Rock ‘bad boy’ Liam Gallagher showed his softer side when he met three-year-old Lyla Dawson.
Lyla’s musician dad George, 27, of Crosland Moor, has been a big Oasis fan all his life.
Carer George, who named his daughter after his favourite Oasis track, decided to try to meet Liam on Tuesday night when he performed at the Leeds 02 Arena.
George and Lyla joined more than 200 others outside the venue at lunchtime, expecting Liam to arrive about 2.30pm for a soundcheck.
As it turned out he was running late after being delayed en route from Glasgow.
Liam rushed inside about 5pm, leaving George and Lyla disappointed.
After the crowd had disappeared, a member of Liam’s security team came out and spoke to George.
Seeing Lyla’s disappointment, he went to speak to Liam and came out to promise the star would meet them after the show.
George didn’t have tickets and took Lyla off for some tea and to a fair at the German market before returning to the stagedoor.
Finally, just after 10pm, Liam came out and spent several minutes chatting to them, signing George’s precious Fender guitar and posing for pictures.
George, who plays in a singing duo with pal Dominic Beresford, said he was delighted Liam had taken the time to meet him.
“It was great for both me and Lyla,” said George.
“Even though she is only three she understood and was really disappointed when he missed him.
“I was ready to go home but she wanted to come back. It was a really late night for her and she fell asleep straight away on the way back.”
It was only afterwards that the security man found out that George didn’t have tickets.
“He said if he’d known we could have had tickets and gone back stage,” said George. “I was gutted.”
George said Liam was really talkative and friendly.
“He was brilliant with Lyla,” he said. “He often gets a bad press but I couldn’t fault the guy”.
The Amorphous Androgynous is the psychedelic rock-tronic supergroup created and produced by The Future Sound Of London.
Following on from their legendary and award winning (MOJO magazine compilation of the year) ''A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble (Exploding In Your Mind)'' DJ series, The Amorphous Androgynous have started a parallel series called Monstrous Bubble Soundtracks which aims to explore groovy sub genres of the MPB concept, but rather than DJ/compile, they write and produce all the material themselves in a classic soundtrack vein.
The first one is ''The Cartel'' a study of psychsploitation (where psychedelia meets blaxploitation) and traces the lineage from Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, Curtis Mayfield, John Barry, Ennio Morricone through to Oceans 12.
Aided and abetted by a stellar cast including Noel Gallagher himself on bass and guitar plus Raven Bush (of fast upcoming Canterbury folk psych band Syd Arthur) on violin plus the Amorphous Androgynous themselves (both as producers and band) adding all manner of sonic delights centred round a core collective of hammond, drums, violin, harp, flute, guitar, bass, brass and vibraphone The Cartel comes in two volumes with a third volume of remixes & reworkings from a whole host of invited guests and artists/producers to follow thereafter.
Click here for more samples and to pre-order the album.
Pretty Green currently have an auction for a signed Gibson LPJ guitar, kindly donated by Gibson Foundation. The guitar was signed by some of the acts that played the Jon Brookes memorial gig at the Royal Albert Hall, later month.
The concert featured James Dean Bradfield, Liam Gallagher and friends, members of The Vaccines and New Order, The Chemical Brothers and Dumb.
Proceeds will go to the Brain Tumour Charity in memory of Jon, click here for details.
XFM Presents with Ford SYNC is all about bringing the world’s biggest bands and artists to small, intimate venues. Next up, Beady Eye.
Following the break-up of Oasis in 2009, frontman Liam Gallagher hooked up with his former bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock. The current line-up features former Kasabian bassist Jay Mehler.
Releasing their first track Bring The Light at the end of 2010, Beady Eye’s debut album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, was released in February 2011.
After a hefty year of touring the world – including a benefit for the Japan Tsunami Appeal in London in April 2011 and an opening slot at Glastonbury 2012 – the band’s second album, BE, was released in June 2013.
XFM Presents with Ford SYNC isn’t about playing huge stadiums, it’s about getting up close and personal.…and you can win tickets!
Enter the competition and you could be seeing Beady Eye at the XFM Studios in London on Monday 25th Novermber 2013.
Entries close at 23:59 on Thursday 21st November 2013.
Below is the setlist from Beady Eye at the O2 Academy in Leeds yesterday, the setlist included two Oasis songs and also a cover of The Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter'.
White Smoke
Flick Of The Finger
Face The Crowd
Four Letter Word
Soul Love
Second Bite Of The Apple
Iz Rite
Shine A Light
Live Forever
The World's Not Set In Stone
I'm Just Saying
Soon Come Tomorrow
Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Roller
Start Anew
Bring The Light
Wigwam
Dreaming Of Some Space
Gimme Shelter
Familiar To Millions is a live album by Oasis from their July 21, 2000 concert at Wembley Stadium and was released on 13th November 2000. Familiar to Millions debuted at a respectable #5 in the UK charts with 57,000 copies sold in the first week. To date Familiar to Millions has sold around 310,000 copies in Britain alone (Platinum) and has estimated world sales of 1 million. The album was initially released simultaneously on six formats: DVD, VHS, Double CD, Double Cassette, Triple Vinyl and MiniDisc.
Track listing
All tracks written by Noel Gallagher, except where noted. Times are taken from the Double CD edition of the album.
Fuckin' In The Bushes (intro tape) – 3:04
Go Let It Out – 5:32
Who Feels Love? – 5:59
Supersonic – 4:30
Shakermaker – 5:13
Acquiesce – 4:18
Step Out (Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/Moy) – 4:05
Gas Panic! – 8:01
Roll With It – 4:43
Stand By Me – 5:49
Wonderwall – 4:46
Cigarettes & Alcohol – 6:52
Don't Look Back in Anger – 5:27
Live Forever – 5:09
Hey Hey, My My (Young) – 3:45
Champagne Supernova – 6:32
Rock 'N' Roll Star – 7:26
Video Version (DVD / VHS)
As well as the whole show the DVD features the following:
45 minute documentary shot in and around Wembley by Grant Gee including backstage interviews and fans footage.
Multicamera angles on the track "Cigarettes & Alcohol".
Live screen films for "Go Let It Out", "Supersonic", "Live Forever" and "Rock 'n' Roll Star".
Complete Discography (inc. international releases) with audio clips and artwork.
Stunning Dolby 5.0 stereo sound.
CDRom element - links to an exclusive page on the Oasis website with as-yet unseen photos and Songplayer module where fans can teach themselves to play 'Live Forever'.
'Tambourine' icon - click it and it takes you to and from the documentary in real time. A first for a non-film release.
The VHS features the whole show and a 20 minute documentary (entitled 'Mad Fer It') featuring exclusive interviews with Liam and Noel Gallagher. This documentary is unique to the VHS format.
Audio Version (CD / Vinyl / Cassette / MiniDisc)
The CD features a extra bonus track, a cover of The Beatles' song "Helter Skelter", which was recorded at the Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA on April 16, 2000.
A highlights CD was released on October 1, 2001 to celebrate Oasis' tenth anniversary as a band. "Fuckin' In The Bushes", "Step Out", "Stand By Me", "Hey Hey My My", and "Helter Skelter" were all ommitted.
As Liam didn't bother to sing the choruses of "Wonderwall" and also changed the words to other parts of the song ("By now you should have somehow... realised not to sniff glue" / "And all the lights that light the way are... doin' me fuckin' 'ead in!") at the July 21 gig, the version on the various audio formats features a different vocal track to the original one recorded at Wembley. This also applies to Noel's backing vocals. Most of these overdubbed vocals were recorded live at Oasis' gig at the Yokohama Arena, Tokyo, on March 5, 2000. Only one line: "I'm sure you heard it all before, but you never really had a doubt", is from the actual Wembley gig, as Liam slightly messed up this line in the Tokyo performance.
The audio version of the album is also missing various bits of between-track banter.
Other Trivia
A promo video of the Wembley version of "Gas Panic!" was distributed to music channels. The video featured visuals from throughout the gig and was slightly edited down to 6:57.
A "Gas Panic!" promo CD was issued in Brazil to promote Oasis' appearance at the Rock In Rio festival on January 14, 2001. The 2-track CD included the album version and an edited version of the Wembley track, which was edited down to 4:28.
The live album came about after the chaotic Wembley gig of July 22, 2000. This concert was being broadcast live to dozens of countries across the world but was hampered by an extremely drunk Liam Gallagher, whose out-of-tune singing and general ranting made it into an unappealing showcase of Oasis' live capabilities in the eyes of Sony BMG, who were worried about a large number of bootleg recordings being distributed.
Each of the six different formats (plus the 2001 highlights CD) had a different colour for its own cover art.
Stop The Clocks is an EP by British rock band Oasis and was released on November 13th 2006.
The EP is a "preview" of the band's compilation collection, also called Stop the Clocks. The EP is led by "Acquiesce", and book-ended by "The Masterplan", one of the B-sides to the "Wonderwall" single released in October 1995. Also included on the EP is the demo of "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and a live version of "Some Might Say" from 1995.
The EP does not contain the song of the same name, and is available only as a one-off collectors edition CD and Double gatefold 7” including an exclusive sheet of stickers. As there are over two B-sides, the EP was not be eligible for inclusion in the UK Singles Chart. Had it been eligible it would have charted at #5 with 20,858 copies sold.
The EP's notes say that the location of the live recording of "Some Might Say" is unknown. However, analysis of bootlegs have shown that the location was the Club Citta in Tokyo, Japan on 22nd August, 1995.
Pop stars slathered in Marmite, semi-naked rock stars posing with haggis and celebrities being pelted with day-glow cupcakes.
Food, music and art come together in these stunning images by Patrice de Villiers.
The 'fearless and imaginative' photographer chose top musicians for her project. Described as 'the culinary world's most exciting photographer', de Villiers' previous projects include wrapping a Ford Mondeo in a pasta bow, creating gastro-porn for Marks & Spencer and still life images for brands like Selfridges or Harrods.
This exhibition, LoveMusicLoveFood, shows us a different side to saucy Juliette Lewis, fish and chips lover Sophie Ellis Bextor and Noel Gallagher, who is apparently fond of his Yorkshire tea with some shortbread.
The exhibition is taking place at the iconic restaurant and cocktail bar, Quaglino's, in the heart of Mayfair.
With rock star royalty throughout the years having visited from the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Michael Hutchence, the restaurant has become a legendary setting for emerging talents and settled artists. For the launch of this unique exhibition, which runs from the November 14 until February 1, the restaurant will serve a fun dessert and cocktail menu in a 'Symphony of Flavours' specially created for the occasion.
The restaurant will also be transformed by McQueens florist to match the edgy theme of the exhibition.
The photographs of the exhibition are taken from LoveMusicFood, The Rockstar Cookbook - a book raising funds and awareness for Teenage Cancer Trust - and are all available to purchase, with all profits going to the Trust.
Within the LoveMusicLoveFood project de Villiers worked alongside celebrated music journalist Andrew Harrison and Rock&Roll caterer to the stars, Sarah Muir, who created the recipes.
Click here to see a number of pictures from the exhibition.
Below is the setlist from Beady Eye at the Barrowlands in Glasgow yesterday, the setlist included two Oasis songs and also a cover of The Rolling Stone 'Gimme Shelter'.
White Smoke
Flick Of The Finger
Face The Crowd
Four Letter Word
Soul Love
Second Bite Of The Apple
Iz Rite
Shine A Light
Live Forever
The World's Not Set In Stone
I'm Just Saying
Soon Come Tomorrow
Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Roller
Start Anew
Bring The Light
Wigwam
Dreaming Of Some Space
Gimme Shelter
Below is the setlist from Beady Eye's second gig in Dublin from November 8th, the setlist included two Oasis songs and also a cover of The Rolling Stone 'Gimme Shelter'. .
White Smoke
Flick Of The Finger
Face The Crowd
Four Letter Word
Soul Love
Second Bite Of The Apple
Iz Rite
Shine A Light
Live Forever
The World's Not Set In Stone
I'm Just Saying
Soon Come Tomorrow
Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Roller
Start Anew
Bring The Light
Wigwam
Dreaming Of Some Space
Gimme Shelter