Noel Gets Home Win Over Mike

Noel Gallagher has won his long-running court case with Mike Oldfield — creator of Tubular Bells — over his Ibizan villa.

The Oasis guitarist bought a holiday home on the Spanish island from Mike for £2.5million in 1999, but quickly found part of the property was slipping into the sea.

Noel’s resulting legal action became a talking point for the Ibiza set.

Now the case has finally been settled, with Noel being awarded a sum believed to run into six figures.

A source said: “It was nothing personal. But it’s funny Noel has landed a small fortune from another major music star.”

Noel and girlfriend Sara MacDonald spent most of the summer at the villa.

When he bought it he was annoyed by the huge “eyesore” of a yacht moored in his view. It turned out it was his with the house.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

The Better Man? Oasis, Sans Liam

Even back in their chaotic heyday, that coke-fuelled period during the mid-'90s that Noel Gallagher claims not to be able to remember, there were two different versions of Oasis.

There was the brash rock band, driven by the two brawling brothers at its forefront. And then there was songwriter/guitarist Noel's more refined and reflective, quasi-solo side-act -- the one he would break out for B-sides, acoustic sets in the middle of Oasis' arena shows and when singing sibling Liam bailed on him mere minutes before the band's MTV Unplugged session.

That split has lingered through Oasis' improbably long career. But on Tuesday night, a small contingent of the Mancurians' Toronto fan base got a demonstration of how much both incarnations have evolved.

Crammed into the Danforth Music Hall for an unusually intimate gathering to mark the release of a new best-of compilation and tour DVD, the faithful were first treated to an airing of the film. Although less a documentary than an homage to the band, the stylish production drove home what's been obvious to anyone who's caught Oasis' live act in the past couple of years.

Gone are the days of cancelled shows and onstage blow-ups. In their place is an increasingly slick and professional -- if still hard-partying and intermittently cantankerous -- rock machine. If anything, the shows -- whose set lists rarely change -- have become predictable. But they've become a ritual for the band's enormously devoted fans, who put more arms in the air and sing a little louder with each visit.

Arguably more entertaining, though, is Noel's emergence as a different sort of generational presence: elder statesman. In large part, that role involves putting his dry, profane wit to use telling war stories and passing judgment on every young band that comes along. But what sometimes passes unnoticed is the form that it took on Tuesday night.

However much he tries to pass himself off as an indifferent curmudgeon, the drug-free and increasingly worldly Gallagher is an inherently earnest and impassioned performer. Liam gives his songwriting brother's creations technical prowess and a dose of charisma; Noel, when he takes over vocal duties, gives them heart.

Accompanied only by fellow Oasis guitarist Gem Archer (who doubled on keyboard duties) and percussionist Terry Kirkbride, Gallagher mostly bypassed the familiar Oasis hits in favour of more obscure album tracks. And drawing heavily from the his 1994-95 catalogue, Gallagher served reminder of how absurdly prolific his songwriting was during that period -- many of the B-sides holding up as well or better than the take on Wonderwall.

But his fans already knew that. What they might have been more surprised by -- those who weren't too busy spoiling the vibe bellowing song requests to notice -- was the musicianship.

It's one thing to breeze through the same standards every night. It's quite another to roll out flawless new arrangements of neglected old chestnuts and actually improve on them, as he did with everything from a folksy Whatever to an impassioned Slide Away to a bluesy Married with Children, which closed the night.

As Oasis often has, Gallagher opened his encore with a cover of a Beatles song -- Strawberry Fields Forever, this time. It was perfectly proficient, but equally unnecessary. Once written off as nothing more than a Beatles imitator, the older and wiser Noel is more than capable of getting by on his own merits these days.

Source: National Post

The Greying Of Oasis

Once considered the consummate British rock yob, Noel Gallagher is looking suspiciously gentlemanly these days.

The affable Oasis bandleader strolls into an interview at an uptown hotel dressed rather nattily in a black wool jacket and crimson scarf with a distinguished shock of grey hair protruding over his forehead, projecting the air of a man who has joined the ranks of the rock 'n' roll aristocracy.

Gallagher and younger brother/sparring partner Liam, of course, have been predicting this would happen from day one, to the continual (and continuing) ire of their detractors. But Oasis's unwavering "superstar" profile in Britain, the durability of its smash early-'90s output and some 50 million in record sales have, over time, assured the band a place in history.

And if a combination of cocaine and hubris contributed to a rapid tail-off from the early peaks of 1994's Definitely Maybe and 1995's (What's The Story) Morning Glory, the last couple of records — made with the stronger-than-ever assistance of new members Gem Archer, former Ride guitarist Andy Bell and Zak "Son of Ringo" Starkey — have been decent enough to foster hope of another definitive statement at some point in the future. A few weeks ago, Britain's Q Awards still saw fit to named Oasis "the best band in the world," so it's hardly over.

"Morning Glory does cast a long shadow over everything else," shrugs Gallagher. "And even when that came out, in Britain people were saying `Well, it's not Definitely Maybe.' But I'd rather be in that position than, you know, Placebo — I don't mean to bring that band down, although they are shite — so it doesn't bother me now. I'm used to it."

Noel's trip to Toronto was officially undertaken to promote Stop The Clocks, a double-disc anthology being released by Sony/BMG despite the band's exit from the label after last year's Don't Believe The Truth.

He concedes mixed feelings about the "greatest hits" thing and has said in the past that Oasis would only release one in the event of its demise. But since Sony was going to release it with or without the band's participation, he and Liam felt "obliged" to participate.

"We were left with the dilemma of do you get involved and make sure it's done properly with the right songs, or do you not get involved and make sure it's done improperly with the wrong songs," he says. "It's not really a decision that was very difficult to make. If there's Oasis records going in the f--kin' shop I want to be behind them."

To make the promo trip more interesting, Gallagher and Archer are performing acoustic gigs in various cities around the globe — Starkey is on loan to The Who, so Oasis dates were impossible — in tandem with screenings of the new tour documentary, Lord Don't Slow Me Down, as they did Tuesday night at the Danforth Music Hall.

Directed by Baillie Walsh, who helmed the video for 2005's "Let There Be Love," Lord Don't Slow Me Down is a backstage look at Oasis's 11-month slog behind Don't Believe The Truth. Gallagher admits it's not quite as exciting as a film chronicling the band's legendary "wild years" a decade ago might have been, but he's also relieved there were no cameras present then.

"I've seen it and I think it's great but, then, I would because it's me. So I'm not really the right person to ask," he laughs. "You don't get the drinking champagne out of f--kin' prostitutes' cowboy boots at 7 o'clock in the morning, no. Unfortunately. There are no live midget lesbian shows. Although there are midgets in the film. You can't do f--k all without midgets, can you? Every home should have one."

Oasis wrote enough songs for the last album that it "could start another album tomorrow if it wanted to," but for the moment the band is completely idle. There's no rush to sign another contract, nor to record.

"I'm enjoying the time off, really. I'm sittin' on my arse doing f--k all. I watch a lot of television and cater to my girlfriend's every f--kin' whim for the seven months that I see her. And then I don't see her for two years.
source: www.thestar.com

Oasisinet Latest Email

The release of the Stop The Clocks album is getting nearer and the STOP CLOCK has been updated again this week with two new film clips a wallpaper for your computer and a brand new competition. Check it out now!

NOEL AND GEM ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE AT LONDON KOKO SHOW
Last Thursday Noel and Gem performed a semi acoustic set at London s KOKO venue as part of an evening for the charity Focus12. The evening proved to be a huge hit with the lucky fans who managed to get tickets. Check out the NME review here www.nme.com/news/oasis/24958

LORD DONT SLOW ME DOWN PREVIEWS IN NEW YORK
Lord Don't Slow Me Down the Oasis on the road documentary film had its first advance screening at New Yorks CMJ festival on Saturday (4th November). Around 400 fans, some queuing up from 3am, attended the screening ... You can read the full story here www.nme.com/news/oasis/24974

STOPCLOCK EP
On 13th November 2006 in the UK 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 masterful 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 7in including an exclusive sheet of stickers:

Acquiesce
Cigarettes and Alcohol (demo version)
Some Might Say (live in 1995, venue unknown)
The Masterplan

FOPPS LONDON STORE OASIS PHOTO EXHIBITION
To coincide with the new Stop the Clocks album launch on the 20th November 2006, Rockarchive.com present an exclusive collection of images by photographer Jill Furmanovsky taken from her ground-breaking Oasis exhibition Was There Then. The music store FOPP play host to these iconic images at their flagship store on Tottenham Court Road from the 13th Nov 2006 to the 17th Dec 2006.

You will be able to view the photos at the store and images will be available for sale as limited edition signed prints. For sizes and pricing information, please contact fopp@rockarchive.com.
HAVE YOU SEEN OASIS...? GOOGLE VIDEO PROMOTIONTo 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.

Source: Email from www.oasisinet.com

Pictures From The Toronto Show

Thanks to Morning Glory For The Pictures

His Big Mouth

If you thought Noel was a bit of a gobby shite, here's some of Liam's wit and wisdom.

"There's Elvis and me. I couldn't say which of the two is best"

"I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fu**ing good-looking f**k you are., And then i brighten up."

"Put me in a room with any of these (other) bands - they wouldn.t f**king walk out alive. I'd put money on it."

"Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head onstage. They get a bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it."

"I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that"

"Noel and I don't speak to each other. That's probably best. We see each other, but I've got nothing to say to him. There's a difference between disagreements and hating each other. me and him are cool. We're brothers. We're never gonna split up. We're f**king family"

"Rock 'n' roll for me, 10 years ago was going out and getting f**king hammered and not really caring about the music because someone else was taking care of it. Now I'm writing music. I feel a bit more... what's the word? I don't know, responsible."

"I'm not Mick Jagger, man. I don't think singers who start off singing should play guitar. It looks f**king stupid."

"Every now and again I'll go out and f**king fall over, make a tit of myself. But the joy in my life - I just stay in and play guitar."

"It's great, man, that people are still interested in us. But it's great that I'm still interested in me."

"Was 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' just 'Get It On' by T.Rex? Oh totally!"

" I don't have a bad word to say about 'Be Here Now' The only person who's got a problem is Noel."

"People are always on about, 'Oh, you've failed in America'. I've never failed at anything in my entire life. I got out of the bedroom when I was a young f**king lad, and I'm in a great f**king band. And now we're playing at Madison Square Garden."

"Am I still the walrus? I'm not the walrus. The walrus was Noel. I'm just me, man."

"I'm not good at going onstage and telling people I love them. People might take that as being a bit of a arrogant twat, but that's just the way I am."

Source: NME Magazine

Live Review: Noel Gallagher In T.O.

Toronto - There was definitely a feeling of occasion last night at the Danforth Music Hall as Oasis guitarist-songwriter-singer Noel Gallagher played a rare show on his own.

A sign of things to come for the Manchester rock band?

Not bloody likely, if Oasis frontman and Noel’s brother Liam Gallagher has anything to do with it.

The concert, which sold out quickly and saw scalpers getting at least $250 per ticket, was just one of a half-dozen or so shows that Gallagher is performing around the world to promote the upcoming Oasis best-of, Stop The Clocks, in stores Nov. 21.

It had been billed as an unplugged performance, but Gallagher was joined by Oasis rhythm guitarist Gem, who played both lead electric guitar and organ, and drummer-percussionist Terry Kirkbride for his hour-and-ten-minute set.

The material leaned towards b-sides, with a mix of crowd favourites like Talk Tonight, Half The World Away, The Importance Of Being Idle and Slide Away and full-out hits Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back InAnger — all of which are on Clocks.

Gallagher even trotted out the Beatles classic Strawberry Fields Forever for his encore.

Now if only he had been able to shut up the enthusiastic (drunk?) crowd, who were on their feet from the opening song and continually shouted out requests and words of admiration no matter how quiet it got on stage.

“There’s no reason to shout out song titles,” said Gallagher, in exasperation at one point. “I have prepared a set list which I’m not going to deviate from.”

The often hilarious, black-and-white rockumentary, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, which was filmed during Oasis’ last tour, was also given its Canadian premiere at the Danforth before Gallagher took the stage. (He was in New York screening the film before he got to Toronto.)

“Did you enjoy the film?” he asked. “Is it any good? Do I look good?”

Truthfully, it’s a pretty funny document of Oasis behind-the-scenes, whether it’s a camera spying on Liam’s child-like dancing around a silent, empty room, or Noel spouting his usual bon mots at the expense of his brother.

“Liam is going to go bald,” he is heard saying towards the end of the movie. “When Liam goes bald, that’s when we’ll pack it in.”

