Noel Gallagher On Oasis Being Eligible For The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 2019, Thom Yorke And More

Noel Gallagher spoke last month about Oasis being eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

He said "The fuckin' fella from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came to me and said, 'Do you know in two years you'll be eligible for the Hall of Fame?' I said, 'Is that right?' He said, 'Yes.'

"And he started going on, and I said, 'Let me fucking stop you there. I know what it is. I know what it entails, and it won't be fucking happening, OK?. He invited me down to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame itself and showed me all these exhibits of Oasis stuff. It's a great place and all that, but I won't be doing it, I don't think."


He spoke also on how he aims to keep negativity out of his songs. "I find it fascinating that people find the relationship between me and Liam fascinating," he said. "It would only be fascinating if we were a songwriting partnership and had to make this thing work. But my songs all contain some kind of hope in them. I try to get some kind of hope and joy in there. I write when I'm happy, and I'm happy most of the time. When I'm sad – [and] I'm never really that sad – I just don't write. I think there's enough fucking bullshit in the world. You can sit and write about the news. Someone is doing it right now – Thom Yorke, probably. And I think there's too much of that in the world. It's very easy to write angst. I find it very difficult."

 

Noel Gallagher Blasts Apple Music

Gallagher continues his criticism of streaming services following take down of Tidal.
Noel Gallagher has voiced his opinion on Apple's new music streaming service Apple Music following recent disparaging remarks made about rival platform Tidal.

In May, Gallagher was quoted as saying that the artists that helped launch Jay Z's Tidal thought they were "the fucking Avengers". Commenting on their goals to "save music", the former Oasis guitarist said that "they might want to write a decent chorus for a fucking start".

Now, speaking to the Varvet International podcast, Gallagher has said that while he admits that streaming is "clearly the future" because "people wiser than me tell me that it is", the lack of record sales in modern music "makes him sad".

Gallagher explained his feelings: "If you tell me now that the record buying era is over that makes me sad, that the culture of buying and believing in a record is over. That era is over and the belief is that music is for hire and for rent, the money that you pay lets you access everybody’s music but own none of it. I think that’s a sad day. I understand that it’s the future, but it’s a sad day."

He then shifted his focus to Apple Music, saying of their launch of 24/7 global station Beats 1: "Apple Music, world radio, is that some sort of George Orwell shit going on?"

"How can you be so arrogant that you can say 'We now fucking own world radio'. It came up on my phone, it’s there. What would I listen to? It's not playing The Kinks. Unless there’s a fucking section that says 'Noel Gallagher’s music collection' then I won’t be listening to it.

"I don’t know the idea, what is it exactly? You pay 10 pound a month and then think ‘Mmm, I’m in a jazz mood today’ and then you’re not listening to yours, you’re letting someone else make the decision and I don’t know."

Referring to Apple's new 'Connect' feature that allows fans to follow artists they like, Gallagher continued: "Who gives a fuck what the artist is doing? My love for The Smiths never suffered because I didn’t know what they were doing. They were either on tour, disappeared and then put an album out and we all said ‘Wow, fucking hell an album’s coming out, what’s it called? Nobody knows’.

"Who cares what fucking Thom Yorke is up to? Seriously who gives a shit? I'd find it creepy if everyone wanted to know what I was up to."

Listen to the podcast in full here.

Source: www.nme.com

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Gallagher Brothers' Relationship 'Was Achilles Heel For Oasis'

Cast away on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Noel Gallagher is to reveal the secret of his relationship with his brother, Liam, and to mount a sturdy defence of the 1990s, the era of BritPop and New Labour.

He will also comment on his use of drugs and on his status as a songwriter, explaining ruefully: “Put it this way, I am not as revered by the press as Thom Yorke or Damon Albarn. That is just a fact.”
Assessing the impact of Oasis, the band he set up with his brother, he says: “On our day we were great. People are there now at my concerts that weren’t even born then and they are crying at Oasis songs. All all over the world people are still in massively in love with that band – and none more so than me.”

On the subject of the rows with Liam that eventually caused the breakup of the band, Gallagher, 48, explains: “The way it worked was, when were not slagging each other off, that’s when were telling each other that we loved each other. That’s it. Clearly there was a point where he was the greatest singer in the world and it was great. It just so happens that the two of us we like to call a spade a spade. But it was very sarcastic mud-slinging.”

Gallagher tells presenter Kirsty Young that the pair had got on well as children in Burnage, Manchester. “He was an irritant though, because we shared a bedroom. When you are 10 and your brother is five it is a lifetime away and so I never hung out with any of his friends, but, yeah, we got on.” In the band, their sibling status was a mixed blessing, he adds. “You can gain some strength from being in a band with your brother when everyone else is a stranger, but as time goes on it becomes your achilles heel because you know how to push each other’s buttons.”

Gallagher, who has played solo and with his band High Flying Birds since 2009, confesses that in 1998 he realised the last three Oasis albums had all been created “on drugs”. “Not all of Oasis were on drugs though. Just effectively me and Liam,” he says. A move out to the country was followed by “a moment of clarity” when he found a stranger in his kitchen the morning after a party and decided to give up drugs.

“I have good willpower. It was one of the greatest things I have ever done,” he says, explaining he met his second wife, Sarah MacDonald, shortly after this.

Choosing the music of many of his heroes, such as David Bowie and the Smiths, to take to the desert island, Gallagher says he still regards the Beatles as “the greatest thing in music that ever was”.
Contrasting his heyday in the 1990s with the “gloomy, dark, fractured times” of the 70s and 80s, before the arrival of the “modern man”, Gallagher tells Young that people “have to admit” the Britpop era was great.

“What people are refusing to accept is that the 90s were brilliant. Think about that time, with Thatcher being ushered out and New Labour coming in. And Oasis, Blur and Pulp all those bands in the top five all the time. They were great days.”

He selects Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as his Desert Island Book, explaining it is the only book he has ever read..

Source: www.theguardian.com

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Noel Gallagher On Embracing New Music Release Platforms

Noel Gallagher has been speaking to the Irish Times on embracing new music release platforms.

He said “Let’s go with Thom Yorke and U2. I like albums to have a run-up and a release date, and then an explosion, a tour, and a fallout. The U2 thing was over in a f**king morning – where’s the fun in that? The Thom Yorke thing, all you read in press releases is how many people ‘might’ have it, or how much money he ‘might’ have made. But we’re old school here. I’ve got no time for new-fangled f**king sh*te. I’m not gonna give music away. I’m not gonna say to people, ‘Pay what you want’ – that’s a nonsense. If you don’t wanna pay for it, don’t f**king buy it. If you can’t be arsed paying 99p for one of my songs, then I don’t want you to have it, because quite frankly 99p is a p*ss-take. It should be a pound, anyway round it up to a pound, f**king hell.”

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Noel Gallagher: I'd Work With Damon Albarn

The former Oasis guitarist, who has gone solo, told NME that he would prefer to work with Albarn rather than Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

He said: 'If I was gonna make a record, it would be with Damon. For a start, he's as mad as a box of frogs. Number two, he'd get loads of hip-hop dudes working on it, which itself would be f***in mental. And number three? It would be a better record.'
He revealed that he made his peace with the Blur frontman recently after bumping into a club a few months ago.

'It was quite a moment. We'd never been in the same room for maybe 10 or 15 years. And I always said to myself if I ever was, I'd go and say, 'F***ing hell, alright man?' and shake his hand and let bygones be bygones and all that.'

He added: 'It was a great relief. I'm glad I've seen him and shook his hand and apologised for all that s***.'

Asked if the feud between Oasis and Blur was finally over, Noel replied: 'Yeah. There you go - that's over and done with now.'

Gallagher also denied reports that he would be supporting The Stone Roses at their homecoming gigs in Manchester's Heaton Park this summer.

'I'm in America when it happens, actually,' he said.

'I'm a bit gutted I won't be there to witness it, actually, but there you go. I'm busy.'

Source: www.metro.co.uk

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

The Man From UNKLE - Movie Trailer 2009

Trailer, the forthcoming movie about the band. Massive Attack, Beastie Boys, Thom Yorke, Noel Gallagher, Portished, The scratch pervets, Ian Brown and many others will be in this movie.

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