Happy Star Wars Day, May The Forth Be With You......
Noel Gallagher On Manchester City And Their Future
Oasis star and Manchester City fan Noel Gallagher gives Soccer AM his thoughts on his beloved Manchester City and their future.
Click here to watch the video.
Source: www.skysports.com
Noel Gallagher Talks About The New Oasis Album
Noel Gallagher talked to DJ Bookie from the Edge yesterday afternoon. Here are a few notes from the very brief interview.
-New Oasis album out in September, no date set yet.
- Noel has seven tracks on the album
- The new songs are the "Most current" and "Fresh"
- Regarding Coldplay, Noel said "Chris is a top geezer" and "loves Coldplay"
- Believes there's too much music given away for free.....
EDIT: Click here to listen to the interview.
Source: The Edge via L4E
Eavis In Glasto Blasto At Noel
Defiant Glastonbury chief Michael Eavis has hit back at Noel Gallagher for criticising this year’s bill.
The Oasis legend added his words to the Glasto debate and said booking Jay-Z to headline was a mistake.
But dairy farmer Michael has now stuck the Wellington boot back into the rocker.
He blasted: “Why did he need to get involved? It was a bit weird, to be honest.
“He should give someone else a chance. He needn’t have said that and I was disappointed he did.
“He said it’s a place for guitar bands — but there are loads of guitar bands playing.”
However, I reckon Noel has every right to make his feelings known and was only saying what most music fans were thinking.
It wasn’t personal, as Noel is actually a pal of Jay-Z — he was just saying Glastonbury wasn’t the best stage for a big hip-hop act. And he’s right.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Robert Plant Snubs Liam Gallagher
British rocker Robert Plant was unimpressed when Oasis star Liam Gallagher visited his dressing room unannounced - and sent him on his way.
The Live Forever hitmaker made a surprise visit to Plant's dressing room as he took a break from a Led Zeppelin gig last year (07).
But as Gallagher handed Plant a series of compliments, Plant ordered the star out of his dressing room.
He says, "The Gallaghers came by the dressing room and leaned against the door. And Liam said, 'You're the f**king business you are, aren't you? You're the one.'
"And I said, 'Of course I am, I always knew that. It's just that you never switched on. You need the next door - down there on the left.'"
Source: www.contactmusic.com
Oasis Be@rbrick Update
The Oasis Bearbrick's that I have previously posted about, have started appearing on EBay and other auction sites for around £25-£30.
I have also been told that a eleven-inch version of one of the Bear's is currently in development, and is scheduled for release later this year.
# Size: each Bearbrick is 2.75" tall.
# Packaged in a window gift-box.
Pictures and information thanks to Linny.
You can now order the Oasis Bearbricks from a reputable firm www.mech-a.com or by clicking here.
The OASIS Bearbricks will be arriving in store from Japan either late May/early June.
They shall be getting a lot of these in, but they will sell out incredibly fast.
They offer products on pre-order so we can order appropriately and there is a great demand already for this product worldwide.
Britain's Top 50 Music Millionaires
The Times 'Rich list' reveals the Top 50 Music millionaires in Britain. Madonna was the highest ranking female with £300m and Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are worth a cool £45m. David and Victoria Beckham were worth £87m in a "Chav List" published in October 2006, but now the celebrity couple have jumped in value to £125m.