Source : www.jam.canoe.ca

More Oasis Acoustic Shows

Oasis braintrust Noel Gallagher has never been one to mince words, God bless him.

So if the Manchester-born songwriter and guitarist had his way, Oasis wouldn't be releasing a greatest hits package, the two-disc Stop The Clocks, on Nov. 21.

"If it was up to me, it wouldn't be coming out until Oasis wasn't around anymore," said Gallagher in Toronto yesterday before his acoustic performance last night with rhythm guitiarist Gem at the Danforth Music Hall.

SONY OWNS RIGHTS

However, it was either cooperate with the band's former label, Sony-BMG, from which they've since parted, or not be involved in Stop The Clocks' track listing and art work at all.

"They own all the rights to everything, so we were informed that they were going to do a retrospective of some description by Christimas -- did we want to get involved?" explained Gallagher. "Well, if it is has to be now, it has to be now. Don't be surprised if there's a singles album following this. They're well within their rights to do it."

A BATCH OF NEW SONGS

Gallagher, who said he's currently got about 30 new songs in rough form for the next Oasis studio album, isn't sure who Oasis will sign with next on this side of the pond but they'll stick with their own indie label, Big Brother, in England.

"We won't be going back to Sony," he said. "They're all right for us in Canada, so we might stay with them in Canada. In America, I feel they kind of let us down a wee bit. I balance that by saying they didn't really dig our unprofessionalism. They found it very difficult to actually grasp the concept that we actually didn't give a f---. And they thought, 'Well, if they don't give a f---, we don't give a f---.' That's how I see it anyway. I don't bear any malice towards any of them. They've got a business to run."

Gallagher said Oasis fans shouldn't hold their breath for the next studio disc -- it definitely won't be out in 2007 -- but he did offer a hint at the sound.

"Some of it's great,"he said. "But for what it's worth, a lot of my songs will probably end up being acoustic. But not in the Cat Stevens sense. 'Cause a lot of (2005's) Don't Believe The Truth was kind of acoustic-driven. But when you get into a studio, it all goes out the f---in' window and you just go, 'Let's rock!'"

To promote Stop The Clocks then, Gallagher and Gem are on a mini-tour of acoustic performances that began last Thursday in London and after Toronto will be followed by stops in L.A., Tokyo, Manchester, Paris and Milan.

Noel said his younger brother and Oasis lead singer Liam wasn't part of the trek because he "doesn't do acoustic performances. He doesn't do promotion. What's the point of him being here?"

Meanwhile, the Oasis road movie, Lord Don't Slow Me Down, was to be screened in Toronto last night at the Danforth before the acoustic set, and is expected to be released as a DVD in Canada next year.

Gallagher said director Baillie Walsh was given carte blanche to shoot the band on the road during their tour for Don't Believe The Truth. Sadly none of their stops in Canada were filmed.

"There's no gringey-bits for me in it," said Gallagher of the film. "Liam wears some very questionable clothes in it. Shorts at one point. That's no good for being in a band. And some very questionable headware. But there's a lot of drinking involved and a lot of talking absolute nonsense. It's quite funny in places.

"The opening scene is very funny. When I'd seen it, I cried with laughter. It involves extremely large bottles of champagne which are called methusals, and there's a scene of a lot of people trying to open this bottle of champagne. It gets, very, very, very, stupid 'cause everyone's f---in' a--holed.'"

Source: www.torontosun.com

You Won't Believe This But Liam's Got Self-Esteem Issues"

Best get comfy - Noel Gallagher's of a mind to put the world, from his brother to the monkeys, to rights

A pink f**king pinstripe suit! With a white vest! F**king hell"

Noel Gallagher is rolling around with laughter on a sofa in Wheeler End Studios - the Buckinghamshire retreat where Beatles memrobilia covers the walls, Union Jacks line the toilet seats and Oasis have spent the past seven years calling a second home. "I was in our office doing something and it just jumped out at me across the room, like 'What the f**k is over there!? Only he could get away with the pink suit - colossal man, just f**king colossal!" Noel is of course, talking about his younger brother's choice of outfit on the cover of Hello! magazine this summer at Tazmin Outhwaite's wedding.

Over the course of our afternoon with him we'll hear many new things described as "colossal", the new favourite word in the Oasis leader's vocabulary. Kasabian are colossal, as is - perhaps more surprisingly, given that this is the supposed patron saint of lad-rock we're talking to - The Gossip's 'Standing In The Way Of Control'. All those times in the mid-90s, being in the biggest band on the planet, flying around the world "with a load of mates, drinking beer, taking drugs and eating KFC" were, obviously colossal. And perhaps most revealingly, text messaging, which allows him to fob people off when he's not in the mood to be sociable with a concise, "Not coming out. C U L8R", is also deemed a worthy recipient of this newest superlative.

See, 2006 was all set to be a quiet year for Oasis (and thus rock 'n' roll in general). One where Liam's sartorial adventures could well have ended up the highlight. There was the tail-end of the triumphant 'Don't Believe The Truth' tour that ended in March, but that looked like the end of the world's Oasis fix until 2007.

However, in early September, the whispers started about 'Stop The Clocks', the Best Of which Noel had previously claimed wouldn't be released until Oasis split, but which is seeing the light of day now, because of contractual obligations to the band's former record label, Sony. To cut a long story short, it would have come out anyway, so the band decided to get involved to ensure the tracks included, the artwork and, indeed, the title (taken from an as-yet-unreleased song that features the line, "stop the clocks/lock the box and leave it all behind") were to there taste, not their ex-marketing manager's.

"Every f**king person I've spoken to in the last few weeks has said, 'Why's they're no tracks from 'Be Here Now'?"' Noel groans, anticipating NME's next question as to whether the omission might be him finally admitting that, in the scheme of Oais albums, it actually wasn't very good. "No. I narrowed it down to about 30 tunes, which was too many - that's like a f**kin' prog rock record or something. 'D'You Know I Mean?' was on there for a bit, but it upset the flow on the album. And I was'nt gonna put a 'Be Here Now' track on there just for the sake of it. Perversely, i kind of like the fact that there's a whole album for people in the future, it's supposed to be a concise introduction to Oasis."

