Joe Cole On Football, Fatherhood And Clothes

Steve Beale from PG News interviews PG Member Joe Cole, Pretty Green's unofficial English soccer ambassador on football, fatherhood and, even more vitally, clothes

You don't have to support his team to cheer on Joe Cole. It's a fan-favourite status we can put down to his numerous pub-rousing performances for England - including that highlight-reel goal against Sweden in 2006 - plus Joe's devotion to entertaining football, as played by his idols Zinedine Zidane and Paul Gascoigne.

Unlike several of his contemporaries, 28 year-old Joe also looks sharp off the pitch - so naturally he's taken to Pretty Green ever since its launch last year. And he's a lifelong Oasis fan - as a little boy growing up in Camden, North London, Joe used to rap on the door of Supernova Heights and ask if the Gallagher brothers wanted to come for a kick about.

When we catch up with him in early May 2010, Joe's Chelsea squad are on the verge of their first double, rumours abound of a transfer to Liverpool or even Liam's beloved Manchester City, and there's more conjecture in the press about his place in the England World Cup squad. On top of it all it's only seven weeks since his wife Carly Zucker gave birth to the couples' first baby, Ruby Tatiana. So we offered some much-needed distraction, in the form of a chat about the really important things in life - like finding the perfect fitted jeans and taking care of suede.

SB: So you are now the proud owner of your third premier league winners' medal. How does it feel?

JC: "It feels great. Also it feels a relief because it's been three seasons without the title too long for a club of Chelsea's ambition."

SB: A big weekend coming up, then.

JC: "Y'know, if you'd have told us at the start of the season that we'd have to beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup Final to get the double we'd have been delighted! Chelsea has never done the double so it's a great step. If we do manage it, the only thing that separates Man United and us over the last seven years is the width of a post in the Champions League Final. To match a club like that in terms of honours is a great achievement."

SB: Is there a piece of silverware which has eluded you that you'd love to win ?

JC: "The Champions League at club level and the World Cup are the biggest. I believe I've played in teams good enough on occasions to win both but I feel we've never had ‘the rub of the green', that bit of luck you need, to do it."

SB: Do you keep all of your medals on show or are they just chucked in the loft ?

JC: "I give them all to my dad who has a huge safe in his house... so they are not on show. I would like to do that... but I think it's a bit lairy. Maybe when the career's over I will do. Need to collect a few more first."

SB: We hear it was through a pal at Chelsea that you hooked up with Pretty Green.

JC: "I'm always talking about clothes and fashion with a good friend at the club. I told him I'd found Pretty Green on the internet and how much I liked the stuff I'd got from there. It turned out he knew the guys from the label."

SB: ...And what caught your eye about the clothes?

JC: "That it's very much quality gear - I'm a big fan of good finishing on clothes, decent linings and things like that. Plus it fits me brilliantly, and it's always a problem finding stuff that fits. The jackets I don't even have to take to the tailor. Jeans for me are a nightmare - when I find a pair of jeans that fit me I wear them to the death. So I cannot wait for the Pretty Green jeans to come out, which I hear is in July."

SB: Which Pretty Green pieces will you be sporting this Summer?

JC: "I've got the T-shirt with the arty logo plus a couple of the old-school two-button T-shirts - and them, I love. When I was a kid and I wore my first suit I used to wear it with a collarless granddad shirt like that, so I was really glad that Pretty Green made them. I also love the suede shoes coming out, the Clarks desert boots."

SB: And coats-wise?

JC: "The lightweight waterproofs - the ones like a Mac, but cut short - I like so much that I got them in the light blue, dark blue, and black. I've also got the Harrington jacket, which I have to say fits me like a glove. You can whack it on with a plain T-shirt and a little cravat and go out for dinner - then you take the jacket and scarf off and you're in T-shirt and jeans ready to take the dogs for a walk."

SB: You sound like you know what you're doing...

JC: "When you grow up on a council estate in London you've got to wear the right clothes. Especially in Camden, where I'm from - it's right next to the West End, so whenever we got our birthday money we'd be off down Ralph Lauren and Yves Saint Laurent to get our Summer shirts and stuff. At the school disco it'd be fitted jeans, suede loafers and a Ralph top. Fashion was the thing, but you don't think of it being ‘fashion' as such when you're that age, do you? It's just what everyone wore. Then, as you get older, you start developing your own style."

SB: Which for you is what?

JC: "I wear what I like - and if other people don't, then I don't care. You've got to wear what you feel comfortable in. I'm very keen to see the Pretty Green jeans because once the jeans are right you can build an outfit around them. It's a real pet hate of mine, jeans that don't fit. I'm very fussy about jeans. And my feet - they take a pounding. People step on your toes all the time, you get lots of dead skin... So you need the right shoes, and I don't think you can beat a suede loafer. The trouble with suede, though, is that you have to look after it."

SB: Have you ever worn a Parka?

JC: "Oh yeah, when we were teenagers me and all my mates wore fitted jeans, suede shoes and Parkas. We were into Oasis, What's the Story... was my first album and I went and bought Definitely Maybe off the back of that. I've been to see them I-don't-know-how-many times."

SB: Apparently you sang an Oasis song at your wedding karaoke session...

JC: "Usually at karaoke I sing Roll With It but at the wedding I did Don't Look Back in Anger.

SB: Moving swiftly back to clothes. Does anyone else at Chelsea share your sartorial wisdom?

JC: "Frank Lampard, actually. He'll never just whack a tracksuit on and rock up at training - he always looks smart. Music and fashion go hand in hand, but football and fashion, well... let's just say there's a few mistakes that've been made there. Cup Final suits, things like that..."

SB: Congratulations to you and Carly for your first baby, Ruby Tatiana.

JC: "Thank you, it's been seven weeks now. She's absolutely beautiful."

SB: So you've got the paparazzi camped outside your house right now?

JC: "I don't think you ever get used to it. I'm not entirely comfortable with the ‘fame' side of things. If I could play for Chelsea and be anonymous, that'd be an ideal world. Having said that I like to live my life normally, and if people want to stop and have a chat I will. There's only ever a problem when people have had a drink. I do drink in the off-season, but normally I'm not a big drinker, so I'll be there in a bar having a cup of tea and drunk people'll come up. That's the only time I can get a bit indifferent."

SB: Before we let you go - what are England's chances in the World Cup?

JC: "I think England have got a good chance. Spain are obviously the favourites, but I've heard that Torres and Xavi are doubtful for the World Cup, and if you take the world's best centre-forward and central mid-fielder out of the squad that obviously weakens them. Then there's about nine or ten other countries for whom there's not much in it. The team that wins it is the team that gets a little bit of luck at the right time, and they'll get some nice football going - tournament play is all about finding the right rhythm. World Cup winners start slow and get better and better. Apart from Spain at the last Euros who started like a house on fire then sped up even more."

SB: Thanks enormously for your time during this period and all the luck in the world with everything you've got going on in the next few months.

JC: "It's honestly a pleasure. Thank you."

Steve Beale's been Style Director of FHM, Senior Editor of Arena and Editor-at-Large of The Face. He also writes about menswear for The Times and Sunday Times.

Source: www.prettygreen.com

Tash Gets Abuse For Oasis Cover

Myztikal have ditched their version of Oasis classic Wonderwall - to stop singer Tashana Williams being targeted by bullies.

Tashana, 17, was humiliated after the judges said her rendition of the song let down the group's act.

Now hostile remarks about her singing have appeared on YouTube.

Troupe leader Marcus Donaldson said he had ditched the song from the act - but added Tashana would still sing.

He said: "In hindsight it wasn't the right song.

"It's not nice she was singled out. I'm scared that people will pick on her now."

Watch the video by clicking here.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Happy Birthday Guigsy

Paul McGuigan (born 9 May 1971 (39 today) in Manchester), better known by his nickname, Guigsy (pronounced "Gwigzee"), was one of the four founding members of British rock band Oasis. He was the bass player for Oasis from 1991 to 1999.

A staunch football fan and a life-long supporter of Manchester City F.C., Guigsy had originally shown great promise as a footballer. He would regularly play football at Maine Road, which was also frequented by future band mates Noel Gallagher and Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs. However, a torn knee ligament at 16 years of age put this dream out of the question. Whilst still with Oasis, he and journalist Paolo Hewitt wrote a book about football player Robin Friday, entitled The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw (ISBN 1-85158-909-0). Guigsy was renowned for his encyclopaedic knowledge of football and cricket. In an interview for a BBC Radio 1 documentary in 1995, Guigsy described his favourite magazine as being FourFourTwo.

The Rain and Oasis (1991–1999)

n the late 1980s, Guigsy started a band with his friends, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Tony McCarroll (drums) and Chris Hutton (lead vocals). They called themselves "The Rain", after the Beatles B-side. When Hutton quit, Guigsy invited his school friend, Liam Gallagher, to join. Gallagher suggested changing the band’s name to Oasis. Liam's brother Noel joined shortly thereafter.

Even in the mid-1990s, with the band's popularity at its zenith, he remained characteristically reserved. Acknowledged as the "Quiet One", there are very few recorded interviews with him at all. Noel Gallagher said of his bass player "I think he's spoken to me, and this is no word of a lie, since I was 17—thirteen years—for a total of about an hour. All he says is sweet as and alright. That's all." Though a competent bassist, Guigsy was often replaced by Noel Gallagher on the bands early recordings. However, there is no sign that the two were on edge as was the case with McCarroll, whom Gallagher would also often replace.

Guigsy, unlike the rest of the band, has only a handful of notable instances of unruly behaviour (including being locked in a cell with Liam on a ferry to the Netherlands, and subsequently being denied access to the country). Paolo Hewitt has suggested he "had a much more valuable role to play as a calming influence." There certainly is evidence to merit this claim. During the recording of their debut album, Definitely Maybe, it was Guigsy who took Noel to a pub after a dispute with Bonehead, filled him with booze and then accompanied him back to the studio where the band then recorded "Slide Away". Additionally, when Liam had to attend a court trial for unruly behaviour in Australia in 1998, it was Guigsy who, amid the chaos and mayhem that descended on the tour, gathered the entire party for a game of football in the local park.

Post-Oasis (1999–present)

When, in 1999, Bonehead quit the band after a drunken row with Noel, it seemed probable that, due to his nervous disposition, it was only a matter of time before Guigsy would follow him; indeed, a few weeks later, he left Oasis for the second and last time. He claimed he wished to spend more time with his family and that he had been toying with the idea of quitting anyway, a proposition he began considering as far back as the Be Here Now tour, during which Ruth (who he married on 4 April 1997 on the island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean) gave birth to his first son, Patrick. Though he was present at the birth, within a week he was forced to leave them for the tour. In an interview on August 2001, Guigsy stated: "At the time, I thought, I'll make one more album, play one more world tour and then that will be it. But when Bonehead left, I thought, 'Now's the time.' One original member has gone. They are going to have to get a replacement so the best thing would be to get another at the same time. I always said when it stopped being fun I would quit. And that's what happened." Noel Gallagher claims Guigsy quit by fax, and would avoid phone calls from the Gallaghers in the following weeks. Though he eventually gave up trying to contact him by phone Noel claims to bear no malice towards Guigsy.

Guigsy presently lives in Mill Hill London with his wife Ruth and son, Patrick McGuigan. After leaving Oasis he appeared on Cornershop's single "Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III". He occasionally performs as a DJ. He declined to appear in the 2004 Definitely Maybe DVD, though a polite letter explaining his reasons for doing so appears as a hidden extra, along with a short segment with pundits giving their views on him.

Time Flies... What Was Your Story?

A few weeks ago we asked you to write in 20 words or less what Oasis and their songs mean to you. We received thousands of entries from fans all over the world who were hoping their stories would be used in the artwork for the forthcoming singles collection 'Time Flies… 1994-2009'.

Unfortunately we can't use all of your entries but we would like to thank everyone who wrote in. It is clear that your love for the songs is what has turned them into the classics that they are today! The band chose the following people's entries to use in the artwork because their accounts of what the songs mean to them best represents how special they really are to all of you. Funny, spirited, emotional, passionate, everyone's thoughts are summed up amongst these entries. We hope you enjoy reading them when you see the CD artwork!

