Adele Equals Oasis And Queen's Album Chart Record

Adele has equalled the album chart records of Oasis and Queen.

According to The Official Charts Company, 21 is now in its 20th non-consecutive week at number one since its release twelve months ago.

Adele has now spent a career total of 21 weeks at number one, with her debut album 19 spending one week at the top.

This now puts her on a par with Oasis and Queen in the number of weeks spent at the top of the album chart.

But where Adele has achieved this with her first two albums, Oasis took eight albums to notch up 21 weeks at the top and Queen nine albums to reach the same feat.

And 21 is the longest running number one album for a solo artist in UK chart history and sixth longest running overall, with only Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles surpassing the record.

Source: www.musicrooms.net

Win! A Pair Of Tickets To See Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Sheffield

Brit award nominated Noel Gallagher and his band High Flying Birds are set to showcase their debut platinum selling album at Sheffield Motorpoint Arena on 19th February. The critically acclaimed self-titled album, released in October last year debuted at number one in the chart and has gained plenty of impressive reviews.

As well as the successful debut single ‘The Death Of You And Me’ – released back in August – the album boasts an array of quality tracks, identidiable as Noel Gallagher compositions, but leaps ahead of latter-day Oasis releases. Other tracks to look out for are the catchy ‘AKA…What a Life!’ which was released for digital download only in September alongside ‘If I Had a Gun…’

The band performed all three singles on Live with Jools Holland in November and have also appeared on the Jonathan Ross Show. The album has now gone global with dates confirmed in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. It seems that this is one Brit-pop legend that will continue to make great music for a long time to come.

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Source: www.leedsguide.co.uk

Vote For Beady Eye And Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At The 2012 NME Awards

Voting is still open for the 2012 NME Awards.

Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are eligible in quite a few of the categories so if you have a few minutes free, why not head on over to the voting page HERE to cast your vote.

You can vote for any artist you like at this stage, as long as they are eligible in the relevant category.

Gallery/Review: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At The Enmore Theatre

Noel Gallagher headlined his first ever solo show in Australia last night before a sold-out crowd at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and he didn't disappoint.

The UK singer-songwriter with his new outfit Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds played a terrific set of tunes featuring a nice mix of tracks from his self-titled debut album and hits from his old band Oasis.

Triple M's Becko was in attendance and said the combination of stellar musicianship and great songs played in a small venue made it a night to remember.

"It was a brilliant gig," he raved after the show. "It was a real treat to see Noel in such an intimate venue."

""If I Had A Gun" will be the next single," he predicted. "Plus Noel's versions of [the Oasis classics] "Wonderwall" and "Supersonic" were total highlights. Noice one brutha!"

Besides the great songs there were some funny moments as well including a bit of banter between Noel and a fellow in the crowd who had a tattoo of Noel's autograph on his arm.

Click here for a number of pictures from the gig.

Source: www.triplem.com.au pictures from the gig can also be found on our Twitter page here.

Noel Gallagher Lifts The Roof In Sydney With His show at the Enmore Theatre with High Flying Birds

Noel Gallagher proved there is a very good life after Oasis at the Enmore Theatre last night.

From the minute he strode on stage with his new band High Flying Birds, Gallagher incited a deafening level of adulation and participation from a fanatic audience which was undoubtedly swelled by expatriates.

And they didn’t just want the Oasis tunes either, although the ones he played - he refers to them as “my songs” rather than belonging to his former band - lifted the roof.

Fans lifted their voices just as enthusiastically on several of the tunes from the self-titled Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds record including Everybody’s On The Run, If I Had A Gun and The Death Of You And Me.

These songs felt instantly familiar even if they haven’t enjoyed the same pelting on the airwaves as the Oasis tunes.

Gallagher was clearly enjoying the goodwill of his Sydney fans.

While he is more of a workman-like frontman courtesy of guitar duties, between songs the concert turned into a Conversation With Noel Gallagher as he bantered with individual fans and muttered a couple of “I love you too”s to the shout outs.

The finale Don’t Look Back In Anger was one of those great concert moments when the crowd out-sings the band and Gallagher was happy to let them have their moment.

“It’s been an absolute pleasure to play for you tonight, Sydney,” he said.

The pleasure was all our’s.

Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au

Click here for two pictures from the gig.

Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Auckland

Click here for a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds apperance at The Big Day Out in Auckland, New Zealand.

Listen Again: Noel Gallagher’s Triple J Interview At BDO Gold Coast

Click here to listen to Noel Gallagher's interview with Triple J At Big Day Out Gold Coast in Australia.

