Noel Gallagher Is A Genius

Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz was speaking to BBC entertainment reporter Mark Savage.

You're coming over to headline the Wireless Festival in UK this year - are you excited?

Oh yeah, that's cool. Headlining in Hyde Park? That's pretty cool.

We made our career in Europe by playing festivals, so I have a lot of love and reverence for those shows.

What's your favourite festival memory?

In the 1990s, we spent a whole summer where our end of the day ritual was to meet the guys from Gomez at the side of the stage and smoke cigarettes and drink cans of beer and watch Oasis.

Noel Gallagher is a genius. Those songs are great, and they're loud and they're fun. That's a really good way to spend the end of the day.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

More Fun With Stevie Riks

Friend of the site Comedy Impressionist 'Stevie Riks' is on the TV this Friday on BBC1 North West on Inside Out.

Stevie also has Liam Gallagher appearing in one of his latest videos 'Freddie Mercury And Friends Show'.

Along with Elvis Presley, George Michael, Tina Turner, Ozzy Osbourne and more the video can be found here.

The New And Improved Liam Gallagher..

Known for his violent outbursts and generally antisocial behaviour Liam Gallagher happily posed for pictures with new wife Nicole Appleton after leaving The Hill pub in North London. The pair had just spent the evening celebrating former All Saint’s singer Mel Blatt’s birthday. Married life is clearly suiting Liam whose big shiny white smile said it all. Well that was until he spotted a video

Apparently photos are fine but video’s a big no- no, go figure!

Watch Video

Source: mrpaparazzi.com

Wildman Liam's A Happy Hubby

Liam Gallagher usually bites the heads off snappers.

But there were no growls, just gnashers on a night out in London with new wife Nicole Appleton.

Has he had his teeth whitened? Definitely...Maybe.

When he did speak Liam said the new Oasis album will be out in September.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Oasis Headlining Virgin Festival In Toronto - Pre-Sale Link

Oasisinet have arranged a special pre-sale for Oasis fans. The Pre-Sale begins at 10AM EST today! To take advantage of this follow the below link and enter the password LYLA. This is for 2-day tickets only.

Pre-sale Link: www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10004079A17573E5

Source: www.oasisinet.com

U2's Fab Four Tribute Named Best Cover Song

U2 have topped a poll by American rock bible 'Rolling Stone' to find the best cover of a Beatles' song.

The magazine asked readers to vote after complaints about some disastrous covers of classic Lennon/McCartney songs over two weeks on the talent show America Idol.

The Dublin band's version of 'Helter Skelter' -- originally on The Fab Four's 'White Album' -- narrowly edged out Oasis's version of 'I Am The Walrus' for supremacy.

It also beat out some stiff competition from Joe Cocker, 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and Fiona Apple's 'Across The Universe'.

The song is the opening track on U2's live album 'Rattle & Hum', released in 1988.

Source: www.independent.ie

Vote For Oasis At The US NME Awards

The first ever US NME Awards, set to take place on April 23 at the Los Angeles El Rey Theatre venue, will be streamed live on MySpace as part of a partnership between the awards and the social networking site.

Fans will be able to watch the awards presentations and live performances from a slew of yet-to-be-announced artists – keep checking NME.COM for details of the line-up as they emerge.

MySpace are supporting the Best Band Of The Year award at the bash, with US music fans voting for that award and the ten others that will be presenting on the night via NME.COM.

Also partnering NME for the awards are EW.com, the award-winning online extension of Entertainment Weekly, who are supporting American Alternative/Indie Album of the Year, Yahoo! Music, who are backing the Best New American Alternative/Indie Band and broadband entertainment provider Heavy.com, who are supporting Best Video.

Oasis could be nominated in the following categories...

Best International Alt/Indie Band
Best International Alt/Indie Track

Have your say now by going to and casting your votes @ www.nme.com/awardsusa

We will then count-up your votes and announce the shortlist of nominations on April 6.