Congratulations to:

Joaquin Lios (San José‎, Costa Rica)
Neil Jones (Coventry, UK)
Vinny Mulrenan (Stockport, UK)
Jordan Reid (Belfast, UK)
Rafael Flóro (Curitiba, Brazil)
Sebastian La Roche (Mies, Switzerland)
Alejandro Gonzalez (Saltillo, Mexico)
Neil Brown (Dublin, Ireland)
Paulina Solis (Mexico City, Mexico)
Hugo Diaz (Monterrey, Mexico)
Jim Nguyen (Calgary, Canada)
Jeffrey Thompson (Atlanta, USA)
Mat Clarke (Nottingham, UK)
Philip Hamilton (London, UK)
Cassio Jody Kokubo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Ryan Palfreeman (Leeds, UK)
Roberto Flores (Monterrey, Mexico)
Nataly Gutierrez (Querétaro, Mexico)
Sharon Charlton (Dorchester, UK)
David Robson (Lincoln, UK)
Malena Payva (Rosario, Argentina)
Pietro Desiato (Telese Terme, Italy)
Gary Corfield (Bishop Auckland, UK)
Deborah O. Lins de Barros (Itajaí, Brazil)
Angel Jimenez (Badalona, Spain)
Derek McCloskey (Dublin, Ireland)
Matthew Hillery (Milton Keynes, UK)
Gregory Fagan (Belfast, UK)
Richard Oliver (Hull, UK)
Carlos Verduzco (Hermosillo, Mexico)
Gerrit Wijnne (Dronten, The Netherlands)
Andrew Gray (Tullibody, UK)
Craig Turner (Coleford, UK)
Stuart Condy (Edinburgh, UK)
Richard Wright (Daventry, UK)
Simon Foster (Richhill, UK)
Brandon Gotwalt (Baltimore, USA)
Kyle Zufolo (Oxnard, USA)
Ronan Quinn (Galway, Ireland)
Evan Kitamura (Toronto, Canada)
Laurie Braswell (Saint Augustine, USA)
Gisberto Guzzo (Edmonton, Canada)
Michael Briody (Lockerbie, UK)
Simon Goodall (Corby, UK)
Brian Buitenhuys (Kingston, USA)
Aleksander Uteng (Fjordgard, Norway)
Matthew Walker (Peterborough, UK)
Mark Thompson (Middlesbrough, UK)
Peter Mestach (Gent, Belgium)
Gordon McNeight (Warrington, UK)
James Peers III (Greenfield, USA)
Fausto Lallana (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Annamarie O’Strander (San Diego, USA)
Derek Whitton (Dundee, UK)
David Halliday (Swansea, UK)
Pierangelo Costa (Anagni, Italy)
Hannah Sargent (Sheffield, UK)
John Monroe (Hopkinsville, USA)
Lucca F Albuquerque (Manaus, Brazil)
Cat Short (Chester, UK)
Leon Went (Kent, UK)
Rosi Young (São Paulo‎, Brazil)
Seleste Millan (Chicago, USA)
Paul Heyworth (Preston, UK)
Jennifer Linton (Toronto, Canada)
Sandra Gleiss (Berlin, Germany)
Russell MacGowan (Birmingham, UK)
Paul Stamp (Hampshire, UK)
Craig Dixon (Crawley, UK)
Eddie Moreira (Gardena, USA)
Yashmin Oliveira (Campo Grande, Brazil)
Ben Garnham (Blackwood, UK)
Simon Clarke (Aberystwyth, UK)
James Roxburgh (Maidenhead, UK)
Sebastian Lindholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
Aaron Taylor (Torquay, UK)
Joe Clancy (Manchester, UK)
Kamal Ghafoor (London, UK)
Cian Gaffney (Wexford, Ireland)
Claudia Stephenson (Rugby, UK)
Simon Baddeley (Stoke-On-Trent, UK)
Kris Benting (Telford, UK)
Lee Dickson (North Shields, UK)
Ryan Harvey (Stockport, UK)
Devon Cooper (Vancouver, Canada)
Tomoko Miyakura (Barnsley, UK)
Marty Corry (Belfast, UK)
Irene Nevasaari (Nivala, Finland)
Stuart Whiston (Stoke-On-Trent, UK)
Andy Welch (Rhyl, UK)
Lauren O’Dwyer (Dungarvan, Ireland)
Daniel Povey (Birmingham, UK)
Bernard Badjari (Mississauga, Canada)
Salvatore Bono (New York, USA)

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Rock Your Shades - Noel Gallagher Signed Sunglasses

To celebrate the launch of Rock Your Shades a one day event on Friday 14 May where people across the country will wear sunglasses and raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust, we are auctioning off a cool pair of sunglasses, each signed by one of the star studded line up at this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. The sunglasses were donated by the manufacturer, and all proceeds from this auction will go directly to Teenage Cancer Trust.

You are bidding for brand new Aviator Ray Ban sunglasses signed by Noel Gallagher.

Noel Gallagher, supported Teenage Cancer Trust and played at its annual concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in March 2010. See videos here: http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/what- ... hall/2010/

For more information about Rock Your Shades visit: www.teenagecancertrust.org/rockyourshades

See all our products for details of other signed sunglasses.

“I’ve been honoured to support this amazing charity. The patients I meet at the Royal Albert hall concerts are an inspiration.” – Noel Gallagher

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Oasis 'Time Flies…1994-2009' Pre-Order!

Oasis 'Time Flies... 1994-2009' is released on June 14th and includes all 27 of the band's hit singles, together for the very first time.

Pre-order any format of 'Time Flies... 1994-2009' and you will be entered into a prize draw to win exclusive album artwork signed by Liam and Noel.

The limited edition CD box set includes all 38 music videos, as well as Oasis' last ever recorded gig at The Roundhouse, London in 2009. To pre-order, click HERE!

The album is also available as a limited edition LP 5 x heavyweight vinyl with inner sleeves and 20 page booklet in 12" box. To pre-order, click HERE!

