Gallagher: 'Better To Speak Out Than Stay Silent'

British rocker Noel Gallagher has defended his outspoken views on life - and believes its better for celebrities to speak out than stay silent.

The Wonderwall rocker is notorious for his opinionated rants, and his recent targets have included Sir Elton John, The Beatles, Scissor Sisters and Green Day.

But Gallagher insists not censoring yourself is much better than being a "no comment" run-of-the-mill celebrity. He says, "I certainly don't censor myself but I know for a fact that most of my peers, before you get to interview them, you are handed a list of what you can and can't ask.

Ask me anything, anything, I've got an opinion on most things. "However ill-informed my opinion is, at least I've got one."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Gallagher Attacks Green Day For Ripping Off Wonderwall:

Oasis star Noel Gallagher has accused punk trio Green Day of "ripping off" his Wonderwall anthem for their hit Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.

The British guitarist has been a longtime outspoken critic of the American Idiot hitmakers, but admits he was fuming the first time he heard their 2005 hit.

Gallagher explains, "If you listen, you'll find it is exactly the same arrangement as Wonderwall. "They should have the decency to wait until I am dead (before stealing my songs).

I, at least, pay the people I steal from that courtesy." And the rocker's rant continues: "They consider themselves to be - and I quote - 'a kick-ass rock 'n' roll band'. They could not be less kick-ass if they tried."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Gallagher Celebrates Nine Drug Free Years

Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher is planning to celebrate his ninth anniversary as a drug-free man in the new year (07).

The Lyla hitmaker quit hard drugs in 1998, but refuses to disclose what aids he has used to keep him clean. He says of his aids, "I am sticking to... I won't tell you what I stick to."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Noel On Playing In A Fan's House For Jo Whiley's Live Lounge Tour

NME: So you're playing a gig at a fan's house.
Noel: "I'm in Stockport at his house with all his mates and all their mams and dads and various neighbours. Plus a film crew and all that."

What's it like?
"On a scale of one-to-10 in weirdness, it's approaching 11."

Apparently he's got new furniture in to impress you.
"I've got to say it does look like it's just been f***ing bought yesterday. Looks like changing rooms have been in (laughs)."

So no-one's fainted yet?
"No, but they've got about 10 grands worth of food in! More cakes and biscuits than I've ever seen in my entire life."

What is the fan, Ben Hayes, like?
"The kid's a massive Oasis fan. He knows more about it than I do, you know?"

What's he been saying to you?
"We've just been talking about gigs and stuff. But listen, man, I've gotta go there's a man pointing at us..."

Source: NME Magazine

Oasis Ready To Start New Album

The band admit they're ready to record, as Noel Gallagher plays the strangest gig yet on his acoustic tour

Noel Gallagher has declared that Oasis are ready to start on a new album, but says he'll take his time. The guitarist - who contributed new song 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' to the band's road movie of the same name - admitted he has lots of material ready for a follow-up.

"We had 11 songs left after the last album ['Don't Believe The Truth']. We've got seven that are good and four that are great, so we could crack on tomorrow, but the tour finished in March, which doesn't seem that long ago. It's not long enough away from Liam!"

Despite his break from the band, Noel has kept busy with acoustic sessions, including an impromptu performance last week (December 1) in a fan's house in Stockport for Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show.

Along with his smallest ever gig - which saw him play 'Half The World Away', 'The Importance Of Being Idle' and Don't Look Back In Anger' in Ben Hayes' front room - he also played an acoustic show for Mencap at London's Union Chapel (November 26) and dates in Manchester, Europe, America and Australia.

"It's been great," declared Noel. "The Mencap gig was mega. I really, really enjoyed it. It's good to play the songs we never normally play, like 'Half The World Away' and 'Cast No Shadow', because it's difficult with Liam - you can't cover Liam.

He's like Johnny Rotten. He's one of those singers you fail miserably trying to cover, so I've just stripped some of the songs down and re-arranged them. It's been great, I've really enjoyed it, man. It might give Liam a kind of nudge next time we do a gig, to say like, 'Look, come on, man - let's forget 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' for a bit. Let's do some of these B-sides'."

Noel also said that Oasis' only commitment for 2007, so far, was to pick up a Brit Award recognising Oasis' career so far. "We're doing this thing for the Brits in February," he said. "That's the only thing that's decided. What award are we winning? It's the greatest, outstanding achievement to road safety, as neither Liam and I can drive!"

Meanwhile, his brother Liam, speaking at a fan Q&A, insisted the band have yet to make their perfect album. "I don't believe we have made the perfect record yet," he said. "'Stop The Clocks' is alright, but we haven't got our heads down yet."

Noel however put a limit on Oasis' career, "At 60-odd it might look daft [to be touring]," he said. "It might look a bit silly." Liam though was having none of it, telling his brother: "What else are you going to do? I dare you to split this band up."

The brothers than laid into their contemporaries. "Kasabian are great, they have it," declared Liam. "The rest are just indie bands."

Noel also backed his friends, along with Arctic Monkeys and The Coral, but he was less impressed with 2006's newcomers. "I haven't heard a good album in a while apart from Kasabian's. There's lots od good songs but not albums. But maybe it's good for music - apart from The Horrors who are f***ing s**t!"

His brother admitted Oasis could also be improved if Noel swapped personalities with SpongeBob Squarepants! "I'd ask him for his autograph and a kiss and cuddle," said the singer. "I'd die a happy man!"

Source: NME Magazine

Liam's New Wedding Gest

Prodigy star Keith Flint is marrying Mayumi Kai on Saturday — and I hear he’s invited some unlikely people.

I’m A Celeb weirdo David Gest is due to show up with jungle king Matt Willis.

It was always set to be an odd day with a wildman like Keith getting hitched. But now David’s coming, it will be a freakfest.

The music mogul tells me he met Keith through his bandmate Lism Howlett. And Liam is a good pal of David’s new bosom buddy Liam Gallagher.

I can just see Gestie and Gallagher dancing like twisted Firestarters . . .

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

The Selector Competition

It's the biggest year yet for 6 MUSIC SELECTOR as Courtney Love, Oasis and Moby takeover the station.All this week we are giving you the chance to win some very exclusive merchandise including signed Christmas cards from all the Selectors.

Today you could win signed artwork, a Xmas card signed by Oasis, a copy of Stop the Clocks, an Oasis dartboardand darts, Oasis watch and an Oasis t-shirt.

Enter the Competion Here.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Kasabian Frontman Attacks Elton

Kasabian frontman Sergio Pizzarno is baffled by Sir Elton John's musical success, branding the star "a fat man in a tracksuit". Pizzorno admits he dislikes John after the flamboyant rocker called Oasis songwriter Noel Galllagher "an absolute t**t".

Now he's warning the star to be on his guard because Gallagher is sure to seek revenge for the comments. He says, "Elton's just a fat man in a tracksuit. "Whereas anything that comes out of Noel's mouth is absolute genius.

"Noel is the last man you want to start with. He's so quick he can destroy anyone. Elton John should watch out."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

When Noel Gallagher Was Growing Up, Rock Stars Didn't Come From Manchester.

When Noel Gallagher was growing up, rock stars didn't come from Manchester. At least not until a band called the Stone Roses emerged in the 1980s.

"I'd always been interested in music, but the idea of what Oasis eventually became came from seeing the Stone Roses live," Gallagher says. "Rock stars then looked different to us. We were normal lads who went to the football, took drugs and hung out on the street. When the Stone Roses came along, they looked like us and made the goal seem nearer."

Oasis, with Noel and brother Liam out front, would become the biggest-selling band in Britain. Twelve years on from their debut, Definitely Maybe, the band are in hiatus. A two-disc best-of, Stop the Clocks, is released this week and Noel Gallagher holds court in his Buckinghamshire home.

After several patchy releases, the band was reinvigorated last year by strong sales and reviews of their sixth studio album, Don't Believe the Truth. A well-received world tour followed.

Sadly, neither success has served to mend fragile relations between band members. Noel says that with the exception of rhythm guitarist Gem Archer, he has not spoken to any of his bandmates, including brother Liam, since March.

"The minute of the last gig of the tour ends that's me f---ing gone," he says, cheerfully. "I don't speak to any of those geezers. It keeps it interesting for me. I wouldn't want to come back off the road and then go straight back into the studio."

From the band's infancy, the tension between Noel and frontman Liam saw them develop into something of a caricature. There were fearful public shouting matches, fist fights, bust-ups and walk-outs. Noel, 39, who was raised with Liam and elder brother Paul by his mother after their father walked out, is philosophical about their relationship.

"A lot of the negative stuff in this band has been very unnecessary and a lot of it caused by Liam," he says, matter of factly. "He's a very antagonistic young chap."

It was during his mid-1990s songwriting purple patch that he conceived Definitely Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory - 27 million copies sold worldwide - and some of the best B-sides recorded in the past 15 years such as Talk Tonight, Acquiesce and The Masterplan.
Gallagher places Talk Tonight among his favorite vocal performances. It was written on Oasis' first American tour in 1994 after a "massive row" with Liam in LA.

"I took all the tour money and a big bag of drugs and went to stay with a young lady friend of mine," he recalls. "I wrote it about brief experiences of running around America for a week. At least something positive came out of it: a great f---ing song."

In spite of the band's inner turmoil, Gallagher still fondly recalls Oasis' early days, so vividly captured in the artwork for Definitely Maybe. The cover was shot in former guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs' front room and captures the band as they were, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes and playing guitar.

"The only thing manufactured about that was the drummer was there," Gallagher says. "I'd always be around at Bonehead's house playing guitar. They were f---ing great days. I'd love to relive them, but they really can't be relived."

The mid-1990s saw an embarrassment of musical riches concluded by the release of 1998's cocaine-plastered Be Here Now.

Mercilessly panned on its release, Gallagher considers the album's main flaw was that it wasn't Morning Glory. "But I'd ran out of gas. In hindsight it could have been better, but it's an expression of its time."

Live Forever, a recent documentary featuring the Gallagher brothers at their amusing best, focused on the rise of Oasis and Britpop in general. Gallagher says that those involved (including his former nemesis, Blur leader Damon Albarn) are portrayed "as we are".

"Damon come across how I know him, as a confused individual," he says. "He always wanted to be the man, the voice of that generation, but what he failed to understand is that that's a mantle you can't take yourself, it's given to you."

On Oasis' last Australian tour just under 12 months ago, Noel noted the band had arrived at the end of their contract with Sony, and were not going to re-sign with them. He also suggested his own life had taken a re-signing.

These days Noel uses the services of a personal trainer and the hedonistic lifestyle of the 1990s is a distant memory. So, we have to ask, what's the better high, drugs or stepping out on a stage?

"I'd say being on stage, that's just incredible. Drugs are a very personal and selfish thing; stepping out on stage is a very communal thing that involves you and thousands of people. I'm more about others now," he says, with a knowing chuckle. "I'm not that selfish any more."

"I took all the tour money and a big bag of drugs and went to stay with a young lady friend of mine," he recalls. "I wrote it about brief experiences of running around America for a week. At least something positive came out of it: a great f---ing song."

In spite of the band's inner turmoil, Gallagher still fondly recalls Oasis' early days, so vividly captured in the artwork for Definitely Maybe. The cover was shot in former guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs' front room and captures the band as they were, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes and playing guitar.

"The only thing manufactured about that was the drummer was there," Gallagher says. "I'd always be around at Bonehead's house playing guitar. They were f---ing great days. I'd love to relive them, but they really can't be relived."

The mid-1990s saw an embarrassment of musical riches concluded by the release of 1998's cocaine-plastered Be Here Now.

Mercilessly panned on its release, Gallagher considers the album's main flaw was that it wasn't Morning Glory. "But I'd ran out of gas. In hindsight it could have been better, but it's an expression of its time."

Live Forever, a recent documentary featuring the Gallagher brothers at their amusing best, focused on the rise of Oasis and Britpop in general. Gallagher says that those involved (including his former nemesis, Blur leader Damon Albarn) are portrayed "as we are".

"Damon come across how I know him, as a confused individual," he says. "He always wanted to be the man, the voice of that generation, but what he failed to understand is that that's a mantle you can't take yourself, it's given to you."

On Oasis' last Australian tour just under 12 months ago, Noel noted the band had arrived at the end of their contract with Sony, and were not going to re-sign with them. He also suggested his own life had taken a re-signing.

These days Noel uses the services of a personal trainer and the hedonistic lifestyle of the 1990s is a distant memory. So, we have to ask, what's the better high, drugs or stepping out on a stage?

"I'd say being on stage, that's just incredible. Drugs are a very personal and selfish thing; stepping out on stage is a very communal thing that involves you and thousands of people. I'm more about others now," he says, with a knowing chuckle. "I'm not that selfish any more."

Source: www.smh.com.au

Oasis Not Ready To Stop The Clock

Long gone are the days of cocaine-fuelled drug binges for Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher.

But he's far from mellowed and is still quick to fire up with little provocation.

"I was fuelled on some of the finest cocaine known to man back in the early days so that would make me a little more edgy, shall we say," he said.

"But I am not like that any more.

"I haven't taken any proper big boys drugs for eight and a half years now.

"I am sticking to the ... I won't tell you what I stick to ... but no I haven't taken any proper hard drugs for years now."

Gallagher was in Australia this week, performing a number of acoustic shows with Oasis guitarist Gem Archer.

He's also been promoting the new Oasis album, Stop the Clocks.

Gallagher is quick to point out that it isn't a greatest hits offering - it's a best of.

"Your greatest hits are the hit singles that are most popular ... your best of is what is considered your best work," the Brit said.

"Thereby lies the difference."

The double CD features a selection of what Gallagher considers the band's best work, including such hits as Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, Don't Look Back in Anger and Morning Glory.

"It could easily have stretched to three CDs, but that doesn't really appeal to me, do you know what I mean?" Gallagher said.

"Three CDs is a bit much, seeing how the Beatles only had two on their best of. It would be taking the piss to have three I think."

Gallagher, 39, put the album together, with little help from brother, Liam, who is also in the band.

"I done all that," he said.

"I get to pick the songs, that is my right as the oldest living member of Oasis."

The Gallagher brothers, famed for their thick Manchester accents and bitter sibling rivalry, burst onto the British music scene more than a decade ago before going on to sell millions of albums worldwide.

Their volatile relationship, fights, drug problems, celebrity relationships - and their prodigious talent for producing catchy pop songs - have filled thousands of news pages around the world.

It seems the brothers are going through a rough patch at the moment.

"We are not on the best of terms," Gallagher said.

"I haven't seen him for a couple of months. I am not interested.

"I am generally not interested because he is generally not doing anything interesting."

They're not fighting though, he said.

"We aren't fighting at the minute ... but there could well be the next time I see him though."

Gallagher has never shied away from saying what he thinks.

He's not a fan of pop musicians, particularly Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Robbie Williams.

He hates the Australian soccer team, but he likes Melbourne rockers Jet.

His acerbic tongue has often gotten Gallagher into trouble, most famously in a 1995 interview when he expressed a wish for Blur's Damon Albarn and Alex James to "catch AIDS and die", a comment which he quickly publicly apologised for.

"I hate Kylie Minogue ... I hate Madonna ... I hate Robbie Williams," he said.

Gallagher doesn't care what is written about him in the press.

In fact, he finds it funny.

"I find that quite amusing," he said.

"It was written once in the newspaper that I was going out with Naomi Campbell. Have you seen Naomi Campbell? Have you seen me? It is preposterous.

"It is like one of the Seven Dwarfs going for it with Snow White - a ridiculous story."

Despite his frequent controversial outbursts, British music news website NME.com once labelled Gallagher the wisest man in rock.

"I have a lot of experience at these things - whether I am wise or not, I don't know," he said.

