Wilson Lets Gallagher Fight His Battles

Kaiser Chief Ricky Wilson doesn't need to slate his music rivals - his pal Oasis rocker Liam Gallagher does it for him.

The I Predict A Riot hitmaker admires Gallagher for his constant verbal attacks on other musicians, and wishes he was more like him.

Wilson says, "I don't really think most of them deserve having me slagging them off. "It just gives more column inches in newspapers.

In any case, we've also got the best person to do it and that is Liam Gallagher. He's brilliant at it and I'll leave it to him. I usually agree with everything he says. "Liam doesn't give a s**t but I do. I think he's got a thicker skin."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

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Robbie's Just A Drama Queen

Liam Gallagher isn’t one to mince his words and he had some choice ones for Robbie Williams when I caught up with him backstage at the Brits.

The foul-mouthed rocker was on top form — ranting and swearing about Robbie going into rehab to anyone who would listen.

Liam — pictured above heading off to the Oasis aftershow party with Lily Allen — said: “What’s his f***in’ problem, man?

“We all know what it is — he’s a f***in’ drama f***in’ queen.

“If you’ve got a f***in’ problem, why do you want the whole world knowing about it? He has to be on the front f***in’ pages, doesn’t he? Just sort your f***in’ self out.

“You make a f***in’ crap album then want everyone to feel f***in’ sorry for you.

“F***in’ tosser!”

Liam and Robbie have had a long-running feud — not least because Robbie was once engaged to Liam’s missus, the gorgeous Nicole Appleton.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Havoc And Fun At The Oasis Brits After Party

For many celebs, it was a humiliating night they'd rather forget.

One after another they rolled up at the Oasis Brit's after show party - only to be turned away in front of photographers and scores of mere mortals.

Many begged bouncers to be let into the ultra-trendy Cuckoo Club in London's West End early yesterday morning - but Noel Gallagher was standing behind the door, personally vetting each one, and cruelly rejecting anyone he didn't like.

Laughing, Noel told us: "We're throwing our own party so we can snub people and not let them in."

Among those sent packing were James Morrison (who'd just won a Brit!), Badly-Drawn Boy, Suggs from Madness, Alex Zane, Sadie Frost and Jamie Callum. They were all forced to do the walk of shame back to their cars.

Amusingly, one of the few bands allowed in were double winners the Arctic Monkeys - even though they had snubbed the Brits ceremony itself.

Noel took his role as chief bouncer very seriously - when he wasn't standing behind the door checking who wanted entry, he was approving each name personally as messages were ferried to him by door staff.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, while Noel was on door duty, his brother Liam was causing a riot outside the club. It started with him scrawling on snappers' lenses and bald heads with a permanent marker pen.

An autograph hunter was left concussed, cars were smashed, and punches were thrown as chaos reigned. While Liam unleashed terror outside, we watched from our brilliant vantage spot inside, while pampered celebs were sent packing. We laughed as they pleaded and whimpered with bouncers that they had been invited - only to be turned away. It wasn't as if the place was even full. Those lucky enough to be allowed in included Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, The Kooks, Carl Barat, The Fratellis and Corinne Bailey Rae.

After a few beers, Noel really warmed to his role, and perhaps our favourite spat was when he realised Alex Zane had got past him with Sadie Frost.

The Roll With It star ordered his doorstaff to remove Zane from the dancefloor and boot him out! Sadie was left fuming and pleaded with staff to let Alex stay - only to flounce out in protest.

Another highlight came when Keith Allen arrived with his mate Badly Drawn Boy, aka Damon Gough. Keith was let in but when Damon was rejected he ranted into his phone and hung around for 20 minutes before sloping off home. Undeterred by losing his drinking-buddy, Keith danced around like a madman.

Meanwhile Liam, who should have got an award for Outstanding Contribution To Causing Trouble, sat in a booth looking spaced, randomly shouting at people as they walked by.

And considering the Manc lads' difficult relationship, it was something of a miracle that Noel even allowed his own brother into the party!

Source: The Mirror

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The Wisdom Of Noel Gallagher

Last night’s Brit Awards confirmed that the Oasis badboy has become a rare voice of reason in Britain’s preening and conformist pop scene.

At 39 years of age, Noel Gallagher of Oasis is worried about becoming just another rock dinosaur. In the run-up to last night’s Brit Awards, he declared: ‘We’re finally up there with the Eurythmics, Sting and Bob Geldof. So I’m not really sure that congratulations are in order….’

