Noel Unplugged

Noel Gallagher is confirmed to perform at this years “Little Noise Sessions, Acoustic at the Union” being staged in London’s Union Chapel. All shows are in aid of the UK learning disability charity, Mencap. Noel will headline the Sunday evening, 26th November. Tickets go on sale this Saturday 7th October at 9am.

Tickets available only from SeeTickets:

http://www.seetickets.com/ & 0871 220 0260

Further details from: www.mencapmusic.org.uk

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Acquiesce Video Online Exclusive

Ahead of the release of Oasis’ first ever Best Of album ‘Stop The Clocks’ (out on November 20th) and the release of the previously announced ‘collectors’ EP of the same name on NOVEMBER 13th. Oasis have made a brand new promo video to accompany ACQUIESCE, which features on the EP the video has it first has its world wide online premiere on Yahoo today Thursday 5th October The video was shot on location in London and Japan and features a range of Oasis look-a-likes - its a video not to be missed!!!

Check out Yahoo.com from 3pm for more details.

The video also gets its first UK TV showing today at 11pm on ITV2.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Liam And Noel Interview From Uncut Magazine Part One

Autumn 1995, and I'm being harassed by a mate's pissed-up girlfriend at my 30th birthday party. "I'm sure they haven't, darling, they've just clocked up their first No 1 single, they're probably past the handbag-nicking stage by now." Loaded, the magazine I edit, has in just a year become the country's biggest selling mens magazine. Oasis have enjoyed an even louder trajectory over the same period. The lads have crashed my party en masse and their presence has put, as they say, the icing on the cake.

From '94 to '98, I spend lots of time scowling through my shades as the dawn comes up, rubbing my fingers over the CD cases of Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story) Morning Glory? And rubbing the residue over my gums. The people in the room are talking about Pablo Escobar, The Clash and gangster movies. Oasis are the soundtrack of the times that no one wants ever to turn off. It's their moment, and mine.

Eleven years on, I look at Liam across a coffee table in a Marylebone management office surrounded by the accessories of rock'n'roll fame - gold discs, DVD's, magazine covers - and ask: "Do you ever wonder how all this happened?" To which he replies: "To be honest, I thought we'd be bigger by now." He laughs, then, and swaggers out of the room.

For this Uncut cover story, I meet them at Chalk Farm's Blank Space Studios.

Noel and Liam arrive separately, proceeded by Gem Archer and Andy Bell, former label mates on Creation as members of Heavy Stereo and Ride, drafted in when original band members Bonehead and Paul McGuigan departed in 1999.

Liam arrives before Noel, bouncy, excited. Noel's come from an earlier meeting, seems abit stressed. There's a businesslike dynamic between them, nothing tactile. As the shoot goes on. Liam grows noticeably testier, particularly when the set-ups feature just him and Noel. Make of this what you will.

When I interview Noel, he talks and talks and tells very long and funny stories about the songs that made Oasis what they are. He's extremely honest, admitting there were times he was driven by self-belief, times it was the cocaine talking, and other times when he lost the will to write songs but did so anyway and took on the criticisms that came his way.

Oddly, he confesses that his biggest moment of self-doubt came even as Oasis were celebrating perhaps their greatest triumph - their two Knebworth shows in 1996, after which Noel felt not so much all-conquering, but somehow lost.

"The plan was always to become the biggest band in the world," he recalls. "But I was the only one who believed it was going to happen. [Creation boss Alan] McGee and Liam, they'd say the words and all that, but...In hindsight, everyone was just going along with what I was saying. But I knew it was f*****g going to happen. I knew in me bones. After that - doing the biggest ever gigs in England, Morning Glory being the biggest album in British history - it was like, 'Well, what now?'

"It's like, what do you do when you've done everything? You kind of sink into boredom. I don't know. Kind of directionless."

Liam meanwhile, is like a great centre forward, furious he's not getting enough of the ball. Noel can sit and analyze and laugh at what's transpired, but Liam was action not words. To him, not recording or touring is like doing a stretch. We sit and go through the songs and the answers are testament to the old saying, "If you were really there, you probably can't remember what the f**k went on." After we finished the trawl through the bands back catalogue, Liam and I wander off to meet a mate who's interviewing Gazza.

They spend an afternoon on the sambucas, and it's all very good-natured, even when Liam sprays Gazza with a fire extinguisher, the foam leaving Gazza "looking like f*****g Santa". Two day's later, the Sunday papers have front-paged this as a huge brawl between the two of them. The Gallaghers are still up-beat, dripping with confidence. When they get round to talking to each other again, they'll probably remember they've got a lot in common.