"It must mean my opinion counts for something I think - does it make me like Yoda then?

"Are you saying I am like a Jedi, cause I can live with that. I am right up for it, light sabres and karate moves, that is my bag mate."

Having completed their six-album deal with Sony Music, Gallagher is keen to take a break because for the first time since 1994, Oasis are without a recording contract.

"We only got back off the Don't Believe The Truth tour in March, that is only seven months ago," he said.

"I don't want to earn any more money just yet - I have got too much."

Brotherly feuds and record label contracts aside, Oasis have enough material to release another album in 2007.

"There is this project going on that will probably take us to spring next year," he said.

"We have got most of our next album already recorded, stuff that was left over from the last one - we could start mixing it tomorrow."

Stop the Clocks is out now.

Source: www.thewest.com.au

Liam Bans Noel From Xmas Do

Liam Gallagher will go Christmas crackers and whip up a festive feast on Christmas Day.

And he's inviting all his family and friends - except brother Noel. The 34-year-old Oasis frontman, who has always had a tricky relationship with Noel, 39, has been taking secret cooking classes ahead of the day.

And he's hoping to invite showbiz pals including Kate Moss, 32, and Pete Doherty, 28, to his daytime shindig.

Other guests invited include Jungle star David Hest, 53. An insider said: "Liam has been grafting away getting gourmet cooking classes ahead of Christmas Day. And he wants all his mates to come around to celebrate".

"He'll do a traditional turkey roast as well as nutroast for vegetarians and is certainly going to town. But despite inviting all and sundry, he hasn't yet asked Noel and his girl-friend Sara McDonald to come around".

"He wants to ban Noel from coming, but his fiancee Nicole Appleton is doing her best to persuade him otherwise".

Pain

"Liam is still miffed at comments Noel made about him in a recent interview".

In the chat, Noel discussed his rocky relationship with Liam. And he even went on to call him a "pain in the arse". Ouch.

Invites have also gone to Nicole's sister Natalie, 33, and her husband, Prodigy star Liam Howlett, 35.

Out mole added: "Liam has a lot of mates from Burnage in Manchester who are due to come to London for Christmas Day and he wants everything to be just right.

"It seems a tad strange that Noel isn't going". Still we wish him a Bon Noel all the same.

Source: Daily Star

Noel's Choc Shock About Robbie

There's still no love lost between Brit bad boys Noel Gallagher and Robbie Williams.
Oasis guitarist and songwriter Gallagher famously labelled Williams "the fat dancer from Take That" years ago.

And when Gallagher caught up with Herald Sun music writer Cameron Adams he revealed he was still keeping an eye on Williams' waistline.

"Is Robbie in Melbourne yet?" Gallagher asked.

"I thought there were no chocolates in the sweet shop.

"There was a distinct lack of Violet Crumbles.

"I know people like him, and he's making a living and all that, but there's no need to eat that much chocolate."

Gallagher was due to introduce a screening of the Oasis doco Lord Don't Slow Me Down at the Kino Dendy cinema on Collins St for about 300 MySpace punters last night.

That was after taping an episode of Vodafone Live at the Chapel, which will air on Boxing Day at 11.15pm on Channel 10.

A few fans at Gallagher's sold-out gig at the Forum on Sunday night left the show somewhat disappointed.

Despite the fact they paid $70 for tickets to his Forum performance, Gallagher played only for an hour.

In town to plug Oasis's greatest hits CD, Stop the Clocks, Gallagher was enjoying the peace of touring without brother Liam.

However it's purged him of plans for a solo career.

"Publicly, Liam's not said anything. Privately, I'd assume he's seething with jealousy," Gallagher said of his solo jaunt.

"It's much easier doing this without him.

"But being the singer, you've got to concentrate on everything.

"If anything, it's made me appreciate what Liam does more.

"I wouldn't go solo for all the money in the world.

"Who would I take the p--- out of? You've got to have Liam there just to get on his tits."

Source: www.news.com.au

Gallagher Regrets US Tour

Noel Gallagher still regrets trying to conquer America in the late 1990s because he should have taken a break from Oasis instead.