Other formats available to pre-order are double CD and DVD.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

It's Official: Liam Gallagher To Make Beatles Film

Liam Gallagher’s In1Productions to develop, and produce, a feature film about The Beatles' Apple Corps

THE LONGEST COCKTAIL PARTY

May 7 2010: Liam Gallagher’s newly formed film Production Company In 1 Productions has confirmed that they will develop and produce a feature film about the rollercoaster ride that was The Beatles’ Apple Corps, adapted from the book by Richard DiLello – THE LONGEST COCKTAIL PARTY.

This will be a film with humour and affection providing an insider’s look at what it meant to be a young man caught up in the wild swirl of the music business, celebrities and the tail end of the swinging sixties' in London.

In 1 Productions will collaborate in the development and production of the film with Andrew Eaton’s Revolution Films, one of the UK's most successful and respected independent film companies.

Source: www.prettygreen.com

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Carl Fogarty On Embarrassing Himself In Front Of Noel Gallagher!

Carl Fogarty on embarrassing himself in front of Noel Gallagher!

Source: talkSPORTmagazine

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On May 7th 2009 Oasis played at the Citibank Hall in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Above are a few videos from the gig.

Noel Gallagher was interviewed by Russell Brand on 'MTV Leicester Square', on May 7th 2006, watch the interview here, here and here.

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Beatles To Party Again With Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher is bringing his idols The Beatles back together on the big screen in a movie that will explore the ‘stoned’ years that led to the band’s demise.

The former Oasis frontman is developing a film, set between 1967 and 1970, based on an insider’s view of the circus-like atmosphere at the Savile Row headquarters of The Beatles’ record company, Apple.

Liam has the screen rights to Richard DiLello’s memoir of his years as Apple’s ‘house hippy’, where his job included working in the company’s press office.

DiLel lo’s highly personal account, The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider’s Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall, published in 1972, details the comings and goings of Paul McCar tney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and their wives, girlfriends and hangers on.

It gives DiLello’s take on the personal and business problems that were to drive The Beatles apart.

His book recounts ‘stoned conversations’ and hilarious observations of the Apple office’s open bar and ‘other accommodations ’ with regards to recreational activities on offer.

The movie would feature actors portraying the Fab Four and cover the years when rock ’n’ roll was moving from its cool, ‘let it be’ vibe to the point where it was controlled by soulless multinational corporations.

And that is how the music industry has remained - though Liam and his brother Noel, in their Oasis heyday, certainly knew how to emulate the crazy, heady early era when rock really rolled.

Liam and his partners at Revolution Films will officially launch the project during the Cannes Film Festival next week.

They are still looking for a screenwriter and director. Then comes the task of casting actors to portray The Beatles, their families and associates, though that won’t begin until there’s a completed screenplay at the the task of casting actors to portray The Beatles, their families and associates, though that won’t begin until there’s a completed screenplay at the end of this year, or possibly early next year.

The Longest Cocktail Party also features tales of various other artists on the Apple roster, including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Doris Troy, Badfinger and Billy Preston.

Lauren Bacall, of all people, pops up in the tale after she visited the Apple HQ with her children.

Both Gallagher brothers are fans of the book. Noel has praised it, using language that is too colourful to repeat in a family newspaper.

With the two siblings at each others’ throats, I can only wonder at the behind-the-scenes wrangling over the rights. I can see Liam digging out his soul on this movie. If it all comes together, it’s going to be a scorcher.

With British productions Red, Hamlet, La Cage Aux Folles and A Little Night Music Hoovering up Tony nominations, I hear that the producers of Priscilla The Musical are to hire top choreographer Jerry Mitchell as ‘production consultant’ to whip the show into shape for Broadway.

The idea is to make it less vulgar for the Americans’ delicate sensibilities. Ha! There’s talk of Will Swenson, so good in Hair at the Gielgud, joining the show.

By the way, Cameron Mackintosh has lowered the price of tickets to his shows through May, so top tickets for Hair are just £39.50.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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The Best Album Cover Of All Time - VOTE NOW!

From 'Sgt Pepper' to 'Absolution', have you say on the greatest album cover ever...

To cast your vote for Oasis 'Definitely Maybe' click here.

Source: www.gigwise.com

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Noel Gallagher Wants Baby Carlos

Noel Gallagher plans to call his baby Carlos.

The former Oasis guitarist - who already has a daughter, Anais, nine, from his previous marriage to Meg Matthews, and two-year-old son Donovan with his current partner Sara MacDonald - plans to pay tribute to his sporting hero, Manchester City soccer player Carlos Tevez, when he becomes a father for the third time in September.

He said: "The new baby, if it's a boy - Sara doesn't know this yet - is definitely going to be called Carlos. Yeah, without a doubt. Or just Tevez.

The musician also admitted Sara's pregnancy has scuppered his plans to spend this summer in South Africa for the soccer World Cup.

He added in a video interview for The Football Association website: "I was planning on going but I went and got my missus pregnant didn't I. I should have knocked her up when I got back or something instead."

Noel, 42, will now have to watch the tournament on television, but admits he still gets so involved in the action, he often frightens his children.

He explained: "Anais isn't into football, she thinks it's boring. She can't grasp the concept of dads standing up watching the TV, because I do that and shout and she's just going, 'Daddy, sit down, you're scaring me.' "

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On the 6th of May 2005, Oasis performed 'Lyla' and a cover of The Who's 'My Generation' on the Johnathan Ross Show on BBC 1.

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Noel Gallagher Is Ditching Labour For The Blues

Ex Oasis star Noel Gallagher is ditching Labour for the Blues - vowing to "vote" for Man City striker Carlos Tevez.

The rocker, 42, who famously went to a reception at No 10 after Tony Blair won power in 1997, revealed his plan yesterday in an interview on the FA website.

The fanatical Man City supporter said: "Me and the missus were talking about it because we've got to vote this week.

"She was going, 'Who are you voting for?' and I said, 'I'm not voting for anyone'.

"I'm just going to take my voting card and I'm going to put in massive letters 'Tevez is God' and throw it in the polling station. I'm voting Tevez."

Noel was seen as a key figure in the Nineties Britpop scene, which New Labour tried to cash in on.