With tracklisting arguments now over 'Stop The Clocks' gives us all an excuse, once more, to immerse ourselves in the most vital, culturally significant British bands since the Sex Pistols; to remind ourselves of those still-unparalleled moments of rock 'n' roll brilliance that, as Noel puts it, "make you feel like you're 18, you've got a great new jacket on and you're going out to kiss the f**king sky". 'Rock 'N' Star', 'Live Forever', Champagne Bleedin' Bastard Super-F**king-Nova'...really, the strangest thing about an Oasis best Of being released in that there's no need to reminisce. These are songs that never went away, that are as important today as they were in the mid-90s. In short Oasis are still the band to beat and everyone, including Noel, knows it.

"If I see one more advert on the TV for an album that says, 'Best guitar album since 'definitely Maybe'... f**king hell- I'll shoot whoever writes those f**king things!" he blasts. You flick through a magazine and it's 'Razorlight, 9/10, the best guitar album since 'Definitely Maybe'!' And I'm just like, Really? Not to my ears it ain't. I mean, it's flattering that album is still considered the benchmark, and that The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Razorlight and all that said that was the album for them, but come on. I think a lot of these bands are... not fake, but just copying the blueprint.

You're always looking at Johnny Borrell or him out of The Kooks and going, 'I dunno if you mean it, man' When you see those bands, there's just something not quite right. It doesn't get you 110 per cent, like when the great bands - those bands come along. Do you not think Arctic Monkeys are one of those bands? "Well they're good, but their public persona is now of a bunch of grumpy old men, even though they're 19, d'you know what i mean?

I think they were a good kick up the arse, but I'm a bit worried about what's going to follow in their wake. If it's gonna be a load of c**ts with guitars up here (does air-Alex Turner guitar, adopts Sheffield twang) going, 'And me mum works down the f**king chip shop, she met a geezer...' and all that. Great pop music is not about real life, it's about how great life can be. Real life's f**king shit! But yeah, I suppose they're what Oasis were - like the elixir of life to a different generation, with different values. The MySpace generation."

Are you a MySpace user?
"My missus has got a computer, but I can't even switch it off, let alone on. Gem will sit downstairs and yak on about all this shit he's seen on YouTube, like old La's interviews or whatever. Or I'll phone him and tell him about an album I've heard, then about an hour later he's downloaded all the songs from f**kin MySpace. It's Mad." Do you think that's a good thing? "This generation of kids just rely on the technology - that's what they want. These days you can see f**king Johnny Borrell in his pants going through the bass parts, and that just strips awaythe magic for me. Everyone just wants more and more information.

All the fantasy's gone out of music, 'cos everything is too fu**ing real. Every album comes with a DVD with some c**t going, 'Yeah well, we tried the drums over there, but...' Give a shit, man! It makes people seem to human, whereas I was bought up on Marc Bolan and David Bowie, and it was like, 'Do they actually come from f**king Mars?'"

The modern world then, for Noel Gallagher, despite its seemingly unwavering love for his group, sometimes feels like it has changed, almost beyond recognition. He goes to Arctic Monkeys gigs and gets blown away by the fact that the fans know all the words to songs that aren't even released; he freaks out when hi daughter want to go on "my-f**king-pony-dot-com" and he can't show her how, and he won't be buying glowsticks and time soon.

"I saw Klaxons in Ibiza with Kasabian," he gasps "and it was like torture! Either all their instruments were broken, or they didn't have a clue what they were doing. That new rave stuff in the NME - fu**ing shocking!" And then there's politics. This remember, is a man who, at the Brit Awards in 1996 declared: "There are seven people in this room giving a little bit of hope to young people in this country - that's me, our kid, Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White, Alan McGee and Tony Blair. And if you've got anything about you, get up there and shake Tony Blair's hand. He's the Man."

Fast forward 10 years, and Oasis are set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at next year's Brits. This time, you suspect, their leader won't be praising the man who once made thinly veiled references to cocaine with him at Number 10 Downing Street. "I tell you what New Labour have achieved," Noel says, thinking back to those heady days. "They've destroyed politics in this country. Because I don't know anyone who, next time around is gonna f***ing vote. It means nothing. "That's a bad thing though isn't it? "Well I guess all the anarchists and Thom Yorkes of this world, who are like, 'All politicians are baaas' - they recon they've been trying to destroy politics for years. And unwittingly, the Labour Party have done it for themselves, because everybody's so disillusioned with it now.

Left and right doesn't mean anything - it's all this middle ground that's just nothing. The bank of f***in' England are in charge. Life's still shit for most people who have to get up and go to work, but that's the other thing about all this technology - everyone can afford an ipod, so they think life's f***ing great; every c**t's got a plasma screen and a computer, and a mobile phone with a video camera in it, and they think it's great because you can shop online and get all this stuff delivered to your house. Everything's affordable, so everyone thinks things are ok. There's not alot of soul to British life anymore, I don't think."

We're about to ask what he thinks of The Horrors' hairdos, but Noel Gallagher is not finished yet. "And then you think about the extreme Islamists and the neo-conservatives in the west. That's it for them now - they're at war forever and ever. And it's worse for a place like Britain, which is so multicultural, and where some people don't need much encouragement to be f***ing racist. There's always a debate on Sky News, with somebody who's for these draconian measures to lock every f***er up and there's always somebody who's against it.

And they're all shouting! You're just like, 'Fu**ing hell, man - surely it's not that f**ing bad. People don't hate each other'. it's just these extremists in our community, in Whitehall, It's fu**ing bad darts, man. He's right, of course. But thankfully, with Noel, one thing that's never far away, even when he's discussing the state of the world, is a side-splittingly funny story.

"I'll tell you what, though," he begins by way of introduction, "it makes travelling around the world a pain in the arse. I had a problem with my visa in the States recently, where i got pulled in Texas and grilled for about two and a half hours. I'm there going 'just phone anyone in England! Email them a photo! Ask them and they'll go, 'Oh that's 'im out of Oasis'. Three months later I'm at the same airport on holiday with my missus and it happens again! Some guy looks at his screen and goes 'Follow me sir' This guy calls someone else over, they're both looking at the screen and after a few minutes he says to me, '(Adopts hilariousTexan accent) Can you answer a question for me, sir?' Now I'm getting annoyed at this point, so I'm like, 'What about?' and he goes (Comedic pause) What was it like when y'all met Pete Townshend?' He's holding this massive gun, going "Cos I seen y'all played 'Won't Get Fooled Again', and I'm just thinking, 'Fu**ing hell - ain't you got work to do?'''