In fact, Gallagher did deserve the Brits’ Outstanding Contribution to Music Award – if only because in recent years the Oasis badboy and king of Nineties Britpop has become a rare voice of reason on the British music scene. They are sad times indeed when otherwise unremarkable statements of common sense become worthy of note. Yet Gallagher’s tirades against the ridiculous and famous are soundbites of rationality in a pop culture dominated by the bien-pensant and self-regarding.

Consider his recent outburst against the worthy and po-faced Radiohead. ‘Thom Yorke [singer of Radiohead] sat at a piano singing “This is fucked up” for half an hour. We all know that, Mr Yorke. Who wants to sing the news? No matter how much you sit their twiddling, going, “We’re all doomed”, at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over it.’ In a few well-aimed lines, Gallagher demolishes the delusions of the new ‘progressive’ rock.

It isn’t only the more epicene types who get bashed by Gallagher for being un-rock’n’roll. The (supposedly) punk band Green Day doesn’t live up to his standards either: ‘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.’

Gallagher has also attacked that most saintly of rock stars, Bono. He recently dismissed Bono’s pretensions to be the saviour of the world’s poor: ‘Play One, shut the fuck up about Africa.’ The mass guilt-assuagement exercise that was Live 8, which took place in venues around the world in 2005, also fell foul of the Mancunian’s political instincts: ‘Correct me if I’m wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing Sweet Dreams and thinks, “Fuck me, she might have a point there, you know?” And Keane doing Somewhere Only We Know and some Japanese businessman going, “Aw, look at him…we should really fucking drop that debt, you know.” It’s not going to happen, is it?’

Okay, it might come across as cynical, but Gallagher nails the ridiculousness of the idea that playing a few pop songs on a summer’s day could help to lift sections of the world out of poverty. To most people who don’t have a Messiah’s To-Do List, Gallagher’s criticisms of Live 8 probably come across as fairly reasonable statements of political realism, yet he is often denounced for being ‘bratty’. He can probably live with that, when the alternative is to become one of those ‘arseholes’ (his word), like Elton John and Robbie Williams whom Gallagher has chastised for ‘lock[ing] themselves off from humanity’ and being too scared to go out and buy a pint of milk by themselves. Nor does he have much sympathy with Williams for checking himself into a clinic to deal with drug problems: ‘If you take drugs, you end up in rehab unless you’re a fucking rock like me - and then you just give them up.’

George Michael gets similar treatment. In response to the ex-Wham man’s crude song and video Shoot the Dog, which satirised Bush and Blair, Gallagher said: ‘He’s… trying to make social comment, this is the guy who hid who he actually was from the public for 20 years. Now, all of a sudden, he’s got something to say about the way of the world. I find it laughable.’

Gallagher’s own anti-war position seems more credible. ‘Blair made an almighty cock-up about going to war in Iraq’, he says. Gallagher hardly possesses anything like a sophisticated political analysis (‘I only get political every five years and that’s when I get my ballot paper’, he has said, as well as declaring: ‘Labour is my team and even if you don’t like a striker you don’t give up supporting the whole team’.) Yet his take on the Iraq debacle was far better than that of anti-war singers who signed up with the Tony BLIAR and anti-‘EVIL BUSH’ brigade. ‘When people go on about [Iraq] it’s like they’re suggesting that if anybody else had been in power they wouldn’t have gone in with the Americans. After World War II we always have sided with the Americans…. Don’t think for one moment David Cameron wouldn’t have sent the troops in, or the other guy from the Liberals.’

Gallagher remains quite sober about his own flirtations with the New Labour elite. Of his 1997 visit to Downing Street, after which Oasis were described as ‘Labour’s in-house band’, Gallagher says: ‘I have no regrets about going. I was only in my twenties at the time, and I thought – “he wants to meet ME? Well, fucking bring it ON!”’ He adds: ‘We all got carried away in ’97. Once the veneer wore off – even taking the Iraq debacle out of the equation – we’ve all just given a massive shrug. I think the Labour Party’s crowning achievement is the death of politics. There’s nothing left to vote for.’

Gallagher may not win any Outstanding Contribution Awards for manning the barricades, but he has the foresight to see faux-radicalism for what it really is: ‘Greens are fucking hippies with no place in the world. They’ve been telling us for the last 50 years not to use aerosols or the sky’s going to fall in.’ He nails the miserabilism of today’s eco-movements: ‘How do you suggest we get 50 million Chinese not to have a fridge? Or get 700 million Americans to stop using their big stupid cars?’