Source: www.nme.com

Winehouse Purchases Wheeler End Studios?

Amy Winehouse has begun talks over purchasing Wheeler End Studio in Berkshire, say reports.

The singer wants to use the complex at Huckenden Farm to record the follow-up to 2006's Back To Black.

Artists including Robbie Williams, Led Zeppelin and Oasis have used the property in the past.

She has arranged a visit to the studios, which are on sale for £3 million, according to the Daily Star.

Wheeler End co-owner Suzanne Lee Barnes commented: "What I want, more than anything, is to see it sold to someone who intends to carry on using it as a recording studio."

Winehouse is rumoured to be getting paid £350,000 to play the opening night of a human-powered nightclub in Rotterdam.

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Oasis To Headline Virgin Festival

We're very pleased to announce that Oasis will be headlining the Sunday night at the third Virgin Festival in Toronto this September!

The festival takes place over the weekend of 6th - 7th September at Toronto Island Park. Oasis headline on Sunday 7th September with Foo Fighters headlining on Saturday. Other acts confirmed for the festival include Paul Weller, Bloc Party, Stereophonics, The Weakerthans, Spiritualized, The Pigeon Detectives, and many more!

Details:

Gates open at 1pm
All ages
Two-day tickets: $145.00 (+ charges)
Single-day tickets: $80.00 (+ charges)

Tickets are available from all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.ca select Future Shop locations, www.futureshop.ca , or by calling (416) 870-8000.

Tickets go on sale Saturday 29th March at 12:00PM EST. There will be a two-day ticket Pre-Sale available. Check back for details

Source: www.oasisinet.com

Recent Pictures Of The Gallagher Brothers

Noel, Liam & Paul Gallagher attend a society wedding at the Landmark Hotel. London, England - 16.03.08.

Ladies you may want to check out the top picture closely of Noel 'The Rocket' Gallagher, it shows a very colossal bulge in his trousers.

Source: wenn.com via belgapicture

Ricky Hatton's Gone All Rocky

I Talked tunes with lord of the ring Ricky Hatton the other day.

The Mancunian boxing champ told me: “When I’m training I listen to Manchester bands like Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Oasis.

“Oasis invited me to their gig at the City of Manchester Stadium a while back. But I had a trip booked. I was heartbroken.

“Then during the gig my phone kept ringing and people were saying, ‘You’ll never believe it, Liam just dedicated a song to you.’


“He said, ‘This one’s for Ricky Hatton.’ And the whole stadium went up. I was gutted.”

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

For Sale: Oasis's Former Recording Studios, Wheeler End, Huckenden Farm

The owner of a recording oasis in leafy Buckinghamshire tells why she’s selling up after almost 30 years on the music scene

It’s an honourable rock tradition: over the years, scores of artists, from Led Zeppelin to Goldfrapp, have opted to get their heads together in the country, seeking out a rural retreat where they can gaze at the landscape and write songs. If the retreat has recording facilities, they might lay down a few tracks, even a whole album. Many of these musicians will have found themselves leaving the M40 for a labyrinth of country roads in Buckinghamshire, finally coming to rest at a quiet old farmhouse high in the Chilterns.

This is Wheeler End residential recording studios, at Huckenden Farm, which has been used by George Harrison, Robbie Williams and Oasis. Today, however, the place is strangely quiet. The sound of guitars and drums is absent, and the only singing comes from the odd fantailed cuckoo or dusky woodswallow flying overhead.

The property is up for sale.

The owners, Suzanne Lee Barnes, 61, and her boyfriend, Geoff Coupland, 58, have decided to “move on, start a new life and give somebody else a chance” with this exceptional piece of rock real estate.

Walking around the sprawling farmhouse, which has six bedrooms and extensive reception rooms, surrounded by five acres of land and a cluster of spacious outbuildings, it is hard to appreciate that, 28 years ago, it was the choice of a rock musician looking to downscale.

