Oasis Show DVD Trailer In Virtual World

Second Life gets exclusive 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' preview

Oasis have debuted an exclusive trailer for their forthcoming DVD documentary, Lord Don't Slow Me Down', on the online virtual world Second Life.

The DVD will be released on October 29.

Second Life users can view the trailer now, and pick up free virtual merchandise such as t-shirts and books.

See next week's NME for a very special review of the 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down'DVD.

Source: www.nme.com

Bid For A 10 Foot Gibson Les Paul Signed By Noel Gallagher

Recieved a E-mail today from Jeremy Singer, UK PR Manager at Gibson Musical Instruments.

For any Noel Gallagher fan, this is your chance to own a piece of rock 'n roll history. Gibson Guitartown London, the capital’s most vibrant summer public art exhibition announces that all 61 unique hand painted and signed Gibson guitars are now available to bid online exclusively at Ebay.

This is your opportunity to bid exclusively for Noel Gallagher’s personally signed 10 foot Gibson Les Paul replica guitar. The giant fibreglass guitar called “A Good Education” was designed by the visual artist Pete McKee and displayed publicly around More London on London's South Bank by City Hall, SE1 from June 2007 to September 2007 and attracting over 2.5 million visitors.

Gibson Guitartown London is a charity inspired campaign bringing the power of music together with art to raise money for Nordoff- Robbins Music Therapy, The Prince’s Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust. All money raised from the sale of the guitars at auction will be split equally between the three designated charities.

Other hand painted Gibson Guitartown London guitars signed by rock legends such Sir Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Bruce Dickinson, Brian May, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Mark Knopfler and Ronnie Wood are available to bid exclusively at Ebay.

The Gibson Guitartown London charity auction will take place in IndigO2 at The O2 on Tuesday 20th November 2007

Bid now for Noel Gallagher’s 10 foot Gibson Les Paul guitar here

For more information on Gibson Guitartown London, please visit www.londonguitartown.com

To order an auction catalogue please visit www.juliensauctions.com/londonguitartown

Jeremy Singer, UK PR Manager, Gibson Musical Instruments

Happy Birthday To Us....

stopcryingyourheartout.com is today celebrating our third birthday, thanks for visiting the site, over the last three years and your continued support.

Check back later today for more birthday fun and a blast from the past special, the music on the video is done by Darren (I always go home from camping early) Smart.

Liam Gallagher To Marry Nicole Appleton Later This Month

Oasis star Liam Gallagher will marry Nicole Appleton in London later this month (26Oct07) after a seven-year romance.

The rocker - who has a six-year-old son, Gene, with the former All Saints star - says he's long-planned to wed but wanted to concentrate on raising his child.

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Express, "Liam and Nicole are registered for a service in Marylebone." It will be the first marriage for Appleton. Gallagher divorced actress Patsy Kensit in 2000.

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Excess All Areas? Not If You're Oasis

Their new documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down suggests that life on the road isn't all sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Are they just getting old, or is touring really boring?

On the road with Oasis: an endless bacchanal where the non-stop boozing, drugging and other bad behaviour only halts when Man City are on Sky Sports, right?

Not according to the band's new tour documentary Lord Don't Slow Me Down. Filmed during the world tour of 2005-6, Lord... serves as final proof that even Britpop's hedonistic elite now prefer an early night to dusk-til-dawn sessions discussing aliens with Kasabian.

"The years of kissing the sky and drinking champagne out of cowboy boots at 10 o'clock in the morning are all gone" admits Noel, with a hint of regret. As if to prove it, the Oasis dressing room is at it's most frenzied during - of all things - a fiercely contested bout of 70s board game Frustration.

The sad truth, of course, is that after a while touring in a rock'n'roll band becomes as crushingly monotonous as any other job. Artfully contrived videos might give the impression that backstage areas are a crazed combination of the Hellfire Club and Turner's pad in Performance , but sadly the reality is far more mundane.

Take a peak behind the curtain and you'll often get a lot less than you bargained for. I once rushed backstage to congratulate Radiohead on their first ever performance of the Bends , only to find them in total silence, huddled around a kettle.

