Liam Gallagher Attends Holly Willoughby's Wedding

Dancing On Ice host Holly Willoughby yesterday married her TV producer fiance in a star-studded ceremony.

The TV beauty, 26, exchanged vows with Dan Baldwin at St Michael's Church, in the grounds of romantic 900-year-old Amberley Castle, West Sussex.

But the blushing bride, who wore a white gown, kept herself hidden behind security guards holding umbrellas after selling rights to the big day to a glossy magazine. One onlooker, who managed to catch a glimpse of the former model, said: "She looked stunning. Dan is a lucky man."

Showbiz pals at the £50,000 bash included ex-EastEnder Tamzin Outhwaite, Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, ex-XFactor host Kate Thornton and her replacement Dermot O'Leary.

Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

Q Awards 2007 Are Coming

U2, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Who, Arctic Monkeys and more have all attended the annual Q Awards , one of the most legendary events in the music calendar. A megastar line up is guaranteed, as is plenty of controversy.

Whether it’s Elton John having a pop at Madonna , Liam Gallagher rucking with Robbie Williams, Liam Gallagher calling Chris Martin a “plant pot”or Liam Gallagher starting a fight in an empty room, there’s sure to be aggro. And the biggest names in music.

The Q Awards 2007 takes place on 8 October at the Grosvenor, Park Lane, London. Q magazine’s awards special is on sale 1 November.

Click here to watch highlights from past events; Including Liam Gallagher V Robbie Williams from 2000 and much more.

Source: www.q4music.com

Nominate Oasis At The 2007 Vodafone Live Music Awards

When? 19 September, 2007. Where? London. Why? To celebrate the best bands, the craziest festivals, and the most mental gigs of the year.

Nominate your favourites in the categories. When you've all had your say, we'll ask you to vote for the winners from a short-list in each category to decide who walks away with a Vodafone Live Music Award.

Noel Gallagher & Gem Archer could be nominated for the outstanding acoustic tour, they did earlier this year in a number of categories.

Best Live Act
Tour of The Year
Greatest Live Impact in 2007
Tour of The Year

Oasis could also be nominated in the Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement Award, Best Live Return and Best Live Act.

Click here to nominate your favourites, you have to sign up to vote.

Source: www.vodafonemusic.co.uk

The Coral - Roots And Echoes

The motto for the Scousers' latest outing is "keep it real". So all songs are drawn from real experiences and they have parked their penchant for sonic experimentation at the studio door, opining that every song should be capable of standing up to be being played just on acoustic guitar.

The job of getting this simpler material down was helped by none other than Noel Gallagher, who offered his Wheeler End studio in Bucks, along with the kind of venerable music-making technology which suits The Coral's retro style.

The result is a jangly period piece with unassuming yet hooky songs like Jacqueline jostling with Mersey lounge ballads such as Fireflies and a succession of easy, sixties-style pop nuggets.

Released on August 6.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Inside This Months Uncut Magazine

Liam Gallagher On Recording 'Carnation'

'The Jam are alright, but I was to young for them. I Like Weller now. Oasis were in Sweeden, I think, with Ocean Colour Scene, and we were pissed speaking about The Jam and Mods, so I went 'Carnation' is the best tune," and Steve Craddock goes, 'Oh, Id love to do a cover of it one day". So he went away and done his version and sent me the tape.'

He goes 'Do you want to sing on that?" I was going 'Oh,Fuck that," So I kept ignoring his calls and Patsy is going 'Ring him back'

"Im going, "No I can't sing with anyone else, I've never done it before." I got My shit together and I went Down to Primal Screams studio and we done it in the afternoon.

"I was gonna do Top Of The Pops and all that, cos I thought "Why Not?" And then I thought , It's a good song, Im well happy with it's better than anything else around at the moment."

If it had gone in at No 1, great, but I get No 1's with Oasis... I'd have Been disapointed if it had'nt got in the Top 10

Source: Uncut

The song got to #6 in the UK charts on it's release, click here to watch the video for the track.

Blur Star: Liam Looks Like Kevin Keegan

Blur's Alex James has taken a swipe at Oasis and their bad haircuts.

Alex told this week's NME magazine: "I'd never have a haircut like Liam Gallagher.

"He's starting to look a bit like Kevin Keegan and I'd never have any Eighties cut.

"It was truly a tragic time for hair."

Source: www.mirrror.co.uk

The Beatles Legendary Club To Release CD

Oasis and Arctic Monkeys also help Cavern celebrate 50th anniversary

Liverpool club The Cavern, one of the first venues The Beatles played, is to celebrate its 50th anniversary with the release of a compilation album.

To mark its half century the band are set to release 'The Cavern - The Most Famous Club In The World' on August 20.

The tracklisting features both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, along with the likes of Oasis, The Kinks, Queen plus an unreleased version of the Arctic Monkeys' 'The View From The Afternoon'.

The three-CD tracklisting is:

CD 1

1. The Beatles - 'Please Please Me'
2. Chuck Berry - 'No Particular Place To Go'
3. The Shadows- 'Apache'
4. The Spencer Davis Group - 'Keep On Running'
5. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - 'Shakin' All Over'
6. Cilla Black - 'Anyone Who Had A Heart'
7. The Hollies - 'I'm Alive'
8. Gene Vincent - 'Be Bop A Lula'
9. Lonnie Donegan - 'Cumberland Gap'
10. The Fourmost - 'Hello Little Girl'
11. The Searchers - 'Sweets For My Sweet'
12. Manfred Mann - 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy'
13. Chris Farlowe - 'Out Of Time'
14. Wilson Pickett - 'In The Midnight Hour'
15. Ben E. King - 'Stand By Me'
16. Stevie Wonder - 'I Was Made To Love Her'

CD 2
1. Queen - 'Killer Queen'
2. Paul McCartney - 'All Shook Up' (Live at The Cavern)
3. The Kinks - 'You Really Got Me'
4. The Big Three - 'Some Other Guy'
5. The Animals - 'The House Of The Rising Sun'
6. Hermans Hermits - 'I'm Into Something Good'
7. The Moody Blues - 'Go Now'
8. Gerry & The Pacemakers - 'Ferry Cross The Mersey'
9. The Zombies - 'She's Not There'
10. The Swinging Blue Jeans - 'Hippy Hippy Shake'
11. Little Eva - 'The Locomotion'
12. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers - 'Got To Get You Into My Life'
13. Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - 'Little Children'
14. The Merseybeats - 'I Think Of You'
15. The Flowerpot Men - 'Let's Go To San Francisco'
16. Elton John - 'Border Song'

CD 3
1. The Rolling Stones - 'It's All Over Now'
2. The Who - 'My Generation'
3. Oasis - 'Part Of The Queue'
4. The Yardbirds - 'For Your Love'
5. Donovan - 'Sunshine Superman'
6. Wishbone Ash - 'Blowin' Free'
7. Georgie Fame - 'Yeh Yeh
8. Bo Diddley - 'Bo Diddley'
9. Status Quo - 'Down Down'
10. Tom Robinson - '2-4-6-8 Motorway'
11. Edwin Starr - 'War'
12. Thin Lizzy - 'Whiskey In The Jar'
13. Rod Stewart - 'Handbags And Gladrags'
14. Embrace - 'All You Good Good People'
15. Kt Tunstall - 'Black Horse & The Cherry Tree'
16. Travis - 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me'
17. The Coral - 'In The Morning'
18. Arctic Monkeys - 'The View From The Afternoon' (live - previously unreleased version)

Source: www.nme.com

British Acts Step Up The Battle To Make It Big In Japan

It has been a typically volatile week in the Japanese music charts. Straight in at number one is the empress of J-pop herself, Ayumi Hamasaki, with her new single, Glitter, followed by four new, home-grown, entries to make up the top five.

If the bands making it big in Japan - such as Porno Graffiti and Orange Range - are unfamiliar to you, it is because there is little evidence of British acts making any impression in Japan's Oricon charts, which are dominated by pubescent female singers and clean-cut boy bands.

But a delegation representing some of the biggest names in the independent British music scene is hoping to change all that. Led by the BPI, an umbrella organisation representing the British music industry, the heads of British record labels and companies offering expertise in everything from recording to marketing are going on a high-powered trade mission to Tokyo, backed by the British Council and the Government, where they will be banging the drum for British talent.

"Being big in Japan might have been a bit of a rock 'n' roll joke in the 1970s, but it was always a big and lucrative market," said Matt Phillips of the BPI. "Today, there is a real anglophile tendency there and bands that have traction in the market tend to be quirky and different. That said, the Japanese market is one of the most complex in the world and one of the hardest to break into," he added.

They will be hoping to build on the recent success of bands such as Oasis and Coldplay, who command loyal, if niche, followings.

Japan is a vital target for global music industry chiefs in the light of declining CD sales and the challenge posed by the digital music revolution. Behind the United States it is the second biggest market in the world and a key staging post for the mega-markets opening up across Asia, including China and its hundreds of millions of increasingly fashion-conscious young people.

Meanwhile, the British music scene is riding a wave of optimism, buoyed by marketable new talent from the Arctic Monkeys to Lily Allen and enjoying a much needed lift in sales volumes.

A quick glance at last weekend's Fuji Rock festival reveals that even if it is not reflected in the charts, there is a huge appetite for British music in Japan. Among the acts playing to a sell-out audience of 100,000 fans were The Cure, Muse, the Chemical Brothers and Ash.

Among those taking part in the five-day BPI mission are Liam Walsh of Manchester's Red Alert, who worked with Oasis and the Smiths, and Pete Gardiner of ZTT records.

Despite experiencing declining physical sales - down 9 per cent in the first half of this year to 129.6 million - the sheer scale of the Japanese market remains a massive lure.

Top-selling acts such as Mr Children have sold 50 million records, clocking up 26 consecutive number-one singles. EMI recently claimed that Utada Hikaru's "Flavor of Life" had become the biggest-selling digital single of all time, with sales in excess of seven million.

The Japanese music industry is a past master in multi-platform marketing. "Flavor of Life" was first launched as a ringtone tied in with a television series. It then sold as a ring video and a blog tag - allowing fans to paste it to their personal blogs - before being released as a physical single, by which time it had already sold two million copies.

Top 10 selling UK acts in Japan

* Oasis
* Coldplay
* Eric Clapton
* Craig David
* Chemical Brothers
* Gorillaz
* The Rolling Stones
* Queen
* Franz Ferdinand
* Rooster

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Tevez On His Way To Madchester?

Carlos Tevez’s move to Manchester United appears to be going towards completion. Tevez will feel at home in the city that gave us The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses and Oasis.

Tevez is part of the group Piola Vago with his brother Diego and friends from the Villa de Los Andes (Fuerte Apache) area of Buenos Aires.

Tevez who is a big fan of Oasis and The Stone Roses, can't wait to move to the city and sample the nightlife for himself.

The group play a form for Colombian folk dance and dance music called Cumbia villera and gave out their first albumn “Los Pibes del Barrio“, in December 2005.

Source: www.wordpress.com

Liam's Away On Olé Day

Dear Noel,

All right, Our Kid,

I’m just on me holidees with the bird and that.

I’m fed up of them posh places – they only feed you foreign muck, you know what I mean?

All me and the missus Nicole want, you know like, is some Cigarettes and duty-free Alcohol and we’re sweet.

So we’re in Spain with her good mate Mel Blatt, whose been soaking up the sunshiiiiiine in her black cossie.

Being a Rock’n’Roll Star and all that the Masterplan was just to blend in with the rest of the geezers.












So I bought a hat and some dad kecks for the pool – they look top mate.

Anyway, fella, I’m off to ger on me Simpsons inflatable and enjoy the Importance Of Being Idle for a while.

Stop Crying Your Heart Out, we’ll be home soon.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

(Oh!)asis

In a recent interview with George Stroumboulopoulos, from CBC’s ‘The Hour,’ Oasis’ chief songwriter, Noel Gallagher, discovered something rather interesting about the American/ Canadian version of his band’s first album, ‘Definitely Maybe.’

While going track by track through the album Stroumboulopoulos asked Gallagher about ‘Digsy’s Diner.’ Gallagher excitedly corrected Stroumboulopoulos informing him that it was actually, ‘Digsy’s DINNER.’ To which Stroumboulopoulos responded by showing him a copy of the disc which clearly reads Diner. A rather sheepish Gallagher apologized and said that he had never looked at the disc. He also offered an apology to the throngs of North American journalists he had wrongly chastised over the last decade and a half for what he had perceived as their mistake.

Click here to watch a video, of Noel explaining the songs track by track from Definitely Maybe.

Source: www.blogsmonroe.com

Sermon On The Disc

Those who recall the period when Oasis burst on to the British music scene in 1994 will remember just why the Gallagher brothers were so compelling to a young generation of music fans.

Their appeal wasn't only thanks to the rough-carved anthems destined for their debut album, Definitely Maybe, as much as it was down to their frank and often hilarious straight talking.

While Liam offered endless self-assurance and Noel chipped in with an acutely dry wit, the pair could speak about life and music in a way their fans related to and agreed with. The pair had similarly candid spiritual forebears such as John Lennon, John Lydon, Morrissey and Ian Brown to look up to, but those dawning days of Britpop were the last in which music fans had such divisively opinionated and unafraid heroes of their own to idolise. Nowadays most bands are merely affable, or worse, sound like living extensions of their label's marketing department.

Until now. The "Reverend" Jon McClure hails from Sheffield, and his band, The Makers, combine the rabble-rousing electro-rock squall of Kasabian and Primal Scream with the same intelligent lyrical narrative which informs Arctic Monkeys' and The Streets' best work.

Click here for the full interview.

Source: www.living.scotsman.com

Watch The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival Anywhere With Babelgum

Babelgum is launching its dedicated channel on the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival allowing film and TV fans or budding new industry talent anywhere the opportunity to sample the best of the festival.

Highlights from the festivals in 2005 and 2006 will feature from today and users can view shortlisted entries from this year's awards from tomorrow, Saturday, 28th July.

Shortlisted music videos include Will Young, 'Who Am I?', Oasis, 'The Masterplan', Kasabian 'Shoot The Runner' and Lily Allen 'LDN'.

"Rushes Soho Shorts Festival director, Joe Bateman said, "It has always been difficult to give those located outside of the area the opportunity to view the best in upcoming and established talent within the film and television industry. Using Babelgum allows us to retain the intimacy of the festival, while allowing a potentially huge audience to peek through the curtains at the highlights."

For more information click here

Source: www.broadcastbuyer.tv

In Stores Monday

Paul Weller & Graham Coxon - This Old Town
UK release date: 30 July 2007

Track listing
1. This Old Town
2. Each New Morning
3. Black River

Catalogue Number: REGALSC016
Label: Parlophone

Thirty years since The Jam first crashed into the charts and Paul Weller is still around. Now following his release of his greatest hits album Hit Parade last year and a triumphant set at Glastonbury this year, he's formed an unlikely partnership with ex-Blur gone solo indie-geek Graham Coxon on this latest limited edition release for the Regal Singles Club.

Add in Oasis drummer Zak Starkey and Primal Scream's Mani on bass and you have to wonder whose idea it was to get them all together. It really works quite well though. At first This Old Town sounds like a Weller song with Coxon on lead vocals (Weller provides the harmonies), but then you're not quite sure as you hear some quirky chord changes that can only be down to Coxon. Ultimately this is a collaboration that draws on the distinct talents of both of them.

The song itself isn't going to change the world. But it's a solid track dominated by Weller's crunching guitar and injected with enough pace to take it above the dreary. It'll find its place in the collections of fans of both artists and will surely be a good addition to live gigs.

- Ben Urdang

Source: www.musicomh.com

Noel Gallagher Is Again On The Russell Brand Podcast

Noel Gallagher features again on a large part of the Russell Brand Podcast for BBC Radio 2.

Noel Gallagher joins Russell by phone from his home, for there usual weekend banter.

Noel talks with Russell at length about, Liam getting collared by Phil Collins children at Live Earth ,religion, art, the weather and much much more...

For information on how to download the podcast click here.

The Coral's Split Fears

The Coral's lead singer James Skelly has admitted he feared the band would split when the lead guitarist took a break from playing with them.

The Liverpool-based group are set to release their fifth album Roots And Echoes next month, but James said he thought their previous album The Invisible Invasion could have been their last when Bill Ryder-Jones had a breather to "get his head together".

"When he went, I thought that might've been it, but obviously I never wanted it to end," James admitted.

He added: "With hindsight, it was worrying, but at the time we just had the blinkers on and were trying to fulfil everything we had to do."

Thankfully Bill didn't leave for good and the band recorded their new album at Wheeler End studio - owned by Noel Gallagher.

"It's a great studio. There's loads of vintage gear in there, and there are lots of options when it comes to the way you record something," James said.

"I'd definitely work there again."

Source: www.metro.co.uk

Noel To Swing By For Monkeys?

I Hear that among the thousands at the Arctic Monkeys' eagerly anticipated gigs at Old Trafford this weekend could be Oasis star Noel Gallagher.

The Monkeys' drummer Matt Helders explains: "Our security guards are Noel's security, and we've obviously met him a few times and stuff, so he was saying he might come down, might visit home for a couple of days or whatever, so that'd be amazing if he came."

There is set to be all sorts of celeb activity round the Saturday and Sunday night gigs at Lancashire's cricket ground. There is even rumour of a reunion of sorts when former bassist Andy Nicholson DJs at the band's after-show party at Revolution bar, Deansgate Locks, on Sunday night.

Matt says: "He'll be at the gig I reckon, but I dunno about the after-show. I've DJed with him a few times."

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Sum 41 Cover Oasis's Morning Glory

Sum 41 have covered Morning Glory, frontman Deryck Whibley does a great acousic cover for Yahoo Music's Pepsi Smash.

Click here for the video (US), or here for the rest of the world.

The band's new album Underclass Hero, is in stores now.

Source: www.music.yahoo.com

Win A Marshall DAB Radio Signed By Oasis

Those who live to rock can bid for their own personalised bit of rock greatness with an auction in aid of the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy charity.

Music fans can win radios signed by musicians spanning the generations, from 60s and 70s legends Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood and Bruce Dickinson to names more synonymous with the 80s such as Annie Lennox, Marillion and Paul Weller. More modern music fans can opt for radios signed by Keane, Sandi Thom, The Feeling or Queens of the Stone Age.

Legendary music amplifier company Marshall teamed up with DAB digital radio maker Pure some months back in a collaboration that saw Pure selling special Marshall-branded versions of its Evoke-1XT digital radios.

Now, Marshall and Pure have roped in tens of the music legends that use Marshall amps to belt our their overblown hits, getting stars such as Paul Weller, Hawkwind, Alice Cooper and Oasis’ Gallagher brothers to sign the DAB radios. Music fans will be able to bid for the radio signed by their favourite rock star in an auction running online from 1 October.

Proceeds from the charity auction will go to Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy (see www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk). The charity auction is supported by and will be promoted by specialist digital music station Planet Rock.

For a full list of rock stars currently signed up for the Marshall Pure Evoke-XT1 DAB radio auction, go to www.rockstarradios.com.

Source: www.pcadvisor.co.uk

Andy Bell Joins The Brian Jonestown Massacre For Charity Show

A festival that takes place in Oxford every year called 'Truck', was due to take place but was cancelled due to the downpour in the shire, one of the bands supposed to be playing was the Brian Jonestown Massacre, because it was cancelled so late (Friday) the day before the start of it most bands were in Oxford for it.

So at last minute they put on a gig at Brookes University with all the bands here already as a fundraiser because the rain ruined the site.

Rumours in the venue were that Andy Bell and Mark Mardner were going to do an acoustic set.

With one band to go before the Brian Jonestown Massacre took to the stage, the act before failed to arrive. So during the sound check Anton Newcombe came on to the stage and demanded two leather chairs be put side of stage.

Then when the band come on Andy Bell and Mark Gardner follow them on, so they just sit on the chairs at side of stage with Anton occasionally summoning Andy Bell to jam on some tunes, they played for about hour and half and did about six tunes.

They strung them out with Andy playing little riffs and solos on top, Anton left the stage at one point during a jam and with no idea what to play next they cracked into 'Drive Blind' with the Massacre Band , Andy played rhythm and Mark sang.

The two of them stayed on stage the whole gig, Andy played on more tunes than Mark, Anton was constantly bowing at them.

Small video clip of Drive Blind here

Thanks to Tim Ford for the pictures.