Did You Know

Johnny Depp twice recorded with British band Oasis. Most notably, he plays lead slide guitar on the track Fade In-Out, from the 1997 album Be Here Now. Noel Gallagher, Oasis's lead guitarist, was allegedly too drunk to perform it himself, so celebrity pal Depp stepped in and nailed the lead on one take.

Depp currently plays in a band called P.

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A Bit Blunt, Noel..

He's 40 next week but there's no sign of Noel Gallagher mellowing with age.

The Oasis rocker has blasted James Blunt, saying he wants to see his head on a plate!

Grumpy Noel launched his attack after being handed a birthday present on the latest edition of the Soccer AM TV show.

As he tore off the pressie's wrapping, Noel said: "It's not James Blunt's head is it? I hope it is."

Much to the star's disappointment, the gift turned out to be a Manchester City FC jacket, prompting him to exclaim, "Aw, b***er."

James Blunt was probably quite relieved though...

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Bonehead's Latest Outing

Wednesday 31st October
'The Tony Hancock of Pop' - Uncut Magazine

Vinny Peculiar & His Band featuring Bonehead (Oasis), Mike Joyce (The Smiths, PIL, The Buzzcocks) & Ben Knott (Jeep)
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The Art of songwriting is not dead yet, A must see for all true music lovers !

Vinny Peculiar is the sobriquet for one Alan Wilkes, a Bromsgrove-born, Manchester based singer-songwriter, who writes expertly crafted vignettes of the ironies, agonies and ecstasies of every day existence.Vinny has toured with British Sea Power, Malcolm Middleton and Edwyn Collins and is a regular compere on the Glastonbury Acoustic Stage. Vinny was crowned ‘the Tony Hancock of pop' by UNCUT MAGAZINE and was Artist in Residence at last years Cathedral Arts Festival in Belfast where he where he met Bill Drummond of KLF fame. They have subsequently gone on to collaborate on Bill's infamous SOUP Runs.

Vinny hails from the Worcestershire village of Catshill, a suburban hamlet some fifteen miles south of Birmingham'

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Bonehead On BBC News North West Tonight

See what Paul (Bonehead) Arthurs is upto, judging an air guitar competition for the local news channel and promoting his new Radio show he co-hosts with Terry Christian on BBC Radio Manchester.

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Thanks to jono5525 for the video

Serge Pizzorno Takes Up Noel Gallagher's Booze Challenge

Serge Pizzorno drove for fours hours to take up Noel Gallagher's booze challenge – and try to win top spot in my Caners League. The Kasabian star, in Preston for Radio1’s Big Weekend, met Noel at a London bar on Saturday.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Vintage Pete Doherty Video Surfaces

He was in the queue to buy the new Oasis album and is a fresh-faced, eloquent, adorable creature in this video.

It's just kind of touching to see how the reporter is completely in love with a young, gum-chewing Pete Doherty.

Watch the video here.

Source: Shoutmouth

No Cigarettes Just Alcohol

Oasis star Liam Gallagher is keen to quit smoking.

He said "I became hooked as a teenager and now with it being banned across the UK, I'm trying hard to quit.

But it's hard, man, when everyone around youu in the music industry is smoking away."

Source: Daily Star Sunday

Noel Gallagher Confirms 'There Is No Solo Album'

Noel won't be releasing any solo material in the near future Oasis talisman and rock 'n' roll legend Noel Gallagher has confirmed that any talk of a solo album is false.

His band posted a statement refuting any speculation soon after rumours circulated that the co-frontman was set to go it alone.

But Gallagher saw fit to rubbish the speculation once again while making a guest appearance on the Sky Sports show Soccer AM.

"I only mention it to get Liam [Gallagher, Noel's brother] going," Gallagher said to a question related to apparent admissions on his behalf that a solo record was in the pipeline.

Noel then joked that should he ever turn solo, he would be working on a clothing range and a scent in double-quick time.

The musician also noted that writing for Oasis' new album was well underway and that he had "written a couple of belters" for the new record.

"My songs are amazing," Gallagher said, in a rather tongue-in-cheek reference to the other band member's tracks.

The band's last album, Don't Believe the Truth, included a number of songs written by other members of the band, such as frontman Liam, guitarist Gem Archer and fellow band member Andy Bell.

Source: www.inthenews.co.uk

Videos Of Noel Gallagher On Soccer AM Today

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
videos from todays show from youtube

Thanks to Kublacan for the videos.

Russell Brand Speaks Out Again

Taken from Russell Brand's blog for the Guardian

If Jose Mourinho is found to have brought his dog into the country without observing the correct procedure, perhaps John Terry should be made to play all Chelsea's away games wearing women's knickers and whenever Frank Lampard takes a corner he should have to breast-feed the opposition's fans.

I imagine the issue will be discussed rationally on the consistently excellent Soccer AM this morning, in my humble view the best football programming available, which I deeply miss while in Hawaii. That looks stupid written down but it's true - you can only marvel at turtles for so long. It never patronises its viewers and it's honest, bright and in tune with the people it caters for.

I was on it once and embarrassed myself a bit by falling over during a headstand, which was another occasion on which I insisted the universe was conspiring against me. This will doubtless be eclipsed on today's show as I understand Noel Gallagher, who has recently come out to me as bisexual, is guesting and will probably spend the entire show evading questions on the FA Cup final, preferring instead to lunge across the delightful Helen Chamberlain and fondle the thighs of dear Tim Lovejoy, which will make for fine viewing and be further evidence that worldly affairs are being maliciously directed by loonies on Olympus."

Noel is on Soccer AM on Sky Sports 1 at 09:00AM this morning (UK Only).

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Cheggers Set To Play Pop Again

Eighties children’s show Cheggers Plays Pop could be on the way back, its energetic frontman revealed as he hot footed it to the Black Country for a flying visit.

Housewives favourite Keith Chegwin announced he is in talks with TV bosses to resurrect the show which made him a household name.

Promoting Adult Learners Week and surrounded by scores of line dancing fans at Walsall Town Hall yesterday, the diminutive TV star said he had even been approached by Oasis bad boy Liam Gallagher who was keen to take part in the show’s revival.

In an exclusive interview with the Express & Star Cheggers, clad in jeans and a stetson, said: “They want to bring it back at Christmas but I am not sure about it because they don’t want to do it the way I want to do it.

“The people who were taking part back then were eight to 12 years old and it’s them I want to bring back.”

Source: www.expressandstar.co.uk

The Twang: Noel Didn't Want Our Demo

Indie rockers The Twang have hit the big time - but it seems it's no thanks to Noel Gallagher

The Birmingham band - whose debut single Wide Awake reached No 15 earlier this year -claim the Oasis rocker snubbed them when they tried to give him their demo tape at Glastonbury festival.

"I had my demo in my pocket, and I went over to him and asked him if I could give him my demo," says frontman Phil Etheridge.

"He said no, he didn't have any room. But he had a backpack so I didn't believe him. But I didn't argue - it was Noel Gallagher - I just walked off. I was a bit starstruck then."

He adds: "He probably thought, who is this little knob? I think he said some nice things about us recently, so that's amazing."

But things are about to change for Phil and bandmates Martin Saunders, Jon Watkin, Stu Hartland and Matty Clinton - because this year they're playing Reading and Leeds festivals themselves, which they admit is "a dream".

"We've stood in the crowd at festivals, doing the usual 'It'll be us one year' and now it really will be," says Phil.

The Twang are currently touring the UK. Their next single, Either Way, is out on May 28 and their album, Love It When I Feel Like This, is out on June 4.

Source: www.virginmedia.com

Levine Thanks Gallagher For Derisory Comments

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine was flattered to be on the receiving end of British rockers Oasis' derisory comments - as the bad words raised the band's profile in the U.K.

Outspoken Oasis star Noel Gallagher took offence at having to share the stage with the American group at English festival V in August 2005, saying, "If we had a hand in picking the bill, Maroon 5 wouldn't be on it."

But the This Love singer has thanked Gallagher for criticising the band, as he believes his comments have helped make Maroon 5 more popular.

He says, "You go to England and it's different - depending on who's after you there. "Oasis said some things about us but the most flattering thing you can get being an American band coming to England, is something from Oasis, so thank you, Noel, for hating me, you've validated my existence."

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Shockwaves NME Awards Host Catches Oasis Man's Eye

Oasis's Noel Gallagher has reacted to former Shockwaves NME Awards host Russell Brand's declaration of love for the guitarist.

In celebration of Gallagher's 40th birthday, which takes place on May 29, Brand posed wearing a garland round his neck with the legend: "Noel I love you too".

The Oasis star said: "The boy's desperate cries for love are pathetic, yet strangely compelling. I thought we had a strictly platonic relationship based on nothing more than our rapier-like wit and a mutual lusting for my missus."

He told The Sun: "Seems all along he's just wanted to use me like one of his blow-up dolls. I'm disgusted yet strangely intrigued."

Source: www.nme.com

Seven Ages Of Rock

The website for the series the Seven Ages Of Rock that starts on BBC2 on May 19th has opened here.

The site also also has a page on Oasis (here) with part of an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher and lots more.

Episode 7/ What The World Is Waiting For Indie 1980/2007
Saturday 30th June, 9PM BBC 2

The story of British indie, beginning with The Smiths, the archetypal indie group. The film follows The Stone Roses as the heirs to the indie crown, Suede's dark sexuality and the media saturation of Brit-pop's Blur v Oasis.

What The World Is Waiting For explores how indie ultimately lost its once cherished intimacy and integrity in front of 250,000 fans at Oasis's Knebworth spectacle in 1996 and how, by returning to its roots in clubs and bars (and even front rooms) with bands such as Franz Ferdinand, The Libertines and The Arctic Monkeys, indie became respectable again.


Sebastian Barfield Director/Producer Of The Show

"Back in April 2006, I found myself in the plush basement of a Chelsea boutique hotel, with a film crew, waiting to interview Noel Gallagher. He was due to be turn up at 11am, but we were ready half an hour early. While I used the time to redraft my questions for the nineteenth time, I overheard my colleagues chatting about the mid-90s moment when the man we were waiting for 'owned' British rock.

Tony, the film's researcher, had worked next door to Oasis' old record company, Creation, in Primrose Hill and recalled seeing the legendary indie label balloon in size as the millions started rolling in. Desperate for extra staff, the label employed his girlfriend.

Louis Caulfield, our camera-man, had done his first ever day of paid work as runner on the band's first video: a task that apparently involved keeping them constantly supplied with alcohol and their favoured flavour of herbal refreshment.

Less glamorously, I had spent the heady years of Brit-pop working at a Birmingham call centre, and it was there in 1996 that I had spent a frantic day manning the phones, taking credit card details from anxious fans desperate to secure tickets to Oasis' statement shows at Knebworth. It was a short day for me - within hours, tickets for what was already being dubbed the biggest concert in British history had all gone.

It struck me that in the mid-90s Oasis had presided over their own mini-economy. Of the four thirty-somethings waiting for Noel that morning, two of us had indirectly worked for him, another's girlfriend had worked for him. The only person untainted by the Gallagher shilling was our Russian sound-recordist who had been in the former Soviet Union.

I was interviewing Noel about the "over-grounding" of British indie - something for which his band was largely responsible. In approaching the film, I hadn't dared attempt a dutiful chronicle of British indie scene from the late 70s to the present day - we would need an entire series to do justice to that story. Rather, I narrowed my focus to show the trajectory of the music through a few key bands from the mid-80s onward - The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Suede, Blur, Oasis, The Libertines - and in the process show that what happened to the "indie" scene in the 90s was similar to how Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd took "underground" music into stadiums in the 1970s.

When Noel turned up, he was on time, funny, and only started swearing when the camera was switched on. He held court for two hours. My main memory is of biting my tongue hard during some of his stories, so that my guffaws wouldn't appear. As he shook my hand to say goodbye, he told me he could have kept talking all day.

When I look back at Noel's interview and the 12 year-old old archive of Blur and Oasis, there's a clear sense that Britpop coincided with the end of the rock industry's glory days.

Top of The Pops was still the important shop window for a band as it had been in the 60s; the internet was yet to happen, and the record industry was awash with cash. Now, with personal play-lists, digital radio, and iTunes, everything has fragmented. In the last ten years something has definitely changed, and we are in a new era of rock that is still taking shape.

Noel is clearly aware of this. In his interview he said: "Back in the 90s there was so much money floating about it was unbelievable. I remember us being invited to bashes in proper stately homes. We were getting f***ing DVDs given to us... These days you're lucky if you get a f***ing Christmas card."

A band becomes a phenomenon when people who couldn't care less about music start talking about them; when their success somehow defines a cultural moment in the life of the nation. What's interesting about Oasis isn't that they were a British rock phenomenon - that can't be disputed - but the fact that they were possibly the last."

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Now It's Time For Noel Gal-agher

Noel Gallagher choked on his Coco Pops yesterday when he saw a bikini-clad Russell Brand camping it up on my page and declaring his love for the Oasis star.

Russ was about to text his snap to pal Noel for his 40th birthday. Daubed on the comic’s belly was: “Noel, I love you too” – and round his neck was a garland.

The Bizarre Shagger Of The Year 2006 also quipped he fancies becoming top gay swordsman – and claiming Noel as his first scalp.

I thought we had a strictly platonic relationship based on nothing more than our rapier-like wit and a mutual lusting for my missus.

“Seems all along he’s just wanted to use me like one of his blow-up dolls. I’m disgusted yet strangely intrigued.”

Now I fear Noel’s intrigue could lead to curiosity – and another rash picture. Russ is in Hawaii filming rom-com Forgetting Sarah Marshall, directed by Nicholas Stoller.

So my artist boffins have mocked up the sort of Noel snap Russ might expect on his mobile soon . .

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

In My Opinion... Oasis

Nowaysis… we debate Noel's options.

Noel Gallagher has rightly earned himself a reputation as an 'elder statesman of rock'. His role as the wise and witty leader of Oasis is as much a part of the rock and roll establishment as Keith Richard's resilience, Johnny Borell's arrogance and younger brother Liam's petulance.

With an ability to write tunes that will hammer through your skull, perforate your soul and tattoo themselves on your heart, Noel is the driving force behind the band that helped define the 90s, and he has demonstrably proven throughout the course of Oasis' 13 years in the spotlight that he is the pivotal point of inspiration, not just for the music, but for everything. Their style, their sound, their ethos, the very core of all that binds them together, and that makes them carry on because he knows that in the end its all worthwhile.

But in a recent interview with the NME the leader of one of the greatest bands to ever roar out of Manchester revealed that he may be preparing to embark on a solo career. The question is, should that eponymous chapter of the Brit pop book, the one where Oasis finally disband, ever really be written? And do the fans - and more pressingly Noel himself - even want it to be written?

Definitely Maybe is considered by many to be one of the best, if not the greatest, debut albums of all time. When it was matched, and arguably bettered, in 1996 by second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, it seemed that the musical machine that was Oasis, with cigarettes and alcohol on their lips, whisky in their hands and fire in their guitars, was unstoppable.

However, many fans were disappointed one year later with Be Here Now, the cocaine fuelled third offering from the boys from Burnage, laden with seemingly endless guitar solos and a far cry from the hype. Similarly, the fourth and fifth albums - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants and Heathen Chemistry - did little to quell the general feeling of unease surrounding the creativity in the Gallagher camp. Thankfully, in 2005, with a new album cheesily titled Don't Believe the Truth, the band seemed to have found their feet again.

Speaking to the NME in that interview, he said: "I've actually got a backlog of songs that are slowly building up. The thing about a solo record is the time to do one is between Oasis world tours because you'd have a good couple of years.

"But it takes me so long to write the songs that eventually I run out of time (before Oasis begins again), but I've got a backlog now of about four or five songs which are probably too far in the past as far as the band in concerned, but which could work on my record... it's coming."

But is it really? A statement on Oasis' official website, issued to put a halt to rumours of Noel's impending solo stardom, bluntly reads: "Noel Gallagher is not preparing to launch into a solo career.

"Noel [and] Gem have had a great time performing their semi acoustic shows recently and will continue to do so when it feels like a good idea."

Noel has steadily built up a strong reputation as a top notch solo performer. His recent outings at the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts were applauded by all corners of the music press, and rightly so. Warm and engaging, he held the audience in the palm of his hand and turned out classic hit after classic hit, many of which would never dare to surface on the set list of an Oasis gig.

It could be very easy for Noel to follow the path taken by his friend and inspirational musician Paul Wellar, whose departure from the Jam and dalliance with the Style Council was anything but the best thing that ever happened to many of his fans. However, years later he crept back onto the scene as a solo artist and now the Modfather commands a level of reverence reserved for the musical elite.

But the problem with Noel is, he is Oasis. His presence in the group provides the perfect juxtaposition for Liam, both on stage and on record. Watching Noel perform is clearly never going to be an unpleasant experience, but at the same time it's never going to get your adrenalin pumping and your spirit soaring like an evening spent with the complete line-up. His solo shows are a chance to air the songs that never normally get played live and undeniably that is an experience in itself which hopefully will continue as a superb side project. But you'd be hard pressed to find one Oasis fan who'd rather watch Noel sing Round Our Way than see Oasis sing Live Forever.

Because even though their old songs that you've heard a million times before will always be there best, the Gallagher charm, with Liam's voice all Sex Pistol's swagger and Noel's guitar playing all Smith's-esque steadiness, which will always make them special. Their newer and decidedly lesser impressive songs will always be forgiven for a rousing rendition of Supersonic.

So what of a Noel solo album? Well, it goes without saying that any record from the man responsible for some of the greatest tunes ever written, and with a perhaps unequalled adeptness for 'borrowing' from other artists, would be worth a listen or two.

But Noel is no fool. He may have come a long way from the MTV unplugged show which he self-depreciatingly conceded as a performance where he "died on stage", but he'll never stray too far from the band that catapulted him onto the world's stage in the first place. With eight songs all ready under his belt for the next album, he will hopefully bring the band another step closer back to the greatness of the mad for it, supernova heights, Wonderwall era, even if he does fit in a semi-acoustic offering along the way.

In the world's best B-side, the Masterplan, Noel asserts that "it's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way". So, should Noel go solo? Definitely. Maybe.

Laura Topp

Source: www.inthenews.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History

"Lyla" was the first single from British band Oasis' sixth album Don't Believe the Truth, released on May 16 2005.

The song was written by Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, who has varyingly described the track as "specifically designed for pogoing", "annoyingly catchy", and the “poppiest thing since "Roll With It". Noting the varied influences of the song, Gallagher says that it's "a bit like... The Soundtrack of Our Lives doing The Who on Skol in a psychedelic city in the sky, or something".

However critics have argued that "Lyla" is perhaps more than simply influenced by other bands, noting the striking similarities between the song and "Confrontation Camp" by The Soundtrack of Our Lives and to a lesser extent "Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones. The first line of the song reinforces the notion that the song was also partially inspired by The La's.

Noel has also revealed that the Lyla in the song is actually the sister of the Sally mentioned in the Oasis single "Don't Look Back in Anger".

Admitting that he isn't very fond of the song, Noel has said that "Lyla" isn’t "even the fifth best track on the album". The song had existed as a demo since the early recording sessions for the album but was all but forgotten until practically the last minute.

Noel says that the song existed in an early form as a song called "Sing" and dated from the Heathen Chemistry-era. He also says that the title for the final song should have been "Smiler", but was changed seeing as guitarist Gem Archer's previous band, Heavy Stereo, also had a song called "Smiler".

Sony's insistence that it should be released as the first single from the album has helped to fuel the tension between the band and their record label, which has led to Oasis not renewing their contract with the record label following the release of Don't Believe the Truth.

"Lyla" became the band's seventh UK number one when it reached top spot in its first week of release. The song also debuted at #31 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and has reached #19 since then. It is the first Oasis song to appear on any US singles chart since 1998.

When performing on the UK music chart show Top of the Pops, Liam, who was forced to mime to the music, made no secret of the fact, walking away from the microphone with his mouth closed mid-way through lines that he was supposedly 'singing'. It would be Liam's last performance on the programme before its demise in late 2006. However, Noel and the rest of the band would return in August 2005 to perform The Importance of Being Idle.

The song leaked on the internet during late March 2005, weeks before its May release date, after an unauthorised early airing on Polish radio station Radiowej Trójce.

'Lyla' was covered by Foo Fighters during a performance at BBC Studios.

The song is included on Oasis' 'best-of' album "Stop the Clocks". It is also included in FIFA 06 as a track.

Watch the music video Here, and a live performance Here.

Source: Wikipedia

This D**k Looks Like A Chick

I’ve discovered an early 40th birthday present winging its way to Noel Gallagher.

This terrifying picture of comic Russell Brand in a bikini and Hawaiian garland is being sent to the legend’s mobile as we speak.

Noel is a big fan of Russell’s Radio 2 show and during a recent phone-in jokingly declared his love for the loudmouth.

Now Russ – in Hawaii filming the St Trinian’s remake – is having a belly laugh of his own by scrawling on his tum: “Noel, I love you too.” The tiny cossie shows off fake love bites and an Ecstasy tattoo.

Russ is so proud of his Bizarre Shagger Of The Year 2006 title that he joked to me: “Now I’ve triumphed in the heterosexual division it’s time to focus on the gay league. Winning that is all that could top Hammers’ escape from Premiership relegation.

“Noel is the perfect scalp to get me started then I’ll turn to Liam.”

Good luck, Russ, but I hope Noel doesn’t now raid the knickers drawer of his lovely girlfriend Sara MacDonald.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Guests For Soccer AM This Week

Sky Sports One (UK) 9AM-12PM

Joining Tim Lovejoy and Helen Chamberlain on the show this week Noel Gallagher, Hard-Fi, Ian Holloway and celebrity soccerette Gemma Atkinson.