Johnny Marr On Playing Live With Noel Gallagher

Taken from an interview with Johnny Marr from Entertainment Weekly, read the full article here.

EW: Your recent London show made headlines when Oasis’s Noel Gallagher joined you for The Smiths’ ‘How Soon is Now?’ and Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life’. How fun was that?

JOHNNY MARR: That was a good moment. First off, it sounded really good. ‘Lust for Life’ with very loud guitars really gets you going! What Noel played on ‘How Soon is Now?’ was great. It reminded me of the sort of stuff I used to do, with all this echo. It was quite psychedelic.

How did the audience react?

Musically, it was a nice surprise and there was a really nice feeling in the place, because everyone knows Noel and I have been mates for a long time. It’s one of the perks of having your own band. Since The Messenger came out, I’ve had Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene, Billy Duffy from The Cult, Ronnie Wood, and [Smith’s bassist] Andy Rourke get up with me. Noel getting up was a real treat. We don’t do it too often, but if one of my friends is in town, we drag them out of the house and put them to work.

Source: music-mix.ew.com


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Noel Gallagher, Lou Reed And Arctic Monkeys Win At GQ Men Of The Year Awards

According to GQ, Noel Gallagher is an Icon, Arctic Monkeys are the Band of the Year, and Lou Reed is the Inspiration of the Year.

Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys and Reed were among the winners at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards held on Sept 3.

Lou Reed was handed his award by The Rolling Stones' guitarist, Ronnie Wood.

The Arctic Monkeys said of their award: "This is the triangulation of our 2013 achievements: Glastonbury, a Match of the Day slo-mo montage and this award,"

We're not sure what Noel Gallagher thought of his award, but we do know what he thought of certain guests attending the ceremony.

Gallagher used his acceptance speech as a platform to make a political statement about certain guests, including Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and the Foreign Secretary.

Accepting his GQ award, Gallagher said: "Welcome to the Tory party conference by the way. Its nice to see the Foreign Secretary here while there's s--- going on all over the world he should be sorting out."

Other winners on the night included Elton John who was honoured with the Genius Award; Pharrell Williams who was named Performer of the Year; and The Who's Roger Daltrey, who received the Editor's Choice Prize.

Source: thedwarf.com.au

Liam Gallagher Says Beady Eye Have Gone For The Full Pink Floyd Trip On New Album

In Oasis's heyday a call going out to a brass band to join a studio session would have been a sign the drug threshold had been reached.

But Liam Gallagher insists his new band Beady Eye are willing to do things a bit differently on their second album in a quest for more rock ’n’ roll success.

Last week he had a pop at Mumford & Sons for looking like they might have nits — but the brass section isn’t a sign he’s joining a colliery band.

Speaking at the launch of his new fashion range for Pretty Green, he said: “We’ve gone for the full Pink Floyd trip, man.

“There’s the psychedelic stuff and then the rock ’n’ roll bangers.

“Our producer Dave called up our manager and told him to get a brass band round sharpish one day.

“If it makes it a better record, I’m having it man. I’m buzzing for it. It’s going to blow people’s minds.”

It was a brave move getting Dave Sitek on board. He’s in a band called TV On The Radio and produced Foals and Yeah Yeah Yeahs records.

They are the kind of characters you might expect to be mingling with the Derek Zoolander fashion crowd with ironic facial hair.

But Liam and his team have done the business slipping into the fashion world over the last four or five years — and they are cashing in.

Pretty Green unveiled the new face of their brand, Jesse Wood, the guitarist son of Rolling Stone Ronnie.

He’s a top bloke and a great shout for the brand. He brought his heavily preggers missus Fearne Cotton along, but they did the back door shuffle when her feet couldn’t take any more.

Inbetweeners hero James Buckley was in his element, too.

The actor, who owns so much he must keep Liam’s label ticking over, joked that he was trying to steal some threads. He tweeted: “Tried to walk out with those suit jackets.”

Speaking about being newly married to Scottish girlfriend CLAIR MEEK, he said: “My father-in-law came over to me at the wedding and said, ‘Don’t you ever be doing a Scottish accent in any films now, you hear me?’ I got the message loud and clear.”

Kasabian’s Tom Meighan was out for the night too. And being out for the night, he’s probably still going as you read this.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk