Lord Don't Slow Me Down Review

Video: Oasis: "Lord Don't Slow Me Down"

Is it better to slow down than fade away? The lads of Oasis don't think so. While contemporaries Radiohead are busy turning the music industry on its head, the Gallagher brothers' band's first digital-only single, "Lord Don't Slow Me Down", is a bluesy sub-Dandy Warhols addiction rave-up that probably wouldn't have merited a B-side during their (What's the Story) Morning Glory? heyday. "I'm tired, and I'm sick/ I gotta habit that a cat won't lick," Noel rasps. "I feel hungover and I'm all in love/ Let the lights go down, me and you are gonna shoot 'em up."

The video is a black-and-white montage of Oasis tour footage, presumably from the band's forthcoming Lord Don't Slow Me Down rockumentary. There they are driving into Hollywood or arriving in Japan, cameras flashing, roadies waving; Noel even celebrates a birthday with a little person bearing cake. Like the single, though-- a holdover from the Don't Believe the Truth sessions-- the video comes across as a bit of an afterthought. At least you didn't pre-order it for 40 quid.

Source: www.pitchforkmedia.com

We Won - Thanks To You

We have won the Best Unofficial Website at this years BT Digital Music Awards, from the bottom of my heart I can't thank everyone who has taken the time and voted for the site.

Taken from the BT Awards 2007 website

More People’s Choice Awards now, and the Best Unofficial Website goes to the UK’s fastest growing Oasis fansite, Stop Crying Your Heart Out. Liam and Noel would be so pleased if they were here- either that or they’d be having a fight.

Source: www.btdma.com

Oasis Borrow Inspiral Carpets' Organ

Oasis have been borrowing Inspiral Carpets star Clint Boon's organ to record their new album.

The Manchester band, who Noel Gallagher once roadied and auditioned with, revealed the news about the 'Wonderwall' rockers' latest album.

Lead singer Tom Hingley told Xfm: "I know that Oasis have been borrowing Clint’s Farfisa organ for their latest album that they’re working on."

Hingley added that they might even get the Gallagher brothers to join them on their forthcoming tour to celebrate.

He commented: "The last time I saw Liam and Noel was when we played at the V Festivals back in 2003 so yeah, they might come. It would be lovely if they came."

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Andy Bell At The Feeling Clubnight

I recieved this picture in a email today from Mike Jonns from This Feeling clubnight in London.

A picture of Oasis bassist Andy Bell as he spun some tunes for an hour at the This Feeling clubnight on Friday night (September 29).

Look out for the 1st birthday Bash! on October, 26 2007

Line up to be announced...it’s HUGE!

Source: Mike from www.myspace.com/thisfeelingclub

Live Blog From The BT Digital Music Awards

For those of you who can’t make it to the awards show, we’ve forsaken our work- free night of fun to provide you with a live blog on who’s crossing the red carpet, who’s raiding the bar, and also, who’s winning the awards.

You’ll be able to find out who’s won all the awards as soon as they’re announced, giving you exclusive breaking news on the BT Digital Music Awards 2007 before anyone else.

So make sure you log on from 6pm onwards to find out everything that happens live from the venue- we’ll see you there!

Click here to follow the live action.

We are in the running for the People's Choice Awards 07 Best Unofficial Music Site
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Extensive coverage of the Canadian starlet.

Coldplayzone - www.coldplayzone.it
Italian Coldplay fans were kept up to date here.

LP Zion - www.lpzion.org
Linkin Park's Polish supporters did a great job.

Stop Your Crying Heart Out - www.stopcryingyourheartout.com
The fastest growing, and funniest, Oasis website in the UK.

Muse Live - www.muselive.com
Last year's winners came up trumps again.

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On This Day In Oasis History...

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis, released on October 2 1995. The album went straight to #1 in the UK, selling 347,000 copies in its first week. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were #1s. It sold over 19 million copies worldwide, including over 4.3 million copies in the UK, 14x platinum, and is currently the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history. Morning Glory has gone 4x platinum in the United States In addition, the singles "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" went Gold in the United States.

The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band's two most famous songs, "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger", along with "Champagne Supernova" and their first UK #1 single, "Some Might Say".

In 1997 Morning Glory was named the 5th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The editors of Q magazine declared it the "album of the decade" in 1999. The readers of Q placed it seventh on the 2006 top 100 greatest albums of all time list. In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

History

The success of Morning Glory catapulted Oasis from being a successful Britpop band to being one of the biggest bands in Britain, with substantial international fame, and considerable press coverage in the mainstream and music press. The band played several massive open air concerts in the UK during 1996, which included two nights at Knebworth in front of a combined audience of 250,000 people (125,000 each night), with over 2.5 million applying to buy tickets.

