Oasis Versus Blur? Get With The Times, U2...

Oasis and U2 are to go head to head next month, as their respective best-ofs are released on the same day.

November 20 sees both U2's 18 and Oasis' Stop The Clocks hit store shelves. The latter's Noel Gallagher has told Irish magazine Hot Press that his band's collection will pip U2 to the album chart top spot.
Also released on November 20 are the new albums by Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, so maybe neither rock act will reach the number one position. And then there's the new Guns N' Roses album... maybe...

Source: www.drownedinsound.com

Noel MENCAP Gig Notice

Mencap have issued the following press statement re this sold out show :

We are aware that Mencap's Little Noise Sessions tickets are currently appearing for sale on auction sites. This is not something that has been sanctioned or encouraged by Mencap.

Mencap is working with seetickets.com the official ticket agency for the Little Noise Sessions. They are taking all action possible to cancel touted tickets.

To purchase an official ticket where by your money will go towards helping people with a learning disability visit www.seetickets.com

Source: www.oasisinet.com


I tried to get tickets for this show but it sold out in minutes. I think it is bad that touts get all the tickets when genuine fans can't get any. The touts then end up making huge profit when the tickets are being sold for a good cause.

Liam Gallagher's Thunderbird Home

Dorset, England (BANG) - Liam Gallagher will soon be able to live inside his television world fantasy - a lavish "masterpiece" he will probably never want to leave. The Oasis frontman is set to buy a house inspired by the classic TV show "Thunderbirds."

The "Wonderwall" singer will dish out $5 million on the property in Dorset, in the South West of England, which is based upon the fictional Tracy Island featured in the cult puppet series.

The luxury pad - named "Thunderbird" - has been described as "a modern architectural masterpiece" and is located in an area dubbed "Millionaire's Row," which was designed by award-winning architectural firm Seven Developments. The home has seven bathrooms, five bedrooms, an outdoor pool, a cinema and a gym.

Neighboring houses include a property named "Moonraker," which has been short-listed as a possible location for the next James Bond film. Liam's neighbors will include England football player Sol Campbell and "Notting Hill" actor Hugh Grant.

The rocker will move into the property with his fiance, All Saints singer Nicole Appleton, and their four-year-old son Gene.

One resident told Britain's Daily Express newspaper, "I can see why Liam would want to buy here. It's special and lots of families have come here after getting stressed by life in the city."source: Bang

Another Noel Interview With Russell Brand

Another appearance from Noel on Brand's show earlier today. The usual nonsense talked. Noel revealed that Kasabian will be appearing at the benefit show at KOKO on 2nd November. Paul Weller is also a possibility.

Also, Noel should be appearing on the same show again next week, this time in the studio to give Brand some toys he brought for him in a previous appearance weeks ago.

Source: www.oasispromo.blogspot.com

Thanks Everyone

A big thank you to everyone who voted for my site at the People's Choice Awards at the Digital Music Awards. Your votes were very much apreciated.

We got picked twice in the top 200 Top 200 sites.

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"No Matter Where We Are The Crowd Lift The Roof Off Above Our Heads."

Were you an Oasis fan before you joined?
I was a massive fan. They were the first band for years that I bought everything by.

How did you get asked to join the band?
I was at me mam's. Noel rang up, and he went: "If you haven't heard, Bonehead's left the group, do you want to come down?" And that was it, I never auditioned as such. Just played. The first song I did was "Cigarettes & Alcohol". There was a CD of live versions of five or six songs. They said: "We don't do the records, we just play it." Which was fine with me.

Do you have a favourite song to play live?
"Don't Look Back In Anger". I still get times when we're playing it where I get whats feels like an out of body experience. I can never hear the piano intro on my side of the stage, all I can hear is the crowd's response, and I just think, 'Here we go!' The crowd could sing the whole song. I don't know where all this has come from, or how this has happened, but right reound the world, no matter where we are, the crowd lift the roof off above our heads.

Which song defines Oasis for you?
"Morning Glory". Playing live, it's like the Bat Sign going up. It's one of them riffs that echoes round the place. I remember hearing it on promo cassette, in a black box with the Oasis logo on, and thinking that encapsulated everything about the band. It's big and loud.

How do you feel about the song selectionon Stop The Clocks being so loaded towards the first two albums?
Noel chose the songs. It's an absolute given that he's chosen the songs he has. It might be top heavy with the early years, but what year are we in now? We might still be in the early years...

