Noel Gallagher Wants To Lick Pep Guardiola's Face

The legendary singer-songwriter and die-hard Blues fan is clearly overjoyed that Pep has been announced as the new Manchester City manager.

He’s proving to be a very popular choice as the next Manchester City boss.

And you perhaps won’t find a fan more adoring than Manchester music legend Noel Gallagher , who has gone as far as to say he wants to lick Pep Guardiola’s face.

The Oasis singer-songwriter and guitarist - and his wife Sara MacDonald- are clearly overjoyed that Pep has agreed a three-year contract to become City manager in the summer.

The die-hard Blues fan posted a photo of the coach on his Instagram page with the message: “I see you baby!!!

“Be warned Mr.Pep both me and Sara are Very much looking forward to licking your face next season..”

In December Noel also made his feelings clear about the new City badge – saying he loves it so much he would have it tattooed on his back.

In a video tweeted by the club the Manchester he said: “This new badge represents what Manchester City is.

“I for one, I’m going to leave these offices, and go straight to a tattoo parlour and I’m going to get a massive one tattooed on my back. That’s how good it is.”

Then he showed his love for the new badge again by posing with a giant version of the crest , made from sand, on a sunshine family break.

The Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds frontman seems to be in a typically ouspoken mood at the moment because he’s been putting rap superstar Kanye West in his place after Yeezy boasted to his 18 million Twitter followers about his new album Waves.

Kanye tweeted: "So happy to be finished with the best album of all time" and he went on “This is not album of the year. This is album of the life.”

And Noel hit back on his Instagram page: “So Kanye thinks he’s made the best album of all time?

“You might sell more Mr.Kanye but NGHFB will be better..FACT!”

Well that told him.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Disappointed That John Lewis Advert Song 'Forever Linked' To Christmas

High Flying Birds star says his dislike for Christmas has increased yet further by use of Half The World Away.

Noel Gallagher has revealed how his dislike for Christmas has increased, after a cover of his track featured on the John Lewis festive advert.

The High Flying Birds frontman said hearing Aurora's version of the Oasis B-side, Half The World Away, on the high street chain's Man On The Moon advert made him feel disappointed, because the song will now forever be associated with Christmas.

"It will forever be synonymous with Christmas from now on and, as is well known, it's not my favourite time of year," he said as he performed a concert with BBC Radio 2 in London.
"Having said that, at least it comes with a cheque, which, believe me, is highly worthwhile."

The 48-year-old rocker joked: "And don't go buying me John Lewis vouchers for Christmas, trying to be a smart a---, inside a card that says 'Noel'."

Gallagher has previously expressed his aversion for Christmas, saying: "I hate the silly music on the radio, I hate the adverts, I don't like mince pies and I hate turkey. I can't be a---- getting involved."

He was joined by his Oasis bandmate Gem Archer - who was also part of Gallagher's brother Liam's band Beady Eye - as he performed the intimate and semi-acoustic set, filled with B-sides of Oasis singles and hits from his first High Flying Birds album, at the BBC Radio Theatre.

The Manchester-born musician introduced Archer as "my former right-hand man, who is now my left-hand man".

Four hundred fans watched Gallagher play live, although more than 50,000 people applied to attend the gig, which included past Oasis hits Wonderwall, (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and Don't Look Back In Anger.Sara

He also dedicated the Oasis track, Slide Away, to his absent wife Sara MacDonald, "who couldn't be bothered to come tonight".

Gallagher, who performed at Lincoln's Bishop Grosseteste University with Archer on Saturday, will next play at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday.

He will embark on a UK tour next April.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher Celebrates Q Awards Win With Wife Sara And Mark Ronson

He bagged the Best Album gong at the 2015 Q Awards on Monday afternoon.

And it seems that Noel Gallagher and his wife Sara Macdonald were in the mood to celebrate his win, as they headed out in London after the event to party the night away at the Chiltern Firehouse.

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Gallery: Noel Gallagher And His Wife Sara Enjoy A Night Out In London

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Noel Gallagher And David Beckham Enjoy A Night Out In New York

David Beckham and Noel Gallagher put aside their club allegiances to share a three-course meal with friends at plush pizza restaurant Lucali in New York this week.