01 = Clive Calder £1,300m
02 = Lord Lloyd-Webber £750m
03 = Sir Paul McCartney £500m
04 = Simon Fuller £450m
05 = Sir Cameron Mackintosh £450m
06 = Madonna and Guy Ritchie £300m
07 = Guy and Julia Hands £250m
08 = Sir Elton John £235m
09 = Sir Mick Jagger £225m
10 = Robert Stigwood £212m
11 = Sting £200m
12 = Keith Richards £190m
13 = Sir Tom Jones £170m
14 = Olivia and Dhani Harrison £160m
14 = Jamie Palumbo £160m
16 = Sir Tim Rice £155m
17 = Eric Clapton £140m
17 = Phil Collins £140m
17 = Ringo Starr £140m
20 = David and Victoria Beckham £125m
21 = Robert Bourne and Sally Green £120m
21 = David Bowie £120m
21 = Barry and Robin Gibb £120m
21 = Rod Stewart £120m
25 = Simon Cowell £112m
26 = Roger Ames £110m
26 = Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne £110m
28 = Robbie Williams £105m
29 = Chris Blackwell £100m
29 = Charlie Watts £100m
31 = George Michael £95m
31 = Roger Waters £95m
32 = David Gilmour £85m
33 = Moya Doherty and John McGolgan £80m
34 = Robert Plant £80m
35 = Engelbert Humperdinck £79m
36 = Brian May £75m
36 = Jimmy Page £75m
38 = Mark Knopfler £70m
38 = Roger Taylor £70m
38 = Chris Wright £70m
42 = John Deacon £65m
43 = Judy Craymer £58m
44 = Nick Mason £55m
44 = Van Morrison £55m
46 = Sir Cliff Richard £50m
47 = Noel and Liam Gallagher £45m
47 = Bernie Taupin £45m
47 = Prince Rupert Loewenstein £45m
50 = Mick Hucknall £42m
Source: The Times Rich List
Liam Gallagher
A recent picture of Liam Gallagher who was spotted out and about yesterday in North London.
Source: www.celebrity-babies.com
Gallagher Goes Sven-tal For City
In a matter of months Sven Goran Eriksson has gone from managerial genius and dead cert for my Bizarre Lord title to the verge of the sack.
The Sun revealed yesterday how Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra is plotting to axe the ex-England boss at the end of the season.
But current Bizarre Lord and Man City fan Noel Gallagher has launched the Save Our Sven campaign — and I’m right behind him.
The Oasis legend said: “Shinawatra has come in and I think he is a bit of a nutcase. If he gets rid of Sven after the best season we’ve had in living memory, it’s ridiculous, ludicrous.
“He obviously doesn’t know a great deal about football if he gets rid of Eriksson. The only thing that will get him off the hook now is if he has JOSE MOURINHO lined up.
“Shinawatra is living in cloud cuckoo land and if I saw Sven in the street, I’d give him a big kiss and say, ‘You know what, you take him to the cleaners’.”
Noel was so angry about The Sun’s story he phoned BBC Radio Five Live to vent his feelings.
And he added: “Any manager worth his salt won’t take interference from the owner and if he wants to buy players, then that’s wrong.
“City fans don’t want Ronaldinho anyway. If he won’t pull his finger out at Barcelona, he’s not going to do it at West Brom away next season is he?
“I’d be amazed and equally appalled if I met a City fan that felt that getting rid of Eriksson would be a good thing. We all love him.
“He has given the City fans pride. The minute’s silence for the Munich air crash at Old Trafford was a reflection of his personality. He is a graceful, dignified man and that summed it up.
“The style of football is fantastic but if Shinawatra comes in and thinks he is going to get Champions League football straight away, he’s tripping!”
I’m with Noel. The Premier League without the hotel-dwelling Swede will be a much duller place.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Noel Gallagher Sacking Sven Is "Ludicrus"
Oasis star Noel Gallagher tells BBC Radio Five Live that Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra is "a nutcase" and "living in cloud cuckoo land" if he thinks sacking manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is a good idea.
Listen to Noel calling into the Radio Show HERE
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive
Bonehead To Join Vinny Peculiar Onstage In Manchester
Sounds From The Other City Festival.
May 4th. The Salford Arms, 146 Chapel St. Manchester M3 6AF.
HEY!MANCHESTER@The Salford Arms Presents.........
Vinny Peculiar playing live with Bonehead(bass), and Craig Gannon (guitar). Other bands T.B.A.
£10 ticket, loads of bands in different venues
Source: www.myspace.com/boneheadoasisdj
Oasish Set To Rock Glastonbudget
Music festivals. Once upon a time, we couldn't get enough of them. Tens of thousands of tickets would sell out in a matter of hours, and all the best bands would queue up to play.
Fast forward to 2008, and it's a very different picture.