Source: Uncut Magazine

Oasis Songs On U2's Wish List

U2 Guitarist The Edge cites Oasis’ Wonderwall as the one song he wished he had written.

In a new interview with Q Magazine, each U2 member was asked to pick songs they wished they had written, drummer Larry Mullen chose Larry Block Rockin' Beats by The Chemical Brothers and Adam Clayton cites Back to Life by Soul II Soul. Lead singer Bono could not make he’s mind up and chose seven: Brownsville Girl by Bob Dylan; Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack; Live Forever by Oasis; The Last Song I'll Ever Sing by Gavin Friday; Lucky Man by The Verve and Almighty Love by Emm Gryner.

Source: Q Magazine

Cigarettes & Alcohol Is The English National Anthem

Were you an Oasis fan before you joined?
I was a fan and a hanger-on! I saw them 20 times. First time was at the Powerhaus, end of 1993, about 30 people there. I got introduced to Liam, and said: "You guys are amazing, you should come out and support Ride sometime!" Within three months, they were bigger than ride!

Do you have a favourite Oasis song?
"Slide Away". It's breathtaking. In the early days, I used to go and see them a lot with Tim Burgess. The day Definitely Maybe came out, I'd been asked to come in and deputise for Eddie Phillips from Creation, who'd signed with Creation. Eddie couldn't do the gig, so they asked me to play guitar. I came and borrowed all Noel's gear. Tim and I went to the gig listening to Definitely Maybe, all the time thinking, 'This is great, this is great.' "Slide Away" was our favourite song. Though, you know what? "Cigarettes & Alcohol" is the English national anthem!

What about one you enjoy playing live?
"Rock 'n' Roll Star", my absolute favourite. It locks in, musically and emotionally. You put it at the end of the set, just when you think there's nothing left, and it tears the roof off. The ending is one of the best I've ever heard, since "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" by The Who. I know everyone thinks Oasis are dad rock, but I think that ending for "Rock 'n' Roll Star" is pretty out there.

Which is the most memorable of the two songs on Stop The Clocks that you play on?
"Songbird". I remember we recorded a version with Liam on bass, Noel on drums and Johnny Marr on electric guitar. We'd just come back from the Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants tour. There'd been a huge row in Barcelona, and Noel had simi-left the band. This was the first big storm that Gem and I weathered. Johnny came down for the weekend - he was like a father figure - and we worked through a load of Liam's songs. The one really big positive thing out of all this was that Liam really motivated. There was this day when we did "Songbird" and Noel just said: "look i want to play drums today." He wasn't in the mood to talk. And it came out like "Please Please Me", that kind of vibe. It was lovely, actually.

Source: Uncut Magazine

Have You Seen Oasis...? Google Video Promotion

To celebrate Oasis forthcoming album Stop the Clocks out on the 20th November. Oasisinet in conjunction with Google video are inviting fans from all over the world to upload their own Oasis clips and memories to a special Google map. You can also view clips from the on the road Oasis documentary film Lord Dont Slow Me Down.

Every fan clip that is submitted will go into a random draw to win an exclusive signed Stop The Clocks artwork print. The draw will take place on November 20th to coincide with the release of the new album and 1 winner will be picked at random then notified via email.

You can go direct to the promotion if you click here: GOOGLE OASIS PROMOTION

Source: E-mail from www.oasisinet.com

Oasis Film World Premiere in NYC with Noel

CMJ Music & Film Festival New York City

Saturday, November 4th, 2:00pm @ The Directors Guild Theater

Filmed over a 7 month period during Oasis’ Don’t Believe the Truth tour, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down takes an intimate look at the band on the road, through rare behind the scenes footage and live clips. The screening will be followed by a special guest appearance by Oasis front man Noel Gallagher, who will be on hand to discuss the film. (Sony BMG)

Click for more info

Source: www.prod1.cjm.com

Acquiesce Promo Video

Thanks to Mr Monobrow

Liam And Noel Interview From Uncut Magazine Part Two

Noel and Liam talk about the songs on the second CD on Stop The Clocks

Live Forever

Single taken from: Definitely Maybe
Released: August 8, 1994
Highest chart position: 10
Produced by: Oasis/Mark Coyle

Noel: The song that changed everything. That and "Supersonic". It's sleazy rock'n' roll tune. The sentiment of "Live Forever", see, you can still live by that to this day, man. I remember writing that in Manchester and that had come out of Nirvana's second album, where he had a song called "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die". I was like "That c**t is sat in his mansion in Seattle, on smack, he's got everything, he's got the world at his feet, right, he's in the biggest and most revered band in the world today, and he fu**ing hates himself and he fu**ing wants to die." I was like: "I'm not fu**ing 'aving that! Bollocks! He might have been depressed, but there's no need bringing everybody else down!"
I remember, I was listening to Exile On Main Street, and it was "Shine A Light" which kicked off this song. You know that line: "May the good Lord shine a light on me"? I was on the guitar, going "Maybe I don't really wanna know"... It came out of that. It took me a night to write that song. And it's still the gig favourite. It's about friendship. Your best friend of that fu**ing night. The most important line in it is: "We'll see things they'll never see". When you have a friend and the two of you have a sit-com or a favourite album that everyone else thinks is shit, but you two know it's got something special.

Liam: Live, "Live Forever" is fucking fantastic, always is. I tell you, I wanna do something next year, otherwise we'll fu**ing go insane. I don't know how these bands have fu**ing two or three years off. And the way I see it, what's the fu**ing point of having all this time off if you've got the tunes? That's what we're here to do, mate - make music, do a gig. Not sit about all day scratching our heads, watching a bunch of other c***s do it. I've got loads of tunes. One's called "Guess I'm Out Of Time".

Acquiesce

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

Noel: It's not about me and Liam. I wrote it on the train, going to Loco studios to record "Some Might Say". The train got stuck in the Severn Tunnel, signal failure, and it was in there for fu**ing hours and luckily enough I had me guitar, and I just wrote that song on the train. I didn't get a piece of paper and pen and write i, but I was humming the melody on the train. It has a second verse which Liam never sings, 'cos he's too fu**ing lazy. He asked the other day, "What second verse?", to which I replied: "The fu**ing second verse that you never sing that's on the fu**ing record." He says: "That's f**k all to do with me, man. That's the guy who outs my lyrics out, man - if he don't put it out, I don't fu**ing see it." He doesn't have lyrics for all the songs, just about three or four. I think one of them is "Supersonic". He has four monitors and these sheets. There's just these four songs he can't get his head around. And they're the real fu**ing old ones!

Supersonic

Single taken from the album: Definitely Maybe
Single released: April 11, 1994
Highest chart position: 31
Produced by: Oasis/Mark Coyle

Noel: McGee leant us some money to record a few songs because he was paranoid we were going to sign for someone else. I was thinking, I don't want to give the guy nothing, he might think these are a bunch of fu**ing chancers who've spunked it all on Es and coke. So I went in the backroom and just fu**ing wrote a song, and didn't think anything of it, and that version everyone knows is the rough mix from the night before. We left there at five in the morning. We were driving back to Manchester from Liverpool, as the sun was coming up, and we were listening to it on cassette in Mark Coyle's little fu**ing car, and it was fu**ing brilliant. We had to fight for about a good couple of weeks, to get it released as a single. McGee wanted "Bring It On Down", 'cos it was the Sex Pistols and all that, and the great thing about McGee is, he used to let his artists do whatever they want. We stuck by our guns. It's gotta be that tune, 'coz lyrically it was all nonsense that was written on the hoof, but it just set us apart from everybody else in the country. Y'know: dogs fu**ing sniffing Alka Seltzer and girls giving blow jobs to doctors in helicopters, you know what I mean? What? F**king hell, I'll have a bit of what they're on. But still, a great recording.

Liam: We recorded that in Liverpool. I remember the guitar sound, thinking that was new. It sounded really rough and raw.That was good. I never thought it was a hit, not like "Wonderwall" or maybe some of the others. I mean, we knew we were going to fu**ing big at some point, I just think it was time for the band. I remember going on The Word with it and after people started coming up for autographs, nice one, telly! I mean, it was all getting a bit big. I was well up for it, me. It didn't phase me one fu**ing bit. Everything was geared up for it, we practised nearly every f**king day. We were good, we weren't just f**king flukey. We weren't - not dissing the Mondays or, anything like that - we weren't like a lads band, we were grafting. I'm sure they were grafters, but they were in it for the crack more then the music. Do you know what i mean? I don't mean like, the crack, literally.