Becks is currently over in the States, having delivered a passionate speech at the United Nations in the Big Apple on Thursday, urging world leaders to do more to help help disadvantaged children.

The former Manchester United midfielder posted a photo of him with his hand on the shoulder of the former Oasis lead guitarist, who is an impassioned Manchester City supporter, with the caption: 'Another great night at Lucali. Thanks to Mark and the girls'.

Appearing on an episode of The Graham Norton Show earlier this year, Beckham revealed he was a self-confessed fan of the Manchester rock band and agreed to appear in the next music video for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

'Obviously there's a big Manchester divide between United and City, but when I used to play for England I remember Noel being at one of the games and I went up to him and shook his hand, so of course I'll be in one of your videos,' he said on the chat show.

It is not known whether the pair have acted upon this revelation, but the former England captain would appear to at least be working on his budding friendship with Gallagher at the popular neighbourhood eatery.

Beckham looked in the mood to unwind after a busy week in which he gave a speech at the launch of Voices of Youth, a global community of youth bloggers giving young people the opportunity to learn about development issues.

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Noel Gallagher Locks Horns With Airport Staff

Noel Gallagher "locked horns" with airport staff over a £65 excess baggage charge.

The former Oasis rocker reportedly spent 20 minutes at a British Airways check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday (08.17.15) before he and wife Sara MacDonald "reluctantly relented" and paid the charge.

A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Noel and his wife locked horns with BA staff at check-in, where they were forced to pay a surcharge for extra luggage. It clearly wasn't the start to the holiday they wanted. After 20 minutes they reluctantly relented.

"As if that wasn't enough, they had a tricky time getting through security, with staff searching the kids' shoes - leaving both parents more in need of a holiday than ever."

Meanwhile, the 'Wonderwall' hitmaker - who was jetting out to the south of France with children Donovan, seven, and Sonny, four - previously admitted he loves to spend money on his children as he wants the best for him.

Noel, who also has daughter Anaïs from a previous relationship, said: "I don't want them to be scruffy oiks from a council estate. I don't want them to be like me.

"Just because I didn't have money until I was 26, I'm not going to deny them private school, holidays, cars and all that."

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Noel Gallagher On His Wife Sara, Oasis, Liam, Tony Blair And More

Smitten rocker Noel Gallagher has revealed how he fell in love with wife Sara MacDonald at first sight.

On an edition of Desert Island Discs aired today, the Oasis star chooses Be My Baby by The Ronettes – the song for the ­couple’s first dance at their ­wedding in 2011.

He tells the Radio 4 show’s host Kirsty Young that his wife is “everything to me” and reveals she keeps him in check with straight-talking.

He said: “She calls a spade a spade as well. When I am ­working on music or writing songs and I do demos, she’s the last person I play them to because I can play her a song and go ,‘I think this is going to be an amazing tune’ and she’ll listen to it and go, ‘Hmm, it’s all right’.

“You know, I never believed in love at first sight or that soulmate thing until I met her.”

The couple, who have two young sons – Noel also has a daughter from his first marriage – have been together since meeting at a nightclub in Ibiza in 2000.

And Sara, who comes from ­Edinburgh, was watching Noel headline at T in the Park last week with his band High Flying Birds.

On the show – where guests choose the music they would take to a desert island – Noel also talks about his ­turbulent relationship with his estranged brother Liam, the singer with Oasis, whose hits included Wonderwall and Live Forever.

He describes how having a family member in the band became an Achilles heel because “you know how to push each other’s buttons” and reveals they never put an arm round each other’s shoulders.
He said: “Oh, no. We were never that kind of family. No, no, no. There’s no arms round each other saying, ‘You’re great – no, you’re great.’

“The way it worked was when we’re not slagging each other off, that’s when we’re telling each other that we loved each other. That’s it.”

Noel also revealed he has no regrets about meeting Tony Blair in Downing Street at the height of Cool Britannia.

Oasis were one of the biggest bands in the world when he attended the party following Blair’s landslide general election victory in 1997.

They gave celebrity backing to the PM and New Labour but the singer and songwriter says he couldn’t believe he and Scots record boss Alan McGee – who famously signed the band after seeing them play at King Tut’s in Glasgow – were even there.

He added: “I’d moved to London in 1994, three years earlier, with a holdall, an acoustic guitar, nothing.

“Three years later, I drove to No10 Downing Street in a Rolls- Royce, drinking ­champagne. We laughed all the way up there, me and Alan McGee.

“He’d worked at British Rail most of his life and we were laughing, going, ‘How did we get here? This is amazing.’

“Afterwards, you find out that, yes, they did want that ­photograph. So, you know, we helped usher in Labour. You’re welcome, all of you. They were great days.”

Noel, 48, also reveals his love of the era. He said: “What people are refusing to accept is the 90s were brilliant. If you think back now to that time of fashion and ­politics, Thatcherism being ­ushered out, New Labour being ushered in, and Oasis, Blur, Pulp and all those bands being in the top five all the time.”

The star’s song choices include Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols and With or Without You by U2.
He also reveals that only now Oasis are finished can he give his verdict on the band.

He said: “On our day, we were great. It’s reaffirmed every night I go on stage and play a couple of Oasis tunes and people are there who weren’t even born [when they were written] and they’re crying.
“All over the world, people still are in massive love with that band and none more so than me.”

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher On T In The Park, Oasis, Kanye West, Coldplay, Primal Scream, David Guetta And More

Festival veteran Gallagher will close this year's T in the Park on Sunday and has been as outspoken as ever ahead of his trip north.

Noel Gallagher is likely to be disappointed in Saturday’s main stage headliner at T in the Park – because he thought Avicii was the name of his local restaurant.

Noel’s band High Flying Birds will close Scotland’s biggest music festival on Sunday’s main stage.
But he had never heard of the Swedish superstar DJ who’ll take that spot 24 hours before him.
“You can have Avicii, whoever that is,” Noel said. “All I’ve heard is his name.

“I thought it was a restaurant around where I live if I’m being honest. Is it a band or is it a guy? Is it like a David Guetta thing? I mean, holy s**tballs. I’m just glad I won’t be there to see that.”

The former Oasis rocker also joked the picturesque Strathallan site could be transformed into something resembling a warzone by the time he closes the festival on Sunday night.

“It’s going to be like World War I by the time I get there,” he said.
“But I’m looking forward to it.

“T in the Park is f***ing great.

“I love that festival.”

The British rock legend, who is married to Edinburgh-born PR boss Sara MacDonald, played the first ever T in the Park with Oasis back in 1994, in the King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut tent.

Oasis returned to headline the main stage in 2002 and a decade later Noel made his T debut with his own band, High Flying Birds.

He also surprised fans when he joined Paul Weller on the main stage in 2001.

“I’ve seen some great gigs there including Stereophonics,” Noel said.

“I went up there once to hang out with Sara for the weekend when she was working at the festival.

“I remember being with Sara watching Coldplay and the two of us looking at each other and thinking, that band are going to be f***ing massive.

“Paul Weller was doing his acoustic thing.

“He blagged me to get up and do a few songs with him.

“The two of us were f**ing roaring drunk onstage. It was funny.”

He added: “A music festival nowadays reflects everybody’s iPod. You look and ask yourself, is this line up on shuffle or what?

“It doesn’t make any sense, but that’s the modern world.

“In the 60s, everybody was of a certain way of thinking.

“Now musical thought is so fragmented.”

Noel, 48, will be playing songs from both the self-titled High Flying Birds album and follow-up Chasing Yesterday, as well as solo material and choice tracks from his time with Oasis.

Looking back on the music scene when Oasis first played T in the Park, he said: “It’s wrong to say it was better then.

“It’s just this generational thing, though, I thought it was better than.

“Then again I was better then and I was younger then.

“When we were young we were a lot cooler than this generation, let’s put it that way.

“You and I are roughly the same age and the people we liked or that we were brought up listening to, like Joy Division, New Order, Morrissey, Mark E. Smith and Paul Weller, were influenced by people who were also great and slowly but surely the world has watered it down.

“Forget this generation, they’re lost.

“Imagine the next generation. Can you? I can’t.

“I’d rather not.

“My 15-year old daughter, there’s hope for her.

“She asked me about the Stone Roses the other day.

“But my two sons? Lord knows what nonsense they’ll be into.”

Noel believes the problem stems from record companies having too much control.

He added: “Everybody now is signed to major label and they all pander to the radio and everybody sounds the same on the radio.

