Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds rocked the historic Palais Theatre in St Kilda, Melbourne in front of a sold-out crowd last night.
The Oasis head honcho arrived onstage to a standing ovation from a crowd of enthusiastic fans and celebrities including Jet's Mark Wilson.
Triple M's Dangerous Dave said the old Palais proved to be the perfect venue to see Noel, apart from the fact that the lower level is all seated which Noel pulled people up on after the fourth song.
"Why are you all seated? That's a bit weird...," he said.
The fans didn't need anymore convincing than that to get on their feet for the rest of the gig.
The High Flying Birds sounded awesome. The musicianship was as tight as a drum, while the songs roared.
As the band launched into "The Death Of You And Me" Dangerous Dave leaned over and said, 'this will be the next single', and Dave knows his stuff. You can check it out here, get on it!
In the mix with some new songs there was a decent spattering of Oasis songs to keep the punters happy.
Ending the gig with "Don't Look Back In Anger" the Oasis fave had everybody singing at the top of their voices, while waving their hands in the air.
There were occasional bursts of people shouting out requests for their favourite songs but Noel would have nothing of it.
"I'm not doing requests. So you can stop shouting out," he said with a grin. "I had to work on this setlist for 20 minutes last June."
Setlist: (It's Good) To Be Free Mucky Fingers Everybody's on the Run Dream On If I Had a Gun The Good Rebel The Death of You and Me Freaky Teeth Whatever Supersonic (I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine What a Life! Talk Tonight Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks Broken Arrow Half The World Away (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Encore: Little By Little The Importance of Being Idle Don't Look Back In Anger
Absolute Radio is to dedicate an evening of programming to Noel Gallagher to celebrate the former Oasis man’s influence and musical achievements.
Noel Gallagher Night will be broadcast from 7pm on Sunday, March 4 and include an exclusive live set recorded at his recent sold-out gig at The O2 Arena in London.
The night will also take in a new documentary called The Good Rebel – The Story of the Boy from Burnage, narrated by Absolute Radio 90s presenter Pete Mitchell who talks to Gallagher, fans and key names in the star’s career.
The documentary will also be repeated on Absolute Radio 90s on March 5 at 9pm and on Absolute Radio 00s on March 14, starting at 6pm.
Absolute’s Gallagher night follows the release last year of the singer-songwriter’s first solo album, the Sour Marsh-issued Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, which debuted at number one in the UK and has to date sold around 540,000 copies domestically, according to the Official Charts Company.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have confirmed a second date at Mexico City's Teatro Metropolitan. The additional date on the 10th April comes one day before the sold out gig at the same venue.
Tickets for the concert go on sale at 10am (local time) on Wednesday 8th February through:
- Ticketmaster.com.mx - All Ticketmaster locations - Teatro Metropolitan box office - Charge by phone: 5510.1035 or 5510.3964
From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.
Well… So? I've become addicted to watching the Aussie news. It's beyond hilarious.
Honestly, it's like a spoof show "AUSSIE NEWS (MATE)". Someone should do that, it'd be mega. I'd watch it anyway.
After the ludicrous episode with the PM's shoe these are just a couple of things that I've caught in between gigs and promo…
THE AUSSIE COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS!!! Yes, indeed. They've invented a new musical genre. Aussie Country. So I'm watching the news and they go to the Aussie Country Awards (The Golden Guitars) where they're interviewing some of the winners of the said Golden Guitars… They were singing like Country, y'all, but talking Aussie (mate). Dressed like proper honest-to-goodness cowboys. 40 gallon hats, leather waistcoats and the boots, but using words like "ripper" and "beady"… Very odd, no??
Now the other thing was maybe the weirdest thing I've ever seen on national television news. So much so that when I got down to the Big Day Out site I had to ask a few of the natives for confirmation of what I thought I'd just seen. And they confirmed it like it was the most natural thing in the world, which of course it is to these people. THE ANNUAL TUNA-RAMA FESTIVAL!!!! A festival that celebrates all things wonderful about tuna… TUNA??? That's right, tuna… The tuna fish.
Now, there was the (un)usual local news b-roll fodder; interviewing mums, grannies and kids… All having a ripper of a day eating tuna sandwiches and tuna salad and... Well, that was it one would've thought? But no… At the climax of the festival they play a little game called tuna-hurling… TUNA-HURLING!!!! That's right, I watched (checking frantically if I'd been spiked) as big burly Bruces and little burly Shielas and even a granny took a foot long tuna fish… a real fucking tuna fish and swung it round like an Olympic athlete throwing the hammer up a pre-marked out track?!!?
