The Scouse Indie Chaps Will Release Their Greatest Hits In September

Shack who are signed to Noel Gallagher's Sourmash label will release a 'Best Of' compilation later this year.

The collection, called 'Time Machine', will include songs from the five studio albums the band have released so far, plus two new tracks 'Holiday Abroad' and 'Wanda'.

'Time Machine' is out on September 10.

The tracklisting is:

'I Know You Well'
'Comedy'
'Cup Of Tea'
'Al's Vacation'
'Pull Together'
'Meant To Be'
'Butterfly'
'Sgt Major'
'On The Terrace'
'Undecided'
'Cornish Town'
'Miles Apart'
'Streets Of Kenny'
'Shelley Brown'
'Neighbours'

The band will tour the UK in support of the album, although specific dates have not been announced yet - check back at NME.COM for the full details of the tour when we get the dates.

Source: www.nme.com

10 Bandmates Who Bit The Dust

When bands split, members' fates can differ wildly. Here are the bandmates who bit the dust while their pals retained the fame.

While Morrissey (pictured above) tours to critical acclaim and Marr joins US indie band Modest Mouse, fellow former Smiths members - bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce - are signing DVDs about the Smiths in Manchester.

Here are five other bandmates who bit the dust while their pals shot to fame.

01. Bananarama
Girl band Bananarama was formed by three friends in the early eighties: Siobhan Fahey, Sara Dallin, and Keren Woodward.

But Fahey, who had married Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, gave the group the slip and came up on top fronting Shakespeare Sister along with Marcella Detroit.

The band continued with a replacement for Fahey, but eventually slipped from the pop radar - making the odd record for release in Europe and beyond.

In February 2007, however, it was reported that Bananarama were back in the studio recording new material. Now that Fahey has dropped out of the limelight, perhaps Bananarama will - as did Take That - get a taste of fame once again.

02. Oasis
The band may not have split, but some of the original band members who left the group early on may now be regretting their hasty departures.

Guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and drummer Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan left Oasis within days of eachother in 1999.

Although both said it was to spend time with their families, some rumours - and outright claims made by Noel Gallagher - suggest Bonehead's departure was more to do with the usual rock and roll excesses and lots of arguing.

Guigsy now lives outside of London with his family, and occasionally DJs. Bonehead, meanwhile, lives in Manchester, where he has formed a group with ex-Smiths band members Rourke and Joyce called Moondog One. He also DJs.

03. Wham!
While George Michael shot to fame and notoriety in his post-Wham! years, fellow bandmate Andrew Ridgeley disappeared from popular view.

They parted ways in 1986 after five hit-busting years together. After dabbling in this and that, Ridgely retired to Cornwall, where he lives with ex-Bananarama bandmate Keren Woodward.

Here he became an environmental activist as part of Surfers Against Sewage and went on to partner in a surfing goods firm.

Lucky George Michael, meanwhile, is still very much in the public eye - his every drug-driving transgression a front page grabbing feast for the tabloids.

04. Bros
Luke Goss, Matt Goss, big shoes ... but who was the drummer?

The boy band Bros had young girls swooning at every turn, but while brothers Matt and Luke, who danced about at the front, caught everyone's eye, poor old Craig Logan got stuck at the back devoid of attention.

Even when Logan left the band in the late 80s, the brothers kept on touring.

But Logan drew on his behind-the-scenes talents and has gone on to work for EMI records and to manage mouthy pop-starlet P!nk. Last year he took charge of Sony BMG's RCA Records label group.

The brothers, meanwhile, have continued to dabble in the performing arts and sporadically pop up into the public eye.

05. Recovered from obscurity
And, finally, we couldn't forget the band members who have been rescued from relative obscurity through the current trend for rock reformations.

With the likes of The Who, The Police, Take That and now the Spice Girls reforming (or cashing in, whichever you prefer), the lesser fortunes of some band mates are being propped up by the grand success of others.

Without Daltry and Townsend in the Who, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen in Take That and Sting in the Police, these resurrections might not be quite the crowd pullers they currently are.

Source: www.channel4.com

Call Her Misleading Meg

So Meg Mathews is touting her second-hand gear on t’internet, claiming it’s all genuine Oasis memorabilia.

I hear otherwise. Word reaches me that all the garish furniture touted by Noel Gallagher's ex is from after their divorce.

But when flogging old sticks, it helps to stick an Oasis price tag on.

Better news for Noel and the lads is that Man City chairman Thaksin Shinawatra is offering them £100,000 for a gig.

Better than watching City play, I reckon.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

7 Ages Of Rock

A definitive landmark series charting the emergence and re-emergence of rock music as a global force, told through the musicians who have shaped this most enduring of genres.

Part 7 - What The World is Waiting For [Indie 1980-2007]

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.

For those who missed the show, click here for the video.

This is much better quality then the youtube links, I posted a few weeks ago.

Meg Sells Her Goods On eBay

They witnessed some of Britain’s wildest rock ’n’ roll parties — now these Oasis memories are being sold by Meg Mathews on eBay.

Meg, once wed to Britpop idol Noel Gallagher, is offloading items worth £14,000 — many from Supernova Heights, the mansion they famously shared in the 1990s.

Among them is a Gothic-style black PVC sofa, valued at £3,500 on the online auction site.

Other gear from the house in Belsize Park, North London, includes a dining room table, a chaise longue, a sideboard, lamps, a Gucci dinner service — and even a pair of leather Handcuffs.

Also on sale are Meg’s £4,000 ebonised Gothic bed, a coffee table from her bedroom suite and several items of her clothing collection.

Interior designer Meg, 41 — who lives with daughter Anais, seven, split from Noel in 2001.

But their home, named after Noel’s Oasis hit Champagne Supernova, was notorious as the venue for regular drug-crazed parties.

Celebs like Patsy Kensit, Liz Hurley, Jude Law, Kate Moss and Anna Friel were among guests who cavorted at the house.

But Meg is now said to be keen to put her party lifestyle behind her.

She has told pals she wants to get rid of her past after coming out of rehab.

Meg, who is moving out of her Primrose Hill home, also sold items worth £26,000 on eBay earlier this year.

A pal said: “There are major Britpop artefacts up for sale here. The sofa in particular was the scene of a lot of big nights. There were some major celebs on it.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

The Twenty Craziest Soundalike Songs

This weekend you tortured your spouses/roommates/pets by spending hours painstakingly comparing soundalike songs, honing in on the key moments that made pairs of tracks seem so familiar.

Your nominations rocked. So do most of these songs. Check out the finalists that made the cut:

01. Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” and Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life”
02. Fergie’s “Fergalicious” and J.J. Fad’s “Supersonic”
03. The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and Offspring’s “Why Don’t You Get a Job”
04. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and Blondie’s “X Offender”
05. Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Boston’s “More Than a Feeling”
06. Nazareth’s “Hair of the Dog” and the Beatles’ “Day Tripper”
07. The Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues” and Oasis’ “Put Yer Money Where Your Mouth Is”
08. Foo Fighters’ “Monkey Wrench” and Elton John’s “Whipping Boy”
09. Sublime’s “What I Got” and the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna”
10. Wilco’s “Walken” and Spoon’s “Don’t Make Me a Target”
11. Akon’s “Don’t Matter” and R. Kelly’s “Ignition” (Remix)
12. Billy Joel’s “Honesty” and Elton John’s “Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word”
13. Phish’s “Farmhouse” and Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry”
14. Elastica’s “Connection” and Wire’s “Three Girl Rhumba”
15. Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69″ and Green Day’s “Jesus of Suburbia”
16. Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and Weezer’s “Beverly Hills”
17. Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn” and The Black-Eyed Peas “Where is the Love”
18. The Kinks “Picture Book” and Green Day’s “Warning”
19. The Killers’ “When You Were Young” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run”
20. Pearl Jam’s “Given to Fly” and Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California”

Source: www.rollingstone.com

Some Might Sink

Liam taught to swim by son Gene, 6

Oasis star Liam Gallagher is having swimming lessons from his six year-old son Gene.

The Some Might Say singer was even spotted wearing children's arm bands.

An insider said Liam was trying his best to tread water in Hampstead Men's Pond, north west London.

He added: "Gene was at the side of the bank yelling encouragement. He threw some kid's arm bands over to Liam, 34, and yelled at him to put them on.

"Gene has also been helping his dad learn to swim at a swanky swimming pool in the area."

Liam is said to have stepped up visits to the gym. Our sources added: "He wants to join in with Gene when they go abroad somewhere hot.

"And he also thinks it will be a good way of keeping fit."

Source: Daily Star

The OMM Top 50 Covers

Check the full list and let us know if you agree, or if you think we've made any glaring omissions...

1 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence (1983) (orig. The Beatles, 1968)

Dreamy White Album psychedelia made into dark, androgynous sex-goth. Prudence was Mia Farrow's sister, who freaked out on the Beatles' infamous trip to see the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India.

2 John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1960) (orig. Rodgers and Hammerstein/The Sound of Music, 1959)
The legendary sax God takes the waltzing original on a cosmic trip to the spiritual beyond. A free jazz landmark... recorded five years before the movie made nuns'n'Nazis into timeless camp.

3 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane (1988) (orig. The Velvet Underground, 1971)

Lou Reed's ultimate three-chord rock'n'roll anthem given an ethereal, campfire makeover, care of the Canadian indie-folksters' restrained acoustics and the blank, haunting voice of Margo Timmins.

4 Robert Wyatt - I'm a Believer (1974) (orig. the Monkees, 1966)

This unlikely, jazz-flecked version of the Neil Diamond-penned Monkees hit saw the recently paralysed Wyatt performing in his unique cockney tones from a wheelchair on Top of the Pops.

5 Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) (orig. Big Mama Thornton, 1952)

Elvis's high-energy, hard-rocking cut of this dirty Leiber and Stoller ditty stomped all over Thornton's downhome original... just like rock stomped all over the blues.

6 Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1973) (orig. Bob Dylan, 1963)

A glam-derived nail in the coffin of '60s sincerity, as Ferry converts Dylan's anti-nuclear folk masterpiece into delirious faux-gospel pop deluxe.

7 The Slits - I Heard it Through the Grapevine (1979) (orig. Marvin Gaye, 1968, after Gladys Knight & the Pips, 1967)

The Gaye classic is a study in self-lacerating paranoia. The Notting Hill femme-punks delivered it as an eccentric, feminist, dub-disco jump for joy.

8 Richard Thompson - Oops!... I Did It Again (2003) (orig. Britney Spears, 2000)

The singer-songwriter and founding member of Fairport Convention covered Britney's 'Oops I Did It Again' as part of his show 1000 Years of Popular Music.

9 Devo - Satisfaction (I Can't Get Me No) (1978) (orig. The Rolling Stones, 1965)

Akron, Ohio's art-punk satirists turn Jagger's cocky machismo inside-out, revealing a black, creepy comedy of geeky male sexual frustration.

10 Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (1972) (orig. Bee Gees, 1971)

The soul master's most surreal, spooked and androgynous vocal performance proves that the Brothers Gibb were always blue-eyed soul boys at heart.

11 Oasis - I Am The Walrus (1994) (orig. The Beatles, 1967)

Less a tribute to their idols than an arrogantly thumbed nose, this live B-side replaces Lennon's queasy orchestras with Liam Gallagher's top-of-the-world, rock god disdain.

12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (1968) (orig. Bob Dylan, 1967)

The ultimate instant cover, as Hendrix made this small, spooky song from the John Wesley Harding album into the raging, epic soundtrack to the turmoil of 1968.

13 The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (1979) (orig. Dandy Livingstone, 1967)

The 2-Toners revived this beautiful rocksteady plea for an end to 'rudeboy' violence, and, like the original, it was most loved by the skinheads who did the damage.

14 Soft Cell - Tainted Love (1981) (orig. Gloria Jones, 1964)

A northern soul classic, originally performed by Gloria Jones (later, mother of Marc Bolan's son, Rolan) turned into a deviant pop smash by Marc Almond and Dave Ball.

15 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (1987) (orig. Elvis Presley, 1972, after Brenda Lee, 1972)

The peak of Tennant & Lowe's dance-pop alchemy, as they charmed the planet with a sincere disco re-tooling of the maudlin Elvis ballad.

16 Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (1994) (orig. Leonard Cohen, 1984)

If you had to prove that the tragic Buckley Jr was the voice of his generation, then this virtuoso choirboy take on Cohen's elegantly grim hymn would be Exhibit One.

17 The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man (1965) (orig. Bob Dylan, 1965)

Jangling 12-string Rickenbacker and beatific Californian harmonies; Roger McGuinn poppifies Dylan and casually invents folk-rock, alt-country and indie. Bonus.

18 Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb (2004) (orig. Pink Floyd, 1979)

How do you remove the pomp from the Floyd and become huge overnight? Easy. Do The Wall's most miserable moment in the style of Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees.

19 Johnny Cash - Hurt (2002) (orig. Nine Inch Nails, 1994)

The Man in Black's rumbling yet fragile baritone - and Mark Romanek's extraordinary video - turned Trent Reznor's numb nihilism into a dying rebel's final, defiant stand on Judgment Day.

20 Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (1990) (orig. Neil Young, 1970)

Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and early Saint Etienne singer Moira Lambert remix Young's fragile lament into a Balearic mash-up of piano-led, dubwise, dancefloor melancholy.

Find the full 50 here

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Blast From The Past...

Was There Then
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Getting High
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From Childhood to Oasis The Real Story
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Take Me There The True Story
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Q Ten Years Of Rock'n'Roll Mayhem
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Vox Magazine
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Knebworth Tour Book 1996
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Don't Believe The Truth Tour Book 2005/06
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European Tour Programme 1996
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Oasis: The Official Magazine
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Wibblling Rivalry from Q Magazine
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High quality scans from various Oasis books, magazines and tour programmes from www.wiki.oasis-story.com

Source: www.wiki.oasis-story.com

Oasis and REM Help Thrills Get Their Pride Back

The Thrills burst on to the British music scene four years ago with So Much For The City, a debut album full of jangly pop songs inspired by the sunshine of America's west coast and name-checking towns such as Santa Cruz and Big Sur.

But their second album - Let's Bottle Bohemia, in 2004 - was dismissed as a rush job by some critics and the band suffered a crisis of confidence.

Now the Dublin five-piece are back and bursting with pride, having completed third album, Teenager.

And frontman Conor Deasy believes that has reinvigorated the band's sound and given them back the self-belief they had been lacking.

He said: "It has been a while, but we really needed to go away for a bit. We knew that.

"Bands work at quite a slow pace so if an album comes out a year after your first one, people assume it has been rushed.

"Our second album maybe wasn't as cohesive as the first, but I feel some people didn't give it anything other than a quick listen and failed to get what it was about.

"Our confidence took a real kicking for a couple of months, but REM took us out on tour and they loved the new songs and were very supportive of the band.

"Then Oasis invited us to tour with them in Europe and we couldn't say no.

"We played Nothing Changes Around Here and when we came offstage Noel Gallagher told us: 'That's a great song and a great chorus' so things like that helped to lift us up. It prevented us from getting too down and we got through it in the end."

Explaining the band's decision to turn down the glamorous rock 'n' roll hedonism on tap in Los Angeles for a rundown district of Canada, he added: "This record had to be a departure for us.

"I wanted to move away from the aesthetic and iconography we had immersed ourselves in with our first two records. We knew Los Angeles well and it had been a distraction, so we tried to do the album in Dublin.

"We couldn't find a studio we wanted and made a cheeky call to U2 to see if we could use theirs, but they were working in it at the time.

"The very first gig I went to was at Dublin's Slane Castle with Oasis and REM on the bill. I was in the front row with 80,000 people crushing against me.

Teenager is released on July 23.

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

I Won't Be Moving To London Like Oasis Did

Despite his imminent rise to stardom, Tom Clarke, frontman of The Enemy, has said that his band will never up sticks from their native Coventry.

The statement echoes the stance held by Arctic Monkeys, who despite rising to superstardom still live in their hometown Sheffield. Singer Alex Turner still lives with his parents in the city.

Clarke said of his home city: "As much as we sing about the downsides of the place, we still love it," he told The Sun. "We would never leave. It's us. We belong there."

Traditionally northern bands have made the move to London after making it big, to be closer to music industry HQs and the city's party scene. Noel Gallagher famously upped sticks from Manchester while living with a girlfriend to head to the capital back in 1994.

Source: www.nme.com

Oasis In The Top 10 Most Popular Myspace Pages In The UK

The UK's favourite MySpace profile with 627,515 "friends" is Project Red, the global fund to fight Aids co-founded by U2 frontman Bono.

Damon Albarn's virtual band Gorillaz is second with 603,394 MySpace friends, and Welsh band Bullet for my Valentine is third with 450,000 friends.

"The fact that the top three MySpace profiles are a charitable campaign, a major pop group and an indie rock band shows the diversity of the MySpace community," said the MySpace Europe senior vice-president of marketing and content, Jamie Kantrowitz.

However, with eight of the top 10 most popular UK profiles relating to bands and artists, MySpace is still firmly the social networking site most closely associated with music fans.

The top 10 is rounded out, in descending order, by the profiles for artists Imogen Heap, Lily Allen and Coldplay, followed by the Find Madeleine profile, and music profiles for Oasis, Lost Prophets and James Blunt.

In the sporting-related category Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand comes out on top, following his tie-up with P Diddy earlier this year. Formula one driver Lewis Hamilton is second and Wayne Rooney third.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

I'm A Star - Honest!

Check out Liam Gallagher's made-up alter-ego on Facebook.

Some joker has created a fake profile and joined groups including 1,000 Reasons Why The North Is Better Than The South.

Even so, one of the eight friends is Liam's real mate, Jamiroquai bassist Stuart Zender - and it's definitely the man himself. Noel Edmonds, we're not so sure about.

"Liam" cites Spongebob Squarepants as his favourite TV show, which "bends me f***ing mind". And in the About Me section, he boasts: "I'm a rock and roll star - get on it or f*** off you d***."
The giveaway was giving one of his friends as Paul Weller. According to Weller's PR: "He doesn't even know how to send an email." Made us laugh, anyway, whoever you are...

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

George Is Coming To Town But Oasis Still The Hottest Ticket

Tickets to see superstar George Michael in concert in Belfast's Odyssey Arena next month are expected to sell out within days of going on sale.

But despite huge interest in the superstar's first show in the city, when it comes to ticket sales he will fall short of the records set by rockers Oasis or Irish pop band Westlife.

Oasis hold the Odyssey Arena's record for the fastest selling act to play the venue - selling out a show in December 2005 in a staggering 15 minutes.

The Mancunian band played a double date at the Odyssey in the run-up to Christmas, with both shows on December 18 and 19 selling out, but their first one has yet to be beaten.

The 15-minute sale meant that 11 tickets were bought per second to watch Oasis - nearly 700 a minute.

Giving Oasis a run for their money is Chris Martin's Coldplay, who performed at the Odyssey a few days later in 2005.

Up to 10,000 tickets for this highly anticipated concert were snapped up within 20 minutes of going on sale.

Tickets to see Northern Ireland's own Snow Patrol at the Odyssey in December 2006 sold out within half an hour of going on sale last August.

The band staged a massive homecoming gig at the Odyssey on December 21 and set their own record, when they sold the largest amount of tickets for one show at the venue - 10,401. Amazingly, the band beat the previous record set by Coldplay, by just one ticket.

When it comes to record holders, Irish boy band Westlife still lead the way as the most successful act to play the Odyssey.

The award-winning pop group played 12 consecutive nights at the venue and in total, have performed 45 times at the Odyssey.

Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Scans From Argentinian Rolling Stone

Oasis On The Cover Of Argentinian Rolling Stone

Oasis feature on The Cover Of Argentinian Roling Stone magazine.

The magazine includes the rise of the band, a full discography and much more.

Tony Blair Was Worried Oasis Would Trash Downing Street

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was worried that Oasis would "do something crazy" when they attended a reception at 10 Downing Street in 1997.

The then newly-elected leader was holding a music industry reception when he discovered that the band's guitarist Noel Gallagher was attending.

However, according to the diaries of his spokesperson Alistair Campbell, which were published yesterday (July 8), Blair had no idea how the Oasis man had been invited, and was then worried he might be the victim of a spot of rock 'n' roll behaviour.

"TB (Tony Blair) was worried that Noel Gallagher was coming to the reception tomorrow. He said he had no idea he had been invited," wrote Campbell. "TB felt he was bound to do something crazy. I spoke to (Creation Records boss) Alan McGee and said can we be assured he would behave."

The record label boss assured them it would be fine, explaining had they invited frontman Liam they might have been in trouble.

"Alan said he would make sure he did. He said if we had invited Liam, it might have been different," said Campbell.

"(Noel) Gallagher arrived with his wife Meg, McGee and his girlfriend. Cherie (Blair[/b) met them and took them upstairs to see (the [b]Blair's children) Kathryn and Nicky, who was pretty gobsmacked when Gallagher walked in.

"He said he thought Number 10 was 'tops', said he couldn't believe that there was an ironing board in there."

Source: www.nme.com

Blur Defeat Not All Bad

Blur star Alex James, 38, reckons losing out to Oasis during their famous 90s feud had its compensations: "It was fine while we were winning, but suddenly Oasis were top dogs. And that was horrible.

"Though the shagging got better, oddly, so it wasn't all bad."

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Paul Weller Collaborates With Beatles And Oasis Artist

The modfather is bringing out annotated lyric book

Paul Weller has collaborated with legendary Beatles artist Peter Blake on a new book.

Blake, famous for designing the cover of the 1967 classic 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', the cover of Oasis' best of 'Stop The Clocks' plus Weller's own 'Stanley Road' album, has created the cover for 'Suburban 100', a collection of Weller lyrics.

The volume, out September 6, will bring together lyrics from 100 of the star's songs, and features personal annotations by Weller himself.

Source: www.nme.com

The Enemy Were Raised On Oasis

I couldn't care what journalists think," says Tom, who in real life is so itsy bitsy tiny, Katie Holmes would probably marry him.

"They'll come up to you and say 'I love you music', but it's all bull. One week they love you and the next week they don't.

They're paid to change their opinion. But someone like Noel Gallagher or Tom Meighan coming up to you and saying they're into us, that means something.

Having been raised on Oasis' Definitely Maybe and The Verve ("I couldn't afford new CDs, they were really the only two cassettes I'd listen to"), he thinks that since then music has gone off the boil.

Mixing Oasis's snarling attitude with the social outrage of early Manics, their songs are born out of the economic decline of hometown Coventry, an area crippled by the closure of its major employer, Peugeot.

"We're just making good music, proper music. It's not about what you wear or what you look like, it's about what you do and what you stand for."

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk