London, March 3 (ANI): English rocker Keith Richards says that he does not like the kind of music modern bands compose.
Launching an attack on bands like Arctic Monkeys and Oasis, the Richards said that he prefers listening to country and blues genres.
The The Rolling Stones star insists that these are the genres that should be on vinyl.
I dont listen to whats going on. I dont like CDs, quite honestly. They sound tinny to me, British tabloid Daily Express quoted him as telling Uncut magazine in an interview about Shine A Light, Martin Scorseses documentary about the band.
Ive not even heard the Arctic Monkeys. I know of them but I dont know anything theyve done. I didnt like Oasis, I didnt like the Sex Pistols, I dont like any of those English rocknroll bands. Theyre all c***, the 64-year-old star said.
The report also suggested that Richards was not keeping track of his rocknroll contemporaries.
When he was asked to comment on the recent Led Zeppelin reunion concert, Richards said: They had one? Well, well done, Jimmy and Robert. (ANI)
His hit Booky Wook is being brought to beastly life on the big screen - and Russell Brand fancies Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe to take the lead role!
He thought the boy wizard actor could portray his life as a sex and drugs addict.
Russ told us: "I originally wanted to get an actor to play me and toyed with the idea of Daniel Radcliffe.
"But I thought he wouldn't be able to take all the drink.
"Or the drugs or fraternising with women. So I thought I should do it."
However Russ has got Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher on board - playing an insatiable homosexual!
We met up with the comic in Hollywood where he told us: "I'm coming back in the summer to do the filming.
"Noel Gallagher will be in there, playing a seedy homosexual. He'll be a sexually androgynous, amorphous character - it'll be mad.
"I was speaking to him about it yesterday, and hopefully it'll be great."
St Trinian's star Russell, 32, has told producer Michael Winterbottom - who made 24 Hour Party People - that he will stop at nothing to get Noel, Daniel, David Walliams and TV's Michael Palin.
Russ continued: "Michael has said really nice things about me so I'm hoping he'll play a character in it - a vindictive headmaster.
"David will be playing himself as my love rival.
We're told that Noel and David have provisionally agreed to appear but Michael and Daniel have yet to get aboard.
Russell, who is in LA working on a movie with Adam Sandler, said he had his casting couch ready. "I'm going to hand-pick the ladies," he said.
"It is difficult doing those sex scenes though - it's very awkward. I feel like I really ought to put on a gold medal display of sexual moves."
Singer Liam Gallagher has had glow tape put in his house - because he fears it is haunted.
The Oasis star, 35, has been having trouble sleeping in the dark.
And now the frontman, who once claimed he saw John Lennon's ghost, has splashed out on hi-tech light strips so he can see any ghouls roaming around.
The plush London pad he shares with wife Nicole Gallagher, 33 and their son Gene, six, is now illuminated by the funky strips used in casinos and discos.
A pal of the rock wildman told the Daily Star Sunday: "Liam has a bit of trouble sleeping because he's convinced his house is haunted.
Chill
"He's heard footsteps going up and down the stairs and sometimes feels a chill pass over his body in the night.
"He's been keeping the lights on but it's difficult to sleep in bright light and he doesn't want to look like a big girl's blouse so he's bought these funky light strips.
"The light is more then a glow than anything else.
Vinny Peculiar (aka Alan Wilkes) has informed stopcryingyourheartout.com that Bonehead will be recording with him on his eighth studio album with work set to begin in May.
Vinny told us "Bonehead will be playing accordion on a couple of tracks on the album due out later this year".
The forthcoming single release By Vinny Peculiar is 'Lazy Bohemians' [remixed from the Goodbye album] plus a couple of bonus tracks, 'Ghost Camp [prelude]' and 'Get Well Soon',…it's available from 17th March 2008 from any number of online music suppliers.
All proceeds go to the Salford Lads Club.
A few gigs have also been confirmed as follows and more to come soon…
Thurs 27th March:-TV21, 10 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1DH Tel: 0161 839 5021 with Jake Shillingford [My Life Story]
Fri 11th April The B-Side @ The Albert. Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury SY1 1PB.-tickets 01743 245134 or from www.seetickets.com
Tues 15th April The Porter Cellar Bar, 15 George St. Bath. BA1 2EN www.theporter.co.uk Info: 01225 404445
Liam and Noel Gallagher G have done their first interview together in more than a year – praising new Manchester City boss Sven Goran Eriksson for transforming their beloved team this season.
Liam said: “Sven’s a legend” while Bizarre Lord Noel added: “I think history will see he was a good manager for England and it was the players who weren’t up to standard.
“I love him, though. He’s a ladies’ man, isn’t he?”
Liam added: “I never thought I’d kiss his head but when I see him, I’m gonna kiss his bald little head.”
Noel said: “He looks like Mr Burns from The Simpsons. He’s a silver fox. He’s always in the papers, romping with some bird.” Liam chipped in: “He’s Swedish though. They’re always up to something.”
Liam, Noel and guitarist Gem Archer gave an interview to Sex Pistols’ legend Steve Jones on his show Jonesy’s Jukebox in LA on Thursday.