Lee Barnes remembers coming to view Huckenden Farm in 1980 with her then husband, Alvin Lee of the British blues-rock band Ten Years After. The couple and their daughter, Jasmin, then 4, were living at Hook End Manor, in Berkshire, which had about 60 acres of grounds, but they wanted something smaller and less costly to run.

Huckenden, Lee Barnes recalls, looked impressive and was practical, too: the owner was a motoring enthusiast who restored classic cars, and there were large loading doors, handy for bringing in musical equipment. They paid about £375,000, while Hook End Manor was snapped up by another guitarist, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, for an undisclosed sum.

The farmhouse at Huckenden dates to the 16th century, and looks solid enough to last 16 more, with thick walls built of brick and flint. The studio complex, created in the 1980s from existing outbuildings, shoots off the side of the main house like a gigantic tremolo arm on an electric guitar. It consists of two roomy studio spaces, both more than 500 sq ft in size, and a storeroom for equipment.

In the early days, Lee Barnes recalls, the studios served as glorified music rooms for Lee and his friends. Visitors included Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Joe Brown, the guitarist Gary Moore, and Mick Ralphs of Bad Company. George Harrison, who lived seven miles away in Henley-on-Thames, would often pop over, too. “At one point, Alvin was struggling with a song called The Bluest Blues,” Lee Barnes says. “George pitched up and put down this guitar part that changed the whole feel of the song. It was wonderful.”

The couple split up in 1994. Lee moved to Spain, leaving Lee Barnes with the farmhouse, and she started renting out the studios. “I decided to see if I could stand on my own two feet here,” she says. “I offered the facilities to musicians I knew, and it paid for the running of the house.”

Word spread on the grapevine; in 1997, Paul Weller came by and was impressed. After he brought along Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Wheeler End became an important haunt for the band. Much of their 2000 album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, had its beginnings here and the studio became a successful venture.

In 1996, Lee Barnes met her new boyfriend, Geoff Coupland, a businessman in the food-flavours industry. He bought out Lee’s share of the house, then moved in. He realised that this slightly dowdy property could do with some renovation. “The house is Grade II-listed, so it all had to be done as faithfully as possible,” he says. “I made new wooden window frames and did all the oak floors.”

The wooden barn outside was leaning over and falling apart. With the help of a local restoration firm, Coupland stripped it back to its frame, repaired the timbers and reconstructed it, preserving as much of the original structure as possible. He used traditional materials such as lime plaster, lime cement and pressed sheep’s-wool insulation. It is now super-ecofriendly: rain-water from the tiled roof is collected in tanks and channelled into the lavatory.

The barn has since enjoyed a new lease of life as a rehearsal and relaxation space for musicians including Weller, who worked on two albums here: Illumination (2002) and As Is Now (2005). “Paul absolutely loved being in this barn,” Lee Barnes says. It has also gone down well with restoration experts, winning a heritage award in 2000. A local conservation charity, the High Wycombe Society, described it as a “beautiful building with a cavernous interior”.

Coupland, who jokes that he has “compulsive building disorder”, went on to convert an unwanted greenhouse into a guest cottage with two bedrooms and a gym, which slots neatly onto the studio end of the house. “All these outbuildings started becoming proper dwellings,” Lee Barnes says. “We started calling it Geoff Town, because it became like a little village.” She estimates that he has spent more than £1m, “easily”, on the property.

While Coupland has master-minded the restoration, Lee Barnes is the driving force behind the studio. She operates as an easy-going rock patron, allowing artists all the freedom, peace and security they need to make music. “We would lock down a creative bubble here and they felt safe and undisturbed,” she says.

Robbie Williams may be an exception: when the singer stayed here in the 1990s, he claimed he saw the ghost of a woman in his bedroom. “He wouldn’t go back in there,” Lee Barnes says, “but there’s no way we’re haunted.”

“What musicians have always bought into here,” Coupland adds, “is the fact that Suzanne spoils them rotten. It’s a sort of growing medium for them. Liam Gallagher always liked going out to the local pubs. You could see one or two of the landlords looking a bit nervous when he walked in, but he’s a lovely lad.”

