role on the film is finding the masses of archive footage and photos that we need to tell the story.

"Even if people don't have shots of Oasis, any photos or footage of the crush of people leaving the venue from any gig (ideally around 1995) would be incredibly useful!"

Material can be emailed to Hannah at  hannah.oasisfilm@gmail.com

Source: www.meathchronicle.ie

Noel Gallagher On His Brother Liam, Drugs And More

Noel Gallagher opens up to Gay Byrne about his brother, his estranged father, and his drug years on an episode of The Meaning of Life this Sunday night.

The former Oasis front man who is now enjoying success with his new band High Flying Birds, tells Byrne about the things he believes in, the things he doesn't and the thoughts that make him forget his own lyrics on stage.

In the hour-long interview which took place in Dublin's Merrion Hotel last July, Noel talks about his upbringing in inner-city Manchester and the night his Mayo-born mother Peggy took Noel and his brothers Liam and Paul and fled their father Tommy.

Gallagher insists that when he was growing up in Burnage, there was nothing unusual about coming from a broken family. But his childhood still left him and Paul with stammers, which needed correction through speech therapy.

He also recounts how he played truant for months from a school where his mum was a dinner lady, by sneaking in at lunchtimes and then sneaking out again.

On matters of faith, Noel says that, like most Irish mothers, Peggy raised the boys as regular Sunday mass-going Catholics, until he was a teenager, when his Mum stopped making them go. He also reveals that his wife Sarah is a regular church-goer and he says that he is envious of her faith.

Byrne and Gallagher have met several times already, the first time in 1995 when Oasis played Slane Castle in support of headliners, R.E.M. Peggy told Noel that if he only did one interview in Ireland, it should be with Gay on The Late, Late Show.

Seventeen years later, it was apparently Peggy who once again persuaded her son to record an interview with Gay for The Meaning Of Life.

"I have never met Peggy but she seems to hold me in high esteem," Byrne told the Irish Independent last July. "When Noel came on The Late Late Show in 1995, it was on Peggy's orders, and I'm sure she had some hand in him doing this recent interview."

Gay talks to Noel on The Meaning of Life this Sunday night at 10.30pm on RTÉ One (IRELAND ONLY)

Source: www.rte.ie

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds release International Magic Live At The O2 DVD through Sour Mash Records on October 15.

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.

Lullaby Versions Of Oasis Is Now On iTunes

Looking for the secret to being a Morning Glory? Sleep through The Shock Of The Lightning after being lulled to sleep Gallagher style.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star is proud to release “Lullaby Versions of Oasis” featuring lush instrumental versions of 12 classic tracks.

More details on Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star can be found here.

Lullaby Versions of Oasis

Supersonic
Some Might Say
Wonderwall
The Shock of the Lightning
Live Forever
D’You Know What I Mean?
Champagne Supernova
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Don’t Go Away
Morning Glory
Whatever

Click here to download Lullaby Versions of Oasis on iTunes.

In addition to soothing babies our fans use our music for yoga, massage and sleep therapy or just general relaxation. We call them “lullabies for all ages” and the diversity of use is testament to that. Be sure to also check out our lullaby versions of The Beatles, U2, Nirvana, Radiohead, Green Day, R.E.M., No Doubt and Sublime.

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.