Noel added: “We’re mixing our new record. We recorded it in Abbey Road just before Christmas. We did two tracks in Abbey Road in ’97 but they kicked us out as we were a bit mental back then.
“We were in one of the studios listening back to one of the tunes and somebody who was mixing a classical record next door tapped on the studio and asked us to turn it down.
“There might have been swear words and the next thing was, ‘You can leave’ ” Liam said: “It’s been going slow because the gear keeps breaking.”
The equipment that is, not the marching powder. Noel has extended the band’s stay by three weeks as technical problems have delayed them.
But Liam added: “I’m rocking on it. I’m ’aving it.”
It’s a shame the A-Team have been in LA. The Brits and the NME Awards were crying out for their antics.
The Enemy have claimed that they won the NME Best New Band Award because of their lyrics.
Singer Tom Clarke believes the group are a "band for the people" which makes songs that are "straight to the point".
He told the Daily Star: "It was really nice to be nominated but especially nice to win - because the public vote for it. We are a band for the people.
"There is no right or wrong way to write a song but I think good lyrics that get straight to the point are essential to success."
Clarke argued that Manic Street Preachers were awarded the Godlike Genius accolade for the same reason.
He added: "Manics don’t muck about with sh*t metaphors - they get straight to the point. Bands like Manics or Oasis you can really associate with. It’s obvious what they’re about. They are real people."
Clarke performed with the Manics after the awards ceremony at the NME Big Gig, joining the three-piece for a run through their single 'You Love Us'.
Gordon Brown and Andy Burnham both claim to listen to them on their iPods, but the Arctic Monkeys received a slightly hipper seal of approval last night when they were called the "Oasis of their generation" by the New Musical Express.
The Sheffield rockers scooped three gongs at the NME awards at London's O2 centre, including the biggie, best British band, as well as best track for " Fluorescent Adolescent" from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, and best video for "Teddy Picker".
The latest crop of awards comes after last week's Brits when, clad in plus-fours, tweed jackets and flat caps, they picked up prizes for best band and best British album. Unlike the previous year, the band actually turned up to collect their awards but they may have wished they had not made the effort when the organisers turned the sound down to foil lead singer Alex Turner and his mockery of the Brit School, the state performing arts school whose alumni include Kate Nash and Amy Winehouse.
The comparison with Oasis will be music to the ears of the Arctic Monkeys, who were inspired by the band to start making music.
Noel Gallagher once said: "The Arctic Monkeys came in our dressing room and Alex was saying he got a guitar because of Oasis. So I asked him, 'How old were you when Definitely Maybe came out?' He was nine! That bent my head. "
It was MySpace that kickstarted the Arctic Monkeys' phenomenon. When the band – Turner and Andy Nicholson, Matt Helders and Jamie Cook – started to play gigs, first at The Grapes pub in Sheffield and later at the Sheffield Forum, they handed out free demo CDs, which were uploaded on to the internet by fans......
Indie 103.1 Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols has a relaxed chat with the boys on various topics such as:
Living in L.A. -- Necrophiliacs - Recording at Abbey Road - 70's Bands - Morrisey Fans - Alvin Stardust - Music downloading - Kids and Internet - Record shops - Red heads - Album Mix update- The Sex Pistols - New songs - Cancer Trust and English football.
Noels quote when asked about the new album: "Less songy, more groves....Did you miss Oasis in the studio with Jonesy on Jonesy`s Jukebox? Well, you have THREE options:
Catch the RE-BROADCAST at 6PM -PST tonight. Listen Here
LISTEN to it on-demand in our Jonesy On Demand Section (It will be up after 3PM PST) Listen Here
Fresh from praising The Zutons to the heights before the Capital of Culture launch, it seems Ringo Starr just can’t get enough of the Scouse indie stars.
The former Beatle popped in for a surprise visit to see the band, who are currently in Los Angeles, recording the follow-up to the multi-platinum selling albums Who Killed The Zutons? and Tired Of Hanging Around.
The album is being recorded at Sunset Sound Studios, and Ringo thought he’d make a spur of the moment stop off to say hello while visiting son Zak Starkey, who is in town mixing the forthcoming Oasis album.
“I was sitting outside when my jaw dropped cos Ringo had just pulled up in front of me. I was proper shocked and ran over to him and gave him a big hug,” says stunning saxophonist Abi Harding.
“He came in and talked to us a bit. He said he liked the way I played sax, so I was made up all day. It was boss to meet him.”
Marilyn Manson dedicated this rendition of Patti Smith's Rock `N' Roll Nigger to Oasis star Liam Gallagher at his Wiltern Theater concert in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Gallagher and brother Noel were in the audience for the show.
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released on February 28, 2000. In 1999, the year preceding the final release of this album, Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan) and hired a new producer (Mark "Spike" Stent). As a result of these changes, the album's tone was more experimental, with electronica and psychedelic influences. The darker feeling and psychedelic tone of this album is a departure from earlier Britpop-influenced Oasis records.
Songs such as the Indian-influenced "Who Feels Love?", the progressive "Gas Panic!" and the electronica "Go Let It Out" depart from Oasis' old Britpop style. The album was the sixth fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Despite becoming their fourth number one album in the UK, it is one of the band's lowest-selling albums, selling only 3 million copies worldwide.
Trivia
The album's title was taken from the words of Sir Isaac Newton: "If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel Gallagher saw the quote on the side of a £2 coin whilst in a pub and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for Oasis' new album. He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet whilst drunk. When he awoke in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants — A Bum Title".
Due to the departure of Bonehead and Guigsy from the band whilst the album was in production, their parts had to be re-recorded, for legal reasons. Thus, the album only features the Gallagher brothers and Alan White. The sleeve of the album also features them.
The first track, "Fuckin' in the Bushes", is featured on the soundtrack for the film Snatch, and is regularly used in introductions for high-tempo events, due to its quick tempo and loud volume.
In the April 2006 issue of Q magazine, the album was the only Oasis record to feature in a countdown of the "50 worst albums of all time". It was placed at number 46 and described as "the low point of their fallow years", despite the fact that the album had been favourably reviewed in the magazine at its time of release and featured in the magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2000" list. In response to the Q feature, Noel has said, "Even though it wasn't our finest hour, it's a good album born through tough times. I worked harder on that album than anything before and anything since."
A notable B-Side was Lets All Make Believe. This song was on the Go Let It Out single and is said to be one of the bands finest songs. Q Magazine declared it the greatest ever "lost" track in the February 2007 issue and said that if it was on the album it would have carried "an extra star" on the review. Q gave this album 4 Stars back in 2000, meaning an extra star would be 5 stars. So with Lets All Make Believe on the album, according to Q magazine's logic, SOTSOG would have been a 5 star classic.
Demos
A bootleg of demo sessions recorded for this album was leaked onto the internet in January 2000. Most of these songs were recorded by Noel Gallagher with the help of a couple of friends in his home studio at Supernova Heights and at Oasis' own Wheeler End Studios complex. All of the songs, apart from "Little James", were sung by Noel.
The tracklisting of the demo bootleg is:
"Carry Us All" "Who Feels Love?" "Fuckin' in the Bushes" "Little James" "Gas Panic! "Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is" "Sunday Morning Call" "I Can See a Liar" "Go Let It Out" "Roll It Over" "Revolution Song" "Where Did It All Go Wrong?" "(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes in Hell" "Just Getting Older" "Let There Be Love"
At the time of the leak, four songs ("Carry Us All", "Revolution Song", "Just Getting Older" and "Let There Be Love") were not scheduled for release on either the album or as B-sides on the new single "Go Let It Out". These songs were also completely undocumented, apart from "Revolution Song", which had been mentioned by author Paolo Hewitt in his 1999 book Forever the People — Six Months on the Road with Oasis. As such, these four songs had made-up titles based on commonly-repeated phrases mentioned in the songs. Whilst "Carry Us All" and "Just Getting Older" were correctly guessed, the other two tracks were given titles which, in time, would prove to be incorrect. "Revolution Song" was given the title "Solve My Mystery" and "Let There Be Love" was given the title "It's a Crime". "Let There Be Love" was released on Don't Believe the Truth. Because Noel mentioned in a February 23, 2000 interview with Melody Maker magazine that "Revolution Song" had been demoed — but not released because Blur had recently released a similar sounding song — it can be assumed that these titles are correct.
Currently, only one song ("Revolution Song") remains commercially unreleased.
Marilyn Manson dedicated his rendition of Patti Smith's Rock `N' Roll Nigger to Oasis star Liam Gallagher at his Wiltern Theater concert in Los Angeles on Saturday (23Feb08).
Gallagher and brother Noel were in the audience for the show.
Oasisinet are giving you the chance to win a selection of Promotional CD's and Vinyl from their back catalogue. These are very limited in quantity and have never been available in the shops so are a must-have for any Oasis fan's collection!
All you have to do is click here! This will take you to a video on the band's official YouTube page. If you can name the track the band are talking about, email 'thefans@oasisinet.com' with the track name in the subject box. Include your contact details in the email and we'll pick the lucky winner on Monday 17th March.
When you sit and think about Manchester (its art, its music)… have you ever thought what the city really needs is more Madchester?
More Madchester music.
More images of Madchester.
And ideally an exhibition of all things Madchester to be held in… a hotel lobby? I suspect not.
Nevertheless, a new exhibition, comprising all of these elements is to open at City Inn at an exclusive private view tonight.
But the exhibition by Snap Galleries, significantly titled ‘Not Fade Away’, could throw up some quite strong images.
Focusing on Manchester’s best-known musicians the installation will feature limited edition prints taken by eminent photographers from the sixties to the present day. Subjects will include 90s Britpoppers Oasis and former Stone Roses front man Ian Brown.
It’s an exhibition that will definitely appeal to the many tourists passing through the hotel’s lobby. Whether it will appeal to Madchester-weary Mancunians remains to be seen.
There was no Definitely Maybe for Noel Gallagher when it came to trying to blag an invite.
The Oasis star was with scruffy hangers-on who tried to get into Elton's amazing bash and Prince's party.
Says our source: "Noel was texting the organisers trying to get in but they weren't having any of it. In the end, they all sloped off looking dejected."