As preposterous as this fu**ing sounds," laughs Noel, as we return to the subject of Oasis, "Liams got self-esteem issues. Whenever he plays you a tune he's written, he is expecting you to be in total awe. So when we're just like 'Yeah it's good, let's record it', he's expecting more and he can't understand. I'm always trying to say to him, 'The core of Oasis is about three fundamental things: the songs' me and you. Without one of those things, it all just falls down. Sometimes I wish he'd just accept that."

See, it's still the same things driving Oasis. Noel's right: it is about the songs, him and Liam, but it's also about the tension between them. Noel will never understand why Liam thinks it's cool to walk offstage, Liam will never understand why his brother is the only person he knows who isn't in awe of him. Noel will never wear a pink suit or be pictured in the tabloids fighting, liam will never see what's wrong with either of those things.

This is what puts Oasis in this unheard -of position: even on the eve of a Best Of, and while receiving awards that should signify something close to the end, they still matter. And 'Sto The Clocks' is just a pit-stop, before charging headlong into the future. The next 12 years of Oasis, you'd wager, are gonna be fu**ing colossal.

Source: NME Magazine

Noel Gallagher & Gem's Acoustic Show In Toronto Setlist

These are the songs Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Canada earlier today.

(It's Good) To Be Free
Talk Tonight
Fade Away
Cast No Shadow
The Importance Of Being Idle
Listen Up
Half The World Away
Wonderwall
Whatever
Slide Away
Strawberry Fields
Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Married With Children

Oasis Stop the Clocks, Not The Band

Oasis' Noel Gallagher has embarked on a mini-world tour to promote his band's best-of CD, 'Stop the Clocks,' due out Nov. 21.

The axeman's next tour city will be Los Angeles, where he'll play Friday. So far Gallagher's solo sets have consisted of 14 songs, only half of which actually appear on the new CD/DVD package. Gallagher says the shows, including one in London, England, last week, have been, well, interesting.

"[It] was very boisterous. It was quite overwhelming, to be honest," he tells AOL Music. "I sat on a chair with a guitar, and I couldn't hear anything over the crowd singing. My sound engineer tried to rectify it and ended up blowing up the PA."
Known for their tumultuous history, which has seen walkouts by frontman Liam Gallagher and the departure of several members over the years, we wondered whether the album provides some kind of closure.

"I guess it's the end of something. I don't think it's the end of the band," Gallagher says. "Nobody's expressed any interest in doing anything else other than another album."

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This Weeks NME

"New rave? Fuckin' shockin'" Oasis on bust-ups, Best Ofs, pink suits and just generally having a right good groan about everything...













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Oasis To Hit Studio This Month

Liam Gallagher wants to get going on new album

Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has revealed the band are likely to get started on their new studio album this month.

The rock giants release their Best Of compilation 'Stop The Clocks' on November 20, but Gallagher is keen to get started on the follow-up 'proper' to 2005's 'Don't Believe The Truth'.

He told NME's sister magazine Uncut: "I reckon we're going to start doing something this month, go to our studio. It's the bollocks. Fuckin' old Tudor ranch in High Wycombe, fucking stay there and get it done. Just got to wait for Noel to finish his tunes I suppose."

Speaking about 'Stop The Clocks', which marks the end of the band's deal with SonyBMG, Gallagher added: "I want to get this (album) out of the fucking way, it's doing my head in. To me, it's the last of however fucking long, the last 16 years of that label, that's done.

We can start again." Uncut is on sale now in all good newsagents, priced £4.20. See Uncut.co.uk for more information.

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Copycats!

Oasis rant at the new wave of rock bands

Noel Gallagher has blasted the current crop of rock pups claiming they're not a patch on Oasis in their heyday. The Oasis axeman singles out The Kooks and Razorlight for a particular bashing. His extraordinary rant also sees the elder statesman of Britrock taking a swipe at Arctic Monkeys.

Stop The Clocks, Oasis's first greatest hits collection, hits shops in a fortnight and the senior Gallagher, 39, is despondent about the guitar-toting groups of today.
He Rages: "If I see one more advert on the TV for an album that says 'Best guitar album since Definitely Maybe' I'll shoot whoever writes those f***ing things!"

"It's flattering that it's still considered the benchmark, and that The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Razorlight and all said it was the album for them, but come on. I think a lot of these bands are just copying the blueprint . You're always looking at Johnny Borrell or him out of The Kooks and going: 'I dunno if you mean it man.' When you see those bands, there's something not quite right."

Alex Turner, 20, and his gang fare little better either. The guitarist reckons their dour image will really hamper their progress. In an interview with NME out today, he continues: "Their public persona is now of a bunch of grumpy old men." I'm worried about what's going to follow in their wake. If it's gonna be c***s with guitars going: 'And me mum works down the f***ing chip shop, she met a geezer' and all that." "Great pop music is not about real life, it's about how great real life can be. Real life's sh*t."

Now rave scene leaders Klaxons get the hair dryer treatment too. "I saw them in Ibiza with Kasabian," adds Noel. "It was like torture. "Either all their instruments were broken, or they didn't have a clue what they were doing!"

Who says that age mellows anybody?

Source: Daily Star

MTV Asia Interview With Noel

Unlike most "Best Of" albums of this nature, Oasis have sat down and undertaken the almost impossible job of picking what they consider to be their finest moments ever. So Stop The Clocks is imbued with the sort of wilfulness that has helped make Oasis the favorite band of millions of people worldwide and its running order will no doubt provoke equal parts adulation and bar discussions from the millions of Oasis fans worldwide. Could it ever be any other way?

Oasis have been at the helm of the world's music scene for over 10 years and, on November 20, 2006 the first ever Oasis retrospective will draw together the years of multi platinum albums, No. 1 singles and, unique to Oasis, instantly familiar B sides into one 18 track double album entitled Stop The Clocks. So here it is. The tracks as chosen by the band themselves -- the songs they believe encapsulate their remarkable career to date.

Stop the Clocks is released as Oasis take a well earned sabbatical prior to starting work on new material, destined for similar levels of success in the future. This is not a full stop, but merely a time out; a dream set list, and a chance for the world to review the immense contribution that Oasis have made and continue to make to rock 'n' roll.


Listen to the entire double-disc compilation album, Stop The Clocks, right here from now till November 20 and watch the MTV interview with Noel Gallagher! Click HERE to listen to the album.

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Launch For New Oasis Album

Fans of Manchester superband Oasis will get to hear an exclusive first play of their greatest hits album in its entirety at a special launch event next week.

City centre club Fifth Avenue will play the full, eighteen-track album from 10pm on Friday, November 17 - ahead of it going on sale the following Monday.

Revellers will be able to sway and swagger to the band's classic hits like Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger, while discussing the controversial omissions and inclusions on the Stop The Clocks hits compilation.

But don't expect to see Burnage-raised Noel and Liam Gallagher lads making an appearance at the Manchester launch. I'm told they won't be doing any regional promotion of the new album. Spoil sports.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Oasis Première Road Movie In New York

Noel Gallagher made a special appearance in New York City on Saturday (November 4) at the world première of new Oasis documentary 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down'.

Around 400 fans, some queuing up from 3am, attended the screening at the CMJ festival and took part in the following Q&A session with the Oasis leader.

Directed by Bailie Walsh, the man behind Oasis' 'Let There Be Love' video, the film captures follows the band's Don't Believe The Truth' world tour with a collection of backstage footage, on the road perfomances along with a series of band interviews.

Following the screening, Gallagher then answered questions from fans present, discussing The Beatles, his relationship with brother Liam Gallagher - he insisted it was "as good or bad as it ever was" - and the group's forthcoming best of 'Stop The Clocks'.

He also explained why the track of the same name does not feature on the collection.

"Despite various demos we never nailed what version we're all happy with," explained Gallagher of the us-yet-unreleased song, "but the title fits where we are now."

A fan also asked the guitarist why he claims Oasis' are "the greatest band in the world". "

I only go by what's on the charts," declared Gallagher in response. "I'm not interested in what's hip to music critics, what I was actually saying when I was saying I was the greatest thing since Elvis Presley was: 'I think I'm the best thing in the Top 40 and I think anybody whose from England would probably agree with that!'."

Oasis are set to release 'Stop The Clocks' on November 20, while 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' will be screened in the UK later this month.

New York NME staff

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Noel's Footie Wedding

Blue Bash For Lovely Sara

It's been one of the best weeks of Noel Gallagher's career. And it looks like things are only going to get better for thr Oasis star now he's planning to get wed.

The thrilling seven days included winning the title of Best Act In The World Today at the Q awards.

Now the beautiful Sara McDonald, 31, has said she'll marry the mono-browed icon next year. Our spies tell us that she's even agreed to a boozy party at the City of Manchester stadium so that the devoted Blue can show his true colours.

But the pair will say I do and enjoy their reception at the top of the city's Urbis museum, which boasts marvellous views of Manchester's skyline.

The couple will exchange their vows before heading to Manchester City's ground for a late night session, led by Noel, 39. Our source explained: "As everyone knows, Noel is a mad City fan and he likes to involve the club in all the big occasions in his life. He would've loved to have his reception at the old ground, Maine Road, because he has great memories of performing there - but the new stadium is impressive."

Let's hope brother Liam, 34, doesn't provide too many fireworks at the bash. He did last night when he showed up at his elder sibling's Bonfire Night party with £6,000 worth of Catherine wheels and rockets.

Those brothers eh? There are always sparks between them...

Source: Daily Star

Extra LA Tickets

A number of extra tickets to see Noel Gallagher & Gem s semi acoustic set at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday evening have been made available exclusively for oasisinet members and myspace friends. Tickets are free to fans arriving in person at the El Ray Box Office. The evening gets under way at 7.00pm with an advance screening of the new Oasis road movie Lord Dont Slow Me Down, followed by the special one hour semi acoustic performance by Noel Gallagher & Gem that delighted fans and critics alike at Londons KoKo Club last Thursday evening. To obtain a ticket you MUST go in person to the El Rey Theater box office, 5515 Wilshire Blvd, LA, CA.

The Noel Truth And Nothing But The Truth

Renewing acquaintances with Hotpress, a chipper Noel Gallagher reveals how he helped Italy bag the World Cup, explains why Oasis are better than U2-sort of- and, oh yes, tells us about the band's new best of collection. WORDS Stuart Clark

"Fucking hell, where's the rest of you? The last time I saw you, you were a fat cunt and now you're skinnier than Pete Doherty. You on drugs or summat"

Ah, no one delivers a backhanded compliment quite like Noel Gallagher! It's been a while since our paths last crossed, and I must say I've missed the old rascal. While I'm diplomatically ignoring the final part of his inquiry, I have indeed shed 26lbs. of blubber, whish is just as well because the rest of me is in rag order.

Noel, on the other hand, actually looks better than he did in 1994 when we first met backstage at Slane Castle. Oasis had just comprehensively blown REM off stage and he was, well, dilated to see me.

"If it was 1994 I probably didn't know what continent I was on, but now I'm the most boring man on the planet and loving every minute of it," he laughs.

Noel knocking hedonism on the head coincided with him meeting his girlfriend of the past six years, Sara MacDonald. Among the P.R. woman's many admirable qualities is a willingness to let her chap spend the summer in Germany watching the World Cup.

"I can honestly say it's one of the most magnificent summers I've ever fucking had,R" the Mancunian beams. "The story is a couple of years ago I was on Italian radio and personally offered Alessandro Del Piero (top Italian footie player) a hundred grand a week to join Man City (not so top English footie team). Everyone took it as a joke bar his agent who was on the phone wanting to talk contracts. Luckily, he was okay when I told him I wasn't going to give his client £5.6 million a year and Alessandro came to a couple of Oasis gigs in Europe and hung out with us afterwards"

In a manner that was entirely in keeping with his status as a professional footballer, of course.

"Of course!" Noel deadpans. "We actually sent him back to Juventus in better condition that when he'd arrived. Anyway, come the World Cup he invites me to be his guest at the Italy games, which I say I will be once our lot gets knocked out. England being shit, I fly in for the semi finals against Germany and get picked up by a mate of his who takes me to the Italian team hotel to get the tickets. We arrive and, of course, there's this huge scrum of media and fans who start cheering. Even more surreally, when I walk into where the players are having their lunch they start clapping. Talk about the wrong way round! Alessandro's pissed off because he's just heard he's on the bench so I flippantly say, 'Don't worry man, I've a feeling you're going to come on and score in extra-time,' which is precisely what happens. Afterwards, amazed by my psychic briliance, he goes, 'You have to come to the final, and in the same clothes' A week later I walk into the stadium and Mrs. Del Piero -who's as fit as in, fuck by the way- immediately unzips my jacket and goes 'We will win, we will win' because down to my pants I've the same clobber on. The Italian press has heard about me being his lucky mascot, so when they went one down I was sweating on the top line. Eventually it goes to penalties, Italy win and I feel this mixture of relief and exhileration. If England ever get their hands on the World Cup, I think my heart will explode!"