Noel and Liam talk about the songs on Stop The Clocks, i will put up disc two ASAP.

Rock'n'Roll Star

Album Track: Definitely Maybe
Released: August 30, 1994
Highest album chart position: 1
Produced by: Oasis/Mark Coyle

Noel: "Rock'n'Roll Star" is the whole manifesto of the band. I've never wanted to say anything else in a tune. We're going to be rock stars, and even if we don't, even if we're just playing in the f*****g Boardwalk the rest of our lives, we're going to act like f*****g rock stars. When we started it, my ambitions were to have a jet, a monkey, a house with a swimming pool and a gaff in Ibiza. Did I ever get a monkey? I've got Liam. He's the only monkey I'll ever need. I wrote "Rock'n'Roll Star when I was on the dole. I wouldn't have put my f*****g council flat on it, but we knew we were the best thing that was up and coming at the moment.
When we signed, McGee wasn't saying anything that I didn't already know myself. We played it at the three or four gigs we played at the Boardwalk before we were signed and there would be about ten people by the end singing "Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll star" and the staff would all be sniggering.

Liam: John Lennon, I reckon he'd have f*****g buzzed off "Rock'n'Roll Star". All of em. Who knows? Maybe he'd have though we were f*****g shite.

Some Might Say

Single taken from the album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Single released: April 24, 1995
Highest chart position:1
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: We'd just signed and I was living in a bedsit in Manchester. Alan McGee would phone up on like a Wednesday, "All right, we're having a party in the office, come down." If somebody's got their own record label and they're having a party 'cos its Wednesday, that's where I fu**ing need to be. So I come down to London with a guitar, jeans, trainers - not even a toothbrush - and had a fu**ing brilliant time. The offices were out in Hackney, and he sent the staff round the pub to come back with a tray of Jack Daniel's and coke's, it was like: "Fu**ing hell man, no way am I going back to Manchester, I can't live there any more." I finished with me bird, moved down, and I remember just writing this song, I think I was off my head on drugs. Some of the lines are quite deep: "Some people say they don't believe in heaven, tell that to a man living in hell". But then the chorus is just absolute nonsense. I can't believe that was our first fucking No 1. It's probably still my favourite Oasis song, and I remember recording it for the first time in Wales, and all our crew from Manchester, Wigan, some Scousers, and we just ended up listening to it over and over and over and over again. Thinking 'this is going to be fu**ing proper, man' when this comes out. There was something in the air. It was the first track from Morning Glory, so the explosion had already happened in England, it was about to take off around the world. Fu**ing great days, man.

Liam: We were'avin'it, man, on the piss, avin'it. They were the days, man, no kids an'that, just go out on a fu**ing Friday and come back Monday.

Talk Tonight

B-side: Some Might Say
Single released: April 24, 1995
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: It was Liam's birthday as we crossed the International Date Line on the way from Japan to LA to start our first proper American tour, so he had two birthdays. It's the first night of the tour at the Whisky A Go Go and everyone but me were wasted on crystal meth, someone got hit in the face with a chair, there was a big fight, the press called us a bunch of drug addicts and I got the tour float, my passport and fu**ed off to San Francisco. Creation sent [former creation MD] Tim Abbott to find me, probably the worst person in the fu**ing world to do that. He says, "We've got to cancel loads of gigs, whats happening?" and I was like, "I can't be arsed, man, these c**ts are just amateurs. And I've come over here to do the fu**ing business, man." I had six grand. So we went to Vegas and stayed in the Luxor hotel in the Pharaoh suite, the room service guy comes dressed as a Pharaoh, we were eating fu**ing Pharoah burgers and having one of those terrible cocaine conversations about water pressure in the desert. Anyway I wrote that song in those three or four days. The line "Sitting on my own, chewing on a bone" is about chewing your face off on cocaine, a thousand miles from home. Liam fu**ing hates it to this day. 'Cos when it come out that I'd wrote that and "Half A World Away" on that trip, he was going. "Oh he's gone all country and western, it's acoustic guitars and he's singing it with an American accent," which I've never really understood.

Lyla

Single taken from the album: Don't Believe The Truth
Single released: May 16, 2005
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: D Sardy

Noel: "Lyla" might have been started after I listened to a track by The Who, called "Armenia, City In The Sky". I'd written the song and it was originally called "Smiler", but Gem had already had a song called "Smiler", so I had to change it, and the only girl's name I could fu**ing come up with that rhymed with Smiler was Lyla. It's about a heroine, the line "catch the silver star" I think I might have nicked off the Woodstock video. That fu**ing done the business for us, that that song, and itnearly never made it onto that album. I had a really low period, I'd lost all enthusiasm for writing, after Be Here Now, then Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, and parts of Heathen Chemistry, I didn't know where I was going to go with it. I didn't know how good it was 'til the first night we played it. it's a great pogo-ing song.

Liam: At the moment, this is my live favourite. It's fu**ing stomping man. And vocally I can just attack it, d'you know what i mean! I love singing, I'm mad for it. I'd do a gig right fu**ing now if I could!

The Importance Of Being Idle

Single taken from the album: Don't Believe The Truth
Single released: August 22, 2005
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: Noel Gallagher, mixed by Dave Sardy

Noel: the title is from a book of quotes about the importance of being a lazy bast**d. I was lying on the couch at home, two years into making this album, we'd scrapped it twice and Liam was on the phone going "What the f**k are we going to do?" I was saying "Look, it's all gonna be alright, don't worry about it. Everybody was trying to throw as many ideas into the mix as possible as how we could make this album. And i was like, it'll all come right in the end, stop panicking. All the songs were great, and it happened. That song is about that period. it's also one of my favourites. I love singing it, and I'm so fu**ing made up it went to No 1 as well.

Liam: if the critics feel it was a return to form, then that's what they feel. To me, I don't think we ever lost our form. I'm not being arrogant about it, but it's just that we've always written decent tunes, it's just that everybody started nit-picking at Oasis. I've never heard anybody go on about fu**ing lyrics, I read every music mag there is, and it's all the lyrics of this, the lyrics of that. It's like, who gives a f**k? Basically it's about not really giving a f**k and 'I'll do it tommorow'.

Wonderwall

Single taken from the album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Single released: October 30, 1995
Highest chart position: 2
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: "Wonderwall" started off being called "Wishing Stone", a fu**ing shit title. It's not about any girl in particular. The girl who used to work on the reception of with the long blonde hair is on the cover in a picture frame, and everybody assumed it was my ex-missus [Meg Matthews] in the picture. So when it came out, like "An ode to his fucking girlfriend" I did'nt have the heart to tell the missus. Outside of England, it's the one song that we're famous for all over the over the world, and it's not a fu**ing rock 'n' roll tune. There's quite a vulnerable statement to it, "be the one that saves me", but they're great chords. When people come up to me and say it's one of the greatest tunes ever written, I think, 'Fu**in' hell, have you heard "Live Forever"?' But I can't knock it, man, it's paid for a many night out. It's paid for many a night in.

Liam: "Wonderwall"? it all came from videos really. "Wonderwall" was a bit Burberry. I don't think we were paid then, so it's probably some Marks & Spencers job. Definitely Maybe, was just cords, maybe Clarks, then we started getting a few quid in. We were just wearing marks & Spencers V-necks, T-shirts, polo shirts, Wrangler cords, then the money started kicking in, yeah, and we got into the Burberry and stuff.

Slide Away

Album track: Definitely Maybe
Released: August 30, 1994
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: Dave Batchelor and mixed by Owen Morris

Noel: "Slide Away" is the unsung hero on that album, round about the time, that was everybody's fu**ing tune, everybody's bird.Again it's about an imaginary individual, it's teenage love affair stuff that I wrote off the cuff in the studio. Johnny Marr gave me one of his guitars, he took it out of the case, and out came that song. he reckons he's due royalties! You know, we never get to sing it live, 'cos Liam won't sing it. he reckons it drags on a bit. He was 19 when you first heard him sing it, and he's 35 next year! There's that line - "Let me be the one that shines with you" - well, liam reckons he spontaneously came up with that. But I've got a demo where I can clearly can be heard singing it. It's just a fucking tune, man.

Liam: Classic. F**king top vocal. We should do it more often. For the birds man, for the lovers.