And they covered it on the news like it was just a load of drunk people in a field throwing a dead fish around for fun… Which, of course, it was.
The scary thing is those were just two of the things I caught. (There was another story with a guy graphically describing how he'd been trying to get two different kinds of dung beetles to mate to make one super dung fucking ninja warrior but, we won't go into that…)
What else is going on while I'm away from the TV?? I might have to start getting this shit recorded and shipped to England once a month, it's essential viewing.
Anyway, enough of that brilliant nonsense.
The gig was good. We were indoors in a tent. It was very, very hot. Seemed to be a bit of a fancy dress vibe down the front. I saw a pirate and a cowboy. We didn't play very well. No one seemed to mind though.
Kasabian were having one of their legendary parties at some club or other down town. Last men standing were me and Serge at 5am. A good shift. As we left it was starting to get light… and fuck me if it didn't start to ever-so-slightly rain… I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I did neither… I passed out.
Rapper Tinie Tempah is officially Britain's best-dressed man of 2012, according to a list released by GQ magazine.
Noel Gallagher has been named as the forty second best dressed UK man by GQ magazine.
THE GQ BEST-DRESSED MEN LIST 2012 - TOP 10
1. Tinie Tempah 2. Mario Balotelli 3. Matt Smith 4. Robert Pattinson 5. Andrew Garfield 6. Henry Cavill 7. Idris Elba 8. Christian Bale 9. Sergio Pizzorno 10. Ian Brown
Worst-Dressed
1. Chris Brown 2. Steve Hilton 3. Robbie Savage 4. Dappy (N-Dubz) 5. Mike Jeffries (Abercrombie & Fitch CEO) 6. Country Winston Marshall (Mumford & Sons) 7. Mark Wright (reality TV star) 8. Douglas Alexander (shadow foreign secretary) 9. Jamie Oliver 10. Ollie Locke (reality TV star)
The GQ Best Dressed Men List 2012 appears in the march issue of GQ, out next Thursday.
They'll battle likes of Kasabian, Odd Future and Azealia Banks for gongs at next month's ceremony.
Arctic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher, Lana Del Rey, The Vaccines and Odd Future are among the acts nominated for gongs at this year's NME Awards.
The nominations were announced exclusively on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show earlier tonight (January 30) – see below for the full list and head to NME.COM/awardsvote now to cast your vote. The winners will be announced at the ceremony at O2 Academy Brixton on February 29.
Arctic Monkeys – who've scored seven nominations in total – will go head-to-head with Kasabian, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Horrors and Muse for the Best British Band award. The Best New Band category, meanwhile, will be contested by Lana Del Rey, Tribes, The Vaccines, Wu Lyf and Foster The People.
Kasabian, Florence And The Machine, Muse are up for three gongs each, while The Horrors, Hurts and The Vaccines are among the acts nominated for two awards.
Noel Gallagher – who's due to pick up our prestigious Godlike Genius Award on the night – is up for another four gongs, including Best Album for 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' and Best Solo Artist.
Meanwhile, Odd Future will take on the likes of Foo Fighters and The Strokes for Best International Band, while Azealia Banks' '212' is up for Dancefloor Anthem alongside tracks by Katy B and Justice.
Want to come along? Tickets for the NME Awards 2012 go onsale at 9am this Wednesday (February 1) from NME.COM/tickets.