Click here to watch the video.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On May 5th 2009, Oasis played at the Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile, unfortunately there is no pro-footage of the gig.

However, above is a great interview with Gem Archer and Andy Bell that was broadcast on the day of the gig. Also as a added bonus, click here for a interview with Noel Gallagher.

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Mick Jagger: Oasis Don't Connect

Mick Jagger has criticised Oasis for not always connecting with their audience at gigs.

The Rolling Stones legend - famous for his enthusiastic dancing when on stage - told the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio he felt Oasis were known for not moving on stage, but they needed to connect with the crowd in other ways.

Jagger said: "Well that's what they do, they don't move - that doesn't mean to say they don't connect - they do connect sometimes, sometimes they're not always good ways."

He went on: "What was that famous story when they were in New York and they didn't think the New York audience was loud enough, and they said something like 'You're rubbish' or something, 'New York, you're a load of c**p' or something like that - which is not what you do anywhere really, especially in New York."

The 66-year-old singer was full of praise for the Kings Of Leon, who he said he felt had learned to connect well with their audience when on stage.

Jagger said: "The Kings Of Leon at the beginning, they didn't really do that successfully, but everyone has to do it in the end because otherwise it becomes kind of embarrassing, being in a room when you're not really connecting.

"But now they play arenas and they're really good and they're much more forthcoming. They still have their shy moments, but they seem to have cut down."

Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’ Crowned Best British Song

The Gallaghers dominate the top three spots in Xfm’s annual countdown.

You voted in your thousands, the Xfm DJs stuck in their oar, and we counted down the Best British Songs of all time yesterday. Oasis’ ‘Live Forever’ scooped the top spot, with ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ and ‘Wonderwall’ claiming the second and third spots respectively.

A Manc clean-sweep of the top 5 also saw Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ reach number 4 and The Stone Roses’ ‘I Am The Resurrection’ hitting number 5.
What do you think of our Top 100? What have we missed?

What do you think of our Top 100? What have we missed? Take a look at the chart now, send us your suggestions in our competition.

Source: www.xfm.co.uk

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Del Piero On Oasis

Del Piero talks about Oasis, on the 28th of April 2010.

Thanks to Roberto

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Liam Gallagher "Some People Are Born Stylish"

Nice to see the Oasis split has done nothing to dent Liam Gallagher's ego. Taking his Pretty Green fashion range to the States, he boasted: "Some people are born stylish. It's not for me to say whether I was or not - but I was."

Modesty never was his strong point.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Happy Star Wars Day...

May The Forth Be With You....

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Oasis played arguably the best gig of the 'Dig Out Your Soul' tour at the Riverplate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 3rd 2009.

The stadium is Argentina's national football stadium and venue for the 1978 World Cup final.

Also known as 'El Monumental de Nuñez', the iconic stadium is the biggest stadium in Argentina for concerts.

Above are a few videos from the show.

Also on May 3rd 2008, Noel Gallagher was interviewed on the phone for Soccer AM. Click here to watch the video.

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The Vortex Appear On Movie Soundtrack

The Vortex have five songs in the forthcoming movie FREIGHT.

When a Russian gang who run a human trafficking operation bringing hopeful families from Moldavia to Leeds. They cross a local business man and a war breaks out, click here for more details.

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Last Year Oasis Turned Down Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis has revealed Oasis turned him down when he offered the chance to headline last year's event.

The Glastonbury Festival founder revealed the group - who split in August last year when Noel Gallagher left the band following a series of rows with his brother, singer Liam Gallagher- were asked to headline last year's event, but turned him down in favour of playing the double-venued V festival, when they famously cancelled the second of their headlining slots at the last minute.

Michael said: "They've all fallen out now. I offered them a chance last year but they didn't take it. So they did their own shows... and then they all bust up. To give them the opportunity to come back... they shot themselves in the foot Oasis last year didn't they? They should have taken me up on my offer. No-one's ever cancelled on me!"

Michael also revealed that singer Kylie Minogue - who pulled out of a headline spot after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 - will not be invited back to perform at the world-famous event.

He told BANG Showbiz: "Kylie Minogue was going to do it years ago, but then she was ill, we're over Kylie. We've all moved onto different things!"

Michael claims this year's festival - held in Somerset for three days at the end of June - which will be headlined by Stevie Wonder, U2 and Muse, will be a bigger success than ever.

He said: "It's going to be huge, well it's so big isn't it. We've got loads of new bands, like Vampire Weekend. We've got loads of stuff. It's really a fantastic line-up and it's not just the headliners either

Source: www.contactmusic.com

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On This Day In Oasis History...

Oasis appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman in New York, on the 2nd of May 2000 and played the classic I Can See A Liar.

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What's The Best Oasis Song Written By Liam Gallagher?

This month the poll in the right side menu is for the best Oasis song written by Liam Gallagher.

The choices are

'Little James' from Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

'Songbird' from Heathen Chemistry
'Born On A Different Cloud' from Heathen Chemistry
'Better Man' from Heathen Chemistry

'Love Like a Bomb' from Don't Believe The Truth (co-written with Gem Archer)
'The Meaning Of Soul' from Don't Believe The Truth
'Guess God Thinks I'm Abel' from Don't Believe The Truth

'Won't Let You Down' from Lyla single (B-Side)

'Pass Me Down The Wine' from The Importance Of Being Idle single (B-Side)

'I'm Outta Time' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Ain't Got Nothin' from Dig Out Your Soul
'Soldier On' from Dig Out Your Soul

'Boy With The Blues' from Dig Out Your Soul (Bonus Track)
'I Believe In All' from Dig Out Your Soul (Bonus Track)

The winner of last month's poll for Best Official DVD was 'Lord Dont Slow Me Down' with 33% of the votes.

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Who Won The Battle Of The Bands?

Fifteen years ago this summer, two of Britain’s most popular bands engaged in a battle to capture the hearts and the critical plaudits of the nation. Blur and Oasis decided to go head-to-head by releasing their latest singles, “Country House” and “Roll With It” respectively, on the same date. It was a marketing masterstroke, provoking coverage on the national television news, and luring the public into a debate of no little vigour, which is the symptom of a healthy popular culture.

