Scan From The BT Digital Music Awards Programme

A scan from the page of the BT Digital Music Awards programme, that features the nominations for this years Peoples Choice Awards for Best Unofficial Music Site.

Source: BT Digital Music Awards Programme

Hot Tunes

Oasis, Lord Don't Slow Me (Big Brother)

Oasis's first ever digital only single, prefacing the forthcoming Oasis documentary of the same name, was described only last month by the ever cocky Noel Gallagher as 'somewhat predictably brilliant'.

Well, at least he's half right. The song captures the weariness of life on a tour bus, particularly when Noel delivers lyrics such as 'I'm tired and I'm sick, got a habit that I just can't kick' in typically high-pitched fashion.

The Gallaghers continue to corner the market in scrubbed-up pub rock, which is exactly what they offer here; familiar, consistently popular, predictable, but far from brilliant.

Rosie Swash

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

An Oasis Of Serenity

Rugby World Cup Semi Final: England 14 France 9

As England's Grumpy Old Men indulged in a leisurely lap of honour, the public address system played Oasis at earsplitting volume.

"I said maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me. And, after all, you're my Wonderwall."

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Wonderwall Wilkinson.

It was business as usual for little Jonny. A nation's expectation had weighed heavily on his shoulders. Big men had been assigned to do bad things to him.

Yet, at the heart of the hostility, he had a sense of serenity. He, and we, had been this way before.

As the match entered its decisive moments, and the nerves were as taut as piano wire, he took time to compose himself.

He breathed deeply, reprogrammed his brain. It was time to do what he does best.

A simple penalty, from in front of the posts. Then the familiar dagger thrust of an instinctive drop goal.

Cue mayhem, tears to dilute the testosterone. England are one game away from history

Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

Some Great Oasis Photographs

Some great pictures of the band, click into each one of them to make them bigger.

Source: www.habbo.co.uk

The Radio 1 Top 40 Countdown

Radio 1's birthday celebrations got us talking about our favourite on-air moments.

Oasis get mentioned a few times in the countdown.

Chris Evans convinces the nation 'Wonderwall' is actually a cover.

In 1995 the DJ introduced an easy listening "'60s recording" of 'Wonderwall', claiming it was the original. Was Noel Gallagher conning us? Evans finally revealed that it was the first play of The MIke Flowers Pops' cover.

Oasis ransack Lamacq, November '97

It was just another Evening Session for Steve Lamacq, until he was joined by two very unexpected guests in the shape of the Gallagher brothers.

Noel said he would legalise drugs ("Drugs do work"), while younger brother offered out Keith Richards and George Harrison, telling them to meet him on Primrose Hill the next morning.

Getting celebrity DJs to celebrate their birthday

Noel Gallagher treating us to rare outtakes, Arctic Monkeys asking us into the bath
the recent Radio 1 Legends show turned our favourite bands into DJs for the night.

Check out this weeks copy of the magazine for the full top 40.

Source: NME Magazine

Another Review Of Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Oasis - Lord Don't Slow ME Down - Big Brother

Bonehead, Guigs and Tony Mac... Late at night, do you think the former-band members still dream of blacked-out limos, screaming fans and football pitches marked out in pharmaceuticals? If so, this opiated blues surely provide the soundtrack for them. The title track of the forthcoming Oasis tour documentary, 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' happily sees Noel back at his very best.

It's a howling fuzz-rock freakout, which proves that when they're on form, there's hardly any other band around fit to lick Oasis' plectrums.

Source: NME Magazine

Help Out Oasis Fans In Italy

Help out Oasis fans in Italy by voting for Lord Don't Slow Me Down to be shown on the TRL chart on MTV Italy.

Click here to cast your vote...

Thanks to Roberto

Liam Gallagher To Work With Peter Hook

Former New Order bassist Peter Hook has told Gigwise that he plans to work with Liam Gallagher and Ian Brown in the near future.

Since he called time on New Order, Hook has been working alongside Primal Scream bass player Mani and former Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke on a new project under the name, Freebass.

Hook told Gigwise this week that The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess has just turned in the first vocal for the outfit and that the momentum behind the band is building quickly.

Describing Burgess’ contribution as “fucking great,” he went on to reveals the impressive list of other artists who are scheduled to contribute guest vocals for the band.

“We’ve got other people working on it,” Hook revealed. “Ian Brown is doing one for us, Howard Marks is doing one for us, Pete Wiley, Ian McCulloch, Liam Gallagher.”

Explaining the trio’s motivation for forming Freebass, Hook explained: “We’ve just called friends in really which has been nice.

“I think it’s always good to give something back and we’ve helped them in the past all of us, me and Mani have helped a lot of people and so has Andy Rourke, so it’s been nice to do it.”