Now, critics dismiss them as over-priced, over-hyped and over-commercial, and that's even before the challenges of the unpredictable British weather.
The fans too seem to be weary of the annual mudbaths and the burgers which cost £5.
In 2007, Glastonbury tickets sold out in less than two hours.
Tickets for this year are still available now - three weeks after they went on sale.
Glastonbudget - absolutely no relation to Glastonbury - is reversing that, having doubled its ticket sales year-on-year since it began in 2005 as the brainchild of Nick Tanner, landlord of The Harrow Inn in Thurmaston, and his old schoolmate Chris Dunn.
"Nick noticed that whenever he had a tribute band on, it drew three times the crowd.
This year's line-up includes many familiar-sounding names - The Kaiser Thiefs, Crowded Out, The Jamm, Let's Zep, and the Ded Hot Chilis.
One of the few acts to have played every Glastonbudget so far is Oasish - the tribute version of a certain well-known Manchester group.
Paul Higginson is the lead singer, Oasish's own Liam Gallagher.
"On the calender of gigs for us, Glastonbudget's one of the top gigs of the year, definetely," he says.
"I think there's only us and two other bands who've been back there every single year since it started, and it's quite a privilege to be asked back every year."
When I suggest to him that there must be dozens of other Oasis tribute bands, he answers with a swagger worthy of the real Liam.
"There's lots of tribute bands that'll do a gig for cheaper than what we would, but if you're gonna pay £30 for a jeans-and-t-shirt band, a £30 jeans-and-t-shirt band are gonna turn up and deliver a £30 jeans-and-t-shirt show.
"That's why Glastonbudget are getting bigger and bigger crowds each year, they're not scrimping on the quality of the bands."
Indeed, ticket sales for this year's festival are 40% up on last year, with fans known to be arriving from as far away as Denmark.
The organisers hope it might even be a sell-out with all 5,000 tickets taken.
"We've never actually broken even," says Nick ruefully. "It would be fantastic if we could do that."
:: The event begins at Turnpost Farm, Wymeswold, Leicestershire on May 23.
Read the full article here, for more information on Oasish visit www.oasish.co.uk
Source: www.news.sky.com
Vote For Oasis' Top 20 Songs On Phoenix FM
Anna Patching and Tom Earle will be playing listeners' top 20 OASIS songs on Saturday 7 June, 10pm UK time - only here on Phoenix FM.
During the show they will be mentioning listeners' favourite charts and other Oasis facts and figures.
How can I vote?
Easy - click here and scroll down the page and you'll see the voting form.
We need you to choose your TOP TEN songs in order. The votes will then be added up (1st=10pts, 2nd=9pts etc) and a full chart will be shown on the page after the show - on which we'll be playing the top 20 as voted by YOU.
Where can I hear it?
If you're in Brentwood and Billericay - tune your wireless to 98.0FM.
If you live outside the area (or even if you don't) you can listen on the Internet by clicking here.
That's enough questions ... now vote!
Source Email from Anna Patching @ Phoenix FM
Noel On Russell Brand's Show Again
Noel Gallagher yet again joined Russell Brand on his weekly BBC Radio 2 show in the studio for the usual shenanigans.
They talk about a number of diverse subjects that include Phil Collins retirement, Mikey Mouse, Roald Dahl, Billy Idol, Scientology, Wombats, Robbie Williams and more.
Noel told Russell that he is returning to Los Angeles next week, to remix one track from the Oasis new album.
Click here to listen again or download the podcast (from Tuesday).
Phil Collins Reignites Feud With Noel Gallagher
Phil Collins has announced that he is retiring from music.
Having completed a reunion tour with Genesis, the multi-instrumentalist has said in a newspaper interview that he has no plans to tour or make another album.
Collins told The Times that he will continue to write, simply because he does not know how to stop.
The interview quotes Collins as saying he is being more interested in his collection of memorabilia from the Battle Of The Alamo.
Collins added: "It's not that unusual for a man of my age who grew up reading Davy Crockett."