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The Amity Affliction Respond To Noel Gallagher’s ‘Dead Turd’ Comment

Last night Noel Gallagher described The Amity Affliction’s music as sounding “like a dead turd” live from the Big Day Out on triple j radio station. Now The Amity Affliction have responded with a post on their Facebook page:

Noel Gallagher hates our band. Mum, we made it!!!

Gallagher has entered the triple j tent backstage to conduct an interview while one of The Amity Affliction’s songs were playing on the station. Gallagher asked the triple j presenter “Whats this?”, to which the presenter replied “The Amity Affliction: a little bit of melody, little bit of screaming and some triggered kick drums”.

“Sounds like a dead turd”, Gallagher replied.

Source: musicfeeds.com.au

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Announce Extra Musicians For UK & Irish Tour

www.NoelGallagher.com announce that Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will be augmented on the forthcoming tour of the UK and Ireland by a three-piece brass section and the choirs Crouch End Festival Chorus and Hertfordshire Chorus.

Also announced is Reverend And The Makers for support at Manchester, Aberdeen, Sheffield, Glasgow, London and Birmingham.

Full details of the tour:

13/02/12 - MANCHESTER, MEN Arena
14/02/12 - ABERDEEN, P&J Arena
16/02/12 - BELFAST, Odyssey Arena
17/02/12 - DUBLIN, The O2
19/02/12 - SHEFFIELD, Motorpoint Arena
23/02/12 - NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena
24/02/12 - GLASGOW, SECC Hall 4
26/02/12 - LONDON, The O2
01/03/12 - BIRMINGHAM, NIA

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In Sydney

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Australia later today (January 23rd).

If you are going to the show, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Setlist & Pictures: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's In The Goldcoast

Below is the setlist and a number of pictures from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds gig at the Gold Coast, Big Day Out (Gold Coast Parklands) that took yesterday.

Setlist

(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

Thanks to Kirsty for the pictures, source for setlist from setlist.com

Watch Noel Gallagher On Japanese Television

The video below is from Japanese TV show Premium Live, Noel talked about his appearance on the show in his Tour Diary earlier this week.

So did some mad Japanese breakfast TV show yesterday. It was bizarre to say the least. Hosted by a female comedian… what do you call them again, comedienne, or summat?

Anyways, the interview went like what they do… the usual Q's followed by the usual A's when out of nowhere and without warning (actually there may have been a warning… hard to tell over here!) she starts singing that song by Mariah Carey (or is it Dolly Parton?), "I Will Always Love You"!!!!! She wasn't holding back either, she fuckin' belted it out. So she sings a chorus and a verse and the big fuck off ending… then… silence… Not so much as a titter from the studio audience… Nothing… I FUCKIN' LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!

The video contains footage from a special acoustic session for Japanese TV that will be broadcast at a later date.

Noel Gallagher's Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere (Vol.2) Part Twenty Eight

From Noel Gallagher's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' tour diary.

Yes…

Well the gig in Auckland was well good. It was my first ever festival and I'd forgotten how much I like them. (Well, not my first EVER, but you know what I mean.)

Got down the site early to see them rock'n'roll soldiers Kasabian. They were somewhat predictably very fuckin' good indeed. Immaculately turned out. Well stylish!!!

The morning after, whilst in a mad rush packing / eating breakfast, I had a brilliantly funny scene with a hotel employee in my room. I won't go into it here 'cos it won't look good in print, but it was classic Laurel & Hardy gear. I'll tell you next time I see you.

Met some woman at the airport yesterday who comes over asking would I do a photo with her husband… "Aww, go on," she says. "It'll make his day… His mates are always taking the piss out of him 'cos he looks like you!!!!!" Charming, eh? How does one refuse that request?

I sat next to a priest on the plane!!!!!!!!!! Dunno why that warrant's a mention, but it does. A real fuckin' priest. He had the full rig out on and all… Mega!!!!!

Bar one petty criminal birthday boy customs and immigration was negotiated expertly. Arrived here on the Gold Coast late yesterday evening (I said Gold Coast, not golf course!!).

This hotel is a nightmare. It's a proper blimmin' holiday resort. Full of fat people in towels. Hell on earth.

ONWARDS.

GD.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com

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Noel Gallagher Now Free As A Bird For Big Day Out

Noel Gallagher laughs loudly. He's quite amused by the idea that High Flying Birds, the name he has given his solo project since quitting Oasis two years ago, might be a metaphor - something about feeling "untethered" or "free".

The truth is much more prosaic. "Do you want the actual truth?" he says. Well, yes, we are in the business of reporting the truth.

"I was going out, I was passing a theatre one night, Shepherd's Bush Empire, you would have been there, it's full of Australians.

"And I can't remember whose name was up in lights, but I thought to myself, can I see my name up in lights? And I decided that I couldn't.