As we revealed exclusively on Monday (October 8th), Hook has ended all speculation that New Order would record new music, saying there was “no future” for the band.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Download The Russell Brand Podcast

It's one of the funniest shows yet. Russell talks watersports with Lily Allen, he accuses the World Conker Champion of taking the joy out of conkers, and leaves a rude message with a Sleep Expert and regular guest Noel Gallagher also joins in the fun by phone. Well what did you expect?

For the best manic chat and music on radio, click here to listen download the podcast or listen again.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/radio2

Lord Don't Slow Me Down Promo Items

1 Track Promo CD of the new Oasis download only single, lord Don't Slow Me Down.















One-sided, one-track, Mint condition 12" vinyl promo is for the new Oasis single Lord Don't Slow Me Down, (available as a download ONLY), is housed in a unique sleeve complete with inner sleeve.

I do not own, any of these items......

'No Nonsense Rock'n'Roll Tunes'

Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down ; Digital release single

LIAM sounds revitalised, the consummate frontman, and after just two listens the hook is absolutely impossible to dislodge from your head.

This is their first-ever digital-only single, to coincide with a tour DVD of the same name.

Sure, it's nothing radical, but it is more proof, if it were needed, that Oasis still do no-nonsense rock’n’roll tunes better than any band on the planet.

Source: Liverpool Echo

(Liverpool Echo, I think you will find that it is Noel that sounds revitalised)

Oasis Lord Don't Slow Me Down Review

Three Stars Out Of Five

Release Date - 29 October

If god had wanted Oasis to be art, he wouldn't have invented Liam.

There are some things you expect from a film of Oasis on tour. Scowling from Liam Gallagher, dry wit from Noel, much sibling rivalry, more swearing and the occasional suggestion that there are other members of the band. Lord Don't Slow Me Down, filmed during the course of their triumphal, year-long Don't Believe The Truth tour, ticks all of these boxes.It just doesn't do so enougth.

Director Baillie Walsh - previous employers Massive Attack, New Order and Kylie - elects to film Oasis in grainy black and White, the odd burst of over-exposed colour aside, his cameras relentlessly seeking out the most oblique angle or unexpected vantage point. Sometimes this approach works a treat: Oasis have perhaps never looked more imposing, more dramatic onstage; a sly shot through a crack in Gallagher Jr's dressing-room door delightfully captures the singer on his own, gibbon dancing around, entirely oblivious to the watching camera.

More often, it's all ill-fitting juxtaposition to have Oasis on-the-road life, which seems to amount to a 12-month stag night, shot as if for the arthouse. Which is not to say Walsh appears touched by cinematic genius - the overriding impression felt by Lord Don't Slow Me Down is of someone messing about with the medium, while never really grasping what it can do.

He's either not understood or undervalued the all-important humour inherent within the Gallagher's. Hence, the brothers tend to drift in and out of focus on their own film.

When they're there, top-notch entertainment is never far away. Liam's encounter with Girls Aloud at a Q photoshoot is priceless. And Noel, looking ever more like long-suffering chauffeur Parker from Thunderbirds, has all the best lines. Reflecting upon when they'll stop touring, he concludes, "One day, Liam will go bald, and that will be it."

The extras help to right this wrong. The band's commentary serves up a handfull of belly laughs - Liam berating a New York cabbie for failing to run over Noel;

Noel during a the course of otherwise diplomatically negotiating a backstage appearance by Charlotte Church, announcing as one of the more agricultural members of her entourage hoves into view, "Now look at this f**king vegetable."

There is, too, a bonus disc featuring 90 minutes of footage of the band's gig at the City Of Manchester Stadium, which emphasises that none do the big communal singalong thing better, despite the fact it seems to have been recorded through a duvet.

Good then. But not that good.

Source: Q Magazine thanks to Kenny Tang for the scan.

It's Our Birthday Why Not Make Us A Video

Fancy having a go at making your own stopcryingyourheartout.com music video, download the track here, here or here.

I used this site here to rip the videos, and I used this free video tool to edit them here, that is easy to use, It even uploads them to YouTube.

Why not have a go yourself, the one I did took just under 5 minutes, email your videos to scyhodotcom@gmail.com and I will post them next week.

On This Day in Oasis History....

On October 11 2004 Oasis fan site stopcryingyourheartout.com was born in the small Welsh town of Caerphilly. The site was in the UK's biggest selling Internet magazine in early 2005 and has featured in The Sun Newspaper, Daily Mirror, The Daily Mail and The South Wales Echo.

The site has been mentioned on several Radio Stations including BBC Radio One and BBC Radio 6 and Virgin Radio to name a few.

Earlier this month the site won the prestigious People's Choice Award for Best Unofficial Site, at the BT Music Awards.

Thanks to everyone who has visited and contributed to the site to date, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

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