The nominations for the NME Awards 2012 are:
Best British Band (supported by Sonos) Arctic Monkeys Bombay Bicycle Club The Horrors Kasabian Muse (Last year's winner: Muse)
Best International Band (supported by T4) Arcade Fire Foo Fighters Justice Odd Future The Strokes (Last year's winner: My Chemical Romance)
Best Solo Artist (supported by Rekorderlig) Adele Florence + The Machine Frank Turner Laura Marling Miles Kane Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Last year's winner: Laura Marling)
Best New Band (supported by Boxfresh) Foster The People Lana Del Rey Tribes The Vaccines Wu Lyf (Last year's winner: Hurts)
Best Live Band (supported by Carling) Arctic Monkeys Kasabian Muse Pulp Two Door Cinema Club
Best Album (supported by HMV) Arctic Monkeys - 'Suck It And See' The Horrors - 'Skying' Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' PJ Harvey - 'Let England Shake' The Vaccines - 'What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?' (Last year's winner: Arcade Fire – 'The Suburbs')
Best Track (supported by Fender) Arctic Monkeys - 'The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala' Bombay Bicycle Club - 'Shuffle' Florence + The Machine - 'Shake It Out' Hurts – 'Sunday' Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games' (Last year's winner: Foals – 'Spanish Sahara')
Dancefloor Anthem (supported by NME Radio) Azealia Banks - '212' Foster The People - 'Pumped Up Kicks' Justice - 'Civilization' Katy B - 'Broken Record' Metronomy - 'The Bay' (Last year's winner: Professor Green – 'Jungle')
Best Video (supported by NMEVideo.com) Arctic Monkeys - 'Suck It And See' Beyonce - 'Countdown' Hurts - 'Sunday' Lana Del Rey - 'Video Games' Tyler, The Creator - 'Yonkers' (Last year's winner: My Chemical Romance – 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'.
Best TV Show 'Dr Who' 'Fresh Meat' 'Misfits' 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' 'This Is England '88' (Last year's winner: Skins)
Best Festival Bestival Glastonbury Reading & Leeds T In The Park V Festival (Last year's winner: Glastonbury)
Best Film 'Black Swan' 'Drive' 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2' 'The Inbetweeners Movie' 'Submarine' (Last year's winner: Inception)
Best Music Film 'Back And Forth' - Foo Fighters 'Living In The Material World' - George Harrison 'Talihina Sky' - Kings Of Leon 'There Are No Innocent Bystanders' - The Libertines 'Upside Down - The Creation Records Story' (New award)
Greatest Music Moment Of The Year Brian May joins My Chemical Romance onstage at Reading Festival Kasabian see in 2012 with their epic London O2 Arena show Noel Gallagher launches his solo career with press conference Pulp steal the show at Glastonbury with secret set The Stone Roses reunite (New award)
Best Re-issue Manic Street Preachers - 'National Treasures' Nirvana - 'Nevermind' Primal Scream - 'Screamadelica' The Rolling Stones - 'Some Girls' The Smiths - 'Complete Re-issues' (New award)
Best Book Jared Leto - 'Notes From The Outernet' Jarvis Cocker - 'Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics' Malcolm X - 'A Life Of Reinvention' Noel Fielding - 'The Scribblings Of A Madcap Shambleton' Shaun Ryder - 'Twisting My Melon' (Last year's winner: John Lydon – Mr Rotten's Scrapbook)
Hero Of The Year Alex Turner Dave Grohl Matt Bellamy Noel Fielding Noel Gallagher (Last year's winner: Lady Gaga)
Villain Of The Year David Cameron Justin Bieber Lady Gaga Liam Gallagher Nick Clegg (Last year's winner: David Cameron)
Worst Album Coldplay - 'Mylo Xyloto' Justin Bieber - 'Under The Mistletoe' Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way' One Direction - 'Up All Night' Viva Brother - 'Famous First Words' (Last year's winner: Justin Bieber – 'My World')
Worst Band Beady Eye Coldplay Muse One Direction Viva Brother (Last year's winner: Jonas Brothers)
Best Album Artwork Arctic Monkeys - 'Suck It And See' Bombay Bicycle Club - 'A Different Kind Of Fix' Bjork - 'Biophilia' Friendly Fires - 'Pala' Jay-Z and Kanye West - 'Watch The Throne' (Last year's winner: Klaxons – 'Surfing The Void')
Best Band Blog Or Twitter @Example Frank-Turner.com/blog @KanyeWest @LadyGaga @Theohurts (New award)
Best Small Festival Field Day Hop Farm Kendal Calling Latitude RockNess (Last year's winner: RockNess)
Most Dedicated Fans 30 Seconds To Mars Arctic Monkeys Hurts Muse My Chemical Romance (New award)
Hottest Male Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides Dominic Howard, Muse Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance Jared Leto, 30 Seconds To Mars Matt Bellamy, Muse (Last year's winner: Matt Bellamy)
Hottest Female Amy Lee, Evanescence Florence Welch, Florence + The Machine Hayley Williams, Paramore Katy Perry Marina Diamandis, Marina And The Diamonds (Last year's winner: Alison Mosshart)
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have confirmed a date in San Diego performing at the City's Balboa Theatre on 17th April.
Tickets for the show go on sale Friday 3rd February at 10am (local time) through:
- Ticketmaster.com - All Ticketmaster locations - San Diego Theatre box office - Charge by phone: 619.570.1100
This additional date is part of the forthcoming USA tour during March and April where Noel will be performing tracks from his number one debut solo album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' as well as a selection of Oasis classics. Support on all shows (ex Coachella) comes from Nashville band Mona. Dates confirmed for the tour so far:
28/03/12 - WASHINGTON, Warner Theatre - TICKETS AVAILABLE 29/03/12 - COLUMBUS, LC Pavilion - TICKETS AVAILABLE 31/03/12 - DETROIT, Royal Oak Music Theatre - TICKETS AVAILABLE 01/04/12 - CHICAGO, The Riviera - TICKETS AVAILABLE 03/04/12 - MILWAUKEE, Pabst Theater - TICKETS AVAILABLE 04/04/12 - INDIANAPOLIS, Egyptian Room - TICKETS AVAILABLE 06/04/12 - ATLANTA, Tabernacle - TICKETS AVAILABLE 11/04/12 - MEXICO CITY, Teatro Metropolitan - SOLD OUT 14/04/12 - COACHELLA, Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - SOLD OUT 20/04/12 - LAS VEGAS, The Pearl Theater - TICKETS AVAILABLE 21/04/12 - COACHELLA, Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - SOLD OUT
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds appearance at the Big Day Out in Melbourne, Australia that took place yesterday.
(It's Good) To Be Free Mucky Fingers Everybody's on the Run Dream On If I Had a Gun... The Death of You and Me AKA... What a Life! Talk Tonight AKA... Broken Arrow Half The World Away (Stranded On) The Wrong Beach Little By Little The Importance of Being Idle Don't Look Back In Anger
.....Biffy Clyro, the globe-trotting band have become Scotland’s hottest rock band in recent years, but James isn’t getting cocky about the success.
“Er, pass,” James answered when asked if they are Scotland’s top rock export. “It’s awkward to talk about. It’s a nice thing to hear, but it’s not something we think about or ever dreamed about really. I wish we were more outspoken like Liam Gallagher. I love his patter.
“He is actually a really nice guy. We bumped into Liam and Noel when we were in Los Angeles a few years back. We were in the same studio and went to see The Duke Spirit.
“Alan McGee was there and a big bunch of us together. We all went down to a reggae bar. “Liam knew our songs and sang three of them then Noel got on stage and started singing. They were all pretty drunk at the time.”
He added: “Playing in places that are unknown always makes for a different experience. Abroad, the concerts are more like organised chaos than we are used to here.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release new single 'Dream On' on March 12th through Sour Mash Records. The B-side will be 'Shoot A Hole Into The Sun', the first track to be released from the sessions Noel has recorded with the Amorphous Androgynous.
The single will be available to buy on 7", CD and download. The digital download will also be available as a bundle including the video, which both Noel and Director Mike Bruce consider the best and most fun yet they have ever worked on filming together.
'Dream On' is taken from the eponymous debut album released last Autumn which has already sold over 550,000 copies to date, earning the singer songwriter a BRIT award nomination for Best British Male this year. Noel has also been announced as the winner of NME’s prestigious Godlike Genius Award for 2012. Also Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are in the running for XFM's New Music Award to find the best new British Artists of 2011. For more details, head on over to XFM's website, HERE!
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will embark on an extensive UK arena tour this year augmented by a three-piece brass section and the choirs Crouch End Festival Chorus and Hertfordshire Chorus. The tour starts at the Manchester MEN on February 13th, taking in 14 cities throughout UK & Ireland.
Whilst on tour Noel has been writing his award-winning tour diary 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere (Vol.2): Return Of The Dread-I'. Fans can read the tour diary at the website's 'Inbox' HERE!
Full details of the arena tour dates below:
13/02/12 – MANCHESTER, MEN Arena - SOLD OUT 14/02/12 – ABERDEEN, P&J Arena - SOLD OUT 16/02/12 – BELFAST, Odyssey Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE 17/02/12 – DUBLIN, The O2 - SOLD OUT 19/02/12 – SHEFFIELD, Motorpoint Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE 23/02/12 – NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena - SOLD OUT 24/02/12 – GLASGOW, SECC Hall 4 - SOLD OUT 26/02/12 – LONDON,The O2 - SOLD OUT 01/03/12 – BIRMINGHAM, NIA - SOLD OUT
Other dates confirmed for the UK this year:
17/07/12 – EDINBURGH, Edinburgh Castle - SOLD OUT 04/09/12 – BOURNEMOUTH, BIC - TICKETS AVAILABLE 06/09/12 – LIVERPOOL, Echo Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE 09/09/12 – CARDIFF, Motorpoint Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE 10/09/12 – NOTTINGHAM, Capital FM Arena - TICKETS AVAILABLE
Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and The Vaccines are among the artists nominated for XFM's New Music Award.
The award, which is given to the best album released by a British artist in the previous year, will be given out on February 8 at Manchester's HMV Ritz. The winning album will be chosen by a panel of judges that will include Muse drummer Dominic Howard, Editors' frontman Tom Smith, Noah &The Whale singer Charlie Fink and former New Order bassist Peter Hook.
Also nominated for the award are Miles Kane, Chapel Club, James Blake, Ben Howard, Ed Sheeran, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Scroobius Pip.
The shortlist for the accolade was drawn from an online poll of the station's listeners. Stornoway won the award in 2011 for their debut album 'Beachcomber's Windowsill'.
The full shortlist for XFM's New Music Award are as follows:
Beady Eye - 'Different Gear, Still Speeding' James Blake - 'James Blake' Chapel Club - 'Palace' Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' Ben Howard - 'Every Kingdom' Miles Kane - 'Colour Of The Trap' Benjamin Francis Leftwich - 'Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm' Scroobius Pip - 'Distraction Pieces' Ed Sheeran - '+' The Vaccines - 'What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?'
From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.
Yes…
So, been out of the game for a couple of days AGAIN!!
Here goes… What day is it today? …Friday? Saturday? Fuck knows.
The last time we spoke I was in Sydney, right? Just getting ready for The Big Day Out?
Well… Woke up that morning and guess what? That's right, it was pissing down… I mean what IS the point of Australia while it's raining? There is no point. I'm staggered by the weather. "Oh, fuck off!" to the sky, said I.
'Twas a big day for the Aussies. Australia Day. It's a day where they celebrate all things Australian… Whatever that means. Still part of the blimmin' Empire, if you ask me, innit? Sydney Harbour was full of boats and ships. Spectacular. There was cannons going off and even a fly past by the Aussie air force (mate!)... IN THE RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a bit of a scene with the Aussie PM (some ginger Sheila). She got a bit roughed up by some protesters and had to be bundled into a car that looked like a taxi. Thing is, she lost one of her shoes!! Like Cinderella!! The news went in heavy on the protesters… (What a scandal… No… Not sandal… They didn't make it clear what style of shoe it was!!!)
By the time I got down to the festival site to continue my battle of wits with the Aussie media (mate), Kasabian had been and gone!! Heard they were good though.
My gig was really bloody good (mate). Had a pair of ladies knickers thrown on stage and a top hat!! I do hope they came from the same person!!
Legged it early the next day and arrived here in Melbourne (mate). And guess what? No… You're wrong see, because it's bloody boiling (mate). Yes sir!! The sun has got his hat on, and it's got little corks dangling round the rim!!
They still have that Jerry Springer on TV down here. Forgot how psychedelic that programme is. There was a threesome on it called… "Sha-toya" and "Jo-neesa" and a guy whose name was "Country". Mega. I laughed until it wasn't funny anymore.
So then I stopped and turned on the news. Turns out the big story building was about "the shoe".
"Where is the PM's shoe?" They asked. "Who's got the shoe?" They pleaded. "We must find the shoe!!".
Had a bit of a mooch around and about (didn't find the shoe). Not much going on here, but by the time I got back to the hotel THE SHOE HAD BEEN FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a brilliant Monty Python-esque moment were they went live to the actual shoe being handed over to the authorities by what looked like a protester…
"There you go Cinders, you shall go to the ball," I thought.
Except she didn't. She went to the tennis. To see Andy Murray lose… AGAIN!!!
ONWARDS.
GD.
PS: Dunno what all the fuss was about. The shoe was bobbins. A black suede wedge?? Not this season...(mate).