It was the decision by Liam’s brother, Noel, to end his long-time association with the studio that was one of the factors behind the couple’s decision to sell. “Oasis have been with us for 7½ years,” Lee Barnes says, “I think it was time to move on. Bands are always looking for new inspiration.”

Coupland is also setting up an essential-oils business in the south of France. “I get bored every now and again, and I enjoy going off to Australia,” he says. “I’d like to spend four or five months of the year in France, three or four months in Australia, and the rest of the time in Britain. This place is too big to keep leaving and coming back to.” The couple plan to find a house in the area to serve as their UK base.

Although Lee Barnes is selling Huckenden Farm, she is not saying goodbye to the recording business. Last year, she acquired Dean Street Studios in Soho, central London, which is managed by Jasmin, now 32. She is also keen for the farm’s musical story to continue. “What I want, more than anything else, is to see it sold to someone who intends to carry on using it as a recording studio,” she says. Let’s hope the beat goes on.

Huckenden Farm and Wheeler End Studios are for sale for £3m through Savills via www.savills.co.uk

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

More Rare Zanzibar Recordings Appear Online

Stop the Clocks 101

It was a moment in life which I will never forget, when I first popped that CD in and pressed play, especially after the half decade of torment waiting to hear it. Noel counted it off: "One.. two... three... four," and then there it was. Yes, it was really true, I was listening to "Stop the Clocks" for the first time ever. As other fans learned of my dream being realized, they had questions, such as: "Were your huge expectations met?" and "What do you think of the song?" I will try to answer those questions and others as I share with you a brief glimpse into the song of legend.

The first time you listen to "Stop the Clocks", you may think it is simply a better realized "Who Feels Love?". But, by about the fifth listen, you come to understand that this is a song unlike anything Noel or Oasis has ever done before. It is a song of such depth and complexity that perhaps a thousand listens would be needed to study and appreciate it fully. As one of the press reviews stated, the chords are very well constructed, but "Stop the Clocks" is all about the vocals. Noel effortlessly guides his voice from high notes to low notes and back, weaving a powerful spell on a listener’s ears for four and a half minutes in this live version. Both guitar solos- the short and long- create a psychedelic world for which Oasis fans can come in and play. And of all the songs from my Zanzibar bootleg-- this song is mixed the most perfectly. There is a perfect balance between the acoustic guitar, the vocals, Gem’s backwards guitar, and Terry’s bongos. It has been suggested by some that this song could never live up to the hype which now surrounds it. Well, friends, I have to politely disagree. This is instantly one of the five best Oasis songs of the past decade. Only now can I see so clearly why Noel has taken to such great pains to record the perfect version. Anything less would be unworthy of this classic-to-be. And we can only hope that Noel has done just that, so the world can finally hear this masterpiece.

You will be happy to know that 4 of the 5 songs from Noel’s May 3, 2003 concert at the Zanzibar Club in Liverpool have now been made available to all fans on the Live4ever Forum . These new live versions are so good that you will indeed be listening to them for years to come. The final song, "Stop the Clocks", will remain locked up until a studio track is released. During the past couple of weeks, both offers and threats have come my way from the community of Oasis fans. You can be sure of one thing-- no amount of money, no offer of trading for other rare material, no invasion of my private life, and no level of threats brought forth could cause me to post the song. Also, I have promised not to give away a detailed description of the song, which is why I would never post any of the chords, the lyrics, or a minute by minute analysis of what happens in each part of the song. However, I am happy to tell you what I think of the song, that’s why posted what I did above.

Note regarding the songs:

For the record, Trent Harrington recorded the gig by standing away from the audience as much as he could, and standing close to one of the speakers. I'm not sure what he used to record it, but it sure sounds good. He said that security was actually checking people at the door that night, patting them down, etc., but he snuck his recorder in one of his boots. Trent now lives in London, but he would prefer not to be contacted. He has entrusted me with the first live performance of "Stop the Clocks", and asked me to share it with the fans immediately upon the release of a studio version of the song.

Source: L4E / via L4E member "Frank Lomax"

St Pauli To Spin Some Tunes In Belgium

Ben Sherman and Brooklyn present 'Hindu Nights'

Liam & Noel Gallagher's elder brother Paul will be spinning some tunes at the Make Up Club Ghent, Belgium on Friday 28th March 2008.

Also on the bill is 'Official Oasis Tour DJ' DJ Phil Smith

Other acts on the bill include DJ Alan Wright, The Black Box Revelation Live, Volvo Sluts, Jonasty And Dirk and more.

Visit the following website for more information www.myspace.com/shinealightpromotions

Thanks to Dennis

Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band Ever?

Let the battle of the bands commence: we ask who is the greatest rock ’n’ roll band EVER? Take your pick by clicking here.

Current Top 10.

10: Joy Division - Current Rating: 6.32
09: Oasis - Current Rating: 6.32
08: The Sex Pistols - Current Rating: 6.37
07: Nirvana - Current Rating: 6.48
06: The Who - Current Rating: 6.54
05: Led Zeppelin - Current Rating: 6.57
04: The Smiths - Current Rating: 6.70
03: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Current Rating: 6.82
02: The Rolling Stones - Current Rating: 6.86
01: The Clash - Current Rating: 7.22

Source: www.nme.com

And The Winner Is...

The winner of the competition to win some Oasis promo items is Jenny Reardon from Houston, Texas USA.

Who correctly stated that the highest chart position for the Stop Crying Your Heart Out single in the UK was number 2.

Special thanks to Anders at www.mistersifter.com who gave me the prizes to be given away in a competition.

Visit the site with many items half price or less....

Lewis Hamilton Listens To Oasis

He is the man in the groove. Like much in his life since his £45m McLaren deal, even his hobbies have gone upscale from last year's trusty acoustic. Now he is electric. I plug my headphones straight into it so the noise doesn't bother anyone else," he added.

Given last weekend's victory was the first step to his ultimate ambition, one wag asked if he could play Stairway to Heaven.

"No, but my favourite riff is from No Woman No Cry, a solo I quite like." His fingers briefly claw an imaginary chord - not something you see every day in an image conscious Formula One paddock.

"When I was younger I was more limited in what I would listen to. I was brought up on Bob Marley. These days I've got a broader view.

"I play a bit of everything - Oasis, Dylan, Lenny Kravitz, Jimi Hendrix. Michael Jackson is my favourite but I like Prince too, and Sir Paul McCartney is a legend."

Read the full interview here.

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Possible Canadian Oasis Gig In August

Oasis May Be Coming to City

Performance - According to Herald sources, serious plans are afoot to bring Oasis to Calgary sometime in August for a show that will almost certainly take place at Pengrowth Saddledome. Read the Herald and stay posted at www.ticketmaster.ca for further details.

Source: Calgary Herald via www.canada.com

Oasis Legend Gets His Own Myspace Page

Former Oasis legend 'Bonehead' has set up his own myspace page, visit it by clicking here.

Peace In Our Time

The showbiz fight of the year is over. Noel Gallagher and Kenickie from Grease have kissed and made up.

Their feud kicked off backstage at a Marilyn Manson gig in L A, when Kenickie AK A Jeff Conaway, 57, pulled a knife on the Oasis frontman who'd been mocking him.

Trying to stir up more trouble, Russell Brand invited Noel on his radio show and surprised him with a phone call to Kenickie.

But Jeff told Noel: "You need protection growing up in New York.

You need some kind of weapon. There are very dangerous characters on the subway.

"I collect knives. In New York you grow up fighting, it's a big tough city with lots of violence."

He impressed Noel who said: "He's a true T-Bird."

What the F'hell is going on with that love-in?

Source: www.mirror.co.uk