Visit any of the latest indie icons after a rapturously received gig, and chances are you'll be faced with a bunch of exhausted musicians sipping warm lager under strip lights whilst, if you're lucky, a roadie knocks up a joint on a discarded copy of Nuts.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

On This Day In Oasis History...

"Cigarettes & Alcohol" is a song by British rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher, it was released on October 10, 1994. It was the fourth single to be released from their debut album Definitely Maybe, and their second to enter the Top Ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at #7 (three places higher than "Live Forever").

Whereas earlier singles "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker" had used psychedelic imagery, and "Live Forever" used softer chords and tender lyrics, "Cigarettes & Alcohol" was the first real taste, among their singles, of the wilder attitude that Oasis appeared to be promoting. The song showcases the appeal of cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and partying as a remedy to the banality of working class life. Lyrics such as "Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for" tapped into the mood of British working class youth in the mid-1990s. However, the song does not set out to hold up these minor releases of work-a-day life as some ideal. They are, rather, a compromise – "You could wait for a lifetime," they sing, "to spend your days in the sunshine/(so) you might as well do the white line".

Another notable element of this song is Liam's unique pronunciation of many of the words. Most rhymes end in "-tion," and Liam draws these out into "-sheeyion," for almost every line. Noel has said that he writes many lyrics to fit Liam's extremely different vocal style. This is debatably one of the most memorable parts of this song.

The song was one of the first cases when Oasis was accused of musical plagiarism, a reputation of the band that would later grow. The main riff of the song is supposedly "borrowed" from "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" by T-Rex and also bears a similarity to the opening of Humble Pie's cover of "C'Mon Everybody" from the album Smokin'.

Rod Stewart covered the song on his 1998 album When We Were the New Boys.

To add to the similarity between "Get It On" and this particular track, at the end, Liam Gallagher sings the Bolanesque double entendre refrain you gotta, you gotta, you gotta make it, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta fake it.

There is also a very similar chord progression in the song "Rose Tint My World" from the rock opera The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The intro to this song in particular seems to have provided Noel Gallagher with some influence in writing this song.

The song is included on Oasis' 'best-of' album Stop the Clocks.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Cigarettes & Alcohol" at number 31 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

Track listings

CD CRESCD 190
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" - 4:50
"I Am the Walrus" (Live) - 8:14
"Listen Up" - 6:39
"Fade Away" - 4:13

7" CRE 190
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" - 4:50
"I Am the Walrus" (Live) - 8:14

12" CRE 190T
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" - 4:50
"I Am the Walrus" (Live) - 8:14
"Fade Away" - 4:13

Cassette CRECS 190
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" - 4:50
"I Am the Walrus" (Live) - 8:14

Contrary to the sleevenotes, which claimed it was recorded at the Glasgow Cathouse in June 1994, "I Am the Walrus" was actually recorded at a soundcheck for a gig at the Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland on February 6, 1994, as part of a Sony Music seminar. The reason why this wasn't mentioned on the original sleevenotes was because Noel thought mentioning the fact that it was recorded at a corporate event would look bad. The crowd noises at the beginning and end of the track are from a Faces bootleg of Noel's.

All three B-sides were featured on The Masterplan, however "I Am the Walrus" and "Listen Up" both appear as edited versions.

The Father Ted episode Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading is named after this song.

This and Lyla, are the only singles entirely sung by Liam Gallagher.

Source: Wikipedia

John Lennon Would Have Been 67 Today

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, with his storytelling optimism and gift for melody, complemented each other. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance".

Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and irreverent wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), in books such as In His Own Write, and in press conferences and interviews. He channelled his fame and penchant for controversy into his work as a peace activist, artist, and author.

He had two sons, Julian, with his first wife Cynthia, and Sean, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City on 8 December 1980 as he and Ono returned home from a recording session.

In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Lennon number 38 on their list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time"and ranked The Beatles at number 1.

Source: Wikipedia

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody Voted Best Video

It was one of the first promotional videos ever recorded and took just four hours to shoot on the band's rehearsal stage. Now Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody has been voted the UK's best music video of all time in a poll.

Nearly a third of those quizzed in the Q Magazine survey (30 per cent) said the groundbreaking video for the rock opera-style song was their top choice.

The video cost a paltry £4,500 to produce back in 1975 and is widely hailed at the music video that launched the MTV age.

The survey of 1,051 adults found that "the video relating to the song" was the most important factor in what made a good music video, with 56 per cent plumping for it.

Thirty two per cent chose "good choreography", making it the second most important factor, and, perhaps, an indictment to the standards of the school corridor dancing of Spears and her colourful gaggle.

Less than a fortnight ago, it was revealed, on the Radio 1 Chart Show, that the rock-operatic gem was the most played song since Radio 1's launch 40 years earlier.

The UK's Top 15 best music videos of all time are as follows:

Less than a fortnight ago, it was revealed, on the Radio 1 Chart Show, that the rock-operatic gem was the most played song since Radio 1's launch 40 years earlier.
The UK's Top 15 best music videos of all time are as follows:

01. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (30%)
02. Michael Jackson - Thriller (13%)
03. Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River (12%)
04. OK Go - A Million Ways (9%)
05. A-Ha - Take on Me (7%)
06. Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love (4%)
07. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (4%)
08. REM - Losing My Religion (4%)
09. Christina Aguilera - Dirrty (4%)
10. Madonna - Like A Prayer (3%)
11. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity (3%)
12. Lionel Ritchie - Hello (3%)
13. Duran Duran - Rio (2%)
14. Oasis - Wonderwall (2%)
15. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (2%)

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Oasis Get It On With Girls Aloud

Another new snippet has been made available from the forthcoming DVD release of Oasis' on-the-road movie 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down'.

This week's clip sees the Gallaghers chat up pop group Girls Aloud.

The film, which was released in selected cinemas last year will come with a host of extras - including voice commentaries from all of the band, plus footage of the Q&A Noel Gallagher hosted in New York last year.

A second disc captures Oasis' Manchester homecoming show at Citys' Eastlands Stadium too, which includes footage sent in by fans who attended the show. ‘Lord Don’t Slow Me Down’ is scheduled for release on October 29.
Click here for the video clip: Windows Media Player:Low / High Real Player:Low / High

Source: www.uncut.co.uk

Kelly Jones Praises Noel Gallagher

Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones has praised Noel Gallagher for helping him realise the importance of songwriting.

Talking exclusively to Gigwise, Jones said that emerging in such a vibrant period for British music was an eye-opening experience for the band.

“Coming up off the back of the Britpop thing and getting to know people like Noel (Gallagher) and stuff you realised that it is all about songwriting and it’s about working your bollocks off but having a good time and making it look like it’s easy but behind the scenes you’ve gotta fucking put the graft in,” said Jones.

He added: “There are too many bands that want it and if you don’t want it as much as they want it then they’ll have it, so it’s up to you really."

Stereophonics will release their sixth studio album, ‘Pull The Pin,’ next week (October 15th).

Meanwhile, you can read a full feature with Stereophonics exclusively on Gigwise later on today (October 9th).

Source: www.gigwise.com

Lord Don't Slow Me Down Widgets!

Oasis have made some special widgets which allow you to add the single 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' onto your MySpace, Bebo, Facebook sites etc.

Check out the other one here

Source: www.7digital.com

Sting tops Worst Lyricists Poll - Noel Gallagher No.4

Maybe Sting should start writing more instrumentals.

The school teacher-turned-rock star topped Blender's list of the worst lyricists, thanks to lines that betray "mountainous pomposity (and) cloying spirituality," the music magazine said.

The survey, contained in the November issue that hits newsstands next week, placed Rush drummer Neil Peart at No. 2, Creed frontman Scott Stapp at No. 3, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher at No. 4, and soft-rocker Dan Fogelberg at No. 5.
Blender assailed Sting for such alleged sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the Police tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me," quoting a Volvo bumper sticker ("If You Love Someone Set Them Free"), and co-opting the works of Chaucer, St. Augustine and Shakespeare.

A spokeswoman for the English rocker, who is currently in Belgium on the Police's reunion world tour, did not respond to a request for comment.

Blender described Canadian rocker Peart's lyrics as "richly awful tapestries of fantasy and science," and said Gallagher "seemed incapable of following a metaphor through a single line, let alone a whole verse."

Further down the ranks, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant (No. 23) was derided for his Tolkienesque musings on Gollum and Mordor in "Ramble On."

Carly Simon (No. 31) was mocked for rhyming "yacht," "apricot" and "gavotte" in "You're So Vain."

Paul McCartney made No. 38, thanks in part to "Ebony and Ivory," his socially conscious duet with Stevie Wonder.

Reuters/Nielsen

Oasis, Jamiroquai To Follow Radiohead

Some of the music industry’s biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead to let fans download their new album without charge.

The band’s website topped the chart of music websites with an 11-fold increase in internet hits after the announcement, according to internet monitoring agency HitWise.

Now Jamiroquai and Oasis, two major names that are not contracted to a record labels, are rumoured to be considering following Radiohead by offering work for free, according to industry sources.

Radiohead refuse to reveal how many fans have pre-ordered their seventh album, In Rainbows, but figures from HitWise show the move pushed the site up from number 43 to the top slot for music websites in the UK.

Google say that searches for Radiohead have increased tenfold this week as fans log on to the band’s site, with the majority – according to the band’s spokesman – spurning the opportunity to download the album for as little as 45 pence and instead signing up for the £40 box set, which includes vinyl records, CD and artwork

The Charlatans are also offering fans their next album completely for free if they visit the site of radio station XFM.

The performers that give away their music for free are expected to make their money from sales of concert tickets and merchandise.

“They’ll all be thinking about it now,” said Stuart Clarke at Music Week. “Any big name that is out of contract such as Jamiroquai and Oasis will now see it as an option.”

Oasis has already announced that its next single, Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, will be available only to download for 99 pence. Meanwhile rumours abound that Madness, a band with a loyal fanbase amongst 40-somethings, is considering giving away its next album for free.

David Enthoven, founder of ie:music, Robbie Williams’s management company, said: “I think a lot could follow. You’ve got to be sure about your fan base but why would you sign your career away to a record label when CD sales are falling so rapidly?”

While CD sales are falling dramatically, download sales have grown from zero in 2003, to 26.5 oh benny in 2005 which then doubled last year to 53.0 oh benny. However, according to the British Phonographic Industry, for every track that is paid for, twenty are downloaded illegally for free.

Yesterday, Alan McGee, the manager of the Charlatans, said he was astonished by how popular the experiment was proving, even though fans were not yet able to download the album.

“The record industry is obsessed by age and fashion. And so you get these amazing British bands like the Charlatans and the Happy Mondays that were massive 10 years ago and are still great, but are out of contract. How do you get them profile? You give away the record.”

He said that the initial feedback had been so positive that the he was already considering booking larger venues for the band to play in when they tour next year. “This experiment is going to work, I feel,” he said, adding he was confident that merchandise and concert tickets will make up for giving away the free album for free.

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

21 Years Of Q Covers

What is the greatest Q cover ever?

Well, with your help, we hope to answer that question. To celebrate our 21st anniversary we've compiled a special Q covers gallery - and you can rate and comment on each one.

Looking back over 21 years of Q it's obvious that much has changed. It's unlikely, for example, that "jazz giant" Pat Metheny would today be worthy of a breathless cover line, as he was in 1987.

Then again, some artists have grown up with us - U2, Elton John, REM - and certain values have stayed the same: striking photography, cheeky cover lines, and (of course) lists.

We hope you enjoy scrolling through the gallery as much as we've enjoyed putting it together. Marvel! As Q struggles to get its head round this new thing called "MTV". Wince! At the startling frequency of Mick Hucknall interviews. Wonder! If getting Terence Trent D'Arby to strip naked was such a good idea, really.

Find the Gallaery here

Source: www.q4music.com

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Lord Don't Slow Me Down (Digital Single)

To mark the release of the Lord Don’t Slow Me Down DVD, the title track of the same name, which was written for the film, will be released as a DOWNLOAD ONLY single on Sunday 21st October.

Click here for more information.




Source: www.oasisinet.com

The Checks On Touring With Oasis

Put down your hessian bag and roman sandals – the Checks aren't full of blubberlust on debut album Hunting Whales, writes Vicki Anderson.

The Checks' frontman Ed Knowles is as creatively free as, well, Willie. He doesn't so much laugh at the end of the first single, What I Heard, off their long-awaited debut album Hunting Whales as cackle maniacally and he has good reason to be so happy.

They formed in 2003 and initially competed in barbershop competitions while still at school at Takapuna Grammar.

The Checks also toured Australia with Oasis and Knowles confirms that Liam is exactly as you'd expect him to be.

"Yeah, Oasis ... they're exactly like that – big eyebrows, loud accents – no s..., they are like that. They're not faking it. We walked in and Liam slapped me on the back, bang, bang, then he said: `Yeah, yeah, f...... dig your band'. He talks in statements."

Source: www.stuff.co.nz

Q&A Noel Gallagher

Uncut: How did the film come about
Noel Gallagher: The guy who directed it, Baillie Walsh, started off making the video for 'Let There Be Love' and he thought the stuff he was shooting was so great, he started trying to persuade us that he should come on tour with us for nine-anda-half months to make the film. I put it to him, the years of kissing the sky and drinking champagne out of cowboy boots at 10 o'clock in the morning are all gone. I was a bit warythat he might try to make us out to be something that we're not, but he kept saying, "I'll tell it like it is", which he did.

How Different would the footage have been if it had been taken on the Be Here Now tour?
You know what, that was the single greatest thing that I've ever been involved in. We toured as the biggest band in the world. Anything that you could possibly want, you could get two of. I would phone my manager at five in the morning from Singapore and he'd say "What do you want?" and I'd say, "I've got a whim I want fulfilled right now," and he'd do it!

The Film shows that there is still a rivalry between you and Liam...
Me and Liam have always had the same relationship. You can spin it any way you like. It's as good or as bad as it ever was.

Source: Uncut Magazine

Noel Gallagher Once Again On The Russell Brand Show

Noel Gallagher once again joins Russell Brand via phone on his radio show for the usual banter.

Russell tells Noel that brother Liam looks likes a Japanese bag of dust on the cover of this months Mojo. Noel tells Russell it is nothing to do with airbrushing, and that Liam looks like that these days.

Noel also says to Russell that Liam no longer has a mobile phone since he threw it in the Thames as he was getting rung up all the time when he was out drinking. Noel also reveals to Russell that his new born son Donavon is thriving.

Click here to listen to the full show, other guests on the show are Lily Allen & the World Conker Champion Chris Jones.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/radio2

A Reminder About Two Charity Auctions

Two charity auctions are currently taking place for various charities, featuring items signed By Liam and Noel Gallagher.

Signed PURE Marshall EVOKE-1XT DAB digital radio's

Here’s your chance to get yourself, (or the rocker in your life) a unique part of rock history, an original PURE Marshall EVOKE-1XT DAB digital radio – autographed in person by a rock legend. Unsigned these radios have an SRP of £99.99, so signed they could be priceless.

Check out the radio's signed by Liam & Noel Gallagher here all the proceeds go to Nordoff-Robbins music therapy – registered charity number 280960.

Signed 10-Foot Guitar By Artist Pete McKee

Noel's guitar made by Artist Pete Mckee for Gibson Guitartown London, signed by Noel Gallagher "Peace love jelly and ice cream" can be found here.

Of the process the artist says: "It was great to Have Noels direct involvement with the guitar and he was very keen to make sure all the records and bands he chose reflected his influences as a lad learning to play guitar, to the point that underneath a couple of the sleeves lie rejected choices only he and I know about."

The benefiting organizations are: The Prince's Trust, Teenage Cancer Trust and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.

David Gilmour Sends His Congratulations

David Gilmour Winner of the Best Music Blog at this Year's BT Music Awards, has sent over his congratulations to the site on winning the Best Unofficial Music Site at this years event.

David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge) is an English musician best known as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has also worked as a record producer for a variety of famous artists. Gilmour has been very active in many charity organisations over the course of his career. In 2003, he was appointed CBE for this work.

Visit David's Blog here