The great chart showdown teased the imagination on a number of levels. There was a pleasing bipolarity to the affair. The fey, southern English college-boy pop of Blur against the raucous northern blasts of Oasis. Artful experimentation versus back-to-basics. Cute irony pitched against a primal scream.

Attempts were made to recall the golden age of British pop music: this was the Beatles versus the Rolling Stones all over again. Unlike the mutually respectful protagonists of that conflict, however, the frontmen of Blur and Oasis really did seem to hate each other, which made perfect sense for our ever-coarsening times, and great copy.

By the end of the summer, Blur were perceived as having won the battle – “Country House” outsold “Roll With It” – but lost the war: Oasis’s subsequent album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory was universally adored, becoming one of the biggest selling British albums of all time and capturing the so-called Britpop moment with its arrogant swagger. It also managed to conquer the US market, the sine qua non of rock superstardom.

Critics, jaded by years of anodyne dance music and electro beats, generally enthused over the triumph of Oasis, overlooking the group’s execrable lyrics and blatantly derivative riffs. The simpleton je-m’en-foutisme of the Gallagher brothers further excited the nation over the next couple of years. Liam Gallagher made a string of ever more outrageous endorsements of the joys of drug-taking; Noel Gallagher found himself in Downing Street, chatting to a new prime minister in thrall to his atavistic charms.

It seems a long time ago. The new prime minister came and went, and the idea that the simultaneous release of two competing singles by “real” bands could provoke a national debate seems quaint. Manufactured pop stars – indeed the very manufacturing of them – are what capture the headlines now. The process has been deemed more thrilling than the end result. Manipulative and trite, the 2010 pop scene is a travesty of a healthy popular culture.

And what of Blur and Oasis? What does our distant perspective tell us of their skirmishes of 15 years ago?

Oasis never relived their moment in the sun. Subsequent albums became repetitive and tired. The band ran out of guitar riffs. The lyrics didn’t get any better. Their bellicose protagonists turned their ire towards each other, playing out their sibling rivalry in the tabloids. At the time of writing, they are not talking to each other. Liam Gallagher has a new group influenced, he says, by T Rex and David Bowie. Oh dear.

As for Blur, they retreated from the battle of the bands and made a series of increasingly complex, brooding works. Their front man, Damon Albarn, branched out. He recorded an album in Mali. He formed a virtual rock band, Gorillaz. And then he set about writing a Chinese circus opera that would be performed at the Royal Opera House. The band recently reformed, to great acclaim.

So there we have it: Blur were the band that moved with the times, while Oasis became imprisoned in theirs. Albarn responded to the world’s cultural changes to become arguably the most interesting British musician of the millennium’s first decade; the Gallagher brothers are still playing Punch and Judy. And yet ask anyone to pick out the soundtrack of those hot summers of the mid-1990s, and they will surely recall those surging Oasis singles. They possessed the quality that pop music confers better than any other art form: the reckless joy of being young and carefree.

Who, finally, won the war? A report by PRS for Music, the royalty-collection society, last year concluded that Oasis had received far more airplay over the years than their rivals. But that is a crude indicator. Truth is, it was never a war at all; more a tribute to the versatility of British culture, which has always managed to reconcile high thinking and low thrashing, lyricism and loutishness, pretensions to everlasting significance with cheerful evanescence.

Forget the battle of the bands: the Blur versus Oasis moment was at least one in which pop music seemed to matter. That in itself is cause for nostalgia, because if we do have a new prime minister this time next week, the pop charts will be far from his mind as he assembles the guest list for his first Downing Street party, and it will be all the poorer for it

Source: www.ft.com

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Alan White Is The Running Man

Congratlations to Alan White for finishing the London Marathon in 04:07:05.

He has so far raised £2,741.50 for the Alzheimer's Society, you can still donate on Alan's fundraising page here.

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Rare Oasis Recording Up For Sale

This June, Christie’s will present an exciting and eclectic selection of unique, important and unusual pieces in the Popular Culture: Rock and Pop Memorabilia sale, to be held on 24 June 2010, at 12 noon. The sale is bursting with objects to cater for collectors of all ages, representing icons of music from 1950s to the 1990s, with a selection of items also from the present day. Highlights range from: the largest single-owner collection of The Who memorabilia to ever come on the market; an acoustic Yamaha FG-340 guitar once owned and played by George Harrison of The Beatles; and a Gibson Les Paul guitar with sunburst finish owned and played by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols circa 1975/76; to the hand-painted banner used by U2 on the ‘BOY’ tour in 1980-81; original painting by Ian Dury, titled Honk Honk Its The Bonk, produced whilst at the Royal College of Art, under the tutelage of Sir Peter Blake (estimate: £1,500-2,000); the first known recording of Oasis in concert, 1992; original paintings of Fatboy Slim; a Dolce and Gabban necklace worn by Kylie Minogue; and a collection of original stationery from the wedding of Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese.

Fresh to the market and included in the sale from the early nineties is the earliest known recording of Oasis in concert (estimate: £4,000-6,000). The unreleased and largely undocumented recording was taken directly from the mixing desk at a gig at The Boardwalk, Manchester, in early 1992. The vendor is Dean Hanley, a figure from the Manchester music scene. He was personally given the tape by Noel Gallagher, with a request to help promote the band. Dean created demos from the cassette tape, and sent them out to record labels hoping to get Oasis their first record contract. The tape insert card is inscribed by Noel Gallagher with the title Oasis 14 Jan 1992, and the seven song titles: A Bit of Columbia, Take Me, Must Be The Music, Accoustic, Arkayla, Better Let You Know and Take Me (Demo Autumn ‘91).

For more details click here, or the Christie’s website here.

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Oasis, Green Day, Metallica - Vote For The Greatest Band Logo Ever

Voting has opened on Gigwise to find the Greatest Band Logo Ever.You can vote on iconic images associated with a host of acts, including Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, The Beatles, Muse and Nirvana.Other logos in our Rate or Slate feature include those for Green Day, Slipknot, Daft Punk and Aerosmith.

All you have to do cast your vote is click here and help us find the Greatest Band Logo Ever.

You can vote for Oasis direct by clicking here.