Speaking to the Sun in November last year, Gallagher slated the green movement’s apocalyptic predictions: ‘[Our children] won’t be sitting there going: “Dad, you shouldn’t have brought me into this world.” Kids adapt.’ Simplistic, maybe, but surely preferable to the green whining of contemporary bands such as Razorlight.

Rock stars used to delight in riding roughshod over received wisdom; most of today’s bland bands parrot received wisdom and it’s been left pretty much to Noel Gallagher to say, not very sophisticatedly, ‘What the fuck…?’ It is a bit sad when you find yourself celebrating the wisdom of a man who has made a career out of plagiarising other people’s songs and being only a little bit less of a twat than his brother. But in a world where rebellion has become just another gimmick, Gallagher’s antagonistic streak is refreshing.

I mean, if we’re going to have celebrities, surely we would rather that they spouted nonsense and meant it rather than affecting to be whiter than white. As Gallagher put it himself, talking about his band’s reputation for bad behaviour: ‘What would you rather read? “The guy from Keane’s been to a rabbit sanctuary ’cos one of the rabbits needed a kidney implant, so he swapped his with it” – or “Liam Gallagher sets fire to a policeman in cocaine madness while his brother Noel runs down Oxford Street nude”?’

Source: Spiked Online

Great Scot - It's The Next Oasis

The Fratellis are dark horses in the Breakthrough Act category.

They slipped in at No2 in the album charts last year with Costello Music without the help of internet or record label hype.

The Scots rockers really want to win – but won’t be able to afford celebratory champagne.

Singer Jon Fratelli said: “We deserve it. We didn’t get hyped like other bands. We just play and give fans what they want.

“We are still skint though – I can just about buy a round. Now we’ve got a nomination I want first-class flights from the record company.”

The Fratellis got their break touring with Kasabian last year. Jon said: “We have friendly rivalry. They say they are like Oasis and we are like The Verve – but we want to be Oasis.

“We met Noel Gallagher at our Earls Court gig. I was drunk and tripped over. My head landed at his toe. He was dancing so I don’t think he noticed.”

But he reckons there won’t be any tour-style antics when they all reunite tonight. He added: “We’re playing Nottingham tomorrow so if we win we’ll have to start behaving.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Look Back In Awe With Oasis

As Oasis prepare to accept the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award at this year's Brit Awards, it's hard to imagine a music scene without the outspoken Gallagher brothers at the forefront.

In fact, Liam and Noel are the only two surviving members from the original band line-up, who formed in 1991.

Supersonic was their first big hit in 1993, catapulting the band into the big time.

Their debut album Definitely Maybe was the fastest selling LP at the time and entered the album charts at No1.

Sales have now superceded an incredible 50 million albums worldwide and the boys have notched up an impressive eight UK number ones.

And throughout their 16 years in the limelight, Oasis have never shied away from controversy.

Their rivalry with fellow Britpop act Blur led Noel to shockingly declare he hoped singer Damon Albarn would "catch Aids and die," something he later apologised for.

The fiery relationship between the two brothers has frequently come to blows, and even threatened the future of the band on occasion.

Noel's frankness about cocaine indulgence has also hit the headlines.

Maybe an Outstanding Contribution To The Gossip Columns Award would be more apt!

The brothers have had a series of high-profile relationships, with the song Don't Look Back In Anger said to be about Noel's ex Meg Mathews, though he has always denied this.

Liam's marriage to Patsy Kensit in 1997 was doomed from the start, with the self-styled bad boy managing to impregnate Lisa Moorish just a week after his wedding.

Needless to say, they divorced in 2000 and he now lives with Nicole Appleton of the girl band All Saints.

The wilder days of the Gallaghers may now be behind them, but their music will undoubtedly Live Forever.

The brothers have given us some great quotes over the years. Here is a top ten:

1. Liam: "I’d never want to be that big in America as they’re all f***ing weirdos."

2. Noel on the influence of Arctic Monkeys: "It's gonna be c**ts with guitars 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 s**t."

3. Noel: "The middle classes 'experiment' with drugs; the working classes just get stuck in."

4. Noel: "If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now."

5. Noel on Robbie Williams: "He's just a fat tap-dancer from Stoke."

6. Noel: "The thing about us is we're honest. If we're asked whether we take drugs, we say yes. I was brought up by my mam not to be a liar."

7. Liam: "If I saw an alien, I'd tell it to f**k right off because whatever planet he came from they wouldn't have the Beatles or any decent f*****g music. So they can f**k right off, I ain't going anywhere with them."

8. Noel: "We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."

9. Liam: "I'm not getting married today. I'm in bed."

10. Noel: "Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned."

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Gallagher: 'Williams Can't Stand The Heat'

Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher has criticised Robbie Williams for not being able to cope with his dependency on prescription drugs, just one day after the singer entered rehab.

Williams was admitted to a clinic in the US on Tuesday (13FEB07), his 33rd birthday, but Gallagher has little sympathy for him.

Speaking to UK radio station Heart yesterday (14FEB07), Gallagher said, "If you take drugs you end up in rehab unless you're a f**king rock like me - and then you just give them up. "We've all been there, but if you can't stand the heat..."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Oasis Foul Rant On Air

Ungratefull Gallaghers Defy TV Bosses Warning

Bad-boy rockers Oasis turned the air blue in a foul-mouthed rant that had ITV bosses fuming and reaching for the mute switch.

The Gallagher brothers let rip with a string of expletives after accepting their Outstanding Contribution Award.

Directors had to blank out the majority of their speech - leaving TV audiences in the dark as to what they said.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Noel, Bigger Than Elvis

Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher hit out at identikit politicians tonight as he boasted he could be "bigger than Elvis" as a solo artist.

The rocker said he didn't expect Britain to get any better if Gordon Brown became the next Prime Minister because he was no different from David Cameron.

And he said the media had made Tony Blair into a "president", adding: "It's no wonder he acts like one."

Interviewed by BBC Two's Newsnight as his band received a Brit Award for its Outstanding Contribution, Noel said there was nothing left to vote for.

"David Cameron is no different from Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown is no different from David Cameron.

"So I don't really think there's anything left to vote for. That's why people don't vote."

Noel said he preferred to stay in a band rather than go solo, but left no doubt he felt he would be a great success on his own.

"Maybe for all the money in the world but you know... I wouldn't do it by choice.

"I could do it easily but if I was a solo artist I would be the biggest solo artist in the country easy, no messing, within a year... seriously... but I prefer being in a band.

"But don't ever think that I couldn't do it. I could. I'd be bigger than Elvis. I would."

Source: www.metro.co.uk

Oasis Conclude BRIT Awards With Live Show

Oasis have concluded this year's BRIT Awards collecting their Outstanding Contribution To Music gong tonight (February 14) at the ceremony in London.

The band were presented with the prize by ceremony host and friend Russell Brand

Collecting the award Liam Gallagher declared "Seeing as we don't get nominated for this shit any more I supposed this will have to do!"

Noel Gallagher meanwhile thanked "anyone who brought our records".

The band then concluded the ceremony playing a short set of the following songs:

'Cigarettes & Alcohol'
'The Meaning Of Soul'
'Morning Glory'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'
'Rock 'N' Roll Star'

Source: www.nme.com

Furtado: 'I Wouldn't Be Here Without Oasis'

Pop star Nelly Furtado was inspired to pursue a career in pop after falling for the music of Oasis - and wouldn't be in the charts if it wasn't for the lasting effect the British group had on her.

The Maneater singer credits the band with giving her the determination to succeed in the industry, and believes she shares a lot in common with the Manchester rockers.

She says, "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Oasis. I bought my first acoustic guitar because of them and the first tracks I learned to play were Live Forever and Wonderwall. "I was inspired by their working-class roots because that's the kind of background I come from."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Liam: "B*llocks To The Brits!"

Oasis don't need gongs to know they rock, says Mr Gallagher...

Oasis are set to pick up the award for Outstanding Achievement at tonight's Brits (February 14) ceremony, but frontman Liam says he couldn't give a stuff about the gong.

“I don't need a f***ing award anyway, I don’t need a f***ing award to tell us how great we are," he told MTV. "People take what do they do with it too seriously - every time we've got an award it just ends up just slung in the f***ing corner.”

And after Noel recently said that U2 frontman Bono should, "Shut the f*ck up about Africa", Liam has reiterated that the lads won't be making any political comments in their acceptance speech.

“I’m not into that stuff, I’m not into that at all, I actually f***ing hate all that stuff," he told us. "There is a time and a place for that.”

Asked what inspiring words he might throw in instead, the monobrowed mouth-on-legs said, “The word 'b*llocks' and 'f***'. And maybe drop in 'God' every now and then.”

Watch Noel Gallagher, Take That and the host for tonights show, Russell Brand right here for free in our Countdown to the Brits.

Catch the Brit Awards tonight (Wednesday, February 14) on ITV 1 at 8pm

Source: www.mtv.co.uk

Oasis To Play Classic Tunes At Brits

Manchester rockers Oasis are set to play some of their classic hits at the Brit Awards tonight, where they will collect their Outstanding Achievement award from Beatles legend Ringo Starr.

Oasis will be performing CigarettesI & Alcohol and Rock 'N' Roll Star from their breakthrough album Definitely Maybe, which was released 12 years ago and opened the floodgates to the Britpop days of the mid 90s.

Other songs will include Don't Look Back In Anger and Morning Glory from their hugely popular second album, What's The Story (Morning Glory).

And the original indie rock 'n' rollers will be accepting their long-awaited Outstanding Achievement award from Starr, after deciding they may be getting too old to accept it in the future.

Source: www.contactmusic.com

And The Oasis Award Goes To…

One lucky person is going home with an Outstanding Contribution To Music Award tonight – and it looks like it won’t be a member of Oasis.

Songwriter Noel has revealed to brits.co.uk that, although delighted to receive it, he has no intention of keeping the trophy his band is about to win.

He says “We actually make a rule of not keeping any awards that we have. Because we only get one trophy and of course there are five of us in the group, we give our awards to someone else; it depends on who is with us on the night, it’ll be someone in our ‘organisation’. I don’t know who will get the gold one – but it’s not the kind of thing that we keep!”

In fact, Noel told us that he doesn’t have a trophy cabinet – or even a gold disc on display in his house. “You wouldn’t think it was a rock stars’ house when you come through my front door”, he explains. “I’m not Elvis or Ozzy Osbourne, with gold discs everywhere. I just turn on the radio and think ‘I’m better than all of this’”.

Source: www.brits.co.uk

'NME Should Be Very Proud Of Our Sucess'

NME: Congratulation on your BRIT award.
Noel: "Yeah, we're finally up there with Eurythmics, Sting and Bob Geldof, so I'm not really sure that congratulations are in order. We're taking it now because otherwise they're going to ask us every year. It seemed the right time. We'd put out ' Stop The Clocks' and we're all under 40. So we just decided, 'F**k it, let's do it now."

What have you got planned for the night?
"I hope people aren't waiting for us to smash the gaff up or something. We're just going to play five songs, have a party that night, get f**ked. We haven't got anything special planned, we're not that sort of band. They did say 'Can you do a medley of your greatest hits?' but I find that slightly pretentious. The NME Awards are more natural. You get in there, get pissed, go off and get more pissed."

How important was NME to your success?
"I think we should be very proud, but so should NME. I used to read it every week back in the '80s, and it would always say, 'Keep a look out for this lot, they'll take over the world' for once it actually happened! We're the band that came out of those pages, took Indie to the mainstream, gave every single band of the day ambition and inspired a whole generation of kids who are coming through now."

When did you realise Oasis were going to be huge?
"When we released 'Cigarettes & Alcohol'. I was dead against releasing a fourth single from the album, but it became the biggest-selling single off Definitely Maybe'. I think that album had the same effect as 'Never Mind The Bollocks'. Those two albums were the most important albums of the last 40 years. Bands are still forming today because of both those albums".

Where do you see your musical legacy in the current scene?
"It's difficult to say, but it's there because you get told how many bands formed because of that album. When I first met Arctic Monkeys they came into our dressing room and Alex (Turner) was saying he got a guitar because of Oasis. So I asked him, 'How old were you when 'Definitely Maybe' came out?'. He was nine! That f**king bent my head."

People are calling your Britpop rival Damon Albarn the Bowie of his generation - what does that make you?
"He's David Bowie because he is always changing? Oh well, we're Slade - I'm Noddy Holder (laughs) I've got a lot of respect for Damon, I really do mean it. Because I'm indifferent to Damon he thinks that I think he's c**t. Our Liam will talk to him, I won't because he's just another singer in a band to me, but I don't think he's a c**t. Good luck to him."

So what next? A new album?
"Our producer Dave Sardy is coming over for the Brit's so I guess we'll have a chat and kick around some ideas. I've got eight songs that I'm pretty happy with. Liam has one or two that he thinks are brilliant. I fancy doing something more elaborate with this one. It's about time".

Source: NME Magazine

Marked By Age

Mark Owen is thrilled Oasis are preforming at the BRIT's as the other acts make him feel old.

The 34-year-old singer said at rehearsals: "I'm glad Oasis are going to be there as most of the other bands weren't born when we were around first time.

"I feel calm now but two hours before the show I'm going to be surgically attached to the toilet.

Source: Daily Star