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Noel Gallagher Is Far From Idle
If you paid close attention to "Don't Believe the Truth" — last year's subtly scathing effort from Mancunian supergroup Oasis — the truth itself was obvious: Bandleader Noel Gallagher had had enough of his adopted hometown of London.
If one more obsessive fan approached him with a camera phone begging for a quick snapshot, he grumbled at the time, he would gladly dropkick said cellular straight up the street. So it's no surprise that the star has finally made his disdain official. "I've just moved out of London and back into the English countryside," Gallagher reveals. "I just moved into my new Buckinghamshire mansion.
"The guitarist's bratty kid brother, Oasis frontman Liam, has just ditched his old digs, as well. "So he's living in a flat full of cardboard boxes at the moment," Noel chuckles, phoning from home. "Right now, he's in the pub'round the corner from my house, just drinking on his own. How sad is that?"
In reality, the Gallaghers were merely enjoying their post-world-tour down time, with no plans whatsoever of entering a recording studio in the near future.
But Oasis is still maintaining a high profile this fall. There's the long-overdue single release of its early B-side "Acquiesce" (which ships to radio this week), a new best-of anthology "Stop the Clocks" on Columbia and a full-length concert documentary hitting theaters, the aptly-titled "Lord Don't Slow Me Down.
"Not to mention, of course, the current heavy TV/radiorotation of early chestnut "All Around the World," as heard in that steady stream of AT&T ads.
So how, exactly, does an artist of Noel Gallagher's stature suddenly change residence? Yard sales are simply out of the question when you want to jettison your belongings, he sighs.
But he hit on a unique solution. Over a laborious three-day period, he says, "I actually put all my junk and clothes and stuff I didn't need into black bin bags, we call'em, or refuse sacks. And then I called the local Oxfam, a charity shop, and I got someone else to be here when they arrived. Because if the guys had seen it was me, it would've all ended up in Sotheby's. So I gave it all to charity and nobody knows," he laughs.
"It's all out there somewhere — people are walking around in my old clothes, eating off my old plates, enjoying all the old bits that I don't need."
As he cleaned house, Gallagher stumbled on a few items he just couldn't part with. "Like loads of unmarked cassettes and CDs that didn't have any writing on'em. I'd stick them in, and a couple of'em were just me, sitting in my front room, playing acoustic guitar, just working out songs. And some of'em were songs that I've yet to record which I'd forgotten about, and that was quite special, just listening to all of those one night.
"Gallagher wasn't finished rummaging. Carefully, he and his sibling combed the Oasis catalog to select the 18 classics for "Stop the Clocks.
"They arrived at an interesting mix of U.S. hits ("Wonderwall," "Live Forever"), U.K. smashes ("Lyla," "Some Might Say," "Don't Look Back in Anger") and pet B-sides ("Talk Tonight," "The Masterplan," alongside the crowd-pleasing show staple "Acquiesce").
"All the choices for the album are quite obvious, so it's put together for the fans," says Gallagher. As a composer, he's most proud of his vintage "Slide Away" and "Truth's" recent "The Importance Being Idle," he says. "Simply because nobody writes songs like that anymore. I mean, 'Idle' is a song about being lazy, but it's very Kinks, very swinging'60s. And I love 'Slide Away,' because it should've been a single and never was, so it's the one song that hasn't been overplayed to death. I find big hit singles these days are all incredibly commercial. Even bands who claim to be punk like Green Day are anything but."
As Gallagher tells it, there was a three-year period shortly after the band's "Definitely Maybe" 1994 debut "where everything I wrote was fantastic."
"Acquiesce" and "The Masterplan" hail from that productive period. But if Oasis had saved those precious B-sides to release instead of its third coolly received "Be Here Now" album, he reckons, "We would've gone on to be possibly one of the biggest bands of all time. Uhhh, not that we're not anyway. But I think we would've been as big as U2."
Oasis — thanks to its media-fueled rivalry with fellow English outfit Blur — went on to launch, then practically define, the Britpop movement. Unlike Blur's chameleonesque Damon Albarn, though, Noel Gallagher never altered his trademark sound — pealing cathedral guitars propped by huge flying-buttress riffs and Liam's snippy, Lennon-inspired sneer.
And persistence paid off.The group would suffer several lineup changes, but go on to sell over 50 million records.
"All Around the World" was one of the few career coups that failed to make the "Clocks" cut. "Only because it was just too damned long and we couldn't find a place for it anywhere," Gallagher says. But thanks to AT&T, the track now receives more airplay than any other Oasis standard.
When he first heard of the offer, Gallagher quickly nixed the idea. "But Liam, bless him, said, 'Look — that song's 10 years old, we never play it, so why don't you just cash in on it?' And I said, 'How much is it again?' and the figure came back, and it wasn't a very difficult decision after that. But the advert has no presence in England at all. It's not shown anywhere. But you go to the States, and you're bombarded with our song, or the 10 seconds of it that comes on.