Source: www.gigwise.com

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Ex Oasis Man To Tell All In New Book

Ex Oasis man Tony McCarroll is to release a book later this year called 'Oasis: The Truth, the Noel Truth, is Nothing Like the Truth'.

The book is to be released by Blake Publishing on 04/10/2010 more details here.

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Older Oasis Fans Wanted For Documentary

I'm from Pulse Films working on the Oasis Documentary. We've had loads of great stories through and we're still going through them. but we would really like to get more stories from an older generation of fan. We're looking for families and couples who share a love for Oasis and have an interesting or out of the ordinary story to tell. Do you know of anyone who might be suitable and would like to contribute? Could you send me their details? rachel.williams@pulsefilms.co.uk

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Xfm's Best British Songs Of All Time

This Bank Holiday Monday, Xfm is once more saluting the greatest music to hail from these isles...

On the May Day Bank Holiday (May 3), Xfm will be counting down the top 100 Best British Songs Of All Time. Last year, Oasis claimed the top three spots with 'Live Forever' at No 1, but a lot can change in twelve months. Who will make the final cut? The Beatles? The Who? Muse? Arctic Monkeys?

From 10am, Dan O'Connell will handle the first 50, while Marsha Shandur will take up the reins at 2pm for the final sprint towards the finish line. And, as we go along, we'll be revealing the Top 100 on a very special Xfm minisite - see www.xfm.co.uk for more details on Monday.

You can list to the Top 100 countdown from 10am on Monday May 3 on Xfm via 104.9 in London, 97.7 in Manchester, Digital Radio and online right here.

Source: www.xfm.co.uk

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Pretty Non Millionaires

Did anyone catch Gabby Logan and Katherine Jenkins on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire last night? (27th April) They were asked the question:

Who launched the Pretty Green clothing label in 2009?

Neil Tennant, Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker and Chris Martin.

Not exactly a tough question, yet these two lovely ladies couldn't make their mind up and chose to take the money!

Source: www.prettygreen.com

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Liam Fray Not Too Distraught At Oasis Demise

Taken from a inteview with Liam fray from The Courteeners, read the full interview here.

With his long sideburns and Noel Gallagher-type haircut, Liam may look like he’s modelled himself on Oasis, but he admits he’s not too distraught at their demise.

“They were a massive massive thing, it was a full movement, you only have to look at Italy and Japan and people are dressed in their parkas and whatever.

“But I think it’s good that they’ve finished, not good that they’ve split up, but they probably have a lot of different things they both want to do and get out of their system. They were a massive export.”

Source: www.islingtontribune.com

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May Day Deal From Pretty Green

To celebrate May Day and the beginning of what we hope will be a great British Summer, we would like to offer all of our members this special deal: Buy any two new pique polos for only £90. To activate the offer, please enter the correct promotional code at the checkout.

UNITED KINGDOM: MAYDAYUK
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JAPAN: MAYDAYJP
USA: MAYDAYUSA

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Halifax An Oasis For Liam Gallagher

Twitter was a-buzzin on Tuesday with news that Liam Gallagher, lead singer of one of Britpop’s most successful act Oasis, was spotted around Halifax shopping with his kids and wife Nicole Appleton.

The controversial rocker was enjoying a day around town during a stopover by a luxury Silversea Cruises ocean liner, popping into downtown stores like Argyle Street’s Biscuit.

Gallagher reportedly began recording his first post-Oasis material with former bandmates over the past winter and expects to release a new single in October with an album to follow in 2011.

Source: thechronicleherald.ca

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Oasis Fans Do You Have A Story About 'Let There Be Love'?

Pulse Films are looking for Oasis Fans who have a special place in their heart for Let There Be Love to take part in a documentary film about the fans for the fans.

As you may or may not already know we have been looking for fans across the world to tell their stories and have had a great many responses, however we would very much like to get a story about how Let There Be Love has affected you and your life.

We are particularly looking for female contributors and couples to take part. Maybe the song got you through a particularly trying time in your life; maybe you have a love story with a bit of a twist.

If you have an interesting, unusual, strange or out of the ordinary story that relates to Let There Be Love, please get in touch at oasis@pulsefilms.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On April 29th 2000, Oasis played at the 'Maple Leaf Gardens' in Toronto, Canada.

Above are a few videos from the gig.

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Figures Reveal Oasis Made 13m In 2008

New official figures show Oasis had a very lucrative final album with Dig Out Your Soul in 2008.

Recently filed accounts for Big Brother Records reveal Liam and Noel Gallagher earned £13million from record sales that year.

The two brothers were paid a salary of £144,000 and split a dividend of £3million between them.

It doesn't reveal their full earnings for the year because they also own Noise And Confusion Touring and Oasis Merchandising.

Noel is a regular Bizarre reader and pointed out that he hasn't spoken to Amorphous Androgynous since September last year and has not been demoing with Andy Bell and Gem Archer, like I told you earlier this week.

He has mainly been eating crisps, being a family man, watching Sky Sports News and following Manchester City.

Apologies, chief.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Best Official Oasis DVD

This month the poll in the right side menu is for the best Official DVD that Oasis have released to date.

The choices are

Live By The Sea
There And Then
Familiar To Millions
Definitely Maybe
Lord Don't Slow Me Down

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On April 28th 1996, Oasis played the second of two legendary sold-out concerts at Manchester's 'Maine Road' Stadium.

Above are a few videos from the gig. Footage from the two shows are available on the Official Oasis Video/DVD release 'There And Then'.

On April 28th 2000, Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer stopped by 'MuchMusic' studios in Canada to promote Oasis' fourth studio album 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' and play a few songs.

Watch Part One of the interview and performance here, and here for part two.

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Oasis Albums Featured In Top 125 Albums Of The Last 25 Years

SPIN Magazine has put two Oasis albums in the top 125 Albums of the last 25 years.

#71: Definitely Maybe

"For Oasis," SPIN wrote in 1996, "rock is a sport." And the game got started with Definitely Maybe, an assuming debut that "came on loud and brash...with songs about what life might be like as rock'n'roll stars." Soon after their first record, Oasis became rock'n'roll stars, of course -- thanks to a little-more-than-slightly absurd Britpop rivalry with Blur, as well as a notorious tendency to go big. As the magazine put it by the time Oasis made the cover, in 1997: "Amid this rather prudent, health-conscious decade of non-ostentation, Oasis have revived the grand rock tradition of hedonism and bad behavior."
http://www.spin.com/spin25/125-best-albums-past-25-years#page=6

#21 : (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

If Oasis wanted to claim they were bigger than the Beatles, then this was what stomped all over the "White Album". In 2003 SPIN pegged the record as essential britpop, singling out the track "Morning Glory" and its "sneering delirium worthy of Johnny Rotten, borne aloft on a towering inferno of guitar." The wild success of the album would later have Noel Gallagher wishing they'd taken some R&R before recording again. "We were fueled by youth and cocaine," he told the magazine in 2008. "We were surrounded by people telling us it was the greatest thing they'd ever heard."
http://www.spin.com/spin25/125-best-albums-past-25-years#page=11

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Source: www.spin.com

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Adam Ant Would Like To Fight With Liam Gallagher

Taken from a inteview with Adam Ant, read the full interview here.

I'm a punk rocker, I'm a pirate metal rocker now because these guys, metal, they look great, they're sexy, they play hardcore and they don't give a monkeys. And they look like Hayley. And you. So why not, fuck them. No really, I'd love to go on there. I'd love Paul Morley, Liam Gallagher talking about style. Oasis have been ruling the roost, remaking Beatles records and trying to convince people it's not. They've got one fucking song, 'Wonderwall'. What else you got? I mean, Noel's OK but hey, you ain't fucking Miles Davies, you certainly ain't fucking Bryan Ferry and you aint Adam Ant, Charlie."

He's won some kind of poll in Q magazine for the best front man ever

AA: "Well in my view he's the best backman. I mean, I've got a Q Award, I don't give a fuck. I gave it to me mum. Q, I mean fucking hell it must have cost them all of 30 pence, they can stick it up their ass. Those ones up there, the Ivor Novello awards, they're the only ones I've got in my flat because they are for songwriting, they're Oscars. I've not met the man, I mean he's probably a very nice chap…"

No he's not, I've met him

AA: "Marc Bolan was lovely. Bryan Ferry was lovely. Michael Jackson was lovely. Liza Minelli was lovely. I'm dropping these names because I fucking met these people and they taught me something: Be nice. People that are really brilliant are really nice, people that ain't got a lot of mouth. So here you go Liam, you cunt. I'd like to have a fight with him whichever way he wants: physically, mentally I'd beat him in anyway shape or form, I know that."

Well, if anyone ever needed a slap…

AA: "Yeah but he's probably got a very big bodyguard, but that's alright because I've got Hayley. I mean even the Spice Girls offered him out and he wouldn't take it."

Source: thequietus.com

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Listen To Noel Gallagher On TalkSport

Thanks to frjdoasis2

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Noel Gallagher Is On The Cover Of Next Months Q Magazine

Great review of the Royal Albert Hall show with some brilliant photos. Excellent coverage of Noels concerts. Includes a few brief interviews with fans.

Also in this months issue

Paul Weller interview
Paul McCartney interview
U2 dvd & new album review
Courteeners interview
Richard Ashcroft interview
Malcolm McLaren life story

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Ex Oasis Lads On A Double

Oasis stars Andy Bell and Gem Archer must have sore backsides from sitting on the fence.

Neither bass player Andy nor guitarist Gem have taken sides with either Liam or Noel Gallagher since the Oasis split last summer.

But Liam is about to get them into rehearsal for live dates later this year and Noel has also needed the lads for demo sessions.

So it's all pointing towards some difficult times when the inevitable clash of commitments happens.

A source said: "It's a tricky situation for Gem and Andy.

"They are working with both Liam and Noel. Liam's begun rehearsing tracks for his new project, while Noel has been doing demos of songs as well.

"It's great for Gem and Andy, though. They get paid twice, but it's bound to lead to trouble in the future."

I hear Noel has more than enough material for a solo album.

He's had house moving and family duties to take care of but once that has settled I'm sure he'll be back to work.

Especially after another taste of the action on stage with Paul Weller last week.

He has also been recording with dance producers Amorphous Androgynous.

Duo Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans are responsible for one of the best rave tracks of all time - 1991's Papua New Guinea, recorded under the name Future Sound Of London.

Last year the duo re-tooled Oasis single Falling Down to spectacular psychedelic effect.

A lot of people are excited to hear what tunes will emerge, me included.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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On This Day In Oasis History...

On April 27th 1996, Oasis played the first of two legendary sold-out concerts at Manchester's 'Maine Road' Stadium.

Above are a few videos from the gig. Footage from the two shows are available on the Official Oasis Video/DVD release 'There And Then'.

Noel Gallagher Set For Big Screen In A 'Manchester City' Movie

Manchester City FC and production company Endemol Sport have confirmed that they have teamed up to create what they are calling 'a landmark feature film' about the Premiership club.

Titled Blue Moon Rising, the film is set for release in cinemas in the Summer, with Endemol Worldwide Distribution handling TV and DVD distribution following its run-out on the silver screen.

The news follows on the back of rumours earlier in the year, suggesting that Endemol (which has a deal in place to help City build its brand globally) was set to make a TV documentary. At the time there was no indication that the production would secure a cinema release.

Blue Moon Rising focuses on a group of City fans through the 09/10 season, capturing their emotions in victory and defeat, while also taking the viewer (who we presume is also a fan) into the boardroom with exclusive footage and access to the club's new owners.

An interview with Noel Gallagher is also featured.

Manchester City's brand and marketing officer David Pullan said of the project: "Blue Moon Rising reinforces Manchester City's standing as the most fascinating story in the world of football.

"We wanted to give football fans around the world a unique insight into the club and its future by getting them close to the action in this unique year.

"It will be a lasting testimony to one of the most exciting years in Manchester City's history."

The film is directed by Stewart Sugg and produced by Nick London.

Endemol Sport MD Gregg Oldfield added: "This promises to be an entertaining, intimate, and funny film that reveals a passion for football rarely seen before on the silver screen."

Source: www.how-do.co.uk

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