Cigarettes And Alcohol

Single taken from the album: Definitely Maybe
Single released: October 10, 1994
Highest chart position: 7
Produced by: Oasis/Mark Coyle

Noel: I remember bringing it to the lads in the rehearsal room, and Bonehead always use to do this thing where I'd come in with a tune and I'd say I got a new tune 'ere' and he'd go, "What's it called?" and I'd say, like "Fu**ing whatever", and he'd go "Fu**ing whatever!" So this time, I called him, I was really excited: " I've fu**ing written a blinder man! Fu**ing bloody brilliant!" And he says "What's it called?" I say: "Cigarettes And Alcohol". So he goes to our kid and says: "'Cigarettes And Alcohol', have you 'eard this?" And it started up with the riff, and the guitar, and he was going "Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah - you can't fu**ing do that, that's fu**ing T.Rex!" I said, "I don't give a f**k, it's fu**ing Oasis now!" I remember the first time Liam sung it, and it was one one of the first times I thought 'F**k me, he's got a good voice." The "aggravat-i-o-n", and the "sunsh-i-i-n-e", was mega, mega when I first heard it.

Liam: We were shitting over everyone else. All them other Manchester bands. The Stone Roses were the only other ones we gave a shit about, and they were splitting up. We never fu**ing hung out with other bands. They fu**ing hung out with us.

The Masterplan

B-side - Wonderwall
Single released: October 30, 1995
Highest Chart Position: 2
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: "Wonderwall", it had been deemed, was gonna be the next single, and it was back in the day when you to have three b-sides. D'you remember that? You had to have four tracks on a fu**ing CD. So we were one song short, and a session was booked in Maison Rouge in Fulham. We had one day recording, and one day mixing, to do this B-side, and I had no fu**ing songs left whatsoever, I had the songs that I wanted to be on Be Here Now, but I hadn't actually finished writing them. I thought at the time they were all fu**ing brilliant. So I just told myself I'll write this B-side when I get in there. I remember I was living in Camden, that was round about the time everybody was at my house, all the fu**ing time, it was brilliant. I remember going into the studio and that's what came out, and it still does my fu**ing hean in to this day, I remember McGee hearing it, going: "That's not a B-side man, you cannot put that out as a B-side." I remember, not quite shouting, but going "Look, you've fu**ing booked a studio, told me to write a song, I've written it, that's it." Y'know? But he was going: "Fucking hell, no way, man, it's go to go on the fu**ing album."

Liam: Big tune, man. Good Words. What's it about? Haven't got a clue.

Source: Uncut Mazine

Calling All Oasis Fans

Think you're the biggest Oasis fan? Get ready to prove it.

With the upcoming release of Stop The Clocks, the definitive Oasis' greatest hits collection, we've launched the Official U.S. Oasis Street Team and we want you to join.

To make it MORE interesting we're hosting our first contest, and everyone on the team has a chance to win! See below for details.

Phase 1 - 10/2 - 11/3:The top 10 fans who provide the most unique screengrabs of Oasis "Stop Clock" banner postings will win rare Stop The Clocks lithographs, suitable for framing

Phase 2 - 11/3 - 12/1:The top 10 fans who provide the most unique screengrabs of Oasis "Lord Don't Slow Me Down" banner postings will win one Stop The Clocks 7" gatefold EP each

The top overall winner from both phases will win a grand prize including:

* UK promo-only "Champagne Supernova (lynch mob beats mix '95)" 12" LP autographed by Noel Gallagher
* Stop The Clocks triple-LP vinyl set
* Stop The Clocks T-Shirt

Second and third place winners will also receive triple-LP vinyl sets and T-shirts.

Click HERE to sign up for the street team and enter the contest

Noel Interview From This Months Q Magazine

How are you?
Sensational

Where are you right now?
In Mexico City preparing for the last night of Oasis world tour

What does Q mean to you?
Despite being grossly misquoted on more than one occasion, and having to spend endless nights out with the squares you send to interview us, I still think it's a pretty f****n' good magazine. Great awards ceremony, too.

What's the best thing you've seen in Q?
My memory isn't that good, so I'm thinking the last interview with my right honorable friend Mr Weller (the 10-pint one), and the review of Don't Believe The Truth.

What were you doing 20 years ago?
In Levenshulme, Manchester, on the dole, smoking sputnik and listening to Pink Floyd.

What's your high point of the last 20 years?
Honestly? Too many to mention, but playing Maine Road and meeting all my heroes, and them being f****n' cool as f**k, is right up there.

And the low point?
Creation Records disappearing up its own arse (or was that nose?) is right down there.

Your biggest fashion disaster?
Unfortunately, not being the thoroughbred clothes horse my little brother is, there are quite a few and none I'd like to draw anyone's attention to - thank you very much!