"Oasis might be resting on its laurels this holiday season, but Gallagher himself is far from idle.
He just joined his pals Kasabian (also featured in Baillie Walsh's "Lord" flick, which follows the groups, plus Aussie upstarts Jet, on a nine-month tour) onstage at an NME-sponsored bash.
He also taped two Beatles covers for an upcoming BBC tribute to John Lennon, one with Stereophonics, another with Cornershop and Johnny Marr; as well as tracked a few new home demos, with 6-year-old daughter Anais singing along on a few. "She's got a fantastic voice — seriously!" dad enthuses. "But unfortunately, she does like Kylie Minogue, which is something that I'm not too pleased about."
Rich is the examined life, as they say. And reflecting on his illustrious career, Gallagher says, has been a quite pleasant experience indeed.
With, of course, a few minor glitches in the memory circuit.
For example, one time in Thailand in 1998. Gallagher laughs, "When we were out at some bar, and there was this incessant HI-NRG dance music playing in a bar across the street. And I was thinking 'Wait a minute! I'm sure that's a version of "Some Might Say"! So we went across the street and up to the DJ, and it was a HI-NRG disco version of our song, completely illegal, recorded by some Thai person."
The DJ had no idea who I was. But I said 'Gimme that CD!' even though there were lots of British people in the bar going mad when he played it. And Liam and I were like, that doesn't sound like Oasis, that sounds atrocious! And that — not AT & T — is easily the weirdest place I've ever heard one of our songs."
Source: www.insidebayarea.com
The Masterplan Video Exclusive On MSN
You are able to view the brand new video for The Masterplan on MSN now! The animated video sees Oasis transported into a stunning world based entirely on the paintings of legendary northern artist L.S Lowry including subtle modern day twists and detailing.
The UK TV exclusive of the video will be aired on Top Of The Pops, BBC2 at 8pm on the 21st October
Source: www.oasisinet.com
New Content Added To The Stop Clock Including Online Frustrustration Game!
New content has been added to the Stop Clock today including a new film clip, a new down loadable clip, the brand new Acquiesce video streamed PLUS an online version of the game Frustration. Last week we posted a film clip of the band playing Frustration back stage at one of their gigs – now you can play the game too but online!
Click on the bullseye on the Stop Clock dartboard!
Source: www.oasisinet.com
It's The Saints v The Sinners
Domestic relations between Liam Gallagher and his girl Nicole Appleton are about to be put through the toughest test possible.
Never mind arguing about money, who does the dishes or who left soggy towels on the bedroom floor.
Liam’s band Oasis are going head to head with Nicole’s re-formed girl band All Saints in an epic album chart battle next month.
And that can mean only one thing with hothead Liam and gobby Nicole — brace yourselves for fireworks!
Oasis are releasing their greatest hits album Stop The Clocks on November 20.
That happens to be exactly the same date for the All Saints relaunch and eagerly anticipated comeback effort Studio 1.
I bumped into Liam on Wednesday night in North London boozer The Hawley Arms and asked him if there was any possibility of Nicole and Co leaving him red-faced.
Defiant Liam barked back: “No f*****g chance.”
The couple were out for a few sherries after an exhibition opening in Camden.
And it could be their last civil night on the town before they get down to business in a battle for the top spot.
It is a rare occasion when couples, siblings or even close relations take each other on in the charts. I think this could even be the first time. If you know otherwise, email me.
Oasis are the obvious favourites, with a massive fan base already queuing up to get the definitive back catalogue of the Manchester band’s hits.
But the All Saints revival has drummed up a lot of interest too.
And if the Take That comeback is anything to go by in judging the nation’s hunger for pop reminiscing, then I reckon Shazney Lewis, Mel Blatt and the Appleton sisters Nicole and Natalie will do well.
But there is no question Oasis will come out on top.
The real battle facing Liam, brother Noel, Gem Archer and Andy Bell will come from across the Irish Sea.
Dublin supergroup U2 are also launching a “Best Of” album in November.
Oasis versus U2 has to be one of the most exciting chart battles for years.
And even if Oasis beat All Saints hands down, there is still a good chance Liam will be in a strop if U2 do the business.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Fratelli Stars Wrangle With Gallaghers Minder
The Fratellis frontman Jon Fratelli and Oasis's Noel Gallagher's bodyguard nearly came to blows after the singer thought the minder was trying to attack his girlfriend.
The rising British star was convinced he spotted Gallagher's security guard attempting to hit his girlfriend over the head with a camera at a gig on the Spanish island of Ibiza this summer (AUG06).
But he soon realised he was actually trying to stop it from hitting her, and spent the rest of the evening grovelling to him. He says, "I thought he was trying to hit my girlfriend in the head with a camera. But it turned out he trying to stop the camera from hitting her.
I went 'What the f**k are you doing?' "He was so nice about it that I was apologising to him for the rest of the night.
Source: www.contactmusic.com
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
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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
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
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