“Alternative thinking is disappearing. It’s a sad day when people tell me I’m so outspoken and controversial.

“Why, for stating the f***ing obvious?

“There won’t be another music revolution because commerce and big business doesn’t allow revolution.

“It likes the same, the same, the same – Taylor Swift.

“Taylor Swift will still be going in 20 years but she’ll be called something else.

“She won’t be going. It’ll be someone else. But there will never be another Oasis, I can tell you that.
“Never in a million years.

“Five lads from a council estate who wanted to be as big as the Beatles and were big enough to say it. Never.”

NOEL ON KANYE WEST

“He’s nearly as good as me in interviews, but he takes himself too seriously. I’ve never met the guy, right, and Lord knows what he’s like. But I like him. His music is not what I would listen to though I do like Black Skinhead.
“That’s a f***ing great track.”

NOEL ON PRIMAL SCREAM

“If we go back a generation, Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes weren’t trying to do something different.
“They were different themselves.
“They were different people with alternative thought.
“Bobby is always trying to be as good as his heroes.
“So is Innes and Andrew Weatherall.”

NOEL ON BEING AN ELDER STATESMAN OF ROCK

“Do I feel it?
“No, I don’t feel like an elder statesman.
“I’m not the elder statesman as long as Paul Weller is around.
“He’s elder than me.
“Print that. He’ll f**ing hate that.
“I feel like I’m just starting off, if anything.
“I know I have a better set of songs to choose from than, say, George Ezra, but I’ve only put my second album out. So I don’t feel anything like that.”
Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher: I'd Let David Silva Have Sex With My Wife!

The former Oasis star and and famous Blue admits he loves David Silva that much - and also wants Bale in and Pellegrini out.

Noel Gallagher loves David Silva so much he would let him have sex with his wife!

The Oasis superstar and lifelong Blue also came up with a three-point plan to resurrect City’s title fortunes – including sacking Manuel Pellegrini and buying Gareth Bale.

Gallagher was speaking as a guest on NBC Sports’ 'Men in Blazers' show when he revealed the startling depth of his affection for City’s little Spanish wizard.

Asked to name his favourite player, Gallagher plunged straight in, naming Silva, Sergio Aguero and Yaya Toure, and then added, of Silva: “I’d let him have sex with my wife.”

One of the interviewers then remarked that Silva is one of those players who, no matter how much you hate their team, you cannot help but admire – and suggested that Gallagher might look at United ace Juan Mata in the same way.

Naughty Noel was having none of that: “No, I look at Juan Mata and think ‘F****** t***’” he replied.

He was then asked how City could be “fixed” after a trophy-less season and came up with his three-point plan.

“Number one, they need to buy four new players,” said the former Oasis star. “Number two they need to sell four old players. And number three they need to maybe look at a new manager.”

When pressed on which players and manager he wants to come in, Gallgher picked out Real Madrid star Bale and Bayern boss pep Guardiola – with Carlo Ancelotti as a possible back-up plan.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Tabloid Alert: Oasis To Reform

The feuding brothers split the iconic Britpop band in 2009 but they’re back on speaking terms – and rumour has it they’re planning to work together again.

It’s music to the ears of millions of bereft Oasis fans left in a trackless desert after the band’s 2009 split.

Feuding brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam – spotted out with his girlfriend and pals this week, as you can see in the gallery above – are said to have taken the first steps towards a reunion next year.

Weeks after it emerged the pair had patched up their differences, we can reveal the band are in talks for a comeback.

Details were leaked by a well-placed source speaking after 47-year-old Noel’s recent gig in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

They said: “It’s early days in terms of the details, but Noel and Liam are back on good terms and ready to give things another go. Nothing is signed but it’s what you might call a gentlemen’s agreement between them.

“Ultimately they’re family and whatever has gone on before can be sorted out – they’re very close beneath all the bluster.”

Liam is particularly keen to perform a money-spinning series of concerts as he is eager to rebuild his career.

He has suffered a string of damaging revelations about his personal life and his band Beady Eye has folded.

The 42-year-old fathered a child, Gemma, with US music journalist Liza Ghorbani in March 2013. He has recently reached an agreement over payments after a lengthy court battle.

The affair led to his divorce from Nicole Appleton, 40, last year. He is now in a relationship with his former assistant Debbie Gwyther, 32, and was seen out this week having a meal and a few drinks at a pub near his North London home.

The source said: “Noel’s solo career has been a huge success with number one records and sold-out arena tours but Liam hasn’t been able to match that with Beady Eye.

"He is ready to try and put their differences behind them in order to get back on stage together with the band now that Beady Eye have split up.

“Obviously it would be massively lucrative for them both too, and the demand for tickets would be enormous.”

Rumours of a reunion have been circling for months amid claims they would be tempted by an offer of headlining this summer’s Glastonbury Festival.

And Liam posted a photograph of himself online clutching an Access All Areas pass to one of Noel’s solo gigs, revealing the pair were hanging out again – with the caption: “Keeping it in the family.”

But it is thought the pair wanted more time to plan a comeback on their own terms rather than committing to anything this year – while still insisting publicly a reunion remains a long way off.

Noel, who married Sara MacDonald, 43, in 2011, recently admitted their only ­motivation would be “for the money”.

He said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine: “If I was ever going to do it, it would only be for the money. This isn’t me putting it out there, by the way.

“Would I do it for charity? No way. We’re not that kind of people.

“For Glastonbury? I don’t think Michael Eavis has got enough money. But would we get back together one day? As long as everybody is still alive and still has their hair, it’s always a possibility. But only for the money.”

Today representatives for both Noel and Liam declined to comment about plans for a reunion – although sources say Noel has yet to be completely convinced.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher Says His Solo Career Cost Him A "Few Million" Pounds To Launch

Noel Gallagher has admitted setting up his own Sour Mash Records label to launch his solo career cost him a "few million" pounds.

The 'Ballad of the Mighty I' singer established his Sour Mash Records label after leaving Oasis in 2009 and admits the costs were so high, he refused to tell wife Sara MacDonald the truth about his financial position for some time.

He admitted: "Everything I've done since I left Oasis has come from my own pocket.

"You've got to pay for the tour, got to pay for the wages and you don't really break even for about nine months.

"I don't mean I lost money. I mean I lost a f***ing s**t load of money. It was a few million, like.

"I had to lie to Sara at first, and when I eventually did tell her, she freaked out -- I mean freaked out.

"So I come out with, 'You know, a year ago, this happened... and she was like, 'What the f***ing hell did you do that for?'

"I said, 'I did it because I felt like I could and I didn't want to be signed to a record label, I wanted to do it myself'."

Despite putting himself in a precarious financial position for a while, Noel's gamble for artistic freedom paid off.

Noel insists he doesn't care about his chart positions or record sales because he knows music doesn't sell as much now as back in the hey day of Oasis.

He told Loaded magazine: "I don't worry about the music getting to number one or anything. I never have done really. Well, maybe I did between 1994 and '97, back when I wanted to rule the world.

"If it has got to the point where you're listening to it, it's got to the point where I'm happy with it.

"People aren't buying as many records as they were four years ago so sales are likely to decline, but it won't make it any less a record."

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Yet Another Review Of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Glasgow

"You are the Mexicans of Europe," said Noel Gallagher of the Glasgow crowd that erupted in merry chaos at his feet. The fiesta feeling was undeniable.

It is no secret that the squadron leader of the High Flying Birds loves to play in Scotland. After all, it was in Glasgow where it all began for Gallagher, back on a summer's night in '93 in the gloomy confines of King Tut's where Oasis landed their deal with Creation and went on to announce their rapture to the world.

His wife, Sara MacDonald, is from Edinburgh mind you, so perhaps he's under oath to enjoy himself.

That aside, there was no question over what the Hydro thought of the show.

Opening with 'Do the Damage' from new record Chasing Yesterday, Gallagher advanced through a delicious set with a haunch of new material, flavours of his solo debut and a peppering of Oasis numbers.

The atmosphere embraced the Hydro in a sweaty, beer soaked clutch of euphoria - one that all too often gets lost in the steel rafters of the cavernous venue.

And things went up a notch when he dedicated Oasis track 'Digsy's Dinner' to none other than Mr Kevin Bridges, who caught up with Gallagher after the show.

The man at the centre of the hurricane felt it too.

"It's just as well my next gig is in Manchester. It's the only place that could beat playing here", he said with a wry grin.

After the meandering solos of 'Champagne Supernova' the High Flying Birds took the crowd higher with perhaps the best thing that the Definitely Maybe architect ever wrote.

It was a workmanlike performance, but there wasn't any hint that Gallagher was going through the motions. The rest of the High Flying Birds are a seriously tight outfit, and a typically trippy lightshow added just the right amount of pizzazz.

Mind you, he could have walked out there on his own and stood on a soap box - the result would have been the same.

Only a nagging sense of melancholy for what once was still remains. Tracks like 'Lock all the Doors' are perfect for a sneering swagger that only one man possesses, and we all know who he is.

In the grand scheme of things though, it's a misgiving about as significant as a midgy bite, however itchy that can be...

He wished the crowd goodbye, and reminded Scotland that he would be back soon.

As the crowds filtered home, the words of Noel Gallagher continued to fly high up into the Glasgow night.

And what a night it had been.

Source: glasgow.stv.tv

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Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Glasgow

Five Stars

For being rock royalty, Noël Gallagher certainly carries no airs and graces.

Appearing on stage in an understated manner with his High Flying Birds Mike Rowe, Jeremy Stacey, Russell Pritchard and Tim Smith, at the SSE Hydro on Saturday night, the songwriter presence was only realised by the sheer response of the crowd.

For once the Glasgow venue reached its potential with an atmosphere that sounded more like a football stadium.

That atmosphere could only be achieved because it was clear if God was a rocker, then he is Noël Gallagher with thousands of music fans worshipping at his alter and preaching his lyrics back at him.

Noël began his sermon bashing out fan favourites Everybody's On The Run and Oasis' track Fade Away.

The star then admitted his God like quality saying he felt like Father Christmas after attending his 'record store' signing in Glasgow before the crowd responded with football-like chants.

Lead track from new album Chasing Yesterday, In The Heat of the Moment amped things up.

And Riverman taken from that same album sounded just beautiful live.

Take a moment, listen to Noel's lyrics and you will realise he is one of the greatest songwriters of our generation - which is why he is a religion worth following.

Add to that the live experience of Noel rock in the original sense and you have a gig that you will never forget.

Even if it is just for his performance of Champagne Supernova alone.

The title of his latest album is perhaps poignant to many of the crowd who themselves are Chasing Yesterday still wearing their Mod inspired look and reminiscing about a Britpop movement that has sadly died a death.

But not if Noël has anything to do with it...the songs that made that era will continue to be played and evolved.

This is evident in the band's single If I Had A Gun, which he dedicated to his Scottish wife Sara McDonald.

And more evidence comes with an acoustic version of Don't Look Back In Anger, which was a highlight of the night.

Ending on a high with The Masterplan, even I have to admit, Noël I'm converted see you at T in the Park.

Source: www.heraldscotland.com

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Noel Gallagher On Losing His Eyesight And Hair

The 47-year-old rocker has revealed his eyesight has started to become blurry but he doesn't want to wear glasses, and will only embark on treatment to prevent the deterioration of his ailing vision when he is unable to tell the difference between his wife, Sara MacDonald, and other women.

He said: ''I do need glasses. But I'm going to wait until I walk into a restaurant and accidentally kiss other women while my wife is at another table before I do anything about it. Then I'm going to get them lasered.''

However, his poor eyesight is the least of his worries as the former Oasis star - who has 15-year-old daughter Anais, as well as sons Donovan, seven, and Sonny, four - is terrified of losing his hair as he grows older.

Speaking about the prospect of being bald, he said: ''I don't have the face for it, my nose is so big that I can't wear a hat.''

And while he is well known for penning some of Oasis' greatest hits along with two albums worth of solo material, the star admitted he would rather be unable to write further hits than lose his trademark hairstyle.

He told The Sun newspaper: ''If my hair ever goes, it's getting shaved. I'd rather lose my songwriting ability than my barnet. I've written loads of great songs, but it doesn't work without the hairdo.''

Source: www.tv3.ie

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Noel Gallagher On His Bromance With Bono

Singer Noel Gallagher has opened up about his bromance with Bono.

The U2 frontman and the Oasis singer have been friends for years, and Noel has revealed the pair love to get drunk together.

“What do we do? We get roaring drunk,” Noel admitted.

“I was on holiday with him this summer down in France, we hung out in a Casino. I won €2,000 but then we went to a nightclub he knew and a round was like €4,000.

“His house was enormous, and so it should be,” he added.

Speaking to Brendan O’Connor on The Saturday Night Show, Noel admitted he and his wife spent a week with Bono and wife Ali and partied the entire time.

“My wife and I were there for five nights, she can only remember going to bed one of the nights. We had a lot of tequila,” he explained.

“I party with my wife most of the time, I don’t really do crazy lads night out. My favourite person to hang out with, sadly enough is my wife,” he added.

Source: www.goss.ie

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Why Noel Is No Longer Chained To The Mirror And The Razor Blade

Barry Egan recalls a lively chat about cocaine with Noel Gallagher almost 20 years ago.

August, 1996, backstage at Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork: Noel Gallagher is batting the breeze with me, two hours before he is due to go with his brother Liam and their band in front of 70,000 people.

I asked him what was his view on Oasis as shameless Beatles plagiarists. "I agree with it," he laughed, "most of the time. Because it pisses people off. Everything is derivative of something. Everyone goes on about Oasis not being as innovative as the Beatles but what they fail to realise is up until the album Rubber Soul, the Beatles were derivative of black American music and not being very good at it."

Would he sue over the recent £4,000-a-week-on-cocaine article in the News of the World? "You can't sue over an amount. It's hardly defamation of character, is it?"

Does taking cocaine give your lyrics a new clarity? "I find that when I get really out of my head on drugs," he answered almost academically, " I tend to write songs like Supersonic."

Was Live Forever written on cocaine? "No. Morning Glory is about the mundanity of cocaine conversations, because it's all bullshit at the end of the day. Then you wake up with a bad head and you've solved f**k all. I suppose that directly inspired the line 'chained to the mirror and the razor blade'."

Presumably he'd agree with the saying: 'Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're earning too much money'? "Yeah, I would!" Noel hooted. "But I was doing coke when I was on the dole anyway." How much was he getting on the dole? "About £60 every two weeks." And you're getting about two million for these Cork shows? "Oh, yeah," he smiled.

Almost two decades later, Noel Gallagher is possibly not getting two million for his solo show at the 3Arena in Dublin this Wednesday. The 47-year-old hasn't lost his million-dollar wit. Not least when Noel recollected the "disgusted text" he received from his pal Paul Weller when U2's Songs Of Innocence album came out free on iTunes: "Why do I have their fucking album on my computer? You're a mate of Bono's - you must have known!"

Noel also recalled that when his wife Sara picks up something unpleasant in the kitchen sink, she will admonish him thus, "There is a dishwasher here. Can you not do anything?" To which he will reply: "Can you play the guitar? No, you can't, thank you very much, jog on."

Noel's second solo album Chasing Yesterday is jogging along very nicely, too. My one quibble with the new record is that Noel hides himself in his songs. Intriguingly, in an interview with Sabotage Times in 2013, Noel was asked did having an allegedly violent father contribute to his apparent reluctance to reveal himself in song.

His answer was revealing in a way his lyrics rarely are: "All the songs that I like, they're not written by songwriters pulling the scabs off themselves. All John Lennon's shit about his mother; I'm not interested in it, doesn't mean anything to me. All these songs about personal torment, how can it? How can Mother mean anything to anybody apart from John Lennon? It can't, because he's singing it about his mother, not mine."

"That's just my perception of it. It's never come out in my music because (a) it's nobody's f**king business; and (b) it doesn't make for great music.

"For instance," he continued, "Waterloo Sunset [by The Kinks]. The sun setting at Waterloo Station belongs to everybody. The ... father I had belongs to me. I really wouldn't want to share that or put it into a song."

What Noel has put into song is his apparent nostalgia for Manchester: 'Taking you back to the town where I was born. . .' he sings on While The Song Remains The Same, hinting at a possible move home.

"We did think about it before our second son [Sonny] came along," Noel said recently. "I wouldn't mind. My mum's still there, still in the same house. But I feel sorry for her; some guy shot a woman in the face yesterday in the middle of the street as she begged for her life."

Source: Sunday Independent

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