The Wonderwall hitmaker admits he got too greedy after becoming an overnight millionaire and decided being the biggest thing in his native Britain wasn't enough.

The rocker says, "We came to America and Wonderwall was number five in the charts, and we had 14 huge gigs booked, and it all fell apart. "(Frontman) Liam (Gallagher) and I got in a row, and I came home.

It all turned, there and then. If I could go back in time, I would cancel that tour." The guitarist also wishes he could go back and handle his first taste of fame and fortune with more grace.

He adds, "As we were recording (Be Here Now) the royalties from the first two (albums) started to come in, so we were millionaires overnight... That's when all the madness started. "It was like we were a bunch of lunatics and someone came in and said, 'Here's the keys to the asylum, just leave it in reception when you're done.'"

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Gallagher: 'Be Here Now Was A Mistake But Not A Disaster

Oasis star Noel Gallagher has declared the group's 1997 album Be Here Now "one of his worst decisions" and he should have revamped the project with B-sides.

The guitarist/songwriter admits he stubbornly fought to put the album out even though he knew it was terrible. And now he has had the chance to redeem himself by placing the early Oasis songs he released as B-sides on the group's new hits album Stop The Clocks.

Gallagher says, "If all the B-sides for all the singles from the (What's The Story) Morning Glory era had been kept back and formed the basis for Be Here Now, the history of the band would be very different.

"I had this idea for Be Here Now and no one was going to shift me. I wanted to make this really pompous rock record with a 100 piece orchestra and everything - one of my worst decisions." But Gallagher was upset when critics savaged the album as a flop after it sold nine million copies around the globe.

He adds, "Because we had sold 18 million on Morning Glory, nine million albums was considered a f**king disaster. "I would kill if my next record sold nine million. I'd literally give my six-year-old daughter away."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Noel And Gem Videos From Melbourne

Slide Away


Don't Look Back in Anger


Half The World Away

Thanks to rdw23,littleladylove89 & marksupernova

Oasis Radio

Music lovers BBC Music 6 are giving UK lads Oasis the right to the mike on December 12 when Liam, Gem and Andy step up for a very special programming session on '6 Music Selector'.

The guys will talk about their biggest musical influences to date while
digging through the healthy Music 6 archives to produce the albums and live
music recordings that have shaped their tastes enough to produce their own
massive swag of career-defining hits (find 'em all on their latest "best of"
retrospective 'Stop The Clocks' in stores this week).

Best of all, they've recruited personal faves (and northern neighbours from
merseyside) The Coral to record an exclusive four track session at Noel's own studio, which will also be played during the show.

It's an honour that's been accepted by only a handful of worthy artists
(including Franz Ferdinand) so check it all out at bbc.co.uk/6music on
December 12.

Noel Gallagher And Gem Archer Live @ The Union Chapel On Channel 4 This Saturday.

The Union Chapel Gig from November is being shown on Channel 4 (UK) this coming Saturday (16th). At 11.45 pm -12.50 am.

A semi-acoustic performance by Noel Gallagher and Gem of Oasis as part of a special season of gigs recorded at London's Union Chapel in November 2006.

Older But Not Slowing Down

It was literally in a matter of days that Noel Gallagher went from being unable to pay for a round of pints at his local, to receiving a phone call informing him that a £1 million royalty cheque was to be deposited in his bank account.

"With hindsight, they were crazy times," he said in a room upstairs at the Forum Theatre this week where he was preparing for the first of two Melbourne shows. "You suddenly just waste a lot of money on shit, utter rubbish. God knows how much money I've blown on drugs, shit cars I can't drive, and daft houses I've never lived in.

"It takes you ages to get back on an even keel. I went mad with it for a good three and a bit years before I started to come around. You forget who you are."

Gallagher, now 39, is in town as part of a three-month world tour for Oasis' new best-of album, Stop the Clocks. The jaunt has been an outstanding success - tickets sold out in less than an hour.