"It was like, Noel Gallagher, it's hardly Ziggy Stardust is it?"

Perhaps Noel Gallagher is more of a name suited to a brickie's labourer from Manchester than the key songwriter of one of the biggest bands of the past 20 years. Still, it's not the sort of self-effacing answer that you'd expect from one of rock 'n' roll's famously big egos.

But that's not the end of the story. Gallagher never thought anything of the experience until weeks later when he was listening to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac on the radio (that's before Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined). "I thought, 'Oh, wouldn't it be good if I was called Noel Gallagher's something'." Later he heard the Jefferson Airplane song High Flying Bird and everything fell into place.

Now Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, with one album under their wing, are in Australia for The Big Day Out, kicking off today on the Gold Coast.

As a key member of Oasis, he's used to writing great tunes and performing for a lively crowd. But this time there will be one major difference. He'll be standing front and centre of the stage, a spot usually occupied by his brother Liam.

"I thought I'd be a lot less comfortable with it than I am," he says. "I'm here to perform an album of songs that I wrote and I can do that well. (But) if anyone's coming along to see anything else like juggling, or disco dancing, or fire-eating, or wisecracks, or all that Mick Jagger stuff, then don't bother. If you're coming along to sing and clap really loud and reassure me of my brilliance, then we're all going to have a great night out."

Phew. Gallagher's sense of humour and ego are firmly in check. It's a welcome return of the sharp-tongued troubadour since he left Oasis abruptly one night in Paris in 2009. Noel simply had had enough of his younger brother's behaviour and walked. Their disagreements and brotherly banter are legendary, but now only their lawyers are speaking.

After Noel walked, the rest of the band regrouped to form Beady Eye, releasing their debut album last year. Noel is still in touch with other band members and plans to see them after his tour.

Some might ask not why did Noel leave Oasis, but how did he stay for so long? "Why did it take so long? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it in that group," he says.

"You don't leave a band lightly just on a whim. Because once you leave there's no going back. I knew that once I left, the band would die. I didn't want to be the person who killed it but I had to be. Circumstances became out of control."

High Flying Birds is the kind of record you'd hope to hear from Noel Gallagher.

But wait until you hear the next record. While working on his debut, the prolific 44-year-old had another in the works, which he describes as space jazz, vaudeville and kraut rock.

You'll have to wait a while because Noel's still waiting for his collaborators, the Amorphous Androgynous, to be finished with it.

"It was all supposed to be finished before my tour. Hopefully it will be out at the start of 2013. But saying that, those f---ing Mayans told us the world is going to end at the end of the year, so who knows, it may never see the light of day."

The past year has been a big one for Gallagher. Not only did he release an album, his partner, former publicist Sara MacDonald, gave birth to his third child, he moved house, and in June he finally tied the knot with Sara.

The pair have been together for 11 years. "She's a great girl. She's my best friend," Gallagher says candidly. "I've never been on a night out without Sara. She's one of maybe six people in the world that I would have to have there on a night out - not for any other reason than she's a right good laugh, and because I don't have to explain to her what went on when I come in in the morning."

Sara announced she was pregnant with their son the night Noel started working on the new album.

"And he's a beauty, he's a good lad," his dad says.

So how was moving house? Gallagher says he "took the coward's way out" and went to LA to work on his album while his wife and a friend did the hard work.

When he came home

"it was like Extreme Makeover".

"Apart from the fact there was none of my gear anywhere. So I went round and rubbed myself on the furniture like a little cat."

Another new thing for Noel is that the self-confessed Luddite finally got a computer. But, he says, the salespeople could see him coming a mile off and sold him a machine he could "design a weapons program on".

It was Mr Job's iPad that changed his life. "Someone said, why don't you get an iPad? And I said, what's one of those? And since I got the iPad I don't even turn the computer on. It's revolutionised my life."

But he steers clear of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

"My wife's on Facebook and she's got friends. I've got enough friends, thank you very much. I've got six or seven, and I'm trying to get rid of one of those."

Gallagher doesn't need to say pithy things online - he can just say them out loud and a quote-hungry press will be quick to report them.

He agrees that many of today's youth are obsessed with celebrity for its own sake. Everybody wants their 15 minutes.

Growing up in the working-class suburbs of Manchester, the eldest Gallagher never dreamed of becoming famous. He was never one, as he noted at the start of this interview, to imagine his name up in lights. Even when he was listening to the Beatles and lugging gear as a roadie for then-successful British band the Inspiral Carpets he never imagined he'd one day be in one of the biggest bands around. Then he joined his little brother's band and the rest is history.

"I was never a stand-in-front-of-the-mirror-with-a-tennis-racket kind of guy.