According to the tale that made it back to Blighty, Noel was guest of honour at the victory party and serenaded the players with Oasis and Beatles songs.

"Alessandro phoned and said it was mental at the hotel, so I ended up going on the piss instead with Adrian Chiles, Martin O'Neill, Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Ray Stubbs, Gary Lineker and -very weirdly- Spike Lee who was with Marcell Desailly. Ray Stubbs was doing this party trick where he got two pints of German beer and necked 'em before everyone else finished the them tune to Match of the Day. He did four or five of them and was as pissed as a cunt. Every time I see him now on Grandstand I'm like, 'See Ray Stubbs? He's a fucking legend!' Hansen's going to me, 'You picked the wrong fucking team supporting City', while Lineker was tearing into Sven Goran Erikkson. It was the best night I've had in years"

For the benefit of Hotpress' non-football obsessive readers, we'll turn our attentions to the upcoming Oasis 'Best Of', Stop the Clocks, which they're cheekily releasing on the same day as U2's.

"I only found out yesterday," Noel reveals. "Neither of us would probably want to release original albums on the same day, but I imagine that people of a certain age will be going to HMV on the Saturday and buying both."

Very nice and concilatory, but who's going to grind fucking who into the ground on November 20?

"U2 will beat us 1-0 in Ireland, but we'll stick two past 'em in the return leg in England to win 2-1 on aggregate," he says slipping back into footiespeak. "U2 are the best band of the past thirty years, but we're the best of the past 15. I think Bono himself would admit that. And by the way it's them being cheeky releasing on the same day as us!"

Talking of Bono, what type of third world campaigning does Noel engage in when he's not on Oasis duty.

"I'm not just saying this to reinforce the stereotype but, apart from watching telly, I don't really have that many interests," he confesses. "Unlike Liam who picks up the phone and freaks if room service isn't on the other end, I love getting back to the humdrum of life 'cause where I write my songs is in the queue of Waitrose. If I spend too much time in the tour/celebrity bubble, I turn into this perpetually hungover character who's not always fun to be around."

Forgive the amateur psychoanalysis, but I get the impression Noel Gallagher's in a good place at the moment.

"Personally, my life is better than it's ever, ever, ever been," he enthuses. "So much so in fact that I'm waiting for it all to go wrong! Professionally, I'm still searching for the next fucking great tune. Putting together this 'Best Of' -which we did ourselves rather than leave it to the record company- reminded me that I've written some belters in my time, but I can and will do better."

Is there also an element of wanting to remind young pretenders like The Killers and Arctic Monkeys who's King still?

"I'm loathe to say the words 'cause I'm more Machiavellian than that but, yes, and if we can't show 'em we'll fucking sabotage what they do! Bono's like Liam in that way -always aggressively pursuing his muse and bigging up U2. The Edge and me, on the other hand, are the Yoda figures at the back going, 'Alright it will be.' If Oasis have been out of the limelight for two years I never panic 'cause I know what's coming next."

While still a mere child of 39 -his fortieth is on May 29th 2007 if you want to send him a card- does Noel have an age in mind for eventually hanging up his plectrum.

"I used to think that 30 as over the hill, but I saw Paul McCartney recently and he's still fucking got it. His last album's no Sgt. Pepper's, but it's still ten times better than fucking Hard-Fi. Getting Nigel Godrich in was a good move, and I imagine it'll be Rick Rubin next. The Rolling Stones are still worth paying into as well but Mick, mate, ditch the leggings!" he continues. "Everyone loves Keith -and for good reason- but the real heart n' soul of that band is Ronnie Wood. What a fucking amazing bloke."

Having spent a very pleasant night guzzling wine in the Shelbourne with Ronnie, Jimmy White and a poker player who declined to give me his name because he wasn't meant to be in Ireland, I'd have to concur. Talking as we are of rock's OAPs, has Noel run into New Order recently?

"No, but ony the other day I was telling somebody how Peter Hook barred me from the Hacienda live on radio," he chuckles. "Before getting a record deal even, we did a session for some tinpot Manchester Radio station in their usual in Studio A. The presenter says, 'Hi Oasis, we've got Peter Hook here', and I'm like, 'That's exciting, innit? Still wearing your fucking leather trousers Pete?' He shouts, 'Don't bother coming down the Hacienda 'cause you won't get in!' and I go, 'Good, it's been shit for two years anyway!' No matter what he or anyone else tells you, the Hacienda ceased being the centre of the universe on New Year's Eve 1989 when the clock struck twelve and everybody stopped taking E and started taking coke and crack instead. There was a fight between two blokes over a bird, which would have been unthinkable when everybody was loved up. Some other facts about the Hacienda -the sound was shit, the layout terrible and the beer lousy. They did sell skins behind the bar though, and have fantastic music courtesy of Mike Pickering who deserves a knighthood for services to clubbing,"

Hooky got ten out of ten for honesty a few years back when, introducing 'Blue Monday' at Lansdowne Road, he said, "Here's one you all love and we all hate." Are there any songs that Noel's fed up with, and felt obliged to put on Stop the Clocks?

"If Sony had done it, you'd have 'Roll With It' and 'Stand by Me' on there, but they didn't and they're not," he states triumphantly. "Bar seven tunes that should be on it but aren't 'cause we still want people to check out the back catalogue, this is genuinely the Best of Oasis. Archaeologists will dig it up in five thousand years and go, 'Fuck me, that civilisation was advanced!"

So what was cynically left off?

"'Cast No Shadow', 'Married With Children' and 'Do You Know What I Mean' are three that immediately spring to mind. Bands ought by law be made to stick some of their best stuff on B-sides."

He's already expressed his disdain for Hard-Fi, but what does Noel make of the other bands young people are listening to nowadays?

"My mate Mr. Weller has an eldest son who's a goth," he confides. "You'd think being the ultimate mod he'd be against this, but no, his attitude is, 'Kids have got to be what kids have got to be.' What's great about this scene is it's almost a surrogate family. They all look after each other and share make-up bags, which is better than smoking crack."

How's his own daughter Anais?

"Six and very well, thank you," he beams. She came out with a classic the other morning, We were going to her school in a cab and she said, 'Dad can I read you some stuff from my book Its eight o clockish and im absoulety fucked so I went just read the billboards to me as we go along, the first set of traffic lights its 'na na nation wide. second its Gol gol golden wonder, Still Okay. Third set of lights, I have a heart attack as she reads out fluently this time 'Spearmints Rhinos Gentelmans club. Whats a gentlemans club Daddy? 'You'll find out soon enough!!!"

Is she ready for a full-blown birds and the bees conversation?

"She's be having that with her mother, not me! I'm not one of those people who have plans for their daughter. She'l make her own mistakes and learn from them like I did. If she asks me what i think of the blokes shes going out with, i'll have him round and tell her whether I think he's either a nice guy or a fuckin toe rag. Women like to think they can sum up men in one nifty sentence, but as complicated as they are, fuck me we're worse! It's not all about beer and the pizza and the football -especially not to us intelligentsia."

Stop the Clocks is the last record Oasis will release through Sony BMG, the label they've been with since 1998 and don't seem unduly upset to be leaving. Sony BMG could be down two major acts soon if rumours of them sacking George Michael prove to be true.

"At their peril will they get rid of George Michael," he ventures. "He's the last major act they've got in the UK since we walked. That said, I don't feel in the least bit sorry for him. If he'd fallen asleep at the wheel once, with a spliff in the ashtray once, fair enough, there for the grace of God go I, and all that stuff. But twic... I respect George Michael, I really fucking do, but that's just inviting trouble. As for Sony invoking some sort of 'morality clause', our behaviour was a hundred times worse than his and they never said a dickie-bird."

What about that other hard-living, drug hoovering son of Satan, Tom Chaplin?

"The rest of us if we ever have to go to rehab deny it to the hilt, but he issues a statement going, 'No, no, no, I'm doing drugs, really I am.' He takes drugs and his music's shit -that's some sort of fucking achievement in itself. Keane have squeezed into that tiny, tiny gap there was between Coldplay and Travis."

Two groups, whom to quote Noel's little brother, are "Dido's with willies"

"(laughs) He does come up with some good lines, I have to admit."

George Michael, Keane, Travis and Coldplay insulted, let's return to Oasis and the fact they've co-opted Sgt. Popper's man Sir Peter Blake into designing the Stop the Clocks sleeve.

"He's seventy-something and mad keen for drink still," Noel says approvingly. "I met him out one night and he told me he's working on a set of prints -'Elvis is in there, The Beatles, The Stones, all the greats' 'Aren't we forgetting somebody?' 'Oh my dear boy, we'll work together one day!' So it comes to doing our cover and I think, 'Right, let's take him up on that.' We went down to his studio, which is a real throwback to the sixties, and he starts talking about the Foo Fighters. He's a really clued up old fella who'd done us fucking proud."

Which of Noel's covers does Noel rate?

"I think Morning-Glory is truly appalling. Be Here Now is a mish mash of cocaine ideas, but Heathen Chemistry is pretty good. We're on the front, but in an abstract way, and it just generally represents the music really, really well. In general, I'd have to say our single sleeves are better than the albums. From memory, I'd go with 'Shakermaker' and 'Who Feels Love' as the best."

It's a question I'm almost frightened to ask, but how's the brother?

"Still fucking moaning! I'll give you an example. Last December we headlined the Cardiff Millennium Stadium. There were 60,000 people there, all of them with their lighters out singing along. We come off stage and he's like, 'They weren't really into it, were they?' Why does he have to be the one person in 60,005 not having it?"

The 30,000 Irish people who've purchased The Killers' Sam's Town mightn't be aware that it was Noel whom Brandon Flowers turned when he got a bad attack of second album jitters.

"Him deciding what kind of music he wanted to make after being at an Oasis gig is the same as me seeing the Stone Roses and going, 'Right, I'm off home to get me fucking guitar out.' The 'elder statesemen' tag is something I seem to have inherited from Weller who helped every waif and stray out in the '90s, yours truly included. It's not so much Oasis as Definitely Maybe that your Kasabians and Razorlights and Kings of Leons cite as an inspiration, which is cool 'cause afterwards they all went off and did their own things. What that makes me feel old isn't old, but fucking proud."

Any other young whippersnappers who's caught his eye recently

"I was in New York for a photo-shoot, and they had this bloke on in the studio called M. Ward. He's an album out, Post-War, which is along the same lines as Elliot Smith and fucking brilliant. You've three records to buy on Saturday now when you go into HMV!"

As is traditional when interviewing Noel Gallagher let's finish with a game of 'Confirm or Deny that Tabloid Rumour.' Okay, your starter for ten 'Him and Liam are planning to set up a chaing of Supernova Heights Hotels.

"(Cackles) Bollocks of a variety that has never been so utter.

The Arctic Monkeys beat him in a tequila-slamming contest.

"That one's true. I went drinking with the bass player who was fired/left, which was all very civilised at first 'cause we were on pints of Guinness. It stopped being civilised when he came back from the bar with a tray of shots that I shouldn't have gone near but, well, you try and keep up with the youngsters. I nearly hit the fucking deck on the way out."

Noel's gotten so thin his mum's started sending him food parcels
"Has she fuck! I met the guy responsible for that gem on holiday in Ibiza and he said, 'We have a source.
''Who?'
'A neighbour
''Is she an Irish lady, name of Mary?
''Er, yes''
She's winding you up, you fucking idiot!

Noel was in Charlestown, County Mayo last week.

"I wasn't, but Liam was and spent most of the time in bed with the 'flu. Our mam's as happy as a pig in shit 'cause we've just bought her a magnificent new place there. Talking of Ireland, I hear your Mr. Ahearn's been a very naughty boy. I'm sure he'll wriggle out of it though, same as our lot."

The recording of Oasis' next studio album will be put on hold while they tour Stop the Clocks."I've got a gig at Camden Palace on November 2 for the charity that got my good mate Russell Brand off crack -he's doing an hour of stand-up and I'm doing an hour of skiffle- and then I plan to sit on my arse for the rest of the year. There'll probably be an EP out in mid to late 2007, and a new studio album in 2008, which we can't postpone 'cause we havn't started it yet. We do have some rather excellent songs written though, so I think it'll be a good 'un."

Source: Hot Press Magazine