On this tour, in which Gallagher is accompanied by Oasis guitarist Gem Archer, brother Liam Gallagher is a conspicuous absentee. On stage on Sunday, when a punter inquired of Liam's whereabouts, Noel was typically candid. "He couldn't be with us," he declared. "He was washing his hair . . . Actually, truth is, he couldn't be f---ed."

Offstage, he was a tad more decorous.

"Liam lives in Disneyland, y'know what I mean?" he said. "He's started to carry a man bag, which is very disturbing. Apart from that, he's the usual him. I kind of give him the wide berth. Liam doesn't do acoustic shows or interviews, anyway."

The best-of campaign has hardly lacked controversy. Two weeks ago, a widely reported tirade about troops in Iraq landed Gallagher in hot water with veterans' associations.

"I'm regularly grossly misquoted in the press," he said. "They made it sound like I was saying British soldiers deserved to get shot at. I was talking about soldiers in general in America, and I was just, like, 'If you don't like getting shot at, don't join the army.' "

Gallagher was also bemused by the storm that surrounded his sarcastic remark about the Socceroos.

"All things like that I've said very tongue-in-cheek," he said, with a grin. "But I'm yet to master the art of making my quotes look good in print. My point was, Australians are that good at cricket and rugby, why do you bother about football? Please leave football to the rest of us."

Last night, after a show at Vodafone Live at the Chapel, Gallagher also participated in a Q&A session at the Kino cinema for a screening of the band's new documentary film, Lord Don't Slow Me Down. He will also take in the Ashes Test in Perth.

Gallagher says that after spending more than two years recording and touring their last album Don't Believe the Truth, the band agreed to take a year off. They plan to reconvene in June. Gallagher has spent most of his time in his eight-bedroom mansion in Buckinghamshire. He also took his daughter to Sea World in Florida.

"I took my little daughter to see the killer whale," he said. "She was more underwhelmed than I was."

The band has experienced an odd history in Australia. Due to various internal calamities, the band never made it out here in their mid-1990s heyday. It was a tension-filled, bleary-eyed 1998 tour that introduced Australian fans to the band's live show.

"I wouldn't like to think I'm apologising to the Australian nation," Gallagher says, "but we let ourselves down on that tour. I was here for about a month and was out of it every day. We almost had to start from scratch when we came back again. We've only really had a career here for the last five years. I do like coming here, though."

Next year they will be honoured at the Brit Awards, the UK equivalent of the Grammys.

"We've been gently pushed into all this," he says. "Let's get this out of the way before I'm 40. I don't want to be like Pink Floyd going up there as an old fella. I might as well do it while I can still look good in a leather jacket."

To view footage of Gallagher's show at Vodafone Live at the Chapel, visit www.liveatthechapel.com

Source: www.theage.com.au

Liam Gallagher Lashes Out At Music Fans

Liam Gallagher believes that people who like various styles of music are "ignorant".

The Oasis frontman revealed his forthright views to The Sun, saying: "A lot of people like lots of music. I don’t. I think that’s ignorant. It’s like having loads of girlfriends. I don’t like lots of styles of music, I just like rock ’n’ roll."

Gallagher also spoke of his fondness for taking the glory in the band despite his brother's hard work: "I’m the geezer with the champagne getting Man Of The Match. I think we all know that. I’m the one who scores in the last minute. Noel’s the defender who drives it and that. You do the work and I’ll just have a laugh and look good."

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Manc Of The Match For Liam

Liam Gallagher reckons being the lead singer in Oasis is like winning Man Of The Match at football.

The gobby Mancunian said: “I’m the geezer with the champagne getting Man Of The Match. I think we all know that.

“I’m the one who scores in the last minute. NOEL’s the defender who drives it and that. You do the work and I’ll just have a laugh and look good.” Liam also reckons it’s wrong to like different types of music. He says: “A lot of people like lots of music. I don’t. I think that’s ignorant.

“It’s like having loads of girlfriends. I don’t like lots of styles of music, I just like rock ’n’ roll.”

He also insisted: “I want Oasis to be bigger. I want to make great records that people love. I think there’s a special one round the corner.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk