Oasis: World Exclusive Announcement Coming

NME.COM gets the latest update on Gallagher and co

Oasis are set to make a world exclusive announcement on NME.COM on Monday (August 13).

The band are ready to break their silence about their future plans.

Despite the fact that they recently covered 'Within You Without You' for the BBC Radio 2 re-recording of The Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', Oasis have been comparatively silent.

The band's last release was last year's 'Stop The Clocks' double CD 'Best Of' compilation.

Be sure to check back to NME.COM at midday and we'll have the full lowdown.

Source: www.nme.com

Vote For Us At The BT Digital Music Awards 2007

The annual BT Digital Music Awards 2007, this year held in association with Packard Bell And Yahoo Music, will take place at London's Roundhouse on October 2, 2007.

The ceremony will again be broadcast on Channel 4 in early October – the natural home for the only awards designed to reward cutting-edge music entertainment delivered using the latest digital technology.

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Oasis Biography

The rock annals are so full of myth and invention that every now and again when the real deal shows up, it takes a while to recognise it for what it is.

Noel Gallagher's memories of his first Glastonbury Festival appearance in 1994 are episodic and intimate, like outtakes from a movie he'd wandered into. They're of things like taking possession of a backstage caravan from the band he'd once worked for as a roadie, and coming offstage to be told that Oasis's second UK single, Shakermaker, had climbed to number eleven in the chart; of someone from Creation Records being disappointed to fall short of the top ten while the band, having just heard their music soaring towards a horizon for the first time, now knew there would be no space they couldn't fill, were individually thrilled. Noel recalls having the astonishing intimation that the band's dreams were about to become true. Oasis were at the forefront of a new generation of British guitar groups who stepped out of the shadow of native dance culture and American grunge, with eyes fixed on the mainstream in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years before. 60,000 people went away from that first Glastonbury performance and told a million others about the thrill of what they'd seen: about this band who were the absolute primal essence of rock and roll, refined and distilled to ragged perfection - the impact of whose music, then as now, was so bafflingly much greater than the sum of its parts. We all went away knowing we'd seen something great and that the acts who followed Oasis that afternoon might as well not have bothered.

Talk to the Gallagher brothers about how they made it to Glastonbury and you get no romanticisation, because while their tale might read like a fairy story now, that's not how it began, and you don't have to delve far to find echoes of rock's origins in the Delta. The details of their early lives in the tough Manchester district of Burnage are well documented, but fortunately there were compensations in the form of an old guitar their father brought home one day - in which Noel found refuge for hours at a time - and regular trips to Maine Road Stadium to watch Manchester City play football. In the case of the latter, what fascinated the boys was not so much the action on the pitch, but the 'stands full of crowds singing together, something you never saw (and still seldom see) anywhere else. And what they sang was so uplifting. Noel had been born three days before the release of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper, but football provided his first real experience of music and it may be coincidence that songs like Don't Look Back in Anger and Champagne Supernova seem to come fully alive in a stadium; that Oasis are one of the few bands you'd rather see in that environment than in a sweaty club. But there again, it may not. Critics who dismiss Oasis's songs as populist fail to recognise the core emotion behind them, which is yearning.

So in their different ways, the songs are mostly about transcendence and it's arguable that what we have here is a form of English soul music… which also explains the uniquely intimate relationship between Oasis and their fans - why their audience not only remains constant, but constantly renews itself, regardless of whatever vogues are playing elsewhere.

Liam formed the band. Noel never played in one until he came home from roadying for Inspiral Carpets and managed to persuade the four friends from the original lineup that he should join forces with them. Liam appears to have been born to his destiny as a rock star – his mother tells a story of him covering dropped lines in a nativity play with a spontaneous impression of Elvis – but Noel expected to be a builder like his dad. None of his mates were into music, but a first sighting of local boys The Smiths in 1984 turned his world upside down, with Liam equally besotted by The Stone Roses' legendary early Manchester shows, setting the seal on the brothers' musical ambitions a few years later.

We often assume the rise of Oasis to have been instant and unchallenged, but it wasn't: the first review in Britain's NME was noncommittal and the second scathing. Nevertheless, by the time that blistering debut album Definitely Maybe arrived, most observers had no trouble recognising it as a stone cold classic. The instinctive theme was the band's dream of escaping the life they'd been born to, but where a song like Rock 'n' Roll Star, with its chorus of 'Tonight...I'm a rock 'n' roll star!' could seem aloof in other hands, this song wasn't about being a rock star, it was about feeling like one; about that fleeting sense of immortality you got when you stalked into a bar at the age of 18 knowing you looked great, felt great, were the very essence and summation of being – the sense that existence could never, ever have more to offer than this. No one has ever captured this precarious thrill better than Noel, while Liam seems its perpetual embodiment. The singer's six-syllable phrasing of the word 'imagination' in the first line of Cigarettes & Alcohol makes it easily the most iconic song line of the 1990s.

Everything which followed was built on this ecstatic foundation. The second album, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, went over the top when Wonderwall became a world-wide anthem of 1995, while Oasis became part of the national narrative in the UK - and don't we have the memories to prove it. There were the Maine Road and Knebworth mega shows; the sibling feuds and Liam's leery and often hilarious misdemeanours at a time when London was swinging in a way that it hadn't since the Sixties.

Then there was the insanity surrounding the release of the band's third album, Be Here Now, in 1997, of a type not visited upon the British Isles since Beatlemania and which no album could hope to live up to. Notwithstanding its author's retrospective belief that Be Here Now was rushed, it springs a lot of surprises when listened to with fresh ears at this remove: at the very least, it looks like the most perfect expression of its time; of New Labour's victory and Diana's death and the blizzard of cocaine on the city streets, all of which seemed to feed the inevitable post-millennial comedown, and a sense of disorientation which found focus in Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, the album made just before the sudden departure of founder members Bonehead and Guigs. All the same, a period of rebuilding both band and the brothers' personal lives – all reported as news of national significance because, in a funny sort of way, it was - culminated in 2002's Heathen Chemistry, which combined the band's best collection of songs since Morning Glory with the fresh drive provided by new members Gem Archer and Andy Bell.
The interesting thing about the story so far is that, throughout, the group's live audience continued to grow on a world-wide scale, perhaps because the brothers' triumphs and travails seemed to reflect our own as individuals. Just as they are a part of our story, we feel ourselves to be a part of theirs and perhaps the most revealing thing Noel Gallagher has ever said about the band came in response to a question concerning their lack of razzmatazz live, to which he replied simply that 'if you take the emphasis away from razzmatazz, the audience gets more involved with itself.'

And now we seem to have entered a second phase. Their most recent album, Don't Believe The Truth, rightly heralded as a triumphant return, differs from its predecessors in that the writing is shared amongst the band. Liam continues to blossom and mature as a songwriter, while Gem Archer and Andy Bell have stepped forward with telling contributions and are making it increasingly hard to remember a time when they weren't around. Meanwhile, Noel's own tunes seem to be engaging with the world in a more direct way, almost as wry Information Age protest songs in some cases. Where this might lead, it's impossible to know, but anyone who saw 2005/06's world tour will have found Oasis looking and sounding as vital as at any time since '94.

Andrew Smith 2006

Source: www.myspace.com/oasis

Fan Gallery Winners

We’d like to thank the thousands of fans who sent in pictures and mobile clips from the Manchester shows in July ‘05 for possible inclusion in the fan gallery on the forthcoming Oasis DVD.

We received so many that we couldn’t include all of them, but you could be one of 140 lucky fans whose photos or clips will appear on the release for posterity!

As promised we will be choosing 10 winners of an advance copy of the DVD, signed by the band. The winners will be notified on or before 9th September ‘07, and will also be listed on the website.

Keep an eye on oasisinet early next week for more news on the release!

Source: www.oasisinet.com

411mania.com Top 100 Albums

Number 62
Chart History:
Album:Billboard 200: #58

Singles:

"Live Forever" Mainstream Rock: #10 Modern Rock: #2
"Supersonic" Modern Rock: #11
"Rock ‘N' Roll Star" Modern Rock: #36

Rutherford: Many words have been written about this band over the past decade and only a small portion has been about the music. Which is a pity because during the early part of their career they produced some classic moments, most of which can be found here. There is a swagger and defiance about the way Oasis went about their business and whether it was the cocky exclamations of "Rock 'N' Roll Star" or the plaintive ballad "Live Forever" it always had a definite "British" attitude.

O'Sullivan: Anyone who says that Morning Glory is a better album is a cretin and a loser. Okay, so that's perhaps a tad harsh, but that sentiment of Oasis' sophomore album being their finest work has always annoyed me. This was their peak, and the start of their superstardom in Europe. Commercially, it didn't hit as hard as Morning Glory, but that's beyond irrelevant. Creatively, this was gold. Indie rock and roll at its finest. "Cigarettes and Alcohol", "Live Forever", "Slide Away"……pure class.

Tollah: The album that grabbed Britpop by the scruff of the neck and made it something. A true classic. The lyrics are meaningless for the most part and the musicianship is nothing special at all (kind of like Nirvana), but (unlike Nirvana) this album has so much raw energy and attitude that it just mesmerised all of us teenagers growing up in Britain in the mid-90s

Click here for the countdown so far...

Source: www.411mania.com

Noel Gallagher On The Russell Brand Podcast Yet Again...

Russell and Matt are back in London. They're joined by the voice of Zippy from Rainbow, the body of David Walliams from Little Britain, and a cardboard cut-out of Noel Gallagher from Oasis.

Noel Joins Russell by phone for a chat and the usual fun.

Duration: 72mins File Size: 33Mb

Click here to download the podcast

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Oasis Set To Bloc Horns

The Chemical Brothers will play peacemakers when they unite indie adversaries Oasis and Bloc Party on stage.

The veteran dance duo are set to perform at the BBC's Electric Proms in October.

it will be the first time they have had all their guest vocalists - including Noel Gallagher, 40 and Kele Okereke, 25 - with them.

The war of words began in 2005 when Oasis dismissed Bloc Party as "a band off University Challenge".

Kele retaliated earlier this year, calling the Gallaghers "repetitive Luddities" who "made stupidity hip"

My well-placed referee said: "There's bound to be some friction backstage."

Should be some party.

Source: Daily Star

Buying John Lennon's Vision

John Lennon’s famous orange-tinted “granny” spectacles are to be auctioned by musical memorabilia website 991.com, with the winning bid expected to reach £1million.

The glasses themselves were given by the iconic Beatle to his interpreter Junishi Yore at the end of a tour of Japan in 1966. Expect Liam Gallagher to lead the bidding.

Source: www.kerching.tv

Oasis In Profile

Wednesday, August 8
ITV1 (UK Only)
4:35am

Retrospective trawl through the popular band's career, tracing their rise to prominence and musical development from 1994, when their debut single Supersonic came out on the Creation label, to the release of 2005 album Don't Believe the Truth

Source: www.itv.com

Noel's Charity Trek

Noel Gallagher, Johnny Borrell and Klaxons have donated signed memorabilia in aid of Trekstock, a charity festival raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust.

On September 1, Klaxons, David Ford and 28 Costumes play Trekstock at the 500-capacity London Industry. Tickets are £8 from seetickets.com or 08712 200260.

The eBay auction also features signed clothing and instruments from Kings Of Leon, BRMC, Happy Mondays and Art Brut.

Source: www.teletext.co.uk

Mad Fer The City

New Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinatra has an unusual list of showbiz stars he is inviting to games as guests of honour.

Blues fanatics and Oasis rockers Liam and Noel Gallagher are obvious targets and on the list.

But the guests at the Manchester derby this month will be more unusual. Cheesy TV pair Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan have been invited to the City Of Manchester Stadium for the fixture.

Ex-Thai PM Thaksin — who likes to be called Sinatra after the legendary crooner — has been watching their show to get up to speed on British pop culture.

He invited them when he learned Judy was from Manchester.

Let’s just hope she’s not a United fan . . .

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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