What was the first album you bought on CD?
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles.

And the first track you downloaded?
Now owning a computer, I'm immune to any of that filth.

Which track of the last 20 years do you wish you'd written?
Looking Glass, The La's

If you could talk to yourself 20 years ago, what advice would you give?
Get your skates on before you change your mind.

Your favorite drug of the last 20 years?
XTC.

What's the best thing you've bought?
A house in Ibiza.

What's the most amount of money you've spent? And what did you spend it on?
A house in the country.

Where will you be in 20 minutes?
Onstage, which is where we came in on, no? Hasta Luego and Happy Birthday!

Source Q Magazine

Liam Gallagher Joins Dirty Pretty Things On Stage

Liam Gallagher joined Dirty Pretty Things on stage — only to be told he was too late to sing. The Oasis legend joined the band at a secret gig in North London just as the venue’s curfew kicked in, making it illegal to continue.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Q Magazine 20th Anniversary Special

Oasis make a few appearances in this months 20th Anniversary Special.

Albums

The Greatest Records Of The Last 20 Years

#1 Definitely Maybe

Recorded for around £85,000, Definitely Maybe remains the benchmark by which British guitar music must be judged. Rejected by Factory boss Tony Wilson for being "too baggy" the band's hybrid of Sex Pistols aggro and Beatles melody caught the ear of Creation boss Alan McGee after they forced their way onstage at a Glasgow club, threatening to trash the place if they couldn't play. It was this attitude that informed Definitely Maybe's many high pionts, from Rock 'N' Star to Live Forever.

Taking the baton from The Stone Roses, Oasis led the charge for a post-acid house youth who felt that anything was possible. A manifesto for it's times, the album became the fastest-selling debut in British history at the time. The Gallagher brothers' combative reltionship saw tours cancelled, interviews collapsing in punch-ups and Noel briefly quitting the group. All in the first year. Rock 'N' Roll was back.

#8 (What's The Story) Morning Glory

A second Oasis classic proved Oasis were no flash in the pan. Hello to the drug-frazzled Champagne Supernova, via Wonderwall, these songs elevated Oasis to the pantheon of British rock greats.




















Singles

The outstanding songs since 1986. Bet they're all look good on the dancefloor.

#6 Live Forever

The Gallaghers' first Top 10 hit perfectly captured the starry-eyed optimism of the Britpop era, even though Noel himself has admitted he didn't think it was "that good".




















20 Best Catchphrases

#1 "Mad For It!"

Liam Gallagher Circa 1994-1996




















2o Great Moments In Q's History. As Told By Q Folk Past And Present.

'Oasis Licked My Eyeballs'

#8 London and Milan 2005

I first met Oasis in 2002. It was like chairing a therapy session for the recently divorced. I remember nodding and wincing a lot and not really asking many of my prepared questions. Liam described Thom Yorke as a morris dancer, his ex as a monster. Noel quipped he'd married for tax reasons. In May 2005 I went to meet them prior to the launch of Don't Believe The Truth. No one mentioned to me that my previous interview had been cited in Noel's court case with ex-wife Meg Matthews.

When my eyes met Noel's the look I got back was the sort of stare with which I've seen mutants kill people on Doctor Who. Five minutes later he'd walked out. It seemed unlikely we'd ever speak again. However, Q's Editor negotiated a truce and I followed the band to Milan. What came next was bizarre.

At first they called me a student and a stupid cunt and threatened to kick me. Then they cuddled me and licked my eyes. They plied me with wine and marched meoutside to meet fans.

Finally, Liam stole my phone and rang my then girlfriend at 3am to ask her what colour knickers she was wearing. She was livid. Far from starstruck, she was invigilating some important exams early next morning.

We split shortly afterwards and as part of the "settlement" I lost a much-loved Nico album. So in a roundabout way I like to think we are quits

Michael Odell

Source: Q Magazine

Lord Don't Slow Me Down - Movie Trailer

Click Here to have a closer look at the soon to be released Oasis Documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down shot during their DBTT World Tour. This clip features a one minute out take of a brand new song with Noel Gallagher on vocals!

Source: Mr Monobrow @ www.live4ever.us

Oasis Roll With New Hits

Noel Gallagher says Oasis are already planning a new album — even though their next is yet to be released.

The band are busy promoting their best of CD, Stop The Clocks, out on November 20.

But Noel admits they are more concerned about bringing out new material. He said: “We’ve got so much left over from our last album, Don’t Believe The Truth. I reckon there is enough material for two or three albums.

“Our next new record is more important than the best of album, but the compilation had to happen now.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

More Content Added To The Stop Clock......

It's that time again.....! More content has been added to the Stop Clock including two new film clips one of Liam's birthday in the US last year and the other including a hilarious clip seeing the band playing Frustration. There is also a screen saver for your computer!


Source: www.oasisinet.com

Time To Win Signed Oasis Gear

Heres’s the album cover for Stop The Clocks, the definitive Oasis collection compiled by the band.

Sir Peter Blake, the artist behind The Beatles’ famous Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sleeve, came up with the distinctive design.

And I have a belter of a competition to mark the album release on November 20.

Oasis have kindly offered five dartboards based on Sir Peter’s design, five sets of Oasis darts and five signed Stop The Clocks albums to my lucky winners.

For a chance to win, just email a list of all Oasis’s No1 singles to biz@the-sun.co.uk by midnight on Sunday. The first five entries I pick out will be the winners.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher: "New Best Of Is For Future Generations"

The Oasis leader explains how he put 'Stop The Clocks' together

Noel Gallagher has explained how he picked the tracks for forthcoming Best Of, 'Stop The Clocks', declaring it "a manifesto for future generations".

After much discussion between fans as to what should and shouldn't have made the cut, Oasis recently ended speculation by revealing the tracklisting for the album to be released on November 20. Now, speaking exclusively to NME, Noel explained he had clear plans for the record. "I've always said if we ever did one [a greatest hits] it was going to be one CD with 12 tunes" he said. "So I started off writing down all the ones I thaught were great - 30 odd tunes - and because the songs are so long that would have been three CD's. So it went down and down and now there's about eight that should be on it but aren't - 'Fade Away', '(it's good) To Be Free', 'Listen Up', 'Gas Panic!', 'D'You Know What I Mean?' and a couple of others."

The Future

Noel is worried about the omissions, however, claiming the album is mainly for people who haven't heard of Oasis yet. "To me these things are about future generations," he said. "When I got into The Beatles, it was the Red and Blue [greatest hits] albums. So this is about 30 years from now, when I am an old man and there are kids going, 'Yeah, thats the f*****g band that me old fella's granddad was into!' It's me saying, 'This is our best work', I've had arguments this week with people going, "Rockin' Chair' isn't on it - thats wrong, man!' I've had stand-up rows with people! But that must mean we're pretty good. If people are arguing about what's not on it, it's brilliant! But I'm in charge! Someone has got to pick the tracklisting and I've picked it and thats the end of it. This is the manifesto for future generations. It's for 10 or 15 years from now, for when people are going, 'That's that band everyone was yakking on about'."

Label Pressure

If it was up to the band, Noel added, a Best Of would not be released until Oasis split, however, he claimed the band were pressured into doing 'Stop The Clocks'. "We said we wouldn't do it until we called it a day," he admitted, "but as were signed to Sony and we made it clear we weren't going to re-sign to them, we got wind they were going to do a greatest hits or a Best Of. We got told a greatest hits. Now, our greatest hits, ie all the singles, is not our best stuff, right? So we were faced with the decision of either standing back and saying in NME: "We're not getting on board, don't buy it', or going, 'Right, if it's got to be now then we'll get involved.' The way it's panned out, there are eight Number One Singles that aren't on it, 'coz it's all B-Sides and album tracks. They [the label] seemed a little bit arsed about that, but if we're going to do a definitive collection of where we are now, then our singles are not our best work. It's our album tracks, the famous songs. We all know what we are talking about: 'Half The World Away', Champagne Supernova', 'Talk Tonight'...our B-sides are some of our best work. So we thaught if we don't do it they're going to do it and bastardise it. If it has to be now, it has to be now."

Despite deciding to engage with the release, the guitarist said he wondered about the relevance of Best Of compilations with the growth of MP3 players and playlist culture. "I got into the Doors, The Beatles, The Kinks and The Who by buying Best Of's. They are valid, but I'm not sure what they mean in our age of playlists and ipods and all that," he explained. "I'm sure somebody somewhere has got the exact tracklisting [of The Best Of] on their playlist or ipod. I'm not sure they're that big a deal any more. But as I say, we were kind of shoved into it."

The New Album

Noel, who joined Kasabian onstage last week (Sept 12) at London's KOKO for NME.COM's 10th birthday party, added that it was unlikely Oasis would play any shows around 'Stop The Clocks' release.

"I'm playing at KOKO in November for Russell Brand's tour, but we're actively trying to play it [the Best Of] down because it's not what we're about, really," said the guitarist. "We've got so much left over from the last album - at least another two or three albums' worth of material, but Russell asked me to do this thing so I said, 'F**k it, alright'. We're not trying to big this collection up. Our next new record is more important than this one, but this had to happen now. In a way it's liberating - we've done it and it's out there. It's finished now and it stops people asking about it, because we were getting asked about it constantly!"

Source: NME Magazine

Noel Promises More Future Releases

Compilation Tiding Over Label-less OasisThe greatest hits set "Stop the Clocks," coming Nov. 21 via Epic, will have to satisfy the appetites of Oasis fans for awhile, according to guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. The band is also without a label, having fulfilled its worldwide deal with Sony Music.

"There's no plans to do anything," Gallagher says of future Oasis recording. "Saying that, there's no plans not to do anything, either. We're not like other bands in that respect. We're masters of our own destiny and take these things one album at a time. The last time we sat down and planned an album, it turned into 'Don't Believe the Truth,' and that took three years to record.

"Those sessions, however, yielded plenty of songs; Gallagher notes that of 11 leftover tracks, "there's seven that are good and four that are really great, so we could put an album out tomorrow if we wanted.

"But don't count on it. Instead, Oasis plan to focus on "Stop the Clocks" -- named after an unreleased Gallagher song -- which features 18 hits and favorites from Oasis' 12 years of recording, including the B-sides "Acquiesce" and "Half the World Away." Gallagher says he was approached about including some new songs on the album as well, but that he opted not to "because it takes the focus away from what you're actually trying to say with a retrospective.

"Gallagher promises that a boxed set and other unreleased and archival material will one day come out of the Oasis vaults. He also says Oasis won't be resigning with Sony, and the band is currently weighing its options for the future.

"I'd like to do something on our own, but it's a bit of a big step," he says. "It depends on what works best for all of us, really. [Oasis vocalist] Liam (Gallagher) will want the big advance of $900 million and be drinking champagne for the rest of his life. I, on the other hand, would rather put the records out and keep all the money. So I don't know which way we'll go."

Source: www.billboard.com

Stop The Clocks Artwork Explained

Oasis team up with Beatles artist for Best Of sleeve...

We all know Oasis are massive Beatles fans, so how did they mark their Best Of? By getting Sir Peter Blake, the man responsible for the 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' sleeve, to design the 'Stop The Clocks' cover.

NME: What was the concept behind the Oasis cover?

Sir Peter Blake: "There are many levels of meaning to the pictures, but also I think in a way the point is that none of it means anything. I was choosing all the objects at random. I suppose in the back of my mind, was the cover of 'Sgt Pepper's.....'

After that came out there were so many theories about what the cover meant - that the flower bed was marijuana and that it signified Paul was dead. I suppose I was picking the objects subconsciously, so that I was leaving it for the fans' interpretation.

The 'Definitely Maybe' cover was in the back of my mind too. What intrigued me about it was that although some of those objects meant something to the band, you couldn't possibly know what some of the others meant! It's using the mystery of 'Definitely Maybe' and running with it."

You must have known Oasis were big Beatles fans?

"I did and I'm sure that's one of the main reasons they asked me to do it. it wasn't the original cover, though. We did a different design first. We used a image of the outside of Granny Takes A Trip on the King's Road as a canvas, but then I discovered the shop was bringing out an album, so we had to abandon that. What happened with the cover was that Noel came into the studio, looked at my work and said what he liked."

Tell us a bit about the objects in the locker?

"Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz) is there as my icon, rather then theirs. We had an image of Marilyn Monroe that we wanted to use, but there was ongoing litigation with the use of that image, so we ended up using Michael Caine. I put the seven dwarves in there because they're objects that I put in quite often. I've done a whole series of things that feature Snow White And The Seven Dwarves in various predicaments. It was no more then that."

Source: NME Magazine

Oasis Release Stop The Clocks EP

On 13th November 2006 Oasis release a brand new collectors EP of classic songs. The EP is led by Acquiesce, for many the finest Oasis song never to be a single, and book-ended by The Masterplan, the master-ful b-side to ‘Wonderwall’ released a decade ago. Also included on the EP are never before heard recordings of Cigarettes and Alcohol and Some Might Say, that were unearthed during the mastering of the forthcoming Best Of album.

The EP is available only as a one-off collectors edition CD and Double gatefold 7” including an exclusive sheet of stickers:

Acquiesce
Cigarettes and Alcohol (Demo Version)
Some Might Say (Live In 1995, Venue Unknown)
The Masterplan

The Stop The Clocks EP is a preview from the first ever Oasis Best Of collection, released on 20th November. Stop the Clocks is an eighteen-song journey through a decade-plus defined by Oasis. It is imbued with the sort of wilfulness that has helped make Oasis the favourite band of millions worldwide and its running order – singles, b-sides, album tracks – chosen by the band themselves.

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Acquiesce Video, Debut Friday Night On ITV2

Oasis Video Exclusive
00:15 - 00:20 - ITV2 (UK Only)
Saturday 30 September
A chance to see the new video for the Mancunian band's latest single Acquiesce, which was shot on location in London and Japan.

Source: Here

Oasis Stop The Clocks EPK Aquiesce

The Oasis Man, He Say,"Oosh"

As birthday surprises go, getting Noel Gallagher onstage for two songs at NME.COM'S 10th birthday party (September 12) was pretty special. Speaking to NME after the show, the Oasis leader explained why he dropped in to lend Kasabian a hand.

NME: Did you enjoy being in Kasabian for the night?

Noel Gallagher: "It's the smallest gig I've seen them do, well, ever actually because every time I've seen them they've either been supporting us or it was at Brixton Academy. They asked us to play Ibiza on a proper pissed-up, pharmaceutical night out. They said, 'Are you going to get up with us?', so i said 'Yeah, yeah!" But they're off to New York tomorrow, we're off doing our Best Of press so there was only one night when we were in town together and that was tonight! As luck would have it, it was the NME night, so we thought, 'Brilliant, let's do it!'''

Why did you play on those particular songs?

"Serge picked the two songs. If he'd have asked me I'd have said 'Club Foot', but then he said 'The Doberman' too and I thought 'Fucking brilliant!" 'Club Foot' is my favourite. It was the first bit of music I ever heard by them. When the interviews started two or three years I thought, 'They're gobby little fuckers, I hope they can back it up.' Then I heard 'Club Foot' and it was, 'Fuckin whoa, man! Is someone saying "Oosh!"? I went to see them live before before we went on tour with them and they were the fucking business!"

We enjoyed your "Ooshes".

"I fucking love that! When we first ever got to play with them we were going' Is that an "Oosh"?' and Tom Said, 'Yeah, "Oosh"'. What is that? It's where Serge taps into the dance music thing. They're up there with The Prodigy and the Primals. 'Screamadelica' is the definitive guitar dance record, it's not even indie dance or any of that shit. Kasabian are there now and they're making music which is unique."

Were you worried about the flying glowsticks?

"when they came on and there were glowsticks flying i was thinking, 'That would never happen at an Oasis gig, because someone would have said, "Throw them once more and you're out of here.''' I thought by the time I got on they'd all be on the stage anyway so it would be alright. I might have got hit in the head, but as luck would have it I smashed my own nose up with my guitar instead. I was on the drum-riser and managed to headbutt my own guitar and cut my nose!"

Source: NME Magazine

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On This Day In Oasis History.......

"Little By Little" is a song by British rock band Oasis. Along with She Is Love, it made up the band's first double A-side single. The song appeared on the bands fifth album Heathen Chemistry. Noel Gallagher provides lead vocals on the track, considered by many critics to be a rather cavalier act as his brother, Liam Gallagher, is considered one of Britain's finest vocalists.




"Little by Little" was perhaps the most controversial song on the album, receiving mixed reviews from those who felt it was a classic example of an upbeat Oasis anthem and those who felt it was a twee, patronising, sycophantic melody. Regardless of this the song managed to peak at number two in the UK charts based largely on the publicity garnered by the song.

The promo video to the song featured a guest role by Robert Carlyle. The cover art for the single is an homage to Robert Indiana's LOVE artwork.

She is Love is a Noel Gallagher-penned track on Oasis' Heathen Chemistry album. It's a light, acoustic song about being in love. The song was written about Gallagher's girlfriend Sara McDonald.



Gallagher claims it was written in the Buckingham Gate Hotel in London, and that it took 30 minutes to complete.

It was released as a double A-side single along with Little By Little.

Source: Wikipedia