Half The World Away

B-side: Whatever
Single released: December 18, 1994
Highest chart position: 3
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: "Half The World Away" was written at the same time as "Talk Tonight" during those Vegas sessions, so it's the second country and western song. We were away on tour somewhere, and we got this message from Craig Cash. I'd known him for a while, and he said he was doing this sit-com called The Royle Family and they wanted to use one of our tunes. Craig explained what it was about: it's a northern family could be Mancs, could be Scouse, they don't get on but they all love each other. I was thinking: "well, 'Married With Children' [off Definitely Maybe] is f**king perfect." Then when we got back and they said they were going to use "Half The World Away", it didn't make any fu**ing sense to me. For me it's all about desperately trying to leave the situation that you're in, dreaming of being somewhere else, leaving the house, leaving the city that you're in. When you put that together with the sort of situation like The Royle Family, it's kinda quite tragic. They're all tied to each other in that fu**ing little room.

Go Let It Out

Single taken from the album: Standing On The Shoulder of Giants
Single released: February 7, 2000
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: Mark 'Spike' Stent/ Noel Gallagher

Noel: "Go Let It Out" and "Fuckin' In The Bushes" are the two redeeming features on Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, the rest of it was kinda forced. I was making an album for the sake of it, really. "Go Let It Out" came quite quickly: I was in New York, the line in the song "The right time is always now", was on a billboard in Times Square. I wrote it in the Mercer Hotel, on a 12-string guitar. Sonically, it's one of my favourites, it sounds like a modern Beatles, I think. I'd lost all inspiration, I had nothing left to write about. You know, Definitely Maybe was written about being young, and about looking at the world like a huge great big fu**ing playground. Morning Glory was about being in that playgroun, and like "it's all actually kinds rotten here." Those first three albums all deal with the same sort of things. For the middle two, I had nothing left to write about, 'cos I had everything that I wanted. I had a big house in the country, I had money. I wasn't going to write about getting divorced. Let's not confuse anger with fu**ing misery. Great pop music - apart from the odd masterpiece, like "Ghost Town" or "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - is generally uplifting.

Songbird

Single taken from the album: Heathen Chemistry
Single released: February 2, 2003
Highest chart position: 3
Produced by: The band

Noel: Well. That's Liam's. It was a huge sigh of relief for me when he finally recorded it. 'Cos he played it to us for fu**ing six years, the fu**ing same two chords, and no words just, "Na na na na nah-nah..." Fu**ing shut up! Good Tune, though, I do like it. He would hear things on the radio, I don't know if they were hit bands at the time, he'd be like, "we're supposed to be fu**ing rock'n'roll, man what's all this fu**ing nonsense?" He still says it now, and y'know. I go, "Rock'n'roll band? I've got fu**ing one word for you: 'Songbird'. If you wanna write a rock'n'roll tune, fu**ing write it man, but, I've written lots of rock'n'roll tunes, you haven't written one." It's great he gets involved with the direction of the band now. Where it's not all just focused on me. With Gem and Andy writing tunes, it's getting even better. It's more of a band now than it's ever been.

Liam: We were in France, at somefu**ing chateau. I'd just started seeing Nicole, we went for a little play under a tree, and this tune pops up. I wrote it in just one day, man. I'm only doing it for me really. I don't do it for the band. All that department was Noel's. As long as everyone else is doing cool tunes, I'm happy. I'll sing anyone else in the band's tunes. I couldn't give a f**k how people see me as a songwriter. As long as they see me as a fu**ing decent frontman. A singer.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Album Track: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Released: October 2, 1995
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher

Noel: Cocaine and fu**ing razorblades and mirrors, I'm amazed we got away with it at the time. I love it when we play it live. Somebody said to me on the phone once, it's an American saying: "What's the story, morning glory?", like we say, "All right, how you doing?" And I was like, f**k, hang on a minute, while I write that down, that's fu**ing starters, I'll have that.
The tune is great. It's brilliant to play it live and I think it's got enough nonsense in it to inspire the likes of Kasabian. They're like "Can you walk down a hall, slightly faster than a canonball?" Hello? Have you been taking drugs again? These two, "Morning Glory" and "Champagne Supernova", are fu**ing great for that. Can you be caught in a landslide in a champagne supernova in the sky? To me, the song, is a complete and utter picture, y'know. The lyrics for some people like the young chap from the Arctic Monkeys, are everything. And to Morrissey. To Bono, it's all about the words.
To me, nah. The words don't mean a great deal to me. They're just a vehicle, they're just the means to get the fu**ing engine started. You have the song, I ain't gonna labour over the lyrics. Sometimes they're great. In "Live Forever", they're fu**ing brilliant. And in "Talk Tonight" they're brilliant.
All the good ones, you kinda nail quite quickly, but lyrics, I'm not really arsed about that. I've read that all the time people thought Dylan's lyrics were nonsense. But when you listen to them in the context of the music, they're magnificent. I guess if you read the Arctic Monkeys' lyrics, you think that's a piece of work. The stories in Morrissey's lyrics, you don't need the song to bring it to life.

Liam: We were out on the piss onre day in the village and brought back a load of f**king people, a couple of chicks and geezers, y'know, just the ladsan' that having a bit of a party. Noel's come in and flung everybody out. Me and him had a bit of a go. I think I smashed the gaff up pretty tasty, actually. I remember waking up up the next day, in the corner, that's tipped up. I think I'd smashed me leg up, and I went back to Wigan with [designer] Brian Cannon. We went to Wigan Pier, on Crutches.

Champagne Supernova

Album track: (What's The Story) Morning Glory
Released: October 2, 1995
Highest chart position: 1
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: "Champagne Supernova" was kinda like our "Stairway To Heaven" at the time. I remember Weller coming down to do the guitar solo, and we all just got absolutely steaming drunk f**king pissed. Mixed it drunk. And it still breaks my heart to this day when i hear it. "Why didn't you turn the solo up?" he asked me. "I didn't fu**ing mix it", I said. So he starts having a go at me: "You fu**ing turned it down on purpose, you c**t." And I'm like: "Why would I do that, mate, you're a miles better guitarist than I am..." But I remember those being good times in the studio. Coz we'd already had the success of Definitely Maybe, we knew we could do it, d'you know what I mean?

Liam: That's a fu**ing mega tune. I like the title, me. That's when it was like, that's when it was havin' it. The name says it all, d'you know what I mean? Champagne Supernova. What the f**k's that about! I haven't got a clue. It just reminds me of getting pissed, in a big style way. F**kin' havin' loads of fu**ing drugs. That's what that means. Champagne just means booze and Supernova is fu**ing out of it! We usually play it around the end of the night. I'm usually a big fu**ed by then.

Don't Look Back In Anger

Single taken from the album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Highest chart position: 1
Released: February 19, 1996
Produced by: Owen Morris/Noel Gallagher

Noel: That all started in Paris. I remember, and I would never fu**ing do this now, It's so fu**ing ridiculous... we were in Paris playing with The Verve, and I had the chords for that song. We were due to play two days later. Our first ever big arena gig, it's called Sheffield Arena now. It was called something else then. The Verve pulled out, because of a flight or something, and they were breaking up for the first time. I got to the soundcheck, and I wrote the words out in the dressing room, and we actually fu**ing played it that night, in front of like, fu**ing 18,000 people or something like that. On acoustic guitar. Sat on a stool. Like and idiot. I never fu**ing do that now. And it'a the biggest song of the night now, when we play it live. Which must do Liam's head in because he doesn't sing it but it makes me feel pretty good.

Source: Uncut Magazine

Forthcoming Liam BBC Radio 1 Appearance

Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray, revealed on his show on Monday evening that Liam will appear on the show on Thursday 19th October at 10pm.

Noel Gallagher - 'I Suffered After Knebworth'

Oasis guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher has admitted he suffered after the band played their massive Knebworth shows in 1996 - because he didn't know what to do next.

The band played the gigs to 250,000 on the back of the huge success of their first two albums - 1994 debut 'Definitely Maybe' and '(What's The Story) Morning Glory' in 1995.

However speaking exclusively in this month's to NME's sister title Uncut, Gallagher revealed that the comedown affected him badly.

"The plan was always to become the biggest band in the world," he recalled. "And as much as everybody around us and me used to say it, I was the only one who fucking believed it was going to happen. Like Alan McGee (head of the band's label Creation), like Liam (Gallagher, singer), they would say the words and all that, but, in hindsight, everyone was just going along with what I was saying.

"But I knew it was fucking going to happen. I knew in me bones it was gonna happen. After that, at the time, dong the biggest ever gigs in England, 'Morning Glory' being the biggest album in British history, it was like, 'Well, what now?'

"I remember sitting there, at Knebworth, in the backstage area, and someone saying, 'Well, what now?' And I was like, 'I couldn't fucking tell ya.' And that was how I felt for a good couple of years afterwards, I really suffered. It's like, what do you do when you've done everything. I suppose it's like getting a massive, massive pay rise and buying everything you want. What do you do after that? You kind of sink into boredom. Kind of directionless.

"For the full story and the band's track-by-track guide to their forthcoming Best Of, 'Stop The Clocks', get Uncut now, on sale in all good newsagents.

source: www.nme.com

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

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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