Robbie Williams has compared his relationship with Take That to that of Oasis and Beady Eye.
Williams released his new album 'Under The Radar Volume I' on Monday (December 1) - the same day as his former band Take That released their latest LP 'III'.
Speaking about the situation, Take That's Gary Barlow had previously compared the situation to Blur and Oasis' infamous 1995 chart battle, where the former’s 'Country House' and the latter's 'Roll With It' went head to head for the Number One spot.
Now, Williams has taken to Twitter to say that the battle is more akin to that of Oasis and Beady Eye – making a dig at the latter's recent split in the process.
Williams wrote, "Gaz - it's more like Oasis vs Beady Eye, except at the end of this week WE'LL all still have a career!"
Williams and the Gallagher brothers have a history of verbal spats, since Noel Gallagher famously called the pop star "That fat dancer from Take That" in the 90s.
More recently, Liam also hit out at Williams, labeling him a "fat fucking idiot" after Beady Eye played a significantly smaller venue in the same town as the singer on the same night.
Beady Eye announced their split in October following two studio LPs.
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.
Noel Gallagher (the A-Side) is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday the 8th of December 2014 at 23:00 (UK TIME) listen live by clicking here.
John Wilson continues with the latest series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
In 2009 Noel Gallagher left Oasis - one of the seminal bands of the Britpop era with seven multi-platinum albums including: 'Definitely Maybe', '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' and 'Be Here Now' - which became the fastest selling album in UK chart history. Two years later Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds also went to Number 1 in the UK with tracks like "Everybody's On the Run", "AKA... What A Life!" and "The Death of You and Me". Praised for its psychedelic tinges and eternal themes of love, loss and hope, it's been described as the best collection of songs "since his Morning Glory days".
With tracks inspired by New Orleans ragtime rhythms and Ennio Morricone-like strings, it put paid to rumours that its creator entered into a state of inertia after the end of Oasis. Noel Gallagher said of the album: "I won't criticize anything about Oasis because I loved being in that band and I was in charge of it, but there was always the feeling: how will this go down in Wembley, with 70,000 people braying for good times? This time I didn't have to think about that. I've got a guy playing wine glasses on one song, a saw on another. This is not Oasis."
Noel Gallagher (the B-Side) is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday the 9th of December 2014 at 15:30 (UK TIME) listen live by clicking here.
John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 10, the B-side. Having discussed the making of 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', his first studio album since leaving Oasis (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 8th December and available online), Noel Gallagher responds to questions from the audience, performs acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from the album and looks forward to his next musical project "Chasing Yesterday" due out in 2015.
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Gary Barlow has joked Take That's current chart battle with Robbie Williams is similar to the feud between Britpop bands Oasis and Blur.
The 43-year-old singer-songwriter has spoken out following the news his band Take That's first album since the departure of both Jason Orange and previously Robbie, 'III', will go up against their bandmates surprise new record 'Under the Radar'.
Referring to the famous Britpop battle between Damon Albarn's Blur and Liam and Noel Gallagher's Oasis, Gary said: ''It's like Blur versus Oasis all over again.''
However, the former 'X Factor' judge revealed Robbie - who first left Take That in 1995 before rejoining in 2010 and quitting again in 2012 - had told him and his remaining bandmates Mark Owen and Howard Donald about his new album, but failed to mention it would be released on the same day as theirs.
Gary told The Sun newspaper: ''I only found out about that on Sunday (30.11.14).
''It's funny, because we have obviously spent a lot of time in the studio with Rob.
''About two years ago he said, 'I've got all these songs and I don't know what to do with them so I'm going to put them on an album one day'.
''So it's not a surprise he's doing it, but it is a surprise it's out this week.
''He played us most of them and there are some cracking songs because whatever Rob writes is good.''
Meanwhile, the 'These Days' hitmaker claims both Robbie and Jason will be returning to the band in the future.
He said: ''Take That is five people. Exactly when they come back is up to them. That will keep it interesting.''
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Chasing Yesterday is the brand new album from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and follows the hugely successful debut released in 2011.
It's the first album to be produced and written by Noel and features a much broader array of instrumentation than ever before.
The result is a rich, expansive and multi-layered record. Includes the brand new single In The Heat Of The Moment.
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Russell Brand has revealed that Noel Gallagher uses the "Parklife" meme to mock him.
The 1994 single was used to mock Brand earlier this year after one Twitter user originally compared a long, impassioned passage from the comedian's book on revelation to the spoken word part of "Parklife" provided by actor Phil Daniels.
Appearing on "Alan Carr: Chattyman," in an episode that will air this evening (November 28), Brand reveals that as well as the public, even his friends use the joke to mock him.
"He [Gallagher] finishes his texts with it now," Brand says. "He'll go, 'Alright Russell, how's it going? ' then say something offensive about my hair or my private beliefs, and then go 'Parklife'. I secretly think, 'I remember when there was a race to be Number One and Blur won it against Oasis, so f--k you, in a time machine.'"
This is the latest occasion on which Noel Gallagher has poked fun at his friend, having more recently said that he believes the comedian's so called revolution "might be as short-lived as his acting career."
Below is a video from November 28th 2006, when Noel Gallagher played an acoustic show at the Le Cabaret Sauvage in Paris as part of the promotion for Stop The Clocks.
Performing in front of his smallest audience for years, Gallagher backed by Gem Archer on guitar and percussionist Terry Kirkbride, played a mixture of acoustic B-sides and album tracks.
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Let There Be Love" is a song on the British rock band Oasis' sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth. Written by Noel Gallagher, it is the second Oasis song to feature Liam and Noel on lead vocals, the first being the B-Side "Acquiesce". It was released on November 28th 2005 as the third single from the album in the UK, and the second single in the US. It reached number two in the UK charts, capping a very successful year for the band. Many critics cited this song as proof that Oasis had returned to form we had seen in the mid-90's.
A demo for the track was recorded during demo sessions for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. A bootleg of these demo sessions was leaked onto the Internet in early 2000. This track was given the unofficial title "It's A Crime" on many bootlegs as the track was unknown and unreferenced anywhere before then. The album version of the song is structurally almost exactly as the same as the demo with a slight change in melody in the part that Noel sings. The lyrics to the chorus remains intact, but the verses and bridge have totally rewritten lyrics.
The single version of the song omits the second verse and chorus.
A second, Noel-sung demo was released on the "Let There Be Love" DVD single. It has the same lyrics as the album version, and in fact the album version takes some elements from the demo such as the piano. It was probably recorded sometime in 2003 or 2004, prior to the main Don't Believe the Truth recording sessions.
The video is a montage of some of Oasis' live shows during the summer of 2005 including clips of the gigs at Hampden Park and the City of Manchester Stadium. The clips don't actually show the band playing 'Let There Be Love'.
The song has only been played live once, on an Italian radio show in late 2005.
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The videos below are from November 27th, 2000, when Noel Gallagher joined 'The Who' on stage at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
Kelly Jones, Eddie Vedder and Paul Weller also joined The Who on stage for a once-in-a-lifetime performance for the benefit of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
The former Oasis star has bought a set of DVDs to help him study at home for a diploma in horticulture.
And it seems the rocker, 42, isn’t even taking the course to learn how to grow something less legal in his back garden.
We’re told: “Liam will be taught how to grow his own fruit and vegetables.
“The learning chapters will also cover pest control, developing vegetable plots and maintaining lawns.
“He’s really interested in working on his garden, and loves the idea of having a proper qualification.
“Liam’s bought these DVDs to teach himself as much as he can about horticulture.”
And it seems that Liam may even become a farmer one day.
We’re told the star, whose family hail from County Mayo, has considered buying a farm in Ireland.
“Liam loves going back over to Ireland to visit his family.
“He’s even spoken about one day buying a farm over there,” our source said.
“He loves the idea of farming, growing crops and maintaining land.
“But he doesn’t have the space to do all that in London.”
The former Beady Eye singer, who is a regular at the Chelsea Flower Show, has also asked a local landscape gardener near his home in Hampstead to source 50 orchids for him.
Our source continues: “Liam loves his plants and has green fingers.
“He especially likes orchids and has asked for a selection of shapes, sizes and colours to display around his house.
“He likes bringing the outdoors inside.
“He has bouquets of flowers everywhere around his gaff.
Notes taken by two lucky people who went to Noel Gallagher's interview and acoustic performance with John Wilson for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes series.
I think the most potentially exciting thing was Noel let slip about a separate project he's doing he quickly back tracked as obviously shouldn't have said something.
He said he's got ten songs backing track recorded but only two lines of lyrics as he's struggling as he's not emotionally attached to the project, (he thinks they are amazing as instrumentals). John Wilson asked if was a soundtrack and he said no it will be an album.
Also the 'AKA.. What A Life' lyric came from when Noel was sleepwalking. Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno asked if he was still sleepwalking, Noel said yes and Serge said... What A Life!
John asked him what his plan was for the future after 'Chasing Yesterday' and he said his plan was not to take a long break.
He's got loads of songs left over from Oasis era.
He said most of the songs 'on the internet' that have yet to be released will probably never get recorded as he constantly writing newer songs.
'AKA... What A Life' and 'If I Had A Gun' would've been Oasis songs
The solo in 'Riverman' is very good and performed by Paul Stacey and very reminiscent of David Crosby.
John Wilson picked out 'The Right Stuff' as his stand out track (it was unprompted and he just came out with his like for the track).
Thanks to jaq515
'The Right Stuff' is left over from the Amorphous Androgynous album, perhaps why it's more 'out there' as the interviewer described it.
Apparently a cracking solo on 'Riverman'.
Noel's written an entire album of instrumentals that he hasn't yet been able to put words to for a 'side project.' The interviewer asked if it was for a movie soundtrack to which he said it wasn't and it will be an album if he can put write the lyrics for it. Was all rather odd and intriguing.
Thanks to willd255
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John Wilson picked out the right stuff as his stand out track (ie was unpromted and he just came out with his like for it? If that makes sense)
The video below is from a semi-acoustic performance by Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer as part of a special season of gigs from London's Union Chapel, recorded on November 26th 2006.
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The blind auction will open at 11am at partner label Ignition Records' stall, and finish at 6:30pm when the market closes. Fans will be able to submit a maximum bid in the form of a sealed bid. The winning individual with the highest bid will be contacted on Monday December 1.
The Independent Label Market returns to east London for the fourth annual Christmas market. Adam Ant will showcase his BlueBlack Hussar label while labels including Mute, 4AD, Bella Union, Hyperdub, Moshi Moshi, Ninja Tune, PIAS and Rough Trade will also host stalls.
Ignition Records and associated labels Big Brother and Sour Mash will be hosting a stall too, including releases from Oasis, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Primal Scream.
Noel Gallagher yesterday was talking to John Wilson on BBC Radio 4 about the debut High Flying Birds album and played an acoustic set for Mastertapes at Maida Vale.
Thanks to Dave, the show will be broadcast at a later date.
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On Friday 12 December (4-7pm) (UK time), Noel Gallagher will be co-hosting with Steve Lamacq for a festive special on BBC Radio 6.
Noel will be choosing some of the most influential records which have informed his career, from starting out in Manchester, through Oasis and up to the present day.
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Noel Gallagher was today talking to John Wilson on BBC Radio 4 about the debut High Flying Birds album and played an acoustic set for Mastertapes at Maida Vale.
The set list was.
Everybody's On the Run
If I Had A Gun
AKA... Broken Arrow
AKA... What A Life!
The show will be broadcast at a later date.
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Listen again to Noel Gallagher on the XFM Manchester Breakfast show this morning by downloading the podcast here, it's dated 23/11/2014.
You can still download XFM's An Evening In Conversation With Noel Gallagher here, for just £1.99, with all net proceeds going to Global's Make Some Noise to change young lives across the UK.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will be playing at the Southside Festival and Hurricane Festival in Germany, click here for details on Southside and here for Hurricane.
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Noel Gallagher has revealed that kids still stop him on the street for his photograph - even though some have no idea who he is.
Talking to the XFM Breakfast Show with Tim Cocker, the legend said he'd been out for a curry with Mani of Primal Scream and the Stone Roses when they noticed a gaggle of kids outside the window, staring in.
"A crowd of kids had gathered," said Noel, "watching us have a curry, about 11 or 12 kids."
Encouraged by the owner of the restaurant, Noel went outside to pose for a photo with the excited kids.
"I was kind of stood there and this girl's going 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' And I heard her whisper to her mate, "Who is it?"
It turned out that Noel's face was familiar to the girl, but not from his record-breaking stint with Oasis or even his more recent solo success. She recognised him from his recent reality TV stint.
Noel revealed: "Her mate said 'He's off Gogglebox'. And she went: 'Are you off Gogglebox?'"
Ever the diplomat, a surprised Noel kept this cool. "I went 'amongst other things, yes'".
A limited number of tickets are still available for Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds UK and Irish tour, click here for tickets for Belfast, Dublin, Manchester and London.
Tickets are still available for a number of European and Japanese dates also.
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Noel Gallagher wrote many of the biggest Oasis songs and after the band split he released his debut High Flying Birds album which went to Number 1. John Marshall met Noel and asked why his next album will be called 'Chasing Yesterday' when there isn't a track with this title?
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