Tracklisting

01: "Hello" (Gallagher/Glitter/Leander) – 3:21
02: "Roll with It" – 4:00
03: "Wonderwall" – 4:19
04: "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 4:48
05: "Hey Now!" – 5:41
06: Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 1") – 0:43
07: "Some Might Say" – 5:31
08: "Cast No Shadow" – 4:52
09: "She's Electric" – 3:40
10: "Morning Glory" – 5:03
11: Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 2") – 0:41
12: "Champagne Supernova" – 7:27

Notes:

* Tracks 6 and 11 are officially untitled. In fact, the track listing bears no title whatsoever for these songs, merely a blank space.
* The excerpts from "The Swamp Song" are parts of the instrumental B-side to the "Wonderwall" single.
* The vinyl LP edition of the album features a bonus track, "Bonehead's Bank Holiday". This song appears as the 7th track on the album, immediately after the 43-second untitled track.
* "Step Out" had to be removed from the album at the last minute. The song, sung by Noel, was intended to have been the original track 8 (after "Some Might Say" and before "Cast No Shadow"), but was removed as the chorus was similar to the chorus of Stevie Wonder's 1965 track "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Wonder's publishing company were alleged to have demanded a substantial amount of royalties from the album which Oasis weren't prepared to pay, so the track was removed, although not before the first promotional copies of the album had been released with "Step Out" included. The track was eventually released as a B-side on Oasis' 1996 single "Don't Look Back in Anger", with an amended song writing credit of 'Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/May', and was included on the live album Familiar to Millions.

Singles

"Some Might Say"
Released: 24 April 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #3 (IRE)

"Roll with It"
Released: 14 August 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Oasis & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #2 (IRE)

"Morning Glory" (AUS only)
Released: 15 September 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #25 AUS, #24 U.S. Modern Rock Chart

"Wonderwall"
Released: 30 October 1995
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #2 (UK), #8 (U.S.), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (10 Weeks)

"Don't Look Back in Anger"
Released: 19 February 1996
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #1 (UK), #1 (IRE), #10 U.S. Modern Rock Chart, #21 (U.S.)

"Champagne Supernova" (AUS and US only)
Released: 13 May 1996
Writer: Noel Gallagher
Producers: Noel Gallagher & Owen Morris
Chart positions: #26 (AUS), #20 (US), #1 U.S. Modern Rock Chart (5 Weeks)

Miscellanea

"Hello" contains elements of Gary Glitter's "Hello Hello I'm Back Again" as Liam jokingly sings part of the song's chorus when the song begins to fade out.

On the cover of the album a man is seen brandishing what looks to be a vinyl record in its sleeve. This is in fact the master tape for the album. The man in question is Owen Morris, the producer. The photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, a London street well known for its independent record shops. The other man is BBC London's Sean Rowley.

Source: Wikipedia

Liam Gull-agher In New Picture

Liam Gallagher confessed earlier this week that he thought his voice on Oasis’s early songs sounded like Looney Tunes cartoon favourite Tweety Bird.

And judging by this picture, it seems brother Noel also reckons Liam’s a bit of a bird.

The painting by James Wilkinson, of pop art company paintpop.com, shows Noel holding a cage. Inside is a seagull-like bird with Liam’s head attached.

Inspired by 2003 Oasis hit Songbird, James began working on the piece the following year and completed it last January. He said: “Noel signed it and added some of Liam’s lyrics from Songbird.

“Noel found it amusing — although he was a bit worried about Liam’s reaction to using his lyrics on the painting.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Watch The New Oasis Video Here

Watch the video for Lord Don't Slow Down from Oasis to support the DIGITAL ONLY release of the single, by clicking here.

Habbo’s ‘Dusty Lounge’ To Preview Exclusive Oasis DVD Extracts

Ok, this is an opportunity NOT to be missed. Our good friends over at Habbo have hooked up with Oasis!

Oasis will release their first ever digital only single on 21st October, when 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' becomes available to download.

The track, and accompanying video is taken from the eagerly anticipated DVD of the same name, which follows the band on their colossal world tour of 2005/6.

Habbos will be able to visit the newly created Dusty Lounge, a virtual underground gig venue, to watch exclusive pre-released extracts of the bands brand new DVD Lord Don't Slow Me Down.

The newly developed Dusty Lounge provides an ideal location for Habbos to catch the exclusive footage which includes a live performance of Don't Look Back in Anger.

The Habbo event will run for two days only, dates as follows:

10am (UK Time) October 1st to 10am (UK Time) October 3rd

Make sure you dont miss out! click here!

The Lord Don't Slow Me Down DVD will be available to buy from 29 October 2007.

Source: www.ilikemusic.com

Bid For Signed Liam And Noel Gallagher Digital Radios

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 today.

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's DJ Set From London

Oasis bassist Andy Bell spun some tunes for an hour at the This Feeling clubnight on Friday night (September 29), prompting an attack of camera-phones around the DJ booth.

Bell wasn't amused by the scurry, and snubbed fan requests for pictures, while he span his Gallagher-approved set, which featured the likes of The Chemical Brothers and Simian Mobile Disco.

He'd obviously cheered up later though, as he was spotted drinking champers with a few wags.

Source: www.nme.com

Liam Gallagher Has Advice For Arctic Monkeys

Liam Gallagher has given Arctic Monkeys some advice during a recent interview with Mojo.

The charismatic Oasis front man said, "I look at bands now, Arctic Monkeys, and they're uncomfortable, and I think, 'Where's your head at, man?'. I love 'em, but it's just like, 'en-fucking-joy it.' They're embarrassed by fame? Yeah, it's embarrassing being fam... well, it's not embarrassing being in a rock'n'roll band."

He also added, "If you're embarrassed about your dream then God fucking help you. I'd be more embarrassed to call myself a poet. Fucking right."

Speaking of his own success with Oasis, Liam Gallagher also said: "Everything just felt right. Everything that we'd worked for. Nothing felt weird - it felt deserved, and I didn't feel uncomfortable with any of it. I fucking loved it. And I think you were able to tell I fucking loved it."

Source: www.angryape.com

And The Nomines For The People's Choice Awards 'Best Unofficial Music Site' Are

People's Choice Awards 07 Best Unofficial Music Site

Avril Band Aids - www.avrilbandaids.com
Extensive coverage of the Canadian starlet.

Coldplayzone - www.coldplayzone.it
Italian Coldplay fans were kept up to date here.

LP Zion - www.lpzion.org
Linkin Park's Polish supporters did a great job.

Stop Your Crying Heart Out - www.stopcryingyourheartout.com
The fastest growing, and funniest, Oasis website in the UK.

Muse Live - www.muselive.com
Last year's winners came up trumps again.

Click here to see the nominee's in the other categories

Source: www.btdma.com

A big thanks to everyone single one of you, that have taken the time to vote for the site.

I'm at this moment over the f**king moon, and lost for words for the first time in my life :) :)

Thanks Again

Thanks To Everyone Who Voted

Voting is now finished in the Peoples Choice Award for the Best Unoffical Music Site, at the annual BT Digital Music Awards 2007

A big thank you to everyone who has voted for the site in the The People's Choice Award over the last few weeks.

Also a big thank you to Stevie Ricks for the two superb videos.

Noel's 10-year Feud All A Blur

It was one of the most famous feuds in music history - but Oasis have finally called a truce with Blur.

Anomosity between both has endured since their Battle-of-Britpop days more than a decade ago - but Oasis wildmen Liam and Noel Gallagher say the war of words is all a blur now and have voiced their admiration for rival Damon Albarn.

Noel told NME: "I've got a lot of respect for him. This never comes across in interviews but I really do mean it.

Because I'm indifferent to Damon, he thinks that I think he's an idiot. "Our Liam will talk to him. I won't because he's just another singer in a band to me."

Liam told Mojo magazine: "I don't mind Blur. I'm over it. It was a laugh, that's what you do when you're young."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

A Reminder To Watch The Global Video Exclusive For Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Don't forget to watch the global premiere of the new Oasis video 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' on YouTube from 9PM (UK Time) tomorrow night here

Fans in the UK can also watch the Video Exclusive at 11PM (UK Time) on Channel 4.

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Noel Gallagher's Naughty Pretty Thing

Noel Gallagher has ripped off a song by The Pretty Things for the new Oasis album.

The Oasis guitarist is planning to include an unapproved version of The Pretty Things track 'Baron Saturday' on the band's new album and is worried he may be sued by the band's lawyers

Noel confessed: "I hadn't heard this at all until about three months ago and a friend of mine, who is in Kasabian, sent me a CD of some stuff he was listening to and it completely bent my head.

"I spent the next three months trying to rip it off for when the next Oasis record comes out.

"I shouldn't really be saying that because The Pretty Things' lawyers will be listening to this now, won't they! But there you go."

Source: www.monstersandcritics.com

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Noel Gallagher Features On The Chris Moyles Podcast

Noel Gallagher teases Chris about sleeping with the light on, Dave has a special announcement, Billy Piper thinks Chris's friend is imaginary and we hold the great cake downing contest. It's all the best bits from the daily Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1!

Click here to download the podcast

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

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Noel Gallagher On Russell Brand's Radio Show Last Night

Noel Gallagher joined the comic genius that is Russell Brand, on his BBC Radio2 show last night.

They talked at length about the birth of Noel's son, Donavon who was born last weekend.

Noel also told Russell, that Oasis will continue with the recording of the new album on November 5.

Click here to listen again to last nights show.

Thanks to Stephen Lewis for the information

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Q&A With Peter Crouch

Peter Crouch was born in 1981 in Macclesfield and spent his early years in Singapore, where his father worked in advertising, before returning to London.

He joined the junior ranks of Queens Park Rangers, then at 14 joined Tottenham Hotspur.

In 2000 he returned to QPR and his career took off, taking him to Portsmouth, Aston Villa and Southampton.

In 2005 he made his England debut and moved to Liverpool for £7m; he later became the first player to score 10 international goals in a calendar year.

Walking Tall, his autobiography, has just been published. He lives in Cheshire.

When were you happiest?
The last time I scored.

What was your most embarrassing moment?
A penalty for England at Wembley against Jamaica when I was on a hat-trick - I tried to take the piss out of the goalkeeper by chipping the ball, and it went over the bar.

What is your favourite book?
Angels And Demons, by Dan Brown.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Gazza - he'd have some good stories. Ronaldo. Noel Gallagher - I was a big Oasis fan. And Ricky Gervais.

Read more of the Q&A With Peter Crouch here

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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