Collins was speaking ahead of his appearance on Sky Arts TV series 'Songbook'.
But he also re-ignited an old feud with Noel Gallagher. The Oasis man famously said ahead of the 2005 general election: "Vote Labour: if you don't and the Tories get in, (Collins) is threatening to come back from Switzerland, and none of us want that.
Collins said of the comment: "I don't care if he likes my music or not. I do care if he starts telling people I'm a wanker because of my politics. It's an opinion based on an old misunderstood quote."
Source: www.nme.com
Tom Meighan's Lucky Life
Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan is lucky to be alive.
The singer is amazed he has managed to survive all the hard partying he's done over the years without going to rehab.
He said: "Since Kasabian came out, most of it has just been a blackout for me. Thank God I'm still here. I haven't gone to rehab, which is the genius thing. When we were on tour with Oasis, when we did America, we had some great nights with Liam and Noel Gallagher. That was an amazing time - and meeting Lars from Metallica. I got off stage in San Francisco and he was in our f**king tour bus - and that's the b******s."
Meighan also revealed he is obsessed with Pot Noodles, and always takes the British instant savoury snack with him on tour.
He added to Loaded magazine: "We take Pot Noodles with us. Everyone loves chicken and mushroom, but beef and tomato is pretty cool. And I tell you what's really underestimated - chow mein. Great flavour."
Source: www.list.co.uk
Long Nights On The Road With Oasis
The fights between Oasis' Liam and Noel are legendary. In 1994, on the band's first American tour, tensions bubbled over so much that Liam hurled a chair at Noel. Then during the 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' tour in 2000 arguments got so bad it prompted Noel to jack in the tour and head home.
And during the recording for'(What's The Story) Morning Glory', the duo used a cricket bat on each other to relieve in-studio stress.
Now Ballie Walsh, the man who spent a year with the Gallaghers during their 2005/2006 'Don't Believe The Truth' tour, has revealed the brothers' highly-organised system for preventing further scraps: refusing to go out together.
Walsh, whose first motion picture, Flashbacks Of A Fool, has just opened in UK cinemas filmed the band for his Lord Don't Slow Me Down documentary film, released on DVD last October.
He explained the Gallaghers operate a "one day on, one day off" policy with regards to socialising, only going out to party after gigs on alternate nights so they never have to drink together, therefore avoiding battles. "What happened is Noel went out for one night and had a rest the next night when Liam went out. he revealed.
When asked if he thought this was over the top, Walsh said: "We'll would I want to tour with my brother? No. I think how they manage to keep it working is great. The fact that they've survived this long and they're still doing it [touring], and they go on stage every night well, it works."
Walsh would not be drawn on details of the Gallaghers' partying antics, although he did say their social schedule played havoc with his own sleeping patterns, as he had to go out and film either Noel or Liam as they took their turn to have a night out. "I never got a bloody rest!" he laughed.
The director went on to explain that while it might seem like a blast travelling the world with Oasis, it was in fact very dull - something, which may be down to the Gallaghers' timetable quashing potential hell-raising nights out.
"It's insanely boring, he said of the long hours of hanging around before gigs and travelling.
"You go from dressing room to stage, to hotel to coach, to dressing room to stage. That's all you've got!"
Source: NME Magazine
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Noel's So Jealous Of Jay-Z
Grime ace Wiley reckons Noel Gallagher is against Jay-Z playing Glastonbury because he feels the honour should go to a UK artist.
The Oasis fella, 41, opened a can of worms when he became the most high-profile star to suggest the Glasto signing may have been a bit of a faux pas.
Fans seem to agree, with the festival failing to sell out immediately, unlike previous years.
Wiley, whose tune Wearing My Rolex is set for the Top 10 this weekend, told me: “What Noel means is: ‘How come a US artist is headlining Glastonbury?’
“He doesn’t mean urban, he doesn’t mean black. Noel is just upset because he’s not getting his band on there.
“He should stop worrying about what other people are doing.
“He’s got money, he should stop being greedy.
“Personally I like Jay-Z, and respect him.”
Source: www.dailystar.co.uk
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