Queen Dreamers

Queen have topped a list of bands people Wish they had been in.

The Bohemian Rhapsody rockers fronted by the late Freddie Mercury beat The Beatles into second place.

In the poll of 1,000 people by bar chain Walkabout, most said the buzz of a live show would be the best thing about being in a band. But only 29 per cent wanted to be lead singer.

Top 10:
01. Queen
02. The Beatles
03. Pink Floyd
04. The Spice Girls
05. The Sugababes
06. U2
07. Take That
08. The Jam
09. Rolling Stones
10. Oasis

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Meet The Hair Scare Bunch

It locks like a bad day for showbiz haircuts with a host of celebs spotted with dodgy barnets.

First up is singer Amy Winehouse who looks even more like cartoon character Marge Simpson than normal with her freshly- groomed beehive.

In fact, her hairdo looks so large I reckon she could be stashing something under it.

Perhaps that is where Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho's Yorkshire terrier is hiding.

Or maybe she is keeping her missing tooth in there until she is sober enough to visit a dentist?

Meanwhile, Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was showing off a lank new style that make him look like Cousin Itt from TV show The Addams Family.

And in a promotional still from Ocean’s Thirteen – premiering in Cannes tonight – actor Brad Pitt seems to be trying to look like ex Jennifer Aniston with his girly, centre-parted hairstyle.

They all need to brush up on their haircare . . .

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Wonderbrawl

Roo climbs in the ring with footie rival Noel

Football ace Wayne Rooney is facing a wonderbrawl with Oasis legend Noel Gallagher in the boxing ring.

The sworn soccer enemies will each carry title belts for world champ Ricky Hatton when he fights in Las vegas next month.

Manchester United star Wayne, 21, and guitarist Noel, 39, are both massive fans of ring king Ricky, 28.

They leapt at the chance to accompany him into the ring for his IBO light welterweight fight against Mexico's Jose Luis Casillo on June 23.

But rivalry could flare between United striker Wayne and Manchester City fan Noel.

"We hope the main fight takes place inside the ring and doesn't involve Wayne or Noel," said a boxing insider.

They are both passionate about their clubs and neither has a reputation for backing down. We're relying on the fact they'll put their football rivalry aside.

"Ricky himself is a massive City fan but really appreciates the backing he gets from the United team."

And Wayne can rely on the support of his team mates Rio Ferdinand, 28, John O'Shea,26 and Wes brown, 27, who will be in the audience for the fight.

Source: Daily Star

Rock Of The Town

VH-1 experts will decide this weekend which UK city is the best for music.

It doesn't matter whether it's Franz Ferdinand, Travis or Darius, everybody loves to see a star act from their home town doing well.

But this weekend the argument over which city is the rock capital of the UK will be settled.

Eight locations across Britain and Ireland are doing battle in a head-to-head contest on VH-1.

Glasgow, home to Travis, Wet, Wet, Wet, Simple Minds among others, is the only Scottish contender in the VH1 Nation's Favourite Music City and is taking on Birmingham, Dublin, London, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackwood and surrounding areas in Wales.

Experts will compare the success of artists and calculate the winning location by seeing which city's stars have amassed the most No.1s in the last 20 years. Here is a guide to the country's most successful rock cities

GLASGOW

AS the only Scottish representative, we need to hope that the combined skills of Darius, Michelle McManus and Wet Wet Wet take Glasgow over the top.

With two of the best live venues - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and The Barrowland Ballroom - Glasgow has a proud tradition of rocking out and is in with a decent shout.

Primal Scream, Fairground Attraction, Edwyn Collins, The Bluebells, The Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, Simple Minds, Texas, Altered Images, Travis and Belle and Sebastian all hail from Glasgow. While Lanarkshire acts like Soup Dragons and The Jesus and Mary Chain get a shout and Paisley's Paolo Nutini and Gerry Rafferty are included by proximity.

Former Altered Images singer Clare Grogan said: "I've got a soft spot for all the Glasgow jangley guitar types - Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Franz Ferdinand and new band BriColage.

"Music is a way of life in Glasgow."

DUBLIN

The Irish capital has had a huge influence on music in the British Isles and around the world, enjoying some incredible chart-topping acts, as well as a seeming monopoly on clean-cut boy-band stars.

U2 are the worldwide kings of rock 'n' roll, while Sinead O' Connor, The Corrs, Samantha Mumba, and even Enya have all done well.

In terms of manufactured pop acts, the Fair City is also home to B*Witched, Boyzone, Westlife and solo efforts from Ronan Keating and Brian McFadden.

Boyzone's Shane Lynch said: "I think Dublin should be crowned the nation's favourite music city because of the large amount of bands that have been successful worldwide."

LIVERPOOL

If it was a poll of all-time number one stars, then Liverpool would be the clear winner thanks to the Fab Four.

But since The Beatles are no longer with us, it's down to the more modern Liverpool-born pop stars to carry on the proud tradition.

Atomic Kitten, Sonia, The La's, The Farm, The Zutons, Lightning Seeds, OMD and Melanie C are all flying the Merseyside flag.

Ex-Atomic Kitten singer Liz McClarnon said: "We have had more Number Ones (56 to be precise) than any other city in the world."

MANCHESTER

The rivalry between the two major cities of north-west England will be fuelled here.

Oasis have been the biggest Manchester band for the last 10 years but the entire Madchester sound will be able to stick their oar in as well.

The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Black Grape, The Smiths, Morrissey, New Order, James, Simply Red, Take That and Joy Division are some of its top acts.

SHEFFIELD

THE former steel capital has become a bit of an indie rock hotspot in recent years as home to uber hip rockers Arctic Monkeys.

They are following in the footsteps of Pulp, Moloko, Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, Heaven 17 and Human League.

Human League's Susan Sulley said: "Sheffield has diversity, vibrancy and good old solid northern working class that makes people stand up and listen. From the 60s to now, and every decade in between, we make music like our steel, strong and it stands the test of time."

BLACKWOOD (WALES)

Blackwood is being highlighted for the vote as it's the home town of Manic Street Preachers. But as Welsh pop acts are so spread around, all bands from Wales are also being considered under the umbrella entry. So as well as the Manics, the success of Catatonia, Tom Jones, the Stereophonics, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Feeder, Super Furry Animals and The Automatic can also be counted as the experts consider the success of our Celtic cousins.

LONDON

As one of the biggest, busiest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world, London has also spawned countless generations of great popstars. Classic acts like David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Who all hail from London, while the last two decades have seen hits from bands and singers like Sugababes, East 17, Blur, Madness and Lily Allen.

Blur's Alex James said: "I think London should be crowned the nation's favourite music city because it's obvious."

BIRMINGHAM

As the second largest city in the UK, the Midlands metropolis has produced a pretty diverse batch of musicians over the years, from reggae to pop, heavy metal to dance. Duran Duran, Jamelia, Ozzy Osbourne and his band Black Sabbath, The Streets, Ocean Colour Scene, The Wonder Stuff and UB40 are just some of their favourite sons. Miles Hunt of The Wonderstuff argues their case: "I think Birmingham should be crowned the nation's favourite music city because we didn't pollute the world with the God awful B**tles."

The Nation's Favourite Music City is on VH1, Saturday, May 26, at 7pm.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Q Radio Presents Oasis

Tune into Stadium Q 9pm on 27 May to hear the band recorded live in concert on the There And Then tour. Q Radio available at

Freeview 716, Virgin Media 878, Sky 0181 and www.home.q4music.com

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.

Source: www.gulf-daily-news.com

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)
Advance Ticket Price: £8.00 (Door Price: £9.00)
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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'

Click here for more information.

Source: www.therobintickets.co.uk

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