"People like me didn't become rock stars. It wasn't even a thought at the back of my mind.

"It was a gradual progression. There was a guitar at home, I don't know why but it was there and I learned to play one string at time. I learned to play House of the Rising Sun (by the Animals) and I learned to copy my idols on Top of the Pops. It wasn't like I came out of the womb and my first words were 'rock 'n' roll'."

Does he remember the first song he wrote?

"I know it would have been s---. I can recall it being a little bit like His Latest Flame by Elvis Presley. And it would have been about a girl. Aren't they all?"

How about the last song he wrote?

"I'm actually writing one this very second," he declares, "well, not as we're speaking but I had the guitar in my hand before you rang.

"But the last great song I wrote, you'll get to hear soon enough. It's pretty good, I've got to say.

"I'll tell you how good it is, right. After I'd written this stuff for this High Flying Birds album I thought, I don't ever think I'll ever write a song like What a Life or If I Had a Gun again, because they're just so good. And about four weeks later I did.

"And I gave myself a little pat on the back and a pay rise."

Ego - check. Ready to go. Rock 'n' roll.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds perform at the Big Day Out on the Gold Coast today.

Source: www.couriermail.com.au

Noel Gallagher: ‘The Amity Affliction Sound Like A Dead Turd’

Noel Gallagher has described Australian band, The Amity Affliction, as sounding ‘like a dead turd’. Gallagher is in Australia for the Big Day Out festival, performing tonight at the Gold Coast.

He entered the triple j tent backstage to conduct an interview while one of The Amity Affliction’s songs were playing on the station. Gallagher asked the triple j presenter ‘Whats this?, to which the presenter replied ‘The Amity Affliction a little bit of melody, little bit of screaming and some triggered kick drums’, ‘sounds like a dead turd’, Gallagher replied.

Gallagher also explained that he won’t be visiting Uluru while he’s out in Australia because he’s ‘too busy being brilliant’:

Its the fourth time I’ve been here, the first time I was here I don’t think I left any of the hotels because I was too drunk. I’ve not seen a great deal of Australia, I’ve seen the Sydney Harbor Bridge and all that. You don’t get time to go out to Ayers Rock and all that, I’m too busy being brilliant…You can’t multi task brilliance.

Source: musicfeeds.com.au

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Bird's Land In The Gold Coast

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the Gold Coast, Big Day Out (Gold Coast Parklands) later today (January 22nd).

If you are going to the show, and you are able to scan your ticket or send in pictures email them to us @ scyhodotcom@gmail.com.

You can also tweet us pictures and updates @scyhodotcom

Limited 12" White Label Of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Remixed By UNKLE More Copies Available!

Another chance to order the vinyl can be found here and here.

Strictly limited white label pressing.

A. AKA What A Life! (UNKLE Rework
B. Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me (UNKLE Rework)
Cat Number: JDNC12T
Info correct on: 20/1/2012

Closing out an exceptional debut year for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, the band’s most recent single “AKA…What A Life!“ and its B-side “Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me” have been remixed by pioneering electronic producers UNKLE.

Stretching each track out to 8 minutes plus UNKLE, the brainchild of James Lavelle, have reimagined the two tracks as leftfield, psychedelic epics perfect for both the dancefloor and at home afterwards.

Already being supported by the likes of Radio 1’s Zane Lowe and Pete Tong, the remixes will be pressed up on highly limited white label 12” vinyl, before being released digitally late February 2012.

These remixes mark the second time that UNKLE have crossed paths with Noel Gallagher, having previously produced the Oasis track “Weight of the World”.

Noel Gallagher's On The Front Cover Of This Month's Total Guitar Magazine

Noel Gallagher is on the front cover of this month's Total Guitar magazine he talks about songwriting, gear and being a reluctant guitar hero!

"I Can Barely Play Like Peter Green, Let Alone Jeff Beck!"

On This Day In Oasis History...

On January 21st 1998, Oasis appeared on 'The Jay Leno Show', and performed 'Don't Go Way' from 'Be Here Now'.

Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds Cancel Gig In Monterrey

NoelGallagher.com announces that because of logistic reasons Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have cancelled the gig at Monterrey's Banamex Auditorium on April 10th.

Fans who bought their tickets via telephone, internet, outlets or at the box office will be able to get a refund starting January 23rd.

Fans who bought tickets using their credit card will be refunded automatically to their accounts. For more information about Noel Gallagher’s cancellation in Monterrey, please visit www.ocesa.com.mx, www.ticketmaster.com.mx or please call at 3 25 90 00.

The sold out show in Mexico City on April 11th at the Metropolitan Theater will go ahead as scheduled